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International Law: Norms, Actors, Process, Fifth Edition

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  • Jeffrey L. Dunoff
  • Monica Hakimi
  • Steven R. Ratner
  • David Wippman
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Book length
864 pages
Publication Date
2020-02-14
Edition
Fifth Edition
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Written by some of the leading International Law scholars in the nation, International Law: Norms, Actors, Process: A Problem-Oriented Approach employs a unique problem-based approach to examining international issues. Using real-life case studies as teaching problems, the text explores the processes for making and applying international law, with an interdisciplinary approach that goes beyond mere doctrinal explanation.

New to the Fifth Edition:

  • An introduction to international law through the Julian Assange episode
  • Presentation of state responsibility through the problem of cyber espionage and of the responsibility of international organizations through the problem of sexual assaults by UN peacekeepers
  • Integration of new U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the Alien Tort Statute, jurisdiction, and other topics
  • Analysis of the challenges that artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons pose to international humanitarian law
  • Comprehensive treatment of the Paris Accord on Climate Change
  • New cases and analysis on the role and legitimacy of international courts

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Contemporary problems as a vehicle for learning international legal rules and processes
  • Clear explanation of legal rules and institutions
  • Interdisciplinary approach to international law with attention to the law’s relevance in global affairs
  • Careful selection and editing of primary materials to produce a casebook of teachable dimensions
  • Inclusion of maps, charts, and photographs
  • A casebook website offering relevant texts and updates
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About the authors
Jeffrey L. Dunoff

Jeff Dunoff is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law. His research and writing focuses on public international law, international regulatory regimes, international courts, international organizations, and interdisciplinary approaches to international law.

Dunoff has served as Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, Law and Public Affairs Fellow and Visiting Professor at Princeton University’s School for Public and International Affairs, Professeur Invité, Faculté de Droit at the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Senior Fellow at Humboldt University, and Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre at Cambridge University.

Among other activities, he serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, on the Academic Advisory Board of the Max Planck Encyclopedia for Public International Law, as an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Before joining the Temple faculty, Professor Dunoff clerked for a federal court judge and practiced law in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in the representation of developing state governments. He received his B.A. from Haverford College, his J.D. from NYU School of Law, and his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Monica Hakimi

Monica Hakimi is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of International Law, the leading publication in the field. She focuses on public international law, the use of force, U.S. foreign relations law, human rights, and national security. She was recently elected co-editor in chief of the American Journal of International Law.

She was the Nathaniel Fensterstock Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School during the 2022 spring semester and was appointed professor of law on July 1, 2022. She was previously the James V. Campbell Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she was also the associate dean for faculty and research and the associate dean for academic programming. She has held visiting appointments at Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, University of Tokyo, and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Prior to entering the academy, Hakimi spent four years as attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser in the U.S. Department of State; she counseled policymakers on nuclear nonproliferation, efforts to reconstruct Iraq immediately after the 2003 war, international investment disputes, and international civil aviation. Hakimi has also served as counsel before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and worked on cases before the International Court of Justice and U.S. federal courts and agencies. She clerked for Judge Kimba M. Wood on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Hakimi’s scholarship has appeared in publications including the American Journal of International Law, Michigan Law Review, and Yale Journal of International Law, among others.

Steven R. Ratner
Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School

Steven R. Ratner is the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He teaches and writes in the field of public international law on a range of issues, including war and peace, human rights, foreign investment, the United Nations (UN), territorial and ethnic-based disputes, and business and human rights. He is also interested in the intersection of international law and political philosophy and other theoretical issues.

Ratner has served on expert commissions of the United Nations Secretary-General and Human Rights Council investigating human rights abuses in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Ethiopia. Since 2015, he has been a member of an international working group promoting the use of arbitration concerning business violations of human rights.

Ratner also worked in the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and at the Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in The Hague. He has served on the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law and as a counsellor of the American Society of International Law, and is a member of the American Law Institute.

David Wippman
Dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law
University of Minnesota Law School

Professor David Wippman is a recognized authority in international law. He has taught public international law, international criminal law, international human rights, and ethnic conflict. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Princeton University in 1976, his M.A. through a fellowship in the Graduate Program in English Literature at Yale University in 1978, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1982. While at Yale, he was the editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for The Honorable Wilfred Feinberg, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Professor Wippman became Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School on July 1, 2008. Previously, he was a professor and Associate Dean at Cornell Law School and served as Vice Provost for International Relations at Cornell University. In 1998–99, he took a year away from Cornell to serve as a director in the National Security Council’s Office of Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs, where he worked on war crimes issues, the International Criminal Court, economic sanctions, and U.N. political issues.

Before joining Cornell, Professor Wippman practiced law for nine years in Washington, D.C., with a focus on international arbitration, political consulting on public and private international law issues, and representation of developing countries in litigation. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He has co-authored two recently released books on international law: International Law, Norms, Actors, Process: A Problem-Oriented Approach and Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions.
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Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2020-02-14
Copyright Year
2020
Pages
864
Connected eBook with Study Center + Hardcover
9781543804447
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9781543822144
Subject
International Law and Foreign Relations
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