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The Philosophy of International Law by Samantha Besson (University of Fribourg)

International law has recently emerged as the subject-matter of an exciting new field of philosophical investigation. The Philosophy of International Law contains 29 cutting-edge essays by leading philosophers and international lawyers, all published here in English for the first time, that address the central philosophical questions about international law. The volume's overarching theme is the moral and political values that should guide the assessment and development of international law and institutions. Some of the essays tackle general topics such as the sources and legitimacy of international law, the nature of international legal adjudication, whether international law can or should aspire to be 'democratic', and the significance of state sovereignty. The other contributions address philosophical problems arising in specific domains of international law, such as human rights law, international economic law, international criminal law, international environmental law, and the laws of war. This volume is the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of the philosophy of international law in existence. It is also distinguished by its 'dialogical' methodology: there are two essays on each topic, with the second author engaging with the arguments of the first. It is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the nature and value of international law.

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This book is a comprehensive treatment of various topics in international law from several academics and authoritative sources * Alicia Elias-Roberts, The University of the West Indies *
heartily recommended ... demonstrates the best sort of international collaborative cosmopolitanism ... it will be a source of challenging ideas and the subject of useful engagement as students develop their own perspective on the global possibilites for the rule of law. * Political Studies Review *
Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas have done lawyers, scholars and the public an enormous service in their volume The Philosophy of International Law by raising the level of debate about the moral and political standards that should govern the assessment (and development) of international institutions... Besson and Tasioulas, the guiding lights behind this project, represent a brilliant new generation of philosophers speaking directly to a new generation of lawyers about international law - and they have manafed to gather many of the most perceptive and serious scholars on the subject together in one volume... This is an exciting and very important volume. * Mortimer Sellers, Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, University of Maryland *
The Philosophy of International Law can be heartily recommended ... a source of challenging ideas * Christopher May, International Relations *

About Samantha Besson (University of Fribourg)

Samantha Besson is Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg. Her publications and research interests lie in legal philosophy and democratic theory, in particular as applied to international and European law-making. Besides numerous publications in French, she is the author of the monograph The Morality of Conflict (Hart Publishing: Oxford, 2005) and the co-editor of the forthcoming collection of essays Legal Republicanism: National and International (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009). John Tasioulas is a Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is also a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University. He has published on various topics in moral, legal and political philosophy. He is currently working on a monograph on the philosophy of human rights with the support of a British Academy Research Development Award.

Introduction ; PART I GENERAL ISSUES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ; SECTION I HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ; 1. State of Nature versus Commercial Sociability as the Basis of International Law: Reflections on the Roman Foundations and Current Interpretations of the International Political and Legal Thought of Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf ; 2. Immanuel Kant on International Law ; SECTION II LEGITIMACY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ; 3. The Legitimacy of International Law ; 4. The Legitimacy of International Law ; SECTION III INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRACY ; 5. Democratic Legitimacy and International Institutions ; 6. Legitimate International Institutions: A Neo-Republican Perspective ; SECTION IV SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ; 7. Theorizing the Sources of International Law ; 8. The Sources of International Law: Some Philosophical Reflections ; SECTION V INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATION ; 9. International Adjudication ; 10. International Adjudication: A Response to Paulus - Courts, Custom, Treaties, Regimes, and the WTO ; SECTION VI SOVEREIGNTY ; 11. The Logic of Freedom and Power ; 12. Sovereignty in the Context of Globalization: A Constitutional Pluralist Perspective ; SECTION VII INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY ; 13. International Responsibility ; 14. International Responsibility ; PART II SPECIFIC ISSUES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ; SECTION VIII HUMAN RIGHTS ; 15. Human Rights without Foundations ; 16. Human Rights and the Autonomy of International Law ; 17. Human Rights ; SECTION IX SELF-DETERMINATION AND MINORITY RIGHTS ; 18. Minority Rights in Political Philosophy and International Law ; 19. Two Conception of Self Determination ; SECTION X INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW ; 20. The Role of International Law in Reproducing Massive Poverty ; 21. Global Justice, Poverty and the International Economic Order ; SECTION XI INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ; 22. Philosophical Issues in International Environmental Law ; 23. Ethics and International Environmental Law ; SECTION XII LAWS OF WAR ; 24. The Laws of War ; 25. Laws of War ; SECTION XIII HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION ; 26. Humanitarian Intervention ; 27. Humanitarian Militarism? ; SECTION XIV INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW ; 28. Fairness to Rightness: Jurisdiction, Legality, and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Law ; 29. Authority and Responsibility in International Criminal Law

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The Philosophy of International Law by Samantha Besson (University of Fribourg)

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