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International Law And American Foreign Policy: Revisiting The Law-Versus-Policy Debate, Hengameh Saberi
International Law And American Foreign Policy: Revisiting The Law-Versus-Policy Debate, Hengameh Saberi
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Confronting significant foreign policy questions, US international lawyers persistently frame their debates as a conflict between law and policy. The article suggests that this opposition, which has defined the US international legal reasoning since World War Two, often leads the debates to a deadlock and constrains the best potential of international law.