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With Law In Their Minds: Some Reflections On The Nature Of Public International Law At The Light Of Current Political Science Theory, Carlos Fernando Diaz Jan 1998

With Law In Their Minds: Some Reflections On The Nature Of Public International Law At The Light Of Current Political Science Theory, Carlos Fernando Diaz

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The conclusion I came to during my time in the Foreign Office was that the old international order was neither a natural phenomenon to which humanity had simply adjusted its behaviour nor a fortuitous aggregation of countless past events of human interaction.


The Pedagogical Considerations Of Using A Constitutional Law Textbook In Political Science, Christopher P. Banks Jan 1998

The Pedagogical Considerations Of Using A Constitutional Law Textbook In Political Science, Christopher P. Banks

Seattle University Law Review

This Review first describes the importance of each consideration by analyzing how a two-volume constitutional law casebook, written by Professor David M. O'Brien of the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, can be admirably employed to teach the principle that constitutional law is, in fact, politics. Overall, the volumes are excellent undergraduate political science constitutional law texts. However, the casebook volumes have two flaws. First, they do not address the vital question of "what is political science?," a query that ought to be routinely asked by anyone teaching public law courses. Second, they …