At head of title: Academie de droit international de La Haye = The Hague Academy of International Law. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
Chapter I. Breaking out of alice's looking-glass: an introduction -- Chapter II. What is international law attached to: the facts of international life -- Section 1. The demographic dimension of the world community -- Section 2. The ethnocultural dimension of the world community -- Section 3. The historical dimension of the world community -- Section 4. The economic, environmental and resource dimension of the world community -- Section 5. The war system dimension of the world community -- Section 6. The scientific and technological dimension of the world community -- Section 7. The dimension of interdependence of the world community -- Section 8. The "sovereign" state dimension of the world community -- Chapter III. Some propositions and conditioning factors -- Section 1. The organised and unorganised character of international processes -- Section 2. Symbols of authority -- Section 3. Commitments to support arrangements -- Section 4. The practicality of the common interest -- Section 5. The volatility of international law -- Para. 1. Diversity -- Para. 2. The dialectical character of law -- Para. 3. Justicial anachronism -- Para. 4. Intellectual revisionism -- Para. 5. Incomplete knowledge at the time of judgment -- Para. 6. The dynamism of a science and technologically based civilisation -- Section 6. The law's myth systems and operational codes -- Section 7. Power -- Chapter IV. The world constitutive process and its decision functions -- Section 1. Unorganised and non-hierarchical constitutive structures -- Section 2. Ineffective constitutive structures -- Section 3. Partially effective constitutive structures -- Section 4. Effective constitutive structures -- Section 5. The succession of constitutive processes in international law -- Chapter V. The international lawmaking function -- Section 1. Prescribing as a process of communication -- Section 2. Soft law -- Section 3. State-made law and media-made law -- Chapter VI. Two modes of principled decision-making -- Section 1. Multiple modes of decision-making -- Section 2. The textual-rule-based mode -- Section 3. The contextual-policy-based mode -- Section 4. Mapping -- Chapter VII. The international law-applying function -- Section 1. The scope of international application -- Section 2. The invocation function -- Section 3. Differing scopes of authority -- Section 4. Are there constitutional limits? -- Section 5. Consent as a prerequisite for application -- Section 6. Appliers as prescribers -- Section 7. National judges -- Section 8. International arbitrators -- Section 9. Parallel proceedings -- Chapter VIII. Participation arrangements for States: the transformation of self-determination -- Section 1. The process of consociation and the demand for self-determination -- Section 2. The international membership criteria: from membership by power to membership by right -- Section 3. The ironic role of uti possidetis -- Section 4. Recognition -- Chapter IX. Sovereignty and human rights: changing the internal arrangements of states by external means -- Section 1. Human rights and regime change -- Section 2. Governments-in-exile -- Chapter X. The actors theory tries to ignore -- Section 1. Intergovernmental organisations -- Section 2. Transnational corporations or MNES -- Section 3. Non-governmental organisations -- Section 4. Terrorists and terrorist groups -- Section 5. Gangs -- Section 6. The constellation of members of the international legal system in the future: interdependencies and hybridisations -- Chapter XI. The evolution of individualism: regulating national control of persons -- Section 1. The globalisation of diasporas and its international legal implications -- Para. 1. The globalisation of corporate nationals -- Para. 2. Nationality goals for the twenty-first century -- Section 2. International regulation of the competence to ascribe nationality -- Section 3. International regulation of withdrawal or termination of nationality -- Section 4. The transnationalisation of identities -- Section 5. Nationality as the basis for protection in external areas -- Section 6. The function of the exhaustion rule -- Section 7. The calvo doctrine and the exhaustion rule -- Chapter XII. The prescription and application of international human rights protections -- Section 1. The individual in international human rights law -- Section 2. Modern human rights applications -- Section 3. Human rights protections in the twenty-first century -- Chapter XIII. Contingencies for the use of force: myth system and operational code -- Section 1. A proactive jus ad bellum -- Para. 1. Decolonisation wars -- Para. 2. Wars of national liberation -- Para. 3. Assistance in internal wars -- Para. 4. Humanitarian intervention -- Para. 5. Protections of nationals abroad -- Para. 6. Military exercises as a form of threat -- Para. 7. Reprisals -- Para. 8. Spheres of influence -- Para. 9. Regime change -- Para. 10. Just war as a jus ad bellum -- Section 2. Reactive, anticipatory and pre-emptive self-defence -- Chapter XIV. The use and abuse of military force: jus in bello -- Section 1. The "MNPD principles" -- Section 2. Absolute and relative prohibitions of the jus in bello -- Section 3. The decay of absolute prohibitions -- Chapter XV. The citizenship role of the international lawyer: fashioning goals for a public order of human dignity -- Section 1. Transcivilisationalism and goal clarification -- Section 2. Clarifying the common interest: principles of content and procedure for action and appraisal -- Para. 1. The Principle of Minimum Order -- Para. 2. The Principle of the Avoidance of Surplus Violence -- Para. 3. The Principle of Enhancing Life Opportunities: Development -- Para. 4. The Principle of Contextual Integration -- Para. 5. The Principle of Economy -- Para. 6. The Principle of Second-Best Solutions -- Para. 7. The Principle of Environmental Conservation -- Para. 8. The Principle of Sustainable Development -- Para. 9. The Principle of Cultivation of Rationality -- Para. 10. The Principle of Valid Legal Process -- Chapter XVI. International law as a profession: dilemmas of identity and commitment -- Section 1. The Shawcross dilemma -- Section 2. The international lawyer's dilemma -- Section 3. Bureaucracy and responsibility -- Section 4. The complexity of international professional responsibility -- Section 5. Some inspiring examples -- Section 6. Alternative futures "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 processes by 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"-- Back Cover.
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