TY - BOOK ID - 142499308 TI - Completing humanity : the international law of decolonization, 1960-82 PY - 2024 SN - 1108672442 1108649009 1108566235 1108427693 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Decolonization. KW - Colonies (International law) KW - International law KW - Debts, External KW - United Nations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142499308 AB - After the Second World War, the dissolution of European empires and emergence of 'new states' in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and elsewhere necessitated large-scale structural changes in international legal order. In Completing Humanity, Umut Özsu recounts the history of the struggle to transform international law during the twentieth century's last major wave of decolonization. Commencing in 1960, with the General Assembly's landmark decolonization resolution, and concluding in 1982, with the close of the third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and the onset of the Latin American debt crisis, the book examines the work of elite international lawyers from newly independent states alongside that of international law specialists from 'First World' and socialist states. A study in modifications to legal theory and doctrine over time, it documents and reassesses post-1945 decolonization from the standpoint of the 'Third World' and the jurists who elaborated and defended its interests. ER -