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- Repetition and International Law
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 162
- Repetition and International Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Eternal Return of Not Quite the Same: Repetition and the Sources of International Law
- 2 The Law of Receding Origins: Repetition and the Identification of Customary International Law
- 3 “Once Upon a Time, There Was a Story That Began”: Repetition in Security Council Resolutions
- 4 Say That Again, Please: Repetition in the Tallinn Manual
- 5 Rehearsing Rehearsing: Repetition in International Moot Court Competitions
- 6 The Unimaginable on Screen: Repetition in Documentary Films on Trauma and Atrocities
- The End
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
4 - Say That Again, Please: Repetition in the Tallinn Manual
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2022
- Repetition and International Law
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 162
- Repetition and International Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Eternal Return of Not Quite the Same: Repetition and the Sources of International Law
- 2 The Law of Receding Origins: Repetition and the Identification of Customary International Law
- 3 “Once Upon a Time, There Was a Story That Began”: Repetition in Security Council Resolutions
- 4 Say That Again, Please: Repetition in the Tallinn Manual
- 5 Rehearsing Rehearsing: Repetition in International Moot Court Competitions
- 6 The Unimaginable on Screen: Repetition in Documentary Films on Trauma and Atrocities
- The End
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Summary
Chapter four discusses the Tallinn Manual as a "restatement" of international law. The restatements in the Tallinn Manual were deemed necessary because specific positive law was lacking. Yet, they were also presented as neutral reproductions of rules already in existence. This led me into the recurring topic of this book: the dialectical relation between repetition and something that is absent, unattainable or unspeakable. However, in this chapter, I add another dimension to the analysis of repetition in international law. After all, the restatements occur in a very specific format, the manual. Through a comparison between the Tallinn Manual, consumer manuals and manuals of etiquette, I try to get a better grip on the inherent tensions that come with restatements of international law in the form of a "manual."
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- Repetition and International Law , pp. 95 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022