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The Method is the Message

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Anne-Marie Slaughter  and
Steven R. Ratner
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Extract

We structured this symposium on the premise that comparison reveals critical differences. We asked our authors, as noted in the introduction, to describe their methodology, apply it to the concrete problem of accountability for atrocities in internal conflict, and discuss its merits and demerits relative to other approaches presented in the symposium. We threw out these questions as a means of structuring a debate in a way that would be most helpful to our readers and that would encourage our authors to engage with each other as self-consciously as possible. We did not seek competition as an end in itself, but as a spur to self-reflection.

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Symposium on Method in International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 93 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 410 - 423
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1999

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References

1 Jeffrey L. Dunoff & Joel P. Trachtman, The Law and Economics of Humanitarian Law Violations in Internal Conflict, 93 AJIL 394, 399–400 (1999).

2 Id., text at note 9.

3 Kenneth W. Abbott, International Relations Theory, International Law, and the Regime Governing Atrocities in Internal Conflicts, 93 AJIL 361, 376 (1999).

4 Hilary Charlesworth, Feminist Methods in International Law, 93 AJIL 379, 386 (1999).

5 Martti Koskenniemi, Letter to the Editors of the Symposium, 93 AJIL 351, 352 (1999).

6 Dunoff & Trachtman, supra note 1, at 394.

7 Bruno Simma & Andreas L. Paulus, The Responsibility of Individuals for Human Rights Abuses in Internal Conflicts: A Positivist View, 93 AJIL 302, 305 (1999).

8 Id. at 302.

9 Abbott, supra note 3, at 363–64.