The Responsibility of Individuals for Human Rights Abuses in Internal Conflicts

A Positivist View

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9544907
AutoresBruno Simma, Andreas Paulus (0000-0002-2086-6106, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, autor correspondente), Andreas L Paulus
Ano1999
Volume93
Fascículo2
Páginas302-316
Data de publicação1999-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of International Law (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-9300 • E-ISSN: 2161-7953
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2997991
OpenAlexW1971575366
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

When we were invited to contribute a positivist perspective to the present symposium, we did not know whether to regard this invitation as flattering or as an insult: does positivism not represent old-fashioned, conservative, continental European nineteenthcentury views—naive ideas of dead white males on the possibility of objectivity in law and morals? There is little we can do about being male and white, but we have certainly not seen ourselves as positivists of that kind. From the range of methodologies that the editors assembled, we could associate ourselves with several approaches just as much as with positivism. But in reflecting on our day-to-day legal work, we realized that, for better or for worse, we indeed employ the tools developed by the “positivist” tradition

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