Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Childress: The Role of Ethics in International Law

Donald Earl Childress, III (Pepperdine Univ. - Law) has published The Role of Ethics in International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2011). Contents include:
  • Roger P. Alford & James Tierney, Moral reasoning in international law
  • Oona A. Hathaway, Between power and principle
  • Mary Ellen O'Connell, Jus cogens: international law's higher ethical norms
  • Lea Brilmayer, The problem of provenance: the proper place of ethical reasoning in the selection of applicable law
  • Michael Steven Green, Choice of law as general common law: response to Professor Brilmayer
  • Lea Brilmayer, A reply
  • Perry Dane, The natural law challenge to choice of law
  • Donald Earl Childress III, The role of ethics in United States private international law
  • Samantha Besson, The nature of human rights theory: beyond the ethical/political divide
  • H. Patrick Glenn, The ethic of international law