Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations: The State of the Art - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107684021 ISBN 13: 9781107684027

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

International Law and International Relations: Synthesizing Insights from Interdisciplinary Scholarship brings together the most influential contemporary writers in the fields of international law and international relations to take stock of what we know about the making, interpretation, and enforcement of international law. The contributions to this volume critically explore what recent interdisciplinary work reveals about the design and workings of international institutions, the various roles played by international and domestic courts, and the factors that enhance compliance with international law. The volume also explores how interdisciplinary work has advanced theoretical understandings of the causes and consequences of the increased legalization of international affairs.

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Book Description:

This book brings together the most influential contemporary writers in the fields of international law and international relations to take stock of what we know about the making, interpretation, and enforcement of international law. The contributions to this volume critically explore what recent interdisciplinary work reveals about the design and workings of international institutions, the various roles played by international and domestic courts, and the factors that enhance compliance with international law.

About the Author:

Jeffrey L. Dunoff is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the Institute for International Law and Public Policy. Dunoff has previously served as the Nomura Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar in the Law and Public Affairs program at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, as a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and as a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. His scholarship focuses on public international law; international regulatory regimes, with a specific focus on international economic law; and on interdisciplinary approaches to international law. He is co-author (with Steven Ratner and David Wippman) of a leading textbook, International Law: Actors, Norms, Process, and his writings have appeared in the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Economic Law and other publications.

Mark A. Pollack is Professor of Political Science and Law and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam at Temple University. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1995, and has also taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His research agenda focuses on the role of international institutions and international law in regional and global governance, with specific projects examining the delegation of powers to the supranational organizations in the European Union, governance of the transatlantic relationship, the global regulation of genetically modified foods, and the 'mainstreaming' of gender issues in international organizations. Professor Pollack is the author of The Engines of European Integration: Delegation, Agency and Agenda Setting in the EU (2003) and co-author, with Gregory C. Shaffer, of When Cooperation Fails: The Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (2009). He is also co-editor of seven books, as well as several dozen articles and book chapters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107684021
• ISBN 13: 9781107684027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 698
• Editor: Dunoff Jeffrey L., Pollack Mark A.