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2002

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International Law As Fundamental Justice: James Brown Scott, Harold Hongju Koh, And The American Universalist Tradition Of International Law, Mark Weston Janis Jan 2002

International Law As Fundamental Justice: James Brown Scott, Harold Hongju Koh, And The American Universalist Tradition Of International Law, Mark Weston Janis

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I am delighted to have an opportunity to respond to Harold Hongju Koh's excellent Childress Lecture of October 3, 2001, at the Saint Louis University School of Law. It has been my great pleasure to know Harold since we were young lawyers in the 1970's, and most especially during the 1996-97 academic year when we were together on the Law Faculty at Oxford. Now, as always,my first and soundest instinct is to associate myself fully with Harold. I embrace his commitment to human rights at home and abroad, and applaud his dream for the globalization of freedom. Great American lawyers …


A 90 Year-Old Snapshot Of Our Family Of International Lawyers, Mark Weston Janis Jan 2002

A 90 Year-Old Snapshot Of Our Family Of International Lawyers, Mark Weston Janis

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It so happened that I was leafing through the Report of the 27th Conference (Paris, May 27-June 1, 1912) of the International Law Association (ILA)' on the same day that I received the Preliminary Program for the 96th ASIL Conference (Washington, March 13-16, 2002).2 Noting that the 2002 ASIL conference has as its twin themes "the legalization of international relations" and "the internationalization of legal relations," I thought it might be interesting and useful to see if I could find comparable themes in an international law conference ninety years ago. This led me to some observations about the similarities and …