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Treatise and Study Aids for American Students of International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Geoffrey R. Watson
Geoffrey R. Watson*
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Catholic University of America
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Recent Books on International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 99 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 932 - 940
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2005

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References

1 For a thoughtful survey of leading American casebooks, see David, J. Bederman, International Law Casebooks: Tradition, Revision, and Pedagogy, 98 AJIL 200 (2004).Google Scholar

2 Barry, E. Carter, Philip, R. Trimble, & Curtis, A. Bradley, International Law 295 n.2 (4th ed. 2003).Google Scholar

3 I am aware that I am omitting many more such treatises than I am considering, but the point is to assess how a full-length treatise serves an American law student, not to provide a full review of each and every major treatise on international law. This Journal has published reviews of many of the leading treatises. See, e.g., Highet, Keith, Book Review, 88 AJIL 383 (1994)Google Scholar (reviewing Oppenheim ‘s International Law, 9th ed., vol. 1); Armand de, Mestral, Book Review, 88 AJIL 553 (1994)Google Scholar (reviewing Touscoz’s Droit International); Bernhardt, Rudolf, Beyerlin, Ulrich, Doehring, Karl, & Jochen, Abr. Frowein, Book Review, 86 AJIL 608 (1992)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (reviewing the Restatement, 3d ed.); Bocalandro, Laura, Book Review, 83 AJIL 949 (1989)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (reviewing Brotons’s Derecho International Publico); Zoller, Elisabeth, Book Review, 82 AJIL 384 (1988)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (reviewing Daillier & Pellet’s revision of Nguyen’s Droit International Public, 3d ed.); Marek, Kyrstyna, Book Review, 78 AJIL 507 (1984)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (reviewing Rousseau’s Droit International Public); Chiu, Hugqdah, Book Review, 77 AJIL 977 (1983)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (reviewing Zhou Gengsheng’s Guozhi Fa (International Law); see also Lobel, Jules, Book Review, 91 AJIL 556 (1997)Google Scholar (reviewing Henkin’s Foreign Affairs and the Constitution, 2d ed.); Steiner, Henry, Book Review, 84 AJIL 603 (1990)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (reviewing Buergenthal’s Nutshell on human rights law); Franck, Thomas, The Case of the Vanishing Treatises, 81 AJIL 763 (1987)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (discussing, among other things, the Hague forerunner to Schachter’s International Law in Theory and Practice).

4 Marvin, A. Chirelstein, Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts (4th ed. 2001).Google Scholar

5 See supra note 3.

6 Whether the book is a “treatise” or a “textbook” has been the subject of some discussion. Compare Baxter, Richard, Book Review, 1967 Brit.Y.B.Int’l L. 333 (1967)Google Scholar (describing the first edition as a “general treatise”), with Warbrick, Colin, Brownlie’s Principles of Public International Law: An Assessment, 11 Eur. J. Int’l L. 621, 628–29 (2000)Google Scholar (describing it as a “textbook”). The book jacket itself describes it as a “textbook,” and it is used as a course text in universities outside the United States. But such a book would rarely be used as a course “textbook” in the United States, and thus Americans are likely to regard it as a “treatise.”

7 “Informal agreement, agreement inferred from conduct, or a formal agreement, in each case after the initiation of proceedings, may result in prorogated jurisdiction” (p. 690).

8 See Warbrick, supra note 6, at 633-36.

9 28U.S.C. §1350 (1988).

10 Ronen, Yael, Book Review, 53 Int’l & Comp. L.Q. 526, 526 (2004).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

11 Moreover, Schachter’s text has relatively little to say on American foreign relations law. For example, Schachter mentions the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act only once. See Schacter, Oscar, International Law in Theory and Practice 245 (1991).Google Scholar

12 Franck, supra note 3, at 763.

13 Cf. E. Alian Farnsworth, Contracts (4th ed., 2004).