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Good global governance: custom, the cosmopolitan and international law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2007

John R. Morss
John R. Morss*
Affiliation:
Deakin University Law School, Melbourne
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Abstract

International law has both less and more to offer to the cosmopolitan project than one might think. As currently understood, international law presages a global system of obligations comprising the convergent systems of universal customary international laws and near-universal conventional instruments (treaties), both of which legal forms are characterised by natural law tendencies. From the point of view of a pluralistic cosmopolitanism, this is a dead end. Thinking beyond these formulae requires that international law be treated as a species of general law rather than state-centred law.

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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 59 - 71
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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