Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Romano: The Sword and the Scales: The United States and International Courts and Tribunals

Cesare P.R. Romano (Loyola Law School Los Angeles) has published The Sword and the Scales: The United States and International Courts and Tribunals (Cambridge Univ. Press 2009). Contents include:
  • John B. Bellinger, III, International courts and tribunals and the rule of law
  • Steven Kull & Clay Ramsay, American public opinion on international courts and tribunals
  • Mary Ellen O'Connell, Arbitration and avoidance of war: the nineteenth century American vision
  • Sean D. Murphy, The United States and the International Court of Justice: coping with antinomies
  • Melissa A. Waters, The U.S. Supreme Court and the International Court of Justice: what does 'respectful consideration' mean?
  • John P. Cerone, U.S. attitudes toward international criminal courts and tribunals
  • Elizabeth A.H. Abi-Mershed, The United States and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  • Tara J. Melish, From paradox to subsidiarity: the United States and human rights treaty bodies
  • John R. Crook, The U.S. and international claims and compensation bodies
  • Jeffrey L. Dunoff, Does the U.S. support international tribunals? The case of the multilateral trade system
  • David A. Gantz, The United States and dispute settlement under the North American Free Trade Agreement: ambivalence, frustration and occasional defiance
  • Susan L. Karamanian, Dispute settlement under NAFTA Chapter 11: a response to the critics in the United States
  • Cesare P.R. Romano, The United States and international courts: getting the cost-benefit analysis right