The article offers an alternative account of the evolution, formation, and function of
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How International Law Works presents a theory of international law, how it operates, and
why it works. Though appeals to international law have grown ever more central to …

Legal scholarship lacks a satisfactory theory of why and when states comply with
international law. Most scholars and practitioners of international law believe that …

This up-to-date collection of documents is designed primarily for use in conjunction with
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There is a new empirical turn in international legal scholarship. Building on decades of
theoretical work in law and social science, a new generation of empirical studies is …

The commitment of the United States to its treaty obligations has recently been put in
question by two persistent histories of treaty violation—the refusal to pay US United Nations …

This book traces the evolution of crimes against humanity (CAH) and their application from
the end of World War I to the present day, in terms of both historic legal analysis and subject …

Methodology is probably not the strong point of the International Court of Justice or, indeed,
of international law in general. Unlike its approach to methods of treaty interpretation, the …

APPENDIX: SOME STATUTORY DEFINITIONS OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND
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Constitutional law in the United States and around the world now operates within an
increasingly transnational legal environment of international treaties, customary …