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Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit International de La Haye, 1989. 5 vols. (Vols. 213-217 of the collection.) Dordrecht, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1989. Pp. vol. I, 407; vol. II, 398; vol. III, 416; vol. IV, 416; vol. V, 451. Dfl.185; $112; £62.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Nicholas Greenwood Onuf
Nicholas Greenwood Onuf*
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 86 , Issue 4 , October 1992 , pp. 834 - 841
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1992

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References

1 Thomas M. Franck, Review Essay: The Case of the Vanishing Treatises, 81 AJIL 763, 763 (1987) (reviewing OScar Schachter, Interna tional Law in Theory and Practice: General Course in Public International Law, 178 Recueil des Cours 9 (1982 V), revised and expanded as International Law in Theory and Practice (1991)).

2 Id. at 765.

3 Id. at 764.

4 1 Lassa Oppenheim, International Law (Hersch Lauterpacht ed., 8th ed. 1955).

5 Franck, supra note 1, at 766.

6 Alfred P. Rubin, Book Review, 81 AJIL 771, 774 (1987).

7 Hubert Thierry, L'évolution du droit international: Cours général de droit international public, 222 Recueil des Cours 9, 70–71 (1990 III).

8 Henkin here quotes Oscar Schachter, The Twilight Existence of Nonbinding International Agreements, 71 AJIL 296 (1977). Schachter's General Course, supra note 1, at 123–32, lucidly discusses “political texts” like the Helsinki Final Act as “nonlegal instruments” which nonetheless have “legal significance,” without mention of either soft law or twilight existence.

9 High points in Henkin's participation in the controversy over Article 2(4) are his article, The Reports of the Death of Article 2(4) Are Greatly Exaggerated, 65 AJIL 544 (1971), and his essay, The Use of Force: Law and U.S. Policy, in Louis Henkin et al., Right v. Might: International Law and the Use of Force 37 (1989). As for Henkin's Olympian tone, cf. Anthony D'Amato, Book Review, 85 AJIL 201 (1991) (reviewing Right V. Might).

10 Henkin quotes Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States §403 (1987).