2012-04-02
Politis and the limits of legal form
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European Journal of International Law , Volume 23 - Issue 1 p. 243- 253
Prolific as a scholar, active in the League of Nations, and agent for Greece before the Permanent Court, Nicolas Politis is remembered today as a key figure both in the development of international legal doctrine and in the organization of international political relations. This short article examines three of Politis' texts - the first an early foray into scholarship dealing with issues arising from the 1897 Greek-Turkish War, the second a set of mid-career lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law, and the third the posthumously published La morale internationale, a work of considerable ambition that never quite managed to find its audience. The article's chief aim is to demonstrate that Politis' trajectory was marked by recurring appeals to extra-legal ideas and arguments - a broadly antiformalistic tendency which made its influence felt with increasing visibility over time, but which was present even in his earliest and most conventional work.
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Özsu, U. (2012). Politis and the limits of legal form. European Journal of International Law, 23(1), 243–253. doi:10.1093/ejil/chr103
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