TY - UNPB
T1 - Cruise Ships in International Law
T2 - Towards a Theory of Legal Infrastructure
AU - Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas
AU - Mann, Itamar
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The notion of infrastructure has recently featured prominently in international legal scholarship. The ambition behind the turn to infrastructure in international legal theory is comparable to other large attempts to conceptualize the discipline. Yet, against the backdrop of work in the humanities and social sciences, theoretical engagement with infrastructure is still nascent in the legal discipline. In this Article, we build on another recent development in international legal scholarship–the turn to “materiality”–to articulate a systematic theory of infrastructure in international law. At the center of our study is the case study of the cruise ship. Studying cruise ships and their legal and political environment in detail, we introduce three conceptual building blocks through which we develop a more comprehensive theory of infrastructure: Platform, object and rupture. While we focus on cruise ships, the theory of legal infrastructure that we offer is applicable to a wide array of industries and issues.
AB - The notion of infrastructure has recently featured prominently in international legal scholarship. The ambition behind the turn to infrastructure in international legal theory is comparable to other large attempts to conceptualize the discipline. Yet, against the backdrop of work in the humanities and social sciences, theoretical engagement with infrastructure is still nascent in the legal discipline. In this Article, we build on another recent development in international legal scholarship–the turn to “materiality”–to articulate a systematic theory of infrastructure in international law. At the center of our study is the case study of the cruise ship. Studying cruise ships and their legal and political environment in detail, we introduce three conceptual building blocks through which we develop a more comprehensive theory of infrastructure: Platform, object and rupture. While we focus on cruise ships, the theory of legal infrastructure that we offer is applicable to a wide array of industries and issues.
U2 - 10.31235/osf.io/j2nc4
DO - 10.31235/osf.io/j2nc4
M3 - Working paper
T3 - MOBILE Working Paper Series
SP - 1
EP - 31
BT - Cruise Ships in International Law
PB - University of Copenhagen
ER -