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Die Schule von New Haven: Darstellung und Kritik einer amerikanischen Volkerrechtslehre. By Sandra Voos. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2000. Pp. 345. €69.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Siegfried Wiessner
Siegfried Wiessner*
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St. Thomas University School of Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 96 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 498 - 501
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References

1 All translations are by the reviewer.

2 See Voos’s introduction (p. 15), quoting Colin Warbrick’s description (in Theory and International Law, p. xi) of the fortress mentality of Cambridge University in the 1960s, which had put McDougal’s and his associates’ studies on the index:

When I was a law student in Cambridge in the 1960s, two things were forbidden: one was not permitted to entertain (sic!) women in one’s rooms overnight and one was not allowed to make reference to the copious writings of Myres S. McDougal and his associates. McDougal, so it was put about, ‘had a theory’— much as one might speak in die same deprecating way about someone who ‘had a theory’ that the Earth was flat or that the bad weather was caused by the Germans. Under the curious morality mat prevailed in Cambridge, it was all right to engage in carnal activities during die hours of daylight ( . . . ) . However, McDougal was as dangerous by day as by night.

3 See, in this Journal, the 1998 farewell by four of his collaborators: A, Richard. Falk, , C, Rosalyn. W, Higgins. Reisman, Michael, & H, Burns. Weston, , Myres Smith McDougal (1906-1998), 92 AJIL 729 (1998)Google Scholar.

4 A, Richard. Falk, , Casting the Spell: The New Haven School of International Law, 104 Yale L.J. 1991 (1995)Google Scholar.

5 D, Harold. Lasswell, & S, Myres. Mcdougal, , Jurisprudence For A Free Society: Studies in Law, Science and Policy (1992)Google Scholar. Most of the relatively few references to this book appear in the context of longer footnotes that also refer to other works. This glancing treatment stands in marked contrast to the frequency of, and emphasis given to, Voos’s citations of two other works discussing McDougal’s approach: Knud Krakau, Missionsbewußtsein Und Völkerrechtsdoktrin in Den Vereinigten Staaten Von Amerika (1967), and Bent Rosenthal, Etude De L’oeuvre De Myres Smith Mcdougal En Matiere De Droit International Public (1970).

6 S, Myres. Mcdougal, & P, Florentino. Feliciano, , The International Law Of War: Transnational Coercionand World Public Order (1994)Google Scholar [hereinafter War] .

7 S, Myres. Mcdougal, , D, Harold. Lasswell, , & Lung-Chu, Chen, Human Rights and World Public Order (1980)Google Scholar [hereinafter Human Rights].

8 S, Myres. Mcdougal, , D, Harold. Lasswell, , & C, James. Miller, , The Interpretation of Agreements and World Public Order: Principles of Content and Procedure (1967)Google Scholar.

9 S, Myres. Mcdougal, & T, William. Burke, , The Public Order of the Oceans (1962)Google Scholar.

10 S, Myres. Mcdougal, , D, Harold. Lasswell, , & A, Ivan. Vlasic, Law and Public Order in Space (1963)Google Scholar [hereinafter Space].

11 See S, Myres McDougal, & Michael Reisman, W. , Rhodesia and the United Nations: The Lawfulness of International Concern, 62 AJIL 1 (1968)Google Scholar Michael Reisman, W. , Responses to Crimes of Discrimination and Genocide: An Appraisal of the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 1 Denver J. Int’l L. & Pol’y 29 (1971)Google Scholar.

12 Space, supra note 10, at 825-827.

13 Reisman, Michael & S, Myres. McDougal, , Humanitarian Intervention to Protect the Ibos, Richard A. Lillich, Humanitarian Intervention and the United Nations 167 (1973)Google Scholar (written in 1968, circulated privately and as a UN petition document); see S, Myres. W, McDougal. Reisman, Michael, The Continuing Validity of Humanitarian Intervention, 3 Int’l Law. 435 (1969)Google Scholar.

14 Michael Reisman, W. , Protecting Indigenous Rights in International Adjudication, 89 AJIL 350 (1995)Google Scholar. As president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Reisman also took the lead in drafting the Proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, OEA/Ser/L/V/II.90, Doc.9rev.l (1995).

15 For a brief introduction published over two decades ago, see Schreuer, Christoph, New Haven Approach und Völkerrecht, in Autoritat Und Internationale Ordnung 63 (Christoph Schreuer ed., 1979)Google Scholar.

16 S, Myres. McDougal, & Wiessner, Siegfried, Law and Minimum World Public Order, Introduction to the Reissue, Google Scholar in WAR, supra note 6, at xix, xxvii.

17 For details, see Human Rights, supra note 7.