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Herding Schrödinger’s Cats: The Limits of the Social Science Approach to International Law
No full textThe struggle to assert the legitimacy and relevance of international law is integral to its story. Among academics, that tale has seen other lawyers question whether it is “really” law, while scholars of international relations have dismissed it in a bemused footnote. Among politicians, the narrative has been one of efforts to establish international law as more than simply one foreign policy justification among others. The turn to social science offers a double remedy: rigorous methods that will earn the respect of the academy while also demonstrating the discipline’s “real world” impact. This is an elegant answer—to the wrong question. For the problems of international law cannot be solved by adopting an “external” and therefore objective or privileged position. International law’s structure and history make academics necessarily participants as well as observers. An uncritical embrace of social science methods risks losing much of what draws people to international law and what has, over the centuries, given it value. As a work in progress in which academics have a special role to play, a commitment merely to take international law “as it is” is not neutral; it is a value statement in itsel
The Limits of International Law Fifteen Years Later
Get PDFThe Limits of International Law received a great deal of criticism when it was published in 2005, but it has aged well. The skeptical, