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When International Law Works: Realistic Idealism After 9/11 and the Global Recession

Autor Tai-Heng Cheng
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 feb 2012
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195370171
ISBN-10: 0195370171
Pagini: 364
Dimensiuni: 161 x 242 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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The book opens a door to thinking further about how international law plays a significant role in the 21st century. ... Cheng shows his academic courage by bravely confronting tough issues, and makes frank and honest comments about them.
Professor Cheng has offered a fresh prespective on the role of international law in international affairs which is to be warmly welcomed.
Cheng shows his academic courage by bravely confronting tough issues, and makes frank and honest comments about them.
In the book, Professor Cheng provides a stimulating review of the various theories on the nature of international law and an interesting examination of the roles of various decision makers and the competing considerations they must take into account.

Notă biografică

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.