Theory and Philosophy of
International Law
International Law series
Edited by Andrea Bianchi,
Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
This research collection
offers a comprehensive view of the most notable contributions to the theory and
philosophy of international law. In the first volume a number of philosophical
inquiries have been selected, alongside contributions offering general
theoretical insight into international law. The purpose is to identify general
themes of discussion, such as the nature and functioning of international law,
and to illustrate how philosophers and international law scholars tackle them
in their respective fields of inquiry. In the second volume, the kaleidoscope
of different contemporary theories and approaches to international law is
presented. The collection is an indispensable reference for anyone interested
in philosophical and theoretical investigations in international law.
Contents:
Volume I
Acknowledgements
On Asking Questions Andrea
Bianchi
PART I PHILOSOPHICAL
PERSPECTIVES
1. Ronald Dworkin (2013),
‘A New Philosophy for International Law’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 41
(1), Winter, 2–30
2. Allen Buchanan and
David Golove (2002), ‘Philosophy of International Law’, in Jules L. Coleman,
Kenneth Einar Himma and Scott S. Shapiro (eds), The Oxford Handbook of
Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Chapter 21, Oxford, UK: Oxford University
Press, 868–934
3. John Tasioulas (2013),
‘Human Rights, Legitimacy, and International Law’ American Journal of Jurisprudence,
58 (1), June, 1–25
4. Richard Rorty (1998),
‘Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality’, in Richard Rorty (ed.), Truth
and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3, Part 2, Chapter 9, Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 167–85
5. Thomas Nagel (2005),
‘The Problem of Global Justice’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 33 (2), March,
113–47
6. Jeremy Waldron (2013),
‘International Law: ‘A Relatively Small and Unimportant’ Part of
Jurisprudence?’, in Luis Duarte d’Almeida, James Edwards and Andrea Dolcetti
(eds), Reading HLA Hart’s The Concept of Law, Part 1, Chapter 10, Oxford, UK:
Hart Publishing, 209–23
PART II THEORETICAL
INSIGHTS
7. Edward Dumbauld (1935),
‘The Place of Philosophy in International Law’, University of Pennsylvania Law
Review, 83 (5), March, 590–606
8. H. Lauterpacht (1946),
‘The Grotian Tradition in International Law’, British Yearbook of International
Law, 23, 1–53
9. G. G. Fitzmaurice
(1956), ‘The Foundations of the Authority of International Law and the Problem
of Enforcement’, Modern Law Review, 19 (1), January, 1–13
10. Samantha Besson
(2009), ‘The Authority of International Law – Lifting the State Veil’, Sydney
Law Review, 31, 343–80
11. Emmanuelle Jouannet
(2008), ‘What is the Use of International Law? International Law as a 21st
Century Guardian of Welfare’, Michigan Journal of International Law, 28 (4),
Summer, 815–62
12. Steven Ratner (2013),
‘Ethics and International Law: Integrating the Global Justice Project(s)’,
International Theory, 5 (1), March, 1–34
13. David Kennedy (2000),
‘When Renewal Repeats: Thinking Against the Box’, NYU Journal of International
Law and Politics, 32, 335–500
14. Martti Koskenniemi
(2007), ‘The Fate of Public International Law: Between Technique and Politics’,
Modern Law Review, 70 (1), January, 1–30
15. Gerry Simpson (1999),
‘On the Magic Mountain: Teaching International Law’, European Journal of
International Law, 10 (1), 70–92
16. Anne Orford (2004),
‘The Destiny of International Law’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 17
(3), September, 441–76
17. Barbara Stark (2010),
‘Jam Tomorrow: Distributive Justice and the Limits of International Economic
Law’, Boston College Third World Law Journal, 30, 3–34
18. Thomas Franck (1988),
‘Legitimacy in the International System’, American Journal of International
Law, 82 (4), October, 705–59
19. Fernando R. Tesón
(1992), ‘The Kantian Theory of International Law’, Columbia Law Review, 92 (1),
January, 53–102
Volume II
Acknowledgements
PART I THE IMPORTANCE OF
THEORY
1. Iain Scobbie (2014), ‘A
View of Delft: Some Thoughts About Thinking About International Law’, in M.
