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Olivia Francesca, the light of my life
Kristine, the beam of that light
Leanore, my lifes aura of light
PREFACE
International law texts abound for all levels of study along with a variety of interpretive approaches, each emphasizing one theme or another. Insofar as attention has been brought to supplemental instructional support for the many different academic audiences, it has been sparse. One of the better known contributions in this line of thought is the collection of course syllabi with accompanying commentary and material compiled by John King Gamble and Christopher Joyner.
Therefore, when approached by Anthony Wahl, Westviews senior acquisitions editor, about authoring a text, my first reaction was to question why should more trees be sacrificed for still another text to sit on the shelf alongside so many others. However, I knew of but one international law text reader that has become a standard on which instructors could rely to augment their instructional efforts. Of much interest to those in the academe is the relationship between the strategic placement of international law in nations foreign policies and the administrative importance of international law courses in institutions curricula. More importantly, from my experience in academia at a small, liberal arts college, where a premium is placed on the quality of the instructors pedagogy, there was a need for a single repository of material from which an instructor could draw both information and also perspective on traditional elements as well as some of the more nuanced facets of a field, as differentiated from international legal research. There was also a need, in my opinion, to open the eyes of students in the West in particular to the views of non-Western analysts and specialists whose perspectives may be bounded by personal, cultural, and geographic exposure. For students who have had little opportunity to venture out to the vast reaches of the globe, the parochial view of global politics and its relationship to international law is as universal as their world will allow. If, then, they have not had the opportunity to garner ideas from the growing array of published sources of information and even from the electronic media, they might not be aware of some of the current developments in international politics and their international legal implications. Hopefully, this reader will fill a void for those at the undergraduate or graduate level of study in institutions of higher learning or in the professional schools of law in which a concentrated study of international law is even more pronounced. For American instructors of international law, their potential audiences have been limited somewhat by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision by the High Court most likely will not have widespread impact across the globe I suspect, save perhaps for academicians in Turkey and Sri Lanka.
I am truly grateful for the cooperation I have received from the assembly of scholars and practitioners, who represent at least five continents. Their efforts are indicative of the level of attention given to international law as well as the awareness of a set of concerns that have broad implications for all manner of political organizations and social communities.
Sanford R. Silverburg
Salisbury, NC
July 2010
NOTES
TEACHING INTERNATIONAL LAW: APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES, no. 11 (American Society International Law, Nov. 1997).
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Richard B. Finnegan, Three Models of Science in the Study of International Law, 8 CAL. W. INTL L. J. 274 (1978).
Ariel Dinar and Daene McKinney, Realizing Conflict, Negotiation, and Cooperation Concepts in the Context of International Water Courses, 6 J. POL. SCI. ED. 188209 (2010).
Alison Duxbury, Drawing Lines in the SandCharacterizing Conflicts for the Purpose of Teaching International Humanitarian Law, 8 MELB. J. INTL L. 25972 (2007).
I have in mind here items such as the JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT, vol. 1, no. 1 (2010), ISSN 17597188.
INTERNATIONAL LAW: CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY READINGS (Charlotte Ku and Paul F. Diehl eds., 3d ed. 2009).
. The referenced case is Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, 561 US ___ (2010); more specifically at Slip op. at 9, 16, 22, but see also the dissent at Slip op. at 13. Relative to the Courts decision is AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, BLOCKING FAITH, FREEZING CHARITY (2009).
Strongly recommended for an appreciation of the basic approaches to the study of international relations to which international law is attached would be PAUL SHARP, DIPLOMATIC THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (2009).
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dave O. Benjamin is an associate professor of global development at the University of Bridgeport.
Raj Bhala is the Rice Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas School of Law.
Igor Borba is a Brazilian attorney at law and a recipient of a master of arts degree in international affairs from Marquette University.
Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy is a former lecturer above the bar in law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is presently a researcher at the Responsible Investment Academy Australasia (RIAA).
Anthony J. Colangelo is an assistant professor of law at the Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law.
Jeffrey Davis is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County.
Giulherme M. Dias is a professor in the Department of International Relations at La Salle College in Manaus, Brazil.
Emeka Duruigbo is an associate professor at the Thurgold Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University.
Steven Freeland is a professor of international law at the University of Western Sydney and a visiting professor of international law at the University of Copenhagen.
Joan MacLeod Heminway is the College of Law Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law and a fellow of the University of Tennessee Corporate Governance Center, Center for Business and Economic Research, and Center for the Study of Social Justice.
Douglas Jobes is the president of the Space Settlement Institute.
Stefan Kirchner is an attorney at law in Frankfurt am Main and lecturer, research assistant, and programme director at the Faculty of Law of Georg-August-University in Gttingen.
Timo Koivurova is a research professor and the director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland.
Catherine Lotrionte is an associate director of the Institute for Law, Science and Global Security at Georgetown University.
Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto is a senior lecturer at the University of Manchester School of Law.
Jeffrey S. Morton is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University.
Michael A. Newton is a professor of the practice of law at the Vanderbilt University Law School.
Thomas R. OConnor is the director of the Institute for Global Security and an associate professor of public management and criminal justice at the Austin Peay State University (Ft. Campbell Center).
