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The Philosophy of International Law. Edited by Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv, 611. Index. $115, cloth; $40, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Anthony Carty*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
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Recent Books on International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

References

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2 Weil, Prosper, Towards Relative Normativity in International Law?, 77 AJIL 413 (1983)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 For a review of the issues, see Carty, Anthony, The Continuing Influence of Kelsen on the General Perception of the Discipline of International Law, 9 Eur. J. Int’l L. 344 (1998)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined 200-01 (1954).

5 For a discussion of these issues, see Cécile Tournaye, Kelsen et la Securite Collective (1995).

6 Aust, Anthony, The Theory and Practice of Informal International Instruments, 35 Int’l & Comp. L.Q. 787 (1986)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 For a general discussion of Tasioulas’s unacknowledged anti-foundationalism, see Beckett, Jason A., Behind Relative Normativity: Rules and Process as Prerequisites of Law, 12 Eur. J. Int’l L. 627 (2001)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 E.g., Derrida, Jacques, Force of Law, “The Mystical Foundation of Authority,” 11 Cardozo L. Rev. 919 (Mary Quaintance trans., 1990) (possibly representing a canonic text of the critical school)Google Scholar.

9 See, e.g., Gerry Simpson, Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order (2004).

10 See, e.g., International Law on the Left, Re-Examining Marxist Legacies (Susan Marks ed., 2008).