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International Law. By Vaughan Lowe. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xxv, 298. Index. $130, £50, cloth; $50, £20.99, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

John F. Murphy
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 102 , Issue 4 , October 2008 , pp. 920 - 926
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2008

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1 Michael, Glennon The Fog of Law: Self-Defense, Inherence, and Incoherence in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter , 25 Harv. J.L & Pub. Pol’y 539, 540, 541 (2002)Google Scholar. For a more elaborate development of this thesis, see Michael, Glennon Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism After Kosovo (2001).Google Scholar

2 For my own view, which rejects Glennon’s proposition, see John, F. Murphy The United States And The Rule Of Law In International Affairs 177–81 (2004).Google Scholar

3 See Jack, L. Goldsmith & Eric, A. Posner The Limits Of International Law (2005)Google Scholar. For debate on The Limits of International Law, see the symposium issue on the book published by the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law , 34 Ga. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 253 (2006).Google Scholar

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5 See MURPHY, supra note 2, at 21. Under Article 66(a) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, if no solution to the dispute has been reached within twelve months after it has arisen, “any one of the parties to a dispute concerning the application or the interpretation of articles 53 or 64 may, by a written application, submit it to the International Court of Justice for a decision unless the parties by common consent agree to submit the dispute to arbitration.”

6 As an example, Lowe cites R. v. Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrates, ex parte Pinochet (No. 3), [2000] 1 AC 147, 275 (H.L. 1999).

7 Oscar, Schachter The Twilight Existence of Nonbinding International Agreements , 71 AJIL 296, 299 (1977).Google Scholar

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