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Trade And Inequality: Economic Justice And The Developing World, Frank J. Garcia Jan 2000

Trade And Inequality: Economic Justice And The Developing World, Frank J. Garcia

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article attempts to lay the foundation for such a framework in the area of international trade law. More specifically, this Article develops the argument that the principle of special and differential treatment, a key element of the developing world's trade agenda, plays a central role in satisfying the moral obligations that wealthier states owe poorer states as a matter of distributive justice. Seen in this light, the principle of special and differential treatment is more than just a political accommodation: it reflects a moral obligation stemming from the economic inequality among states.


Toleration, Autonomy And Respect, Colin J. Harvey Jan 2000

Toleration, Autonomy And Respect, Colin J. Harvey

Michigan Journal of International Law

Review of On Toleration by Michael Walzer


The Place Of Law In Collective Security, Martti Koskenniemi Jan 1996

The Place Of Law In Collective Security, Martti Koskenniemi

Michigan Journal of International Law

In this article the author wants to examine the place of law in our thinking about and sometimes participation in decision-making regarding international security. After the end of the Cold War, and particularly since the United Nations' reaction to Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990-91, an academic debate concerning the possibility of collective security has arisen anew. The intention is not to take a definite view in that controversy. Instead, the author shall suggest that this debate has been framed so as to obscure the role of normative considerations, including law, in the production or construction of collective security. A …


Caught Between Traditions: The Security Council In Philosophical Conundrum, David P. Fidler Jan 1996

Caught Between Traditions: The Security Council In Philosophical Conundrum, David P. Fidler

Michigan Journal of International Law

In Part I of this article, I provide a discussion about the use of traditions of thought in international relations. Part II begins by briefly examining the fundamental purpose of the Security Council – the maintenance of international peace, and security. I then analyze the philosophical origins of the idea of maintaining international peace and security through an international organization to demonstrate how liberal thought on international relations came to incorporate this idea. In this analysis, I will demonstrate that liberal thought on the appropriateness of relying on international organizations to maintain peace and security is not unified and that …


The Ennobling Of Democracy: The Challenge Of The Postmodern Age, Fernando R. Tesón Jan 1993

The Ennobling Of Democracy: The Challenge Of The Postmodern Age, Fernando R. Tesón

Michigan Journal of International Law

Review of the book by Thomas L. Pangle.


Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions Of International Relations Theory, Hilary Charlesworth Jan 1993

Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions Of International Relations Theory, Hilary Charlesworth

Michigan Journal of International Law

Review of the book edited by V. Spike Peterson.


Breaking The Deadlock: Toward A Socialist-Confucianist Concept Of Human Rights For China, David E. Christensen Jan 1992

Breaking The Deadlock: Toward A Socialist-Confucianist Concept Of Human Rights For China, David E. Christensen

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Note offers an alternative perspective on international human rights that seeks to bypass the dead-end universalist-cultural relativist debate, and proposes a concept of human rights that is harmonious with the modern collectivist and socialist Chinese order. Since human rights protect dignity, this study finds the source of human dignity in China in society, not in nature. This analysis opens the door to the development of a meaningful set of guaranteed individual rights for a socialist state and a Confucian order.


Capitalism And Democracy, Owen M. Fiss Jan 1992

Capitalism And Democracy, Owen M. Fiss

Michigan Journal of International Law

Socialism has collapsed. The long, historic struggle between capitalism and socialism has come to an end, and capitalism has emerged the victor. This turn of events was foreshadowed by the privatization movement of the late 1970s and 1980s that swept England, the United States, and a number of Latin American countries. History still awaited the renunciation of socialism by those who lived it, but that soon came in the form of the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe and in the spiraling chain of events, set in motion by "perestroika," that ultimately led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union …


"Liberalism's Dangerous Supplements": Medieval Ghosts Of International Law, Anthony Carty Jan 1991

"Liberalism's Dangerous Supplements": Medieval Ghosts Of International Law, Anthony Carty

Michigan Journal of International Law

A book review of From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument by Martti Koskenniemi


Justice In The International System, Thomas M. Franck, Steven W. Hawkins Jan 1989

Justice In The International System, Thomas M. Franck, Steven W. Hawkins

Michigan Journal of International Law

"Justice," Rawls claims in A Theory of Justice," is the first virtue of social institutions…" The principles of justice of which Rawls speaks, however, except for a brief excursion, "apply only within the borders of a nation-state." Our purpose is to see whether justice is also the first virtue of the international system, the social institutions of the community of nations. More specifically, is justice the definitive virtue by which to judge international law? This article seeks to answer those questions by examining the concept of justice as developed by various theorists, culminating in the contemporary Rawlsian theory of …