Podcasts

MAR 14, 2014 • Journal

The international rule of law provides political resources with which states and other actors legitimize and delegitimize contending policies. The atomistic nature of the interstate ...

By Ian Hurd

MAR 14, 2014 • Journal

The practice of state compliance with international law is not that easily demonstrated to be the product of legal constraint. Indeed, the problem goes beyond ...

By David Dyzenhaus

MAR 14, 2014 • Journal

This essay advances an alternative perspective on culture and international law. After exploring in greater detail determinist accounts of this relationship, I reverse the typically ...

By Christian Reus-Smit

MAR 14, 2014 • Journal

U.S. drone strikes represent a significant challenge to the international rule of law. This is not because they “violate” international law; ironically, drone strikes ...

By Rosa Brooks

MAR 14, 2014 • Journal

Whence does international law derive its normative force as law in a world that remains, in many respects, one where legitimate politics is practiced primarily ...

By Ruti Teitel

MAR 14, 2014 • Journal

There has been widespread support for the idea that the so-called international community has a remedial moral responsibility to protect vulnerable populations from grave human ...

By Toni Erskine

MAR 14, 2014 • Journal

Talk of “pluralism” has become ubiquitous in political theory, but it is often vague.

By George Crowder