.....FURTHER READING & INTERNET RESEARCH
.................WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL LAW:
.....................................Chapter One
....For use with Fundamental Perspectives on International Law
........6th ed. "(ed.)" refers to edited collections. All rights reserved. .....................Subsections entries are arranged by title...
§1.1 Definition and Scope
Summaries
A. Aust, HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (Cambridge, Eng: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005)
M. Janis, INTERNATIONAL LAW (5th ed. New York, NY: Aspen, 2008)
D. Bederman,
INTERNATIONAL LAW FRAMEWORKS (2d ed. New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2006)
T. Burgenthal,
INTERNATIONAL LAW IN A NUTSHELL (4th ed. St. Paul, MN: ThomsonWest, 2007)
S. McCaffrey,
UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL LAW (Newark: LexisNexis, 2005)
Generally
Jeremy Levitt, AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Oxford, Eng.: Hart, 2008)
D. Harris, The Sources of International Law, ch. 2 in CASES AND MATERIALS ON INTERNATIONAL LAW 21 (6th ed. London: Street &
.....Maxwell, 2004)
C. Parry & J. Grant, ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2d ed. Oceana: 2003)
B. Carter & P. Trimble, What is International Law?, ch.1, in INTERNATIONAL LAW (5th ed. New York: Aspen, 2007)
B. Chimini, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND WORLD ORDER: A CRITIQUE OF CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES (New Delhi: Sage, 1993)
V. Kuznetsov & B. Tuzmukhamedov (ed.), INTERNATIONAL LAW: A RUSSIAN INTRODUCTION (Butler translation, Utrecht, Neth: Eleven
....Pub., 2009)
M. Janis & J. Noyes, The Nature of International Law, ch.1, in INTERNATIONAL LAW CASES AND COMMENTARY 1 (3d ed. St. Paul, MN: .....WestGroup, 2006)
L. Damrosch, et al., Sources:, ch.2-4, in INTERNATIONAL LAW CASES AND MATERIALS 55--298 (5th ed. St. Paul: West, 2009)
B. Boczek, INTERNATIONAL LAW: A DICTIONARY (Oxford: Scarecrow, 2005)
Amer. Bar Ass'n Section of Int'l Law, International Legal Developments in Review: 2008, 43 INT'L LAWYER, No. 2 (Dallas, TX:
......So.Meth. Univ, 2009)
C. Blakesley, et al., Application of the Law of the International System, ch. 1, in THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEM: CASES AND
.....MATERIALS (5th ed. New York: Foundation Press, 2001)
M. Koskenniemi, THE LIBRARY OF ESSAYS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2000)
.....(collection of prominent articles)
S. Rosenne, Where to Find the Law, ch. 2, in THE PERPLEXITIES OF MODERN INTERNATIONAL LAW 25 (Martinus Nijhoff:.2004)
M. Kaplan & N. Katzenbach, The Theoretical Framework of International Law, ch. 3 in THE POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL
.....LAW 56 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1961)
M. O'Connell, THE POWER AND PURPOSE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (New York, NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008)
International Law: Law or Politics?
A. Chua, DAY OF EMPIRE: HOW HYPERPOWERS RISE TO GLOBAL DOMINANCE AND WHY THEY FALL (New York: Random House, 2007)
H. Kissinger, DOES AMERICA NEED A FOREIGN POLICY? (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001)
D. Caron, Does International Law Really Matter?, in PROCEEDINGS OF THE 98TH ANNUAL MEETING 305 (Amer. Soc. Int'l
.....Law Int'l Law: Wash., D.C. 2004)
O. Hathaway & H. Koh, FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLITICS (New York, NY: Foundation Press, .....2005)
P. Brewer, et al., International Trust and Public Opinion About World Affairs, 48 AMER. J. POL. SCI. 1 (2004)
G. Niemeyer, LAW WITHOUT FORCE: THE FUNCTION OF POLITICS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (New Brunswick, NJ:
.....Transaction, 2001) (unrevised version originally published in 1941)
S. Scott, The Logical Structure of International Law, ch. 5, in INTERNATIONAL LAW IN WORLD POLITICS: AN INTRODUCTION 87
.....(Boulder, CO: Rienner, 2004)
P. Verkuil, OUTSOURCING SOVEREIGNTY: WHY PRIVITIZATION OF GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS THREATENS
.....DEMOCRACY AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT (Cambirdge, eng: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007)
D. Georgiev, Politics or Rule of Law: Deconstruction and Legitimacy in International Law, 4 EUROPEAN J. INT'L LAW 1 (1993)
H. Koh, Review Essay: Why Do Nations Obey International Law?, 106 YALE L.J. 2599 (1997)
R. Bierzanek, Some Remarks on 'Soft' International Law, 17 POLISH YEARBOOK INT'L LAW 21 (1988)
E. Niou & P. Ordeshook, Stability in Anarchic International Systems, 84 AMER. POL. SCIENCE REV. 1207 (1990)
L. Jacobs & B. Page, Who Influences U.S. Foreign Policy?, 99 AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 107 (2005).
National-International Law Links
L. Erades, INTERACTIONS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL AND MUNICIPAL LAW: A COMPARATIVE CASE LAW STUDY (The Hague, Neth.: T.M.C. .....Asser Inst., 1993)
J. Paust, INTERNATIONAL LAW AS LAW OF THE UNITED STATES (2d ed. Durham, NC: Carolina Acad. Press, 2003)
B. Conforti, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ROLE OF DOMESTIC LEGAL SYSTEMS (Dordrecht, Neth.: Martinus Nijhoff, 1993)
K. Sik, International Law in the Municipal Legal Order of Asian States: Virgin Land, in R. MacDonald (ed.), ESSAYS IN .HONOUR OF
.....WANG TIEYA 737 (Dordrecht, Neth.: Martinus Nijhoff, 1994)
A. Oppenheimer (ed.), THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW AND NATIONAL LAW: THE CASES (Grotius: Cambridge
.....Univ. Press, 1994)
C. Bradley & J. Goldsmith, States and Foreign Relations, ch. 2, in FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (New York: Aspen, .....2003)
K. Clarke, Testing Nontested Models of International Relations: Reevaluating Realism, 45 AMER. J. POL. SCI. 3 (2001)
S. Fatima, USING INTERNATIONAL LAW IN DOMESTIC COURTS (Portland, OR: Hart, 2005)
Related Disciplines
Private International Law
R. Powell, Absolute and Relative Gains in International Relations Theory, 85 AMER. POL. SCIENCE REV. 1303 (1991)
C. Sjolander & W. Cox, BEYOND POSITIVISM: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, .....1994)
S. Symeonides, W. Perdue & A. von Mehren, CONFLICT OF LAWS: AMERICAN, COMPARATIVE, AND INTERNATIONAL (St. Paul, MN: .....WestGroup, 1998)
J. Fawcett, DECLINING JURISDICTION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1995)
International Relations
D. Macdonald et al. (ed.), THE ETHICS OF FOREIGN POLICY (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2007)
D. Armstrong at al., INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007)
B. Arts, M Noortman & B. Reinalda (ed.), NON-STATE ACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2001)
D. Lieberman & M. Gurtov, REVEALING THE WORLD: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY READER FOR INTERNATIONAL.STUDIES (Dubuque, IA: .....Kendal//Hunt, 1992)
W. McWilliams & H. Piotrowski, THE WORLD SINCE 1945: A HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (3d ed. Boulder, CO: Lynne
......Rienner, 1993)
Religion
M. Baderin (ed.), INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ISLAMIC LAW (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2008)
A. March, Islamic Foundations for a Social Contract in non-Muslim Liberal Democracies, 101 AMER. POL. SCI. REV. 235 (2007)
G. Barzilai, LAW AND RELIGION (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2007)
F. Halliday, NATION AND RELIGION IN THE MIDDLE EAST (Boulder, CO: Rienner, 2000)
J. Rehman & S. Breau (ed.), RELIGION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (Leiden, Neth.: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007)
RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS: AN INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, Vol. 1 (Leiden, Neth.:Martinus Nijhoff, 2006)
S. Rudolph & J. Piscatore (ed.), TRANSNATIONAL RELIGION AND FADING STATES (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997)
E.Cotran & M. Lau (ed.), YEARBOOK OF ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN LAW: VOLUME 13 (2006-2007 annual coverage)
Comparative Law
M. Glendon, M. Gordon, & C. Osakwe, COMPARATIVE LEGAL TRADITIONS: TEXT, MATERIALS AND CASES ON THE CIVIL AND COMMON
.....LAW TRADITIONS (2d ed. St. Paul: West, 1994)
J. Smith (ed.), ELGAR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATIVE LAW (Cheltenham Glos, U.K., 2008)
Zweigert & H. Kotz, AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE LAW 303 (3d ed. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998) (Weir translation)
Symposium: New Directions in Comparative Law, 46 AMER. J. COMP. LAW 597-783 (1999) 
§1.2 Sources of International Law
M. Villiger, CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW AND TREATIES: A MANUAL ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE INTERRELATION OF
.....SOURCES (rev. 2d ed. The Hague, Neth.: Kluwer, 1997)
M. Akehurst, The Hierarchy of Sources of International Law, 47 BRITISH YEARBOOK INTERNATIONAL LAW 273 (1975)
M. Hoffman & M. Rumsey, INTERNATIONAL AND FOREIGN LEGAL RESEARCH: A COURSEBOOK (Leiden, Neth.: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007)
B. Weston & J. Carlson (ed.), INTERNATIONAL LAW AND WORLD ORDER: BASIC DOCUMENTS (Ardsley-on-Hudson, NY: Trasnat'l, .....1994--present)
S. Marks,
INTERNATIONAL LAW ON THE LEFT: RE-EXAMINING MARXIST LEGACIES (Cambridge, Eng: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008)
A. Boyle & C. Chinkin, THE MAKING OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007)
S. Calabresi, "A Shining City on a Hill": American Exceptionalism and the Supreme Court's Practice of Relying on Foreign Law,
.....86 BOSTON UNIV. L. REV. 1335 (2006)
Sources of International Law, 19 THESAURUS ACROASIUM: SUMMER 1991 (Thessaloniki, Greece: Inst. Int'l Pub. L., 1992)
R. Gaebler & A. Smith (ed.), SOURCES OF STATE PRACTICE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Ardsley-on-Hudson, NY: Transnat'l, 2002--present)
.....(looseleaf)
E. McWhinney, UNITED NATIONS LAW MAKING: CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL RELATIVISM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW MAKING FOR AN
......ERA OF TRANSITION (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1984)  
Additional Internet Resources
Academic Journals (international topics)
Comparative Legal and Historical Studies (UC Berkeley law school)
Digest of International Law (US Dep't of State)
GlobaLex (international and foreign law research)
International Law-Related Websites on the World Wide Web
International Law Research Guides
Internet Research (Univ. Chicago)
Library of Congress's Global Legal Information Network
Max-Plank Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online (subscription required)
OpinioJuris Weblog (current developments)
Oxford Law Citator
(subscription required)
US Dep't of State Office of the Historian (official historical documentary records of U.S. foreign policy)

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