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Koskenniemi Martti. The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 558. Index. $95, £65.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

A. W. Brian Simpson*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

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Recent Books on International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2002

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References

* I thank David Bederman, Samantha Besson, and Frank Garcia for helpful comments on a draft of this review.

1 [Editor’s Note: The American Society of International Law has roughly 4,000 members; the International Law Association, 3,700.]

2 See Simpson, A. W. B., A History of the Common Law of Contract 377-81 (1987)Google Scholar (includes additional references).

3 The Oxford History of the British Empire (5 vols.) (Louis, W. R. ed., 1999)Google Scholar.

4 The work to which Koskenniemi refers is Kelsen, Hans, Das Problem der Souveränität und die Theoríe des Völkerrechts (2d ed. 1928)Google Scholar.

5 See Simpson, A. W. B., Human Rights and The End of Empire: Britain and The Genesis of The European Convention 348-50 (2001)Google Scholar.

6 Id. at 205-07, 350, 354-57.

7 This unofficial committee was set up by the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1943. See id. at 210.

8 Hans, J. Morgenthau, In Defense of The National Interest 52 Google Scholar (quoted by Koskenniemi at p. 437).

9 Hans, J. Morgenthau, Scientific Man vs. Power Politics 120 (1946)Google Scholar (quoted by Koskenniemi at p. 463).

10 Koskenniemi, Martti, From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument (1989)Google Scholar.