Fragmentation in International Law and Governance: Understanding the Sum of the Parts
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
5-2015
ISBN
9789004259089
DOI
10.1163/9789004294585
Abstract
What's wrong with international law? This is the question Professor A.H.A. Soons provocatively posed to his colleagues around the world when leaving his chair in public international law at Utrecht University. Meant to provoke discussion about what actually is wrong with international law as well as act in defence of the discipline, his conclusion was a resounding 'nothing!'
Honouring Professor Soons's achievements throughout his long career as a scholar and a practitioner of international law, this Liber Amicorum exmaines whether, indeed, there is something wrong with international law. The contributors identify gaps or 'wrong norms' in specific fields of international law, and assess whether there is something wrong with the regulatory function of international law as a system for creating global public order.
First Page
419
Last Page
433
Num Pages
15
Publisher
Brill/Nijhoff
Place
Boston
Editor
Cedric Ryngaert, Erik J. Molenaar and Sarah M.H. Nouwen
Book Title
What's Wrong with International Law?
Recommended Citation
Charlotte Ku,
Fragmentation in International Law and Governance: Understanding the Sum of the Parts,
in
What's Wrong with International Law?
419
(Cedric Ryngaert, Erik J. Molenaar and Sarah M.H. Nouwen eds., 2015).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/839