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Review Essay: The Case of the Vanishing Treatises

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Detlev Vagts  and
Thomas M. Franck
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , July 1987 , pp. 763 - 771
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1987

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References

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2 Id. at 1149.

3 Id. at 1150.

4 Id. at 1150–51.

5 See, e.g., Schwartz, B., Constitutional Law (1979)Google Scholar.

6 See, e.g., Friedmann, W., The Changing Structure of International Law (1964)Google Scholar. A rare recent exception to decline is McDougal, M., Lasswell, H. & Chen, L., Human Rights and World Public Order (1980)Google Scholar, and earlier volumes in the Public Order series (Yale).

7 Stone, supra note 1, at 1151.

8 Id. at 1152.

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14 For a discussion of each of these factors, see Unger, R. M., The Critical Legal Studies Movement (1986)Google Scholar.

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30 Id. at 51.

31 See, for example, the discussion of “peaceful coexistence,” id. at 55–56, or the arguments for and against Austinian positivism, id. at 59–60.

32 Id. at 63.

33 Id. at 85–90.

34 Id. at 89.

35 Id. at 89–90.

36 Id. at 90.

37 Id. at 189.

38 Id. at 190.

39 Id. at 198.

40 Id. at 200.

41 Id.

42 Id. at 212–15.

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