Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2010
Keywords
Mary Ellen O'Connell, Eric Posner
Disciplines
International Law | Jurisprudence | Rule of Law | Transnational Law
Abstract
I take two recent monographs on international law – Mary Ellen O’Connell’s "The Power and Purpose of International Law," and Eric Posner’s "The Perils of Global Legalism," as case studies in a more general inquiry into the role of the "rule of law" ideal in domestic and international law. I argue that international and domestic law alike give varyingly explicit and effective expression to the rule of law ideal, and that the task before us is accordingly steadily to improve their effectiveness in so doing, not to pretend that there is no role for this ideal to play in interpreting and advancing international legality.
Recommended Citation
Hockett, Robert C., "Promise against Peril: Of Power, Purpose, and Principle in International Law" (2010). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 641.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/641
Publication Citation
Published in: ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law, vol. 17, no. 1 (Fall 2010).
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