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Custom's Future: International Law in a Changing World. Edited by Curtis A. Bradley . Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 379. Index. $125.

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Custom's Future: International Law in a Changing World. Edited by Curtis A. Bradley . Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xii, 379. Index. $125.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2017

Michael P. Scharf
Michael P. Scharf*
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Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 111 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 206 - 210
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References

1 Scharf, Michael P., Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change, Recognizing Grotian Moments (2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar [hereinafter Scharf].

2 Int'l Law Comm'n, Identification of Customary International Law, UN Doc A/CN.4/L.872 (2016).

3 Monica Hakimi, for example, opines that the process of formation of customary international law is best described as “chaotic, unstructured, and politically charged” (p. 149). John Tasioulas comments that CIL's nature “remains stubbornly opaque or conceptually problematic” (p. 95). Joel Trachtman expresses doubts about CIL's continued usefulness in addressing the world's problems, and argues that “states and international organizations should focus their international legal analytical resources on legislated law” (p. 204).

4 Meron, Theodor, Customary International Law: From the Academy to the Courtroom , in The Making of International Criminal Justice: A View from the Bench 29–30 (2011)Google Scholar.

5 S.C. Res. 2249 (Nov. 20, 2015).

6 Scharf, Michael P., How the War Against ISIS Changed International Law, 48 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 15 (2016)Google Scholar.

7 Scharf, Michael P., Accelerated Formation of Customary International Law, 20 ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. L. 305, 309 (2014)Google Scholar.

8 Id.

9 Id.

10 Scharf, supra note 1, at 30.

11 Id. at 31.

12 Scharf, Accelerated Formation, supra note 7, at 309.

13 In Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change, I explore several case studies of accelerated formation of customary international law. Scharf, supra note 1.

14 Statute of the International Court of Justice, Art. 38(1)(b).

15 North Sea Continental Shelf (FRG/Den.; FRG/Neth.), 1969 ICJ Rep. 219, 231 (Feb. 20).

16 Scharf, supra note 1, at 49.

17 Mendelson, Maurice H., The Formation of Customary International Law 283 (1998)Google Scholar.

18 Scharf, supra note 1, at 50.