Book contents
- International Law As Behavior
- ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
- International Law As Behavior
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 International Law As Behavior
- 2 Deadlines As Behavior in Diplomacy and International Law
- 3 Cooperating without Sanctions
- 4 Egocentric Bias in Perceptions of Customary International Law
- 5 Explaining the Practical Purchase of Soft Law
- 6 Toward an Anthropology of International Law
- 7 Transnational Collaborations in Transitional Justice
- 8 Advancing Neuroscience in International Law
- 9 The Missing Persons of International Law Scholarship
- 10 The Wrong Way to Weigh Rights
- Index
1 - International Law As Behavior
An Agenda
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2021
- International Law As Behavior
- ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
- International Law As Behavior
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 International Law As Behavior
- 2 Deadlines As Behavior in Diplomacy and International Law
- 3 Cooperating without Sanctions
- 4 Egocentric Bias in Perceptions of Customary International Law
- 5 Explaining the Practical Purchase of Soft Law
- 6 Toward an Anthropology of International Law
- 7 Transnational Collaborations in Transitional Justice
- 8 Advancing Neuroscience in International Law
- 9 The Missing Persons of International Law Scholarship
- 10 The Wrong Way to Weigh Rights
- Index
Summary
Over the past few decades, scholars in a variety of fields – economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and international relations, among others – have made enormous strides studying the behavioral roots of international law by exploring individual motivations, describing organizational cultures, and mapping communities of practice. Taken together, the work of these scholars presents a complex, nuanced understanding of how international law works. However, these projects are rarely considered together and are generally separated by academic enclosures and focused on different subfields within international law, thereby unfortunately restricting communication among scholars who are using different methodologies. The goal of this book is to break down some of these barriers and provide a glimpse of what an international law more focused on behavior and more engaged with these other fields might look like; this chapter aims to provide a roadmap in this effort by describing international law’s long interest in behavior and the past attempts to explore that relationship, exploring the book’s approach and laying out the contributions in each chapter, and beginning the process of bringing these insights together and outlining a series of takeaways for future study of international law as behavior.
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- International Law as Behavior , pp. 1 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021