Search: Affective Justice: Book Symposium: A Response
28 Jul Reading Ben’s Book
...both on the scope of its own power, and on what makes for effective national security policy. We’ll disagree, Ben, about what exactly Congress should do with its power, but if your book’s primary point is this structural one – no issues there. Indeed, I can’t think of anyone I’ve encountered (human rights advocate or no) who’d disagree. Which brings me, at the risk of a digression but in response to another question I’ve heard Ben ask – why don’t more human rights advocates embrace this book? – to the...20 Nov Joel Trachtman on The Economic Structure of International Law
the dozens of book reviews written in response. The reaction might lead one to believe that rational choice theory and IL-proponents are doomed to conflicting positions. Not so, says Joel Trachtman, who has a new book out, The Economic Structure of International Law (Harv. Univ. Press, 2008). Trachtman (a former professor of mine) along with my current colleague Jeff Dunoff were among the first to advocate using economic theory to assess international law. In his current book, Trachtman offers an overarching theoretical model for applying “rational analysis (but not necessarily...26 Mar Posner and Sykes Book Symposium: Comment by Rachel Brewster
[Rachel Brewster is Professor of Law at Duke Law] One of the many virtues of Eric Posner and Alan Sykes’ new book, “Economic Foundations of International Law,” is that it provides the reader with a theoretically coherent and consistent overview of important international treaty regimes, substantive international rules, and state enforcement practices. The book is a lucid introduction to international law for students and also contains sophisticated analysis of the dynamics of international legal systems for academics and international lawyers. A major theme of the book is that state compliance...
30 Nov UNSC Veto Power Symposium: New Perspective for Tackling a Core Challenge to the UN System on the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations
up doing nothing, while the world watches helplessly as the atrocities unfold. Alternatives to the Security Council do not always exist. In most situations, the General Assembly cannot simply take up the measures blocked within the Security Council because certain powers contained in the UN Charter are exclusively the province of the Security Council. On the 75th anniversary of the UN Charter, this book suggests that a solution for this dysfunction may actually exist. The Book’s Central Thesis The central thesis of the book is that casting a veto while...18 Jun Berman Book Discussion: Berman Agonistes
[Jeffrey Dunoff holds the Laura H. Carnell Chair at Temple University Law School] This post is part of our symposium on Dean Schiff Berman’s book Global Legal Pluralism. Other posts can be found in Related Posts below. Paul Berman has produced a terrific, and terrifically ambitious, work of scholarship. The book presents a compelling case that the current legal order is marked by multiple and overlapping international, transnational, national, sub-national and non-state normative orders. Paul argues that relations among these various orders should be managed through a “cosmopolitan pluralist” approach...06 Apr Book Symposium: Is there Existential Interpretation in International Law?
as much as I love treaties, I believe that there is significant value in thinking about interpretation as more than a process of giving treaty provisions meaning. My introduction of the concept of existential interpretation is an effort to show just how broadly interpretative processes reach and structure the international legal order. In doing so, I hope to illustrate — as the book itself does — the importance of thinking about interpretation as its own field within international law. [An introductory post to the book symposium can be found here.]...13 May Pre-Order Polakow-Suransky’s New Book on Israel and South Africa
I was going to wait until the book — entitled The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa — came out to mention it, but now seems like an opportune time. You can pre-order the book from Amazon here, and here is the description: A revealing account of how Israel’s booming arms industry and apartheid South Africa’s international isolation led to a secretive military partnership between two seemingly unlikely allies. Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left: socialist idealists like David Ben-Gurion...29 Jul The Role of the Courts
the book that Marty criticizes is not, as he suggests in a good-natured attempt to defend me from my own work, the predations of a publisher keen to sell more books. It is, rather, the core of the book, from which the rest sprung. The book began with an essay in Policy Review a year ago dealing with judicial review and the war on terror–precisely the section of the book that Marty and Deborah now regard as most problematic. The effort to flesh out that essay led me to the...18 Oct Book Discussion Informal International Lawmaking: Some thoughts on accountability
better forum than Opinio Juris to conduct this exercise. As has been pointed out, the conceptual book on IN-LAW is, together with a case study book, the result of a two-year research project sponsored by the Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law (HiiL). From the kickoff onwards, the project has emphasized the importance of addressing questions of accountability, effectiveness and the tensions that may exist resulting from the operationalization of these concepts. We would like to chip into the discussions and respond to some issues raised with regard to...