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The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-First Century: Constitutive Process and Individual Commitment. By W. Michael Reisman. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013. Pp. 487. $25, €18.

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The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-First Century: Constitutive Process and Individual Commitment. By W. Michael Reisman. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013. Pp. 487. $25, €18.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Yuval Shany
Yuval Shany*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Recent Books on International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 108 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 123 - 127
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References

1 Reisman, W. Michael, The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-First Century: Constitutive Process and Individual Commitment, 351 Recueil Des Cours 9 (2012)Google Scholar.

2 Reisman, W. Michael, Wiessner, Siegfried & Willard, Andrew R., The New Haven School: A Brief Introduction, 32 Yale J. Int’l L. 575 (2007)Google Scholar.

3 Looking to the Future:Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael ReisMan (Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, Jacob Katz Cogan, Robert D. Sloane & Siegfried Wiessner eds., 2011).

4 Thomas M. Franck, The Power of Legitimacy Among Nations 16 (1990).

5 For a comparable criticism, see Cheng, Tai-Heng, Positivism, New Haven Jurisprudence, and the Fragmentation of International Law, in New Directions in International Economic Law:In Memoriam Thomas W&X00E4;lde 411, 435 (Weiler, Todd & Baetens, Freya eds., 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 see Shany, Yuval, Assessing the Effectiveness of International Courts: A Goal-Based Approach, 106 AJIL 225 (2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 South West Africa (Eth. v. S. Afr.; Liber. v. S. Afr.), Second Phase, 1966 ICJ Rep. 6, para. 88 (July 18).

8 Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, 2004 ICJ REP. 136, para. 139 (July 9).

9 Reisman’s approach seems more persuasive than that offered by the competing “illegal but legitimate” discourse. See, e.g., Independent International Commission on Kosovo, The Kosovo Report: Conflict, International Response, Lessons Learned 4 (2000).

10 See, e.g., Reisman, W. Michael, Reporting the Facts as They Are Not Known: Media Responsibility in Concealed Human Rights Violations, 78 AJIL 650 (1984)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Reisman, W. Michael & Willard, Andrew R., In Personal Performance Codes, One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Clarifying the Professional and Ethical Responsibilities of Decision Makers, 19 Asia Pac. L. Rev. 1, 3 (2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 Corfu Channel (UK v. Alb.), 1949 ICJ REP. 4 (Apr. 9).