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Straightening The "Timber": Toward A New Paradigm Of International Law, Louis R. Beres
Straightening The "Timber": Toward A New Paradigm Of International Law, Louis R. Beres
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Immanuel Kant once remarked: " Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made, nothing entirely straight can be built." Understood in terms of international law, this philosopher's wisdom points toward a far-reaching departure from traditional emphases on structures of global power and authority. Newly aware that structural alterations of international law are always epiphenomenal, ignoring root causes of international crimes in favor of their symptomatic expressions, we could craft from this departure a new and promising jurisprudence. Acknowledging that human transformations must lie at the heart of all world-order reform, we could build upon the knowledge …