Rightful Relations With Distant Strangers : Kant, the EU, and the Wider World

Ganesh, Aravind

ISBN 10: 1509941312 / ISBN 13: 9781509941315

Published by Hart Publishing, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rightful Relations With Distant Strangers : Kant, the EU, and the Wider World
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509941312
• ISBN 13: 9781509941315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This book provides a philosophical critique of legal relations between the EU and 'distant strangers' neither located within, nor citizens of, its Member States. Starting with the EU's commitment in Articles 3(5) and 21 TEU to advance democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in 'all its relations with the wider world', Ganesh examines in detail the salient EU and international legal materials and thereafter critiques them in the light of a theory of just global legal relations derived from Kant's philosophy of right. In so doing, Ganesh departs from comparable Kantian scholarship on the EU by centering the discussion not around the essay Toward Perpetual Peace, but around the Doctrine of Right, Kant's final and comprehensive statement of his general theory of law.

The book thus sheds light on areas of EU law (EU external relations law, standing to bring judicial review), public international law (jurisdiction, global public goods) and human rights (human rights jurisdiction), and also critiques the widespread identification of the EU as a Kantian federation of peace.

The thesis on which this book was based was awarded the 2020 René Cassin Thesis Prize (English section).

About the Authors

Aravind Ganesh is Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK.

George Pavlakos is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK.