Chapter 28: Indeterminacy
Cameron A. Miles
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Handbook Chapter
Published:
22 Feb 2019
Page Range:
447–458
Collection:
Law 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474684.00033
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As a concept, indeterminacy reflects the idea that the rules of international law cannot be identified nor their content determined with certainty. This entry examines four different types of indeterminacy and the intellectual pedigree of each: American legal realism (as applied through the New Haven School of international law); linguistic indeterminacy; structural indeterminacy; and near-realist indeterminacy.

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Cover Concepts for International Law
Concepts for International Law
Edited by
Jean d’Aspremont
and
Sahib Singh
Handbook
Published:
22 Feb 2019
Print ISBN:
9781783474677
eISBN:
9781783474684
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474684
Pages:
960
Collection:
Law 2019
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