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Testing Compliance Theories: Towards US Obedience of International Law in the Avena Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2006

Abstract

Eyal Benvenisti and Moshe Hirsch (eds.), The Impact of International Law on International Cooperation: Theoretical Perspectives, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0521835542, 330 pp., £55.00 (hb).

Markus Burgstaller, Theories of Compliance with International Law, Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff, 2005, ISBN 9004141936, 244 pp., €98.00 (hb).

Constanze Schulte, Compliance with Decisions of the International Court of Justice, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0199276722, 500 pp., £75.00 (hb).

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Thomas H. Huxley

Type
REVIEW ESSAYS
Copyright
2006 Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law

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