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International Law: Practical Authority, Global Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

John Linarelli*
Affiliation:
University of La Verne College of Law

Abstract

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Type
Visions of International Law: Insight from Normative Theory
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2009

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References

1 Mary Ellen O’Connell, The Power and Purpose of International Law (2008).

2 For my recent attempt to use these conditions to conceptualize a transnational commercial law order, see John Linarelli, Analytical Jurisprudence and the Concept of Commercial Law, available at: <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1331928>, now published at 114 Penn St. L. Rev., 119 (2009). In that article, I used the phrase “cosmopolitan conception.” I am grateful for Gunther Teubner’s comments on the article, in which he suggested the better phrase to be “transnational conception.”

3 Nagel, Thomas, The Problem of Global Justice, 33 Phil. & Pub. Affairs 1 (2005)Google Scholar.

4 The realism to which I refer is realism in international relations, not meta-ethics.

5 Cohen, Marshall, Moral Skepticism and International Relations, 13 Phil. & Pub. Affairs 299 (1984)Google Scholar.

6 See KoK-Chor Tan, Justice Without Borders 40-55 (2004) (similar taxonomy).

7 Id. at 50-51.

8 See William Easterly, Affluence and Ethics, Wall St. J., Mar. 5, 2009, available at http://online.wsj.com/article/Sb123621201818134757.html (last viewed May 6, 2009) (reviewing Peter Singer’s The Life You Save).

9 T. M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other (1998).

10 Luban, David, Just War and Human Rights, 9 Phil. & Pub Affairs 160 (1981)Google Scholar.