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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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
