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The Empowered Self: Law and Society in the Age of Individualism by Thomas M Franck. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, xiv + 312 pp (£12.99 paperback). ISBN 0 19 924809 5.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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Legal Studies , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 150 - 154
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 2002

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References

1. Franck, T M Fairness in International Law and Institutions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).Google Scholar

2. Raz, J The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).Google Scholar

3. J Klabbers, in his review of this book in (2000) 7 Int J on Minority and Group Rights 411, argues that Franck's position as a cosmopolitan liberal leads to an ambivalence about the state. On the one hand, the state is needed to guarantee individual choice, but on the other, the status approach to international law undermines the status of individuals.

4. See, most notably, Kymlicka, W Liberalism, Community and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)Google Scholar and Kymlicka, W Multicultural Citizenship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)Google Scholar.

5. Kymlicka (1995), n 4 above.

6. This point is treated in more detail in the review of by Klabbers, n 3 above, at 416–418.

7. Sandel, M J Liberalism and Limits of Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)Google Scholar.

8. Kymlicka (1989), n 4 above.

9. The movement towards explicit recognition of human responsibilities is supported, amongst others, by the theologian Hans Kung.

10. Franck, n 1 above.

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