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International Law

Columbia Law School

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Centennial essays

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The Future Of International Law: Members' Reception And Plenary Panel, Georgetown University Law Center – Remarks By Lori Damrosch, Lori Fisler Damrosch Jan 2007

The Future Of International Law: Members' Reception And Plenary Panel, Georgetown University Law Center – Remarks By Lori Damrosch, Lori Fisler Damrosch

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It is a privilege to follow Judge Owada and to take up the challenge offered by the theme statement of this panel: to assess trends that we perceive to be shifting the future of international law, while also interrogating claims of their newness. Perhaps everything that we think of as new has some resonance with the past.


Centennial Essays: Editors' Introduction, Lori Fisler Damrosch, Bernard H. Oxman Jan 2006

Centennial Essays: Editors' Introduction, Lori Fisler Damrosch, Bernard H. Oxman

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The first words of the first essay published in our pages pose a challenge as prescient as it is timely:

The increase of popular control over national conduct, which marks the political development of our time, makes it constantly more important that the great body of the people in each country should have a just conception of their international rights and duties.

With this precept in mind, we begin our celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the American Journal of lnternational Law and its publisher, the American Society of International Law.