Mónica García-Salmones Rovira
Biographic Data
| ID | 5698505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mónica García-Salmones Rovira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mónica García-Salmones |
| FAMILY NAME | Rovira |
| SIGNATURE | ROVIRA M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8146-2965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Necessity of Nature
To understand our current world crises, it is essential to study the origins of the systems and institutions we now take for granted. This book takes a novel approach to charting intellectual, scientific and philosophical histories alongside the development of the international legal order by studying the philosophy and theology of the Scientific Revolution and its impact on European natural law, political liberalism and political economy. Starti…
What is Positivism Today
This essay focuses on the understanding of positivism in Prosper Weil's time, its trajectory since, and how that trajectory reflects changes that have occurred in global society in the intervening years. The world to which Weil spoke is neither in scientific nor in political and cultural terms the same as ours. Key positivist notions, such as neutrality or Weil's critique of the ideal of the unity of the international community and of the invocat…
The Impasse of Human Rights
Studies on the nature of human rights have reached an impasse largely due to a general resistance to engage with the continuity of ideas and theories drawn from religion, morality and ethics in the history of international law. With the impasse of human rights, the article refers to an epistemological deadlock about what human rights are. Studying the concept of natural rights, it is argued, offers a means of breaking this impasse and, ultimately…
Sources in the Anti-Formalist Tradition
This chapter traces the legal and political principles of two important schools of the twentieth century—the New Haven School and the School of Carl Schmitt—and situates them in their geographical and historical contexts. It analyses commonalities and especially differences in their political and legal projects. The chapter further argues that reaction against a naïve positivism reigning during the past century in international law essentially de…
International Law and Religion
This book maps out the territory of ‘international law and religion’ challenging receiving traditions in fundamental aspects. On the one hand, the connection of international law and religion has been little explored. On the other, most of current research on international legal thought presents international law as the very victory of secularization. In other words, international law would be the final product of a rationalist and humanist tradi…
Religion and Empire Carl Schmitt’s Katechon between International Relations and the Philosophy of History
Carl Schmitt’s thought on international relations appears from the outset to be profoundly informed by his reflections on the philosophy of history. In this the German jurist seems to be fully consonant with the climate of his time, of that generation which saw the 19th century ‘concert of Europe’ crumble beneath their feet into the great tragedy of European civil war which began with the First World War. The collapse of the world order thus almo…
Early Twentieth-Century Positivism Revisited
This chapter focuses on Lassa Oppenheim’s (1858–1919) groundbreaking work on the legal theory of international law, which was written at the beginning of the twentieth century. Oppenheim’s recognition of the economic interdependence of nations was one important factor in his success in establishing the international economic system as the supporting framework of his Family of Nations, and as the underlying theory of his international law. Afterwa…
Faith, Ritual and Rebellion in 21st Century (Positivist) International Law
Koskenniemi identifies how the problems revolving around the grand theory extend to other normative claims of law: 'The problem of finding a credible explanation for the normative force of sources doctrine is to a great extent about the difficulty of constructing a "grand theory" about the foundation or purpose -in short, the "point" of law within which "sources" would have a central place
The Politics of Interest in International Law
The article examines the substance and form of 20th century positivist international law; in particular the way in which each determines the other. The text describes the turn to interests in international law, which evolved slowly in scope and depth. By examining Lassa Oppenheim’s focus on ‘common interests’ that united states and Hans Kelsen’s focus on the ‘struggle of interests’ that constituted politics, the article studies two phenomena prod…
The Politics of Interest in International Law
I am very grateful to Jorg Kammerhofer for his engagement with my text. Not only does he know main writings on legal theory very well, but he is himself a Kelsenian scholar. One is led, therefore, to speculate on the extent to which his reply comes close to what Kelsen himself would have written in respect of my article, and more generally in respect of the book on which it is based. Despite its being a very different debate as to its content, I …
Who Is the System? On Commitment, Biology, and Human Beings in the Politics of “Groundwork for International Law”
Professor Anthony D’Amato’s “Groundwork for International Law” ( Groundwork ) is an extremely pedagogical project. Despite its apparent simplicity, each rereading reveals a new layer of complexity, reflecting the depth of his lifelong engagement in the scholarship of international law. Moreover, from a certain perspective, his reexamination of the foundations of international law expresses a radicalism that reaches beyond the analysis of legal fo…
The Politics of Interest in International Law
The article examines the substance and form of 20th century positivist international law; in particular the way in which each determines the other. The text describes the turn to interests in international law, which evolved slowly in scope and depth. By examining Lassa Oppenheim’s focus on ‘common interests’ that united states and Hans Kelsen’s focus on the ‘struggle of interests’ that constituted politics, the article studies two phenomena prod…
