International Law: Norms, Actors, Process: A Problem-Oriented Approach, Sixth Edition

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Authors

Jeffrey L. Dunoff
Monica Hakimi
Steven R. Ratner

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904 pages

Publication Date

2025-06-20

Edition

Sixth Edition

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Table of contents

Preface

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Written by three of the leading International Law scholars in the nation, this casebook 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 Sixth Edition:

New problems concerning the Chagos Islands dispute, the South-China Sea Dispute, Indigenous peoples, Western Sahara, Gaza, and International Financial Institutions
Updates on key legal developments concerning human rights, climate change litigation, and trade and investment law
New discussions of interdisciplinary and critical perspectives, in light of recent developments in the world

Benefits for instructors and students:

Contemporary problems as a vehicle for learning international legal norms and processes for making decisions
Clear explanations of legal norms and institutions
Interdisciplinary and pragmatic approaches 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
Casebook website offering relevant texts and updates

Table of Contents

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Preface
Acknowledgments
Authors’ Note

PART I Introduction to International Law and Lawmaking
Chapter 1 Tracing the Evolution of International Law
Chapter 2 Making Law in a Decentralized System

PART II Participants in the International Legal Process
Chapter 3 The Traditional Actors: States and International Organizations
Chapter 4 Beyond the State: The Participation of Non-State Actors

PART III International Law and Domestic Law
Chapter 5 International Law in the Domestic Arena
Chapter 6 The Reach of Domestic Law in the International Arena: Jurisdiction and Its Limits

PART IV The Protection of Human Dignity
Chapter 7 The Claims of Individuals on States: International Human Rights
Chapter 8 Mitigating the Harms of War: International Humanitarian Law
Chapter 9 Individual Accountability for Violations of Human Dignity: International Criminal Law and Beyond

PART V Interdependence and Integration: The Challenge of Collective Action Problems
Chapter 10 Responding to the First Global Commons Issue: The Law of the Sea
Chapter 11 Protecting the International Environment
Chapter 12 Managing the World Economy

PART VI Challenges to International Law
Chapter 13 The Use of Force
Chapter 14 Conceptual Challenges to International Law: Legitimacy, Relevance, and Justice

Table of Authorities
Index

Preface

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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.

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