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General Theory of International Law

Author: Siegfried Wiessner
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004338456
Published In: March 2017
Format: Hardback
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The introductory volume to the American Classics in International Law series, General Theory of 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, its 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.

Introductory Essay, 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. Roscoe Pound, Philosophical Theory and International Law, 1 BIBLIOTHECA VISSERIANA DISSERTATIONUM IUS INTERNATIONALE ILLUSTRANTIUM 71-90 (1923)

II. International Law as Naked Power

2. Hans J. Morgenthau, Positivism, Functionalism, and International Law, 34 AM. J. INT’L L.

260, 273-284 (1940)

III. The New Haven School of Jurisprudence

3. Myres S. McDougal, Law and Power, 46 AM. J. INT’L L.

102-114 (1952)

4. W. MICHAEL REISMAN, 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

5. Siegfried Wiessner & Andrew R. Willard, 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)

IV. International and Transnational Legal Process

6. Harold Hongju Koh, Transnational Legal Process, 75 NEBRASKA L. REV.

181-207 (1996)

V. Liberal Theories of International Law

7. LOUIS HENKIN, INTERNATIONAL LAW: POLITICS, VALUES AND FUNCTIONS, 1-8, 45-51, 97-108, 279-285, 295-296 (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995)

8. John Rawls, The Law of Peoples, 20 CRITICAL INQUIRY 36-68 (Autumn 1993)

9. THOMAS M. FRANCK, FAIRNESS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INSTITUTIONS 3-46 (1995)

10. Ronald Dworkin, A New Philosophy for International Law, 41 PHILOSOPHY & PUBLIC AFFAIRS 2-30 (2013)

VI. Human Rights and the Concept of Popular Sovereignty

11. W. Michael Reisman, Sovereignty and Human Rights in Contemporary International Law, 84 AM. J. INT’L L.

866-876 (1990)