Beschreibung:
Jutta Brunnée is Professor of Law and Metcalf Chair in Environmental Law at the University of Toronto.
An account of the role that legal obligation plays in creating and maintaining effective international law.
Introduction; 1. An interactional theory of international legal obligation; 2. Shared understandings: making and unmaking international law; 3. Interactional law and compliance: law's hidden power; 4. Climate change: building a global legal regime; 5. Torture: undermining normative ambition; 6. The use of force: normative ebb and flow; Conclusion.