Ips Forum Contribution (Issue 3, Vol. 4)
Counter-Disciplinarity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Klabbers (0000-0002-5354-1981, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 308-311 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2010.00107_3.x |
| OpenAlex | W1549963517 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 4 |
International lawyers have long advocated interdisciplinary scholarship with, in particular, scholars of international relations. After all, so the slogan went, the two disciplines “occupy the same conceptual space” (Slaughter 1995), so what could be more fruitful than interdisciplinary cooperation? It turns out, though, that this logic has yet to generate much useful interdisciplinary scholarship, and this finds its cause in the awkward circumstance that much advocacy of inter-disciplinarity has always been a disguised plea to study law in the service of something else, at the expense of losing sight of what makes law so special. This undervalues law, and makes that lawyers can only frown at attempts by outsiders to “practice law without a license.” In what follows, I will briefly discuss why it is so difficult for social scientists to understand law, building on some earlier publications on interdisciplinary scholarship (see Klabbers 2005, 2009). Just for the record, as I am an international lawyer, I will be writing from a perspective informed by that discipline. Still, much of what follows can also be reversed: it is just as difficult for lawyers to get a handle on international relations scholarship and on global politics as it is for international relations scholars to come to an understanding of law and legal scholarship. This in itself raises an issue left unaddressed here: when advocating inter-disciplinary scholarship, is the lawyer looking to make sense of international relations, or rather of its scholarship
Discipline · Epistemology · International law · Law and economics · Plea · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction · International Arbitration and Investment Law · Law
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Toleration, Synthesis or Replacement? The ‘Empirical Turn’ and its Consequences for the Science of International Law
Rules, Lawyering, and the Politics of Legality
International Law and its Methodology
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2016 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |