The Philosophy of International Law

Samantha Besson is Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg. Her publications and research interests lie in legal philosophy and democratic theory, in particular as applied to international and European law-making. Besides numerous publications in French, she is the author of the monograph The Morality of Conflict (Hart Publishing: Oxford, 2005) and the co-editor of the forthcoming collection of essays Legal Republicanism: National and International (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009).John Tasioulas is a Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is also a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University. He has published on various topics in moral, legal and political philosophy. He is currently working on a monograph on the philosophy of human rights with the support of a British Academy Research Development Award.

This book is a comprehensive treatment of various topics in international law from several academics and authoritative sources

• Introduction ; PART I GENERAL ISSUES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ; SECTION I HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ; 1. State of Nature versus Commercial Sociability as the Basis of International Law: Reflections on the Roman Foundations and Current Interpretations of the International Political and Legal Thought of Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf ; 2. Immanuel Kant on International Law ; SECTION II LEGITIMACY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ; 3. The Legitimacy of International Law ; 4. The Legitimacy of International Law ; SECTION III INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRACY ; 5. Democratic Legitimacy and International Institutions ; 6. Legitimate International Institutions: A Neo-Republican Perspective ; SECTION IV SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ; 7. Theorizing the Sources of International Law ; 8. The Sources of International Law: Some Philosophical Reflections ; SECTION V INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATION ; 9. International Adjudication ; 10. International Adjudication: A Response to Paulus - Courts, Custom, Treaties, Regimes, and the WTO ; SECTION VI SOVEREIGNTY ; 11. The Logic of Freedom and Power ; 12. Sovereignty in the Context of Globalization: A Constitutional Pluralist Perspective ; SECTION VII INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY ; 13. International Responsibility ; 14. International Responsibility ; PART II SPECIFIC ISSUES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ; SECTION VIII HUMAN RIGHTS ; 15. Human Rights without Foundations ; 16. Human Rights and the Autonomy of International Law ; 17. Human Rights ; SECTION IX SELF-DETERMINATION AND MINORITY RIGHTS ; 18. Minority Rights in Political Philosophy and International Law ; 19. Two Conception of Self Determination ; SECTION X INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW ; 20. The Role of International Law in Reproducing Massive Poverty ; 21. Global Justice, Poverty and the International Economic Order ; SECTION XI INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ; 22. Philosophical Issues in International Environmental Law ; 23. Ethics and International Environmental Law ; SECTION XII LAWS OF WAR ; 24. The Laws of War ; 25. Laws of War ; SECTION XIII HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION ; 26. Humanitarian Intervention ; 27. Humanitarian Militarism? ; SECTION XIV INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW ; 28. Fairness to Rightness: Jurisdiction, Legality, and the Legitimacy of International Criminal Law ; 29. Authority and Responsibility in International Criminal Law