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International Legal Positivism And Legal Realism, D. A. Jeremy Telman
International Legal Positivism And Legal Realism, D. A. Jeremy Telman
Law Faculty Publications
This chapter, a contribution to a book on International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World, gauges the potential for mutually enriching interactions between international legal positivism and legal realism. It first describes the encounter between legal positivism and legal realism in the U.S. legal academy and then proceeds to discuss the rise of a new legal realism in international legal theory. In a concluding section, the chapter assesses the compatibilities and tensions between the new international legal realism and the new international legal positivism.
With its forthright embrace of the inescapability of uncertainty in law, the new international legal …
A Realist Defense Of The Alien Tort Statute, Robert Knowles
A Realist Defense Of The Alien Tort Statute, Robert Knowles
Law Faculty Publications
This Article offers a new justification for modern litigation under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a provision from the 1789 Judiciary Act that permits victims of human rights violations anywhere in the world to sue tortfeasors in U.S. courts. The ATS, moribund for nearly 200 years, has recently emerged as an important but controversial tool for the enforcement of human rights norms. “Realist” critics contend that ATS litigation exasperates U.S. allies and rivals, weakens efforts to combat terrorism, and threatens U.S. sovereignty by importing into our jurisprudence undemocratic international law norms. Defenders of the statute, largely because they do not …
México: ¿Nuevamente Una Colonia Europea?, Richard Stith
México: ¿Nuevamente Una Colonia Europea?, Richard Stith
Law Faculty Publications
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Can Treaty Law Be Supreme, Directly Effective, And Autonomous--All At The Same Time?, Richard Stith, J.H.H. Weiler
Can Treaty Law Be Supreme, Directly Effective, And Autonomous--All At The Same Time?, Richard Stith, J.H.H. Weiler
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Starbucks And The New Federalism: The Court's Answer To Globalization, Robert Knowles
Starbucks And The New Federalism: The Court's Answer To Globalization, Robert Knowles
Law Faculty Publications
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