Parochialism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Foundations of International Law

M. N. S. Sellers is Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland and Director of the University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law. He received his A.B. and J.D. from Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar, Frank Knox Fellow and T. H. Green Scholar at University and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford. Professor Sellers has served as a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Hague Academy of International Law and Bryn Mawr College. He is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory.

• 1. Introduction M. N. S. Sellers; 2. Parochialism and the legitimacy of international law John Tasioulas; 3. Parochialism, cosmopolitanism, and the paradigms of international law Armin von Bogdany and Sergio Dellavalle; 4. Liberal cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitan liberalism? Ileana M. Porras; 5. Are human rights parochial? James Griffin; 6. The parochial foundations of cosmopolitan rights Maxwell Chibundu; 7. Rights in reverse Chios Carmody; 8. Parochial restraints on religious liberty Brian Lepard; 9. Parochialism, cosmopolitanism, and justice M. N. S. Sellers.