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Legal Contestation about 'Enemy Combatants': On the Exercise of Power in Legal Interpretation

Year: 2009

Type: preprint

Abstract: Among the many battlegrounds in the 'war on terror' is one of semantics. In legal discourse, immediate consequences attach to the use of specific expressions, including those employed in relation to individuals captured and detained under the auspices of war. The paper develops and understanding of the exercise of power in legal interpretation, illustrates how such an understanding plays out in concrete practice, and discusses the merits of such critical constructivist research on norms.

Source: SSRN Electronic Journal

Author: Ingo Venzke

Institutions: Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, University of Amsterdam

Language: English

Topic: Legal Language and Interpretation

Subfield: Law

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3126100604

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Cited by: 17

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