Who Is the System? On Commitment, Biology, and Human Beings in the Politics of “Groundwork for International Law”
Professor Anthony D’Amato’s “Groundwork for International Law” ( Groundwork ) is an extremely pedagogical project. Despite its apparent simplicity, each rereading reveals a new layer of complexity, reflecting the depth of his lifelong engagement in the scholarship of international law. Moreover, from a certain perspective, his reexamination of the foundations of international law expresses a radicalism that reaches beyond the analysis of legal fo…
The Politics of Interest in International Law
The article examines the substance and form of 20th century positivist international law; in particular the way in which each determines the other. The text describes the turn to interests in international law, which evolved slowly in scope and depth. By examining Lassa Oppenheim’s focus on ‘common interests’ that united states and Hans Kelsen’s focus on the ‘struggle of interests’ that constituted politics, the article studies two phenomena prod…
The Politics of Interest in International Law
I am very grateful to Jorg Kammerhofer for his engagement with my text. Not only does he know main writings on legal theory very well, but he is himself a Kelsenian scholar. One is led, therefore, to speculate on the extent to which his reply comes close to what Kelsen himself would have written in respect of my article, and more generally in respect of the book on which it is based. Despite its being a very different debate as to its content, I …
Who Is the System? On Commitment, Biology, and Human Beings in the Politics of “Groundwork for International Law”
Professor Anthony D’Amato’s “Groundwork for International Law” ( Groundwork ) is an extremely pedagogical project. Despite its apparent simplicity, each rereading reveals a new layer of complexity, reflecting the depth of his lifelong engagement in the scholarship of international law. Moreover, from a certain perspective, his reexamination of the foundations of international law expresses a radicalism that reaches beyond the analysis of legal fo…
Faith, Ritual and Rebellion in 21st Century (Positivist) International Law
Koskenniemi identifies how the problems revolving around the grand theory extend to other normative claims of law: 'The problem of finding a credible explanation for the normative force of sources doctrine is to a great extent about the difficulty of constructing a "grand theory" about the foundation or purpose -in short, the "point" of law within which "sources" would have a central place
Early Twentieth-Century Positivism Revisited
This chapter focuses on Lassa Oppenheim’s (1858–1919) groundbreaking work on the legal theory of international law, which was written at the beginning of the twentieth century. Oppenheim’s recognition of the economic interdependence of nations was one important factor in his success in establishing the international economic system as the supporting framework of his Family of Nations, and as the underlying theory of his international law. Afterwa…
International Law and Religion
This book maps out the territory of ‘international law and religion’ challenging receiving traditions in fundamental aspects. On the one hand, the connection of international law and religion has been little explored. On the other, most of current research on international legal thought presents international law as the very victory of secularization. In other words, international law would be the final product of a rationalist and humanist tradi…
Religion and Empire Carl Schmitt’s Katechon between International Relations and the Philosophy of History
Carl Schmitt’s thought on international relations appears from the outset to be profoundly informed by his reflections on the philosophy of history. In this the German jurist seems to be fully consonant with the climate of his time, of that generation which saw the 19th century ‘concert of Europe’ crumble beneath their feet into the great tragedy of European civil war which began with the First World War. The collapse of the world order thus almo…
Sources in the Anti-Formalist Tradition
This chapter traces the legal and political principles of two important schools of the twentieth century—the New Haven School and the School of Carl Schmitt—and situates them in their geographical and historical contexts. It analyses commonalities and especially differences in their political and legal projects. The chapter further argues that reaction against a naïve positivism reigning during the past century in international law essentially de…
The Impasse of Human Rights
Studies on the nature of human rights have reached an impasse largely due to a general resistance to engage with the continuity of ideas and theories drawn from religion, morality and ethics in the history of international law. With the impasse of human rights, the article refers to an epistemological deadlock about what human rights are. Studying the concept of natural rights, it is argued, offers a means of breaking this impasse and, ultimately…
What is Positivism Today
This essay focuses on the understanding of positivism in Prosper Weil's time, its trajectory since, and how that trajectory reflects changes that have occurred in global society in the intervening years. The world to which Weil spoke is neither in scientific nor in political and cultural terms the same as ours. Key positivist notions, such as neutrality or Weil's critique of the ideal of the unity of the international community and of the invocat…
The Necessity of Nature
To understand our current world crises, it is essential to study the origins of the systems and institutions we now take for granted. This book takes a novel approach to charting intellectual, scientific and philosophical histories alongside the development of the international legal order by studying the philosophy and theology of the Scientific Revolution and its impact on European natural law, political liberalism and political economy. Starti…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · International Law and Human Rights (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · International law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)