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Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser. By Michael P. Scharf and Paul R. Williams. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xxiv, 305. Index. $85,£50, cloth; $30.99, £18.99, paper.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
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1 See, e.g., Goldsmith, Jack L. & Posner, Eric A., The Limits of International Law (2005)Google Scholar.
2 Two possible exceptions, both Republicans, served at a time not so long ago when international law had supporters across the political divide. John R. Stevenson (1969-72) led in negotiations on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; Monroe Leigh (1975-77) was the principal architect of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
3 The Role of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State: A Report of the Joint Committee Established by the American Society of International Law and the American Branch of the International Law Association , 85 AJIL 358 (1991)Google Scholar; see Bilder, Richard B., International Law and United States Foreign Policy: Some Reflections on the ASIL/ILA Report on the Role of the Legal Adviser , 1 Transnat’l L. & Contemp. Probs. 201 (1991)Google Scholar.
4 Symposium, The Impact of International Law on Foreign Policy-Making—the Role of Legal Advisers , 2 Eur. J. Int’l L. 131 (1991)Google Scholar.
5 See, e.g., Young, Michael K., The Role of the Attorney- Adviser in the U.S. Department of State: Institutional Arrangements and Structural Imperatives , 61 L. & Contemp. Probs. 133 (1998)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Gerald, Fitzmaurice, Legal Advisers and Foreign Affairs , 59 AJIL 72 (1965)Google Scholar (reviewing Legal Advisers and Foreign Affairs (Merillat, H. C. L. ed., 1964))Google Scholar; Bilder, Richard B., The Office of the Legal Adviser: The State Department Lawyer and Foreign Affairs , 56 AJIL 633 (1962)Google Scholar.
6 The Database on the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is at http://www.eoe.int/T/E/Legal_Affairs/Legal_co-operation/Public_mternational_law/Office_of_Legal_Affairs/. While UN undersecretary for legal affairs, Ambassador Hans Corell maintained a bibliography on foreign ministry legal advisers, which is available at http://www.un.org/law/counsel/lidist/.
7 See, e.g., Symposium, Speaking Law to Power: International Law and Foreign Policy , 23 Wisc. Int’l L.J. 1 (2005)Google Scholar.
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