The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-First Century

Constitutive Process and Individual Commitment
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52898-7
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch

Reihe: Hague Academy Special Editions

International law is archipelagic. Alongside “islands” of effective international law, you find offshore zones in which law is either undeveloped or manifestly ineffective or in which different norms, different arrangements and even unrestrained “political” factors are operating. Lawyers who work in these zones, whether on behalf of State and non-State actors, require different modes of thinking. They must be able to locate themselves in unstable decision processesby deploying appropriate legal tools and mapping schema; to identify the factors influencing decision, distinguishing the operative from the mythic ones; to project possible decisions and assess the extent they contribute to minimum and optimum order and, if they do not, to invent feasible alternative decisions. Michael Reisman describes the world international law is attached to and sets out a theory about law that enables the international lawyer to identify the common interest in its many zones and to work towards achieving a world public order of human dignity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reisman, W. Michael

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Excerpt of Table of Contents:

Chapter I. Breaking out of alice’s looking-glass: an introduction 23

Chapter II. What is international law attached to: the facts of international life 38

Chapter III. Some propositions and conditioning factors 66

Chapter IV. The world constitutive process and its decision functions. 90

Chapter V. The international lawmaking function 105

Chapter VI. Two modes of principled decision-making 125

Chapter VII. The international law-applying function 143

Chapter VIII. Participation arrangements for States: the transformation of self-determination 174

Chapter IX. Sovereignty and human rights: changing the internal arrange- ments of states by external means…………………198

Chapter X. The actors theory tries to ignore 212

Chapter XI. The evolution of individualism: regulating national control of persons 243

Chapter XII. The prescription and application of international human rights protections 267

Chapter XIII. Contingencies for the use of force: myth system and operational code 279

Chapter XIV. The use and abuse of military force: jus in bello 299

Chapter XV. The citizenship role of the international lawyer: fashioning goals for a public order of human dignity 312

Chapter XVI. International law as a profession: dilemmas of identity and commitment 326

Über Autor(innen)

W. Michael Reisman, born on 23 April 1939 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Myres S. McDougal Professor of International Law at the Yale Law School where he has been on the Faculty since 1965 and also Honorary Professor in the City University of Hong Kong. Has been a visiting professor in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Berlin, Basel, Tel Aviv, Paris and Geneva.

Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and a former member of its Executive Council, the President of the Arbitration Tribunal of the Bank for International Settlements, and a member of the Board of the Foreign Policy Association.

Has been elected to the Institut de droit international.

Formerly, was also Vice-Chairman of the Policy Sciences Center, Inc., President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, Vice-President, Honorary Vice-President and Honorary President of the American Society of International Law and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law.

Was President of the OSPAR arbitration and a member of the tribunal in the Eritrea/Ethiopia Boundary Dispute and in the Abyei (Sudan) Boundary Dispute.