Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-mkpzs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T07:25:33.234Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

International Law on the Left: Re-examining Marxist Legacies, edited by Susan Marks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, x + 307 + (index) 11pp (£55 hardback). ISBN 978-0-521-88255-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Richard Burchill
Richard Burchill*
Affiliation:
Law School, University of Hull
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Review
Information
Legal Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 2009 , pp. 348 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

38 A much fuller account is found in Méiville, C Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law (London: Pluto Press, 2005).Google Scholar

39 Baxi, U The Future of Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edn, 2006).Google Scholar

40 Cohen, GA If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're so Rich? (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000) pp 111–112.Google Scholar

41 Eg, see Thompson, EP Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (London: Penguin, 1975)Google Scholar;

42 It should be noted that Méiville has done this, as his main occupation is as a fiction writer.

43 To use just one random example it would be difficult to say that the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of the Disappeared) in Chile are part of the ruling dominant class but yet they were able to use the international law of human rights in support of their cause and improve their actual life conditions.