Full Description
This introductory volume to the series of American Classics in International Law is intended to present, put into context, and critically appraise specifically American general theories of and about international law. Those frameworks of ideas include the very concept of international law, its justification, the struggle between formalism and experience, various theories of legitimacy and fairness, the law's effectiveness, empirical analysis, critiques from the margins and the center, and approaches to its improvement. Particular focus is on American Legal Realism, the New Haven School of Jurisprudence, International and Transnational Legal Process, liberal theories of international law, linkages to social sciences, including Law and Economics, Critical Legal Studies, LatCrit, TWAIL, and feminist approaches to the discipline.
Contents
Foreword to American Classics in International Law
W. Michael Reisman
Introduction
Siegfried Wiessner
1. The Task
2. Historical Context and Conditioning Factors
3. Traditional Theories about International Law - Natural Law and Legal Positivism
4. American Legal Realism
5. International Law as Naked Power
6. The New Haven School of Jurisprudence
7. International Legal Process and Transnational Legal Process
8. Liberal Theories of International Law
9. Human Rights and the Concept of Popular Sovereignty
10. Law & Economics, Public Choice and Game Theory
11. New Approaches to Empirical Scholarship in International Law
12. Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory, LatCrit, and TWAIL
13. Critical Theories on Gender and Sexual Orientation
14. Summary and Conclusion
I. American Legal Realism
1. Philosophical Theory and International Law, 1 BIBLIOTHECA VISSERIANA DISSERTATIONUM IUS INTERNATIONALE ILLUSTRANTIUM 71-90 (1923)
Roscoe Pound
II. International Law as Naked Power
2. Positivism, Functionalism, and International Law, 34 AM. J. INT'L L. 260, 273-284 (1940)
Hans J. Morgenthau
III. The New Haven School of Jurisprudence
3. Law and Power, 46 AM. J. INT'L L. 102-114 (1952)
Myres S. McDougal
4. The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-First Century: Constitutive Process and Individual Commitment, Collected Courses, The Hague Academy of International Law, Vol. 351 (2012) 101-164, 165-189
Michael Reisman
5. Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence and Human Rights Abuses in Internal Conflict: Toward a World Public Order of Human Dignity, 93 AM. J. INT'L L. 316-334 (1999)
Siegfried Wiessner & Andrew R. Willard
IV. International and Transnational Legal Process
6. Transnational Legal Process, 75 NEBRASKA L. REV. 181-207 (1996)
Harold Hongju Koh
V. Liberal Theories of International Law
7. International Law: Politics, Values and Functions, 1-8, 45-51, 97-108, 279-285, 295-296 (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995)
Louis Henkin
8. The Law of Peoples, 20 CRITICAL INQUIRY 36-68 (Autumn 1993)
John Rawls
9. Fairness in International Law and Institutions, 3-46 (1995)
Thomas M. Franck
10. Ronald Dworkin, A New Philosophy for International Law, 41 PHILOSOPHY & PUBLIC AFFAIRS 2-30 (2013)
Ronald Dworkin
VI. Human Rights and the Concept of Popular Sovereignty
11. Sovereignty and Human Rights in Contemporary International Law, 84 AM. J. INT'L L. 866-876 (1990)
W. Michael Reisman
VII. Law & Economics, Public Choice and Game Theory
12. A Theory of Customary International Law, 66 U. CHI. L. REV. 1113, 1120-1151, 1170-1177 (1999)
Jack L. Goldsmith & Eric A. Posner
VIII. Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory, LatCrit, and TWAIL
13. David Kennedy, A New Stream of International Law Scholarship, 7 WISC. INT'L L.J. 1, 28-49 (1988)
David Kennedy
14. What Is TWAIL?, 94 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW PROCEEDINGS 31-38 (2000)
Makau Mutua
X. Critical Theories on Gender and Sexual Orientation
15. Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues, 41-63 (2006)
Catharine A. MacKinnon
