When international law works : realistic idealism after 9/11 and the global recession /

When international law works : realistic idealism after 9/11 and the global recession /

"When International Law Works stands to change the way states and scholars look at this contentious topic. In this seminal work, Professor Tai-Heng Cheng addresses the current international law debates and transcends them. Working from influential statements on international law by such scholar...

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Main Author: Cheng, Tai-Heng
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012
Subjects:
International law
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter One: Confronting Anxieties About International Law
  • I. The Relevance and Irrelevance of Law
  • II. Contemporary Debates
  • III. Thesis
  • A. The Central Case
  • B. Effectiveness
  • C. Legitimacy
  • IV. Terms
  • V. Outline of Inquiry
  • VI. Conclusion
  • Chapter Two: The Politics of Theorizing
  • I. A Historical Survey
  • II. Antiquity
  • III. Middle Ages
  • IV. Early Modernism
  • V. Late Modernism
  • VI. Post-Modernism
  • VII. Choices in Theorizing
  • VIII. Political and Normative Values in Theorizing
  • IX. Conclusion
  • Chapter Three: Legalism and Morality
  • I. Framing the Inquiry
  • II. Choices
  • III. Legalism
  • A. The UN Security Council
  • B. International Court of Justice
  • C. Conclusions About Legalism
  • IV. The Morality of International Law
  • A. Basic Values
  • B. Moral Obligations
  • C. Realist Critiques
  • D. Liberal Critique
  • E. Legal Obligations
  • V. Guidance to Officials
  • A. Morality
  • B. Institutional Functions
  • C. Effectiveness
  • D. The Indeterminacy Paradox
  • VI. Conclusion
  • Chapter Four: Judges
  • I. Theory
  • A. Judicial Functions
  • B. General Morality
  • C. Specific Morality
  • D. Effectiveness
  • II. Praxis
  • A. The Pedra Branca Case
  • 1. Legalism
  • 2. Morality
  • 3. Effectiveness
  • B. The Nicaragua Case
  • 1. Legalism
  • a. Provisional Measures
  • b. El Salvador's Intervention
  • c. Decision on Jurisdiction
  • d. Merits
  • 2. Effectiveness
  • 3. Morality
  • 4. Feedback Loops
  • C. The Avena Case
  • 1. Legalism
  • 2. Effectiveness
  • 3. Morality
  • 4. Feedback Loops
  • III. Conclusion
  • Chapter Five: Arbitrators
  • I. Theory
  • A. Arbitral Functions
  • B. General Morality
  • C. Specific Morality
  • D. Effectiveness
  • II. Praxis.
  • A. United States-Stainless Steel (Mexico), Implementing Award
  • B. Loewen Group, Inc. v. United States of America
  • C. CMS Gas Transmission Co. v. Argentine Republic, Decision on Annulment
  • III. Conclusion
  • Chapter Six: Regulators
  • I. Theory
  • II. Praxis
  • A. The Global Financial Crisis
  • B. Responses and Decisions of Regulators
  • C. The Financial Stability Board
  • D. Guidance for Regulators
  • III. Conclusion
  • Chapter Seven: Legal Advisors
  • I. Theory
  • A. The Legal Advisor's Functions
  • B. General Morality
  • C. Specific Morality
  • D. Interests and Effectiveness
  • II. Praxis
  • A. Abu Ghraib Prison
  • B. Waterboarding
  • 1. Factual Assumptions
  • 2. International Legal Prescriptions
  • 3. The Interrogation Memoranda
  • 4. General Morality
  • 5. Specific Morality
  • 6. Guidance to Advisors
  • 7. Alternative Scenarios
  • III. Conclusion
  • Chapter Eight: Officials
  • I. Theory
  • II. Praxis
  • A. The 1990 Gulf War
  • 1. Specific Morality
  • 2. General Morality and Effectiveness
  • 3. Feedback Loops
  • B. NATO Bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
  • 1 General Morality
  • 2. Specific Morality
  • 3. Feedback Loops
  • C. The 2003 Invasion of Iraq
  • 1. General Morality
  • 2. Specific Morality
  • 3. Feedback Loops
  • III. Conclusion
  • Chapter Nine: Law Beyond Laws
  • I. Reframing Debates
  • II. Situating Among Theories
  • III. Results from Case Studies
  • IV. Conclusion

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