Evans (ed) International Law, 4th Edition, Part 1, Chapter 3, Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 53–89
2. Andrea Bianchi (2012),
‘Reflexive Butterfly Catching: Insights from a Situated Catcher’, in Joost
Pauwelyn, Ramses Wesssel and Jan Wouters (eds), Informal International
Lawmaking, Part II, Chapter 9, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 200–215
PART II DIFFERENT VISIONS
OF COMMUNITY
3. Anne Peters (2006),
‘Compensatory Constitutionalism: The Function and Potential of Fundamental
International Norms and Structures’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 19
(3), October, 579–610
4. Nico Krisch and Benedict
Kingsbury (2006), ‘Introduction: Global Governance and Global Administrative
Law in the International Legal Order’, European Journal of International Law,
17 (1), February, 1–13
5. Myres S. McDougal,
Harold D. Lasswell and Michael W. Reisman (1968), ‘Theories about International
Law: Prologue to a Configurative Jurisprudence’, Virginia Journal of
International Law, 8 (2), 188–299
6. Harold Hongju Koh
(1996), ‘Transnational Legal Process’, Nebraska Law Review: The 1994 Roscoe
Pound Lecture, 75 (1), 181–207
7. Andreas Fischer–Lescano
and Gunther Teubner (2004), ‘Regime–Collisions: The Vain Search for Legal Unity
in the Fragmentation of Global Law’ Michigan Journal of International Law, 25,
999–1046
8. Paul Schiff Berman
(2007), ‘A Pluralist Approach to International Law’, Yale Journal of
International Law, 32, 301–29
9. Philip Allott (1999),
‘The Concept of International Law’, European Journal of International Law, 10
(1), 31–50
PART III THE MULTIFACETED
DIMENSIONS OF CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP
10. Susan Marks (2008),
‘Introduction’ in Susan Marks (ed) International Law on the Left: Re-examining
Marxist Legacies, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1–29
11. David Kennedy (1988),
‘A New Stream of International Law Scholarship’, Wisconsin International Law
Journal, 7 (1), 1–49
12. Martti Koskenniemi
(2009), ‘The Politics of International Law – 20 Years Later’, European Journal
of International Law, 20 (1), February, 7–19
13. Antony Anghie (2006),
‘The Evolution of International Law: Colonial and Postcolonial Realities’,
Third World Quarterly, 27 (5), 739–53
14. Luis Eslava and
Sundhya Pahuja (2012), ‘Beyond the (Post)Colonial: TWAIL and the Everyday Life
of International Law’, Journal of Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin
America – Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRÜ), 45 (2), 195–221
15. Hilary Charlesworth,
Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright (1991), ‘Feminist Approaches to
International Law’, American Journal of International Law, 85 (4), October,
613–45
PART IV INTERNATIONAL LAW
AND …
16. Anne–Marie Slaughter
Burley (1993), ‘International Law and International Relations Theory: A Dual
Agenda’, American Journal of International Law, 87 (2), April, 205–239
17. Jutta Brunnée and
Stephen Toope (2000), ‘International Law and Constructivism: Elements of an
Interactional Theory of International Law’, Columbia Journal of Transnational
Law, 39, 19–74
18. Gregory Shaffer and
Tom Ginsburg (2012), ‘The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship’,
American Journal of International Law, 106 (1), January, 1–46
19. Jeffrey L. Dunoff and
Joel P. Trachtman (1999), ‘Economic Analysis of International Law’, Yale
Journal of International Law, 24, Winter, 1–59
20. Andrea Bianchi (2011),
‘Terrorism and Armed Conflicts: Insights from a Law and Literature
Perspective’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 24 (1), March, 1–21
Index
