24
May
Lawmaking Under Pressure Symposium: Making International Treaty Sausage–Appreciating Mantilla’s Lawmaking Under Pressure
[Neta C. Crawford is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston University.] How does international law get made? In particular, how was it that diplomats were able to craft international rules governing internal conflicts when sovereign states have little or no inherent interest in being constrained by those laws? Or at least great powers don’t want to be told what to do. ...