Abstract
In this chapter I propose to consider the following questions:
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What is international law, and what bearing does it have on international behaviour?
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What is the role of international law in relation to international order?
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What is the role of international law in relation to international order in the special circumstances of the present time?
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Notes and References
See Myres S. McDougal and Associates, Studies in World Public Order (Yale University Press, 1960) esp. ch. 1. See also
Rosalyn Higgins, ‘Policy Considerations and the International Judicial Process’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 17 (1968).
Hobbes, Leviathan (London: Blackwell, 1946) ch. 13, p. 83.
John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (originally published in 1832, and London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954) lecture VI.
Hans Kelsen, The General Theory of the Law and State, trans. A. Wedberg (Harvard University Press, 1946).
For a discussion of this threefold division, see Georg Schwarzenberger, The Frontiers of International Law (London: Stevens & Son, 1962) ch. I.
See, for example, Myres S. McDougal, Harold D. Lasswell and W. Michael Reisman, ‘The World Constitutive Process of Authoritative Decision’, in The Future of the International Legal Order, ed. Richard A. Falk and Cyril E. Black (Princeton University Press, 1969) vol. 1.
See also C. Wilfred Jenks, ‘Multinational Entities in the Law of Nations’, in Transnational Law in a Changing Society, Essays in Honour of Philip C. Jessup, ed. Wolfgang Friedmann, Louis Henkin and Oliver Lissitzyn (Columbia University Press, 1972).
See Philip C. Jessup, Transnational Law (Yale University Press, 1956).
See C. Wilfred Jenks, The Common Law of Mankind (London: Stevens & Son, 1958); and
Percy E. Corbett, The Growth of World Law (Princeton University Press, 1971).
B. V. A. Röling, International Law in an Expanded World (Amsterdam: Djambatan, 1960) p. 83.
Wolfgang Friedmann, The Changing Structure of International Law (London: Stevens & Son, 1964).
See J. L. Brierly, The Basis of Obligation in International Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958); and
Hersch Lauterpacht, International Law and Human Rights (London: Stevens & Son, 1950).
Richard A. Falk, The Status of Law in International Society (Princeton University Press, 1970) p. 177.
See E. McWhinney, International Law and World Revolution (Leyden: Sijthoff, 1967) ch. 4.
Rosalyn Higgins, The Development of International Law Through the Political Organs of the United Nations (Oxford University Press, 1963) p. 5.
See C. Wilfred Jenks, Law, Freedom and Welfare (London: Stevens & Son, 1963) ch. 5.
See Richard A. Falk, ‘McDougal and Feliciano’s Law and Minimum World Public Order’, Natural Law Forum, vol. 8 (1963) p. 172.
Ian Brownlie, International Law and the Use of Force by States (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963) p. 424.
For a further discussion of this point see my ‘International Law and International Order’, International Organisation, vol. 26, no. 3 (Summer 1972).
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Bull, H. (1977). International Law and International Order. In: The Anarchical Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24028-9_6
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