When International Law Works

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-537017-1
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

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. Responding to influential statements on international law by such scholars as Goldsmith, Posner, O'Connell, and Guzman, Cheng presents a new framework that decisionmakers should consider when they confront an international problem that
implicates the often competing policies and interests of their own communities and global order. Instead of advocating for or against international law as legitimate or binding, as many commentators do, Cheng adknowledges both its shortcomings while presenting a practical means of deciding whether compliance in a
given circumstance is beneficial, moral, or necessary. In this manner Cheng shows how it is possible for decisionmakers to take international law and its limitations seriously without actually needing to determine whether or not international law is "law."

To demonstrate how his new proposal for approaching international law would work in a real crisis, Cheng provides numerous case studies from contemporary history that test his theory. Ranging topically from the current global economic crisis to the West's war on Islamist terrorism, these detailed and demonstrative case studies set this book apart from similar works of international legal scholarship.

By combining theory with practice, When International Law Works gives lawyers, judges, policymakers, academics and students 'real world' guidance on how to face new global problems. In doing so, this new book challenges readers to rethink the role of law in an increasingly crisis-driven world.

Zielgruppe

Policy makers, agency staff, NGO officers, legal academics, law students, political scientists, and historians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheng

Cheng, Tai-Heng

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tai-Heng Cheng is Professor of International Law and Director of the Institute for Global Law, Justice, and Policy at New York Law School. His published scholarship includes the book State Succession and Commercial Obligations (2006) and articles in the University of Illinois Law Review, the Cornell Journal of International Law, and the Michigan Journal of International Law. Professor Cheng is an elected member of the American Society of
International Law's Executive Council, and co-chair of ASIL's 2011 Annual Meeting and chair of its 2012 Awards Committee. He holds degrees from Yale Law School and Oxford University.