Cruise Ships in International Law: Towards a Theory of Legal Infrastructure
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 a...
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| description | 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. Although we focus on cruise ships, the theory of legal infrastructure that we offer is applicable to a wide array of industries and issues. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1ecb80996b0d4173a0afef8b040cbd172025-08-20T03:11:24ZengCambridge University PressGerman Law Journal2071-83222024-11-01251382140610.1017/glj.2024.77Cruise Ships in International Law: Towards a Theory of Legal InfrastructureThomas Gammeltoft-Hansen0Itamar Mann1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0513-6575University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkUniversity of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Humboldt University, Berlin, GermanyThe 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. Although we focus on cruise ships, the theory of legal infrastructure that we offer is applicable to a wide array of industries and issues.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2071832224000774/type/journal_articleLegal infrastructureinternational lawcruise shipstourismmaterial culturelaw of the seaCOVID-19 |
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| title | Cruise Ships in International Law: Towards a Theory of Legal Infrastructure |
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| topic | Legal infrastructure international law cruise ships tourism material culture law of the sea COVID-19 |
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