The Vocabulary of Progress in Interwar International Law: An Intellectual Portrait of Stelios Seferiades |
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Authors: | Skouteris Thomas |
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Affiliation: | * Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Leiden University |
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Abstract: | The intellectual portrait of Stelios Seferiades sketched outin this article performs a dual function. While paying tributeto the work of a neglected, but fascinating, scholar, it servesas a heuristic device which allows us to examine the vocabularyof progress in international law the discursivestrategies used in legal argument to legitimize the transformationof the discipline. Crucial to the construction of such a vocabularyof progress in the international law writings of Seferiadesis the opposition between the notions of absolutism and democracy.The article situates this opposition in the political milieuof the interwar period and the life trajectory of Seferiades.Ultimately, it points to the closely-knit relationship betweenuniversalist vocabularies of progress, such asthe opposition between absolutism and democracy, and the personal-ideologicalpursuits of public international lawyers. |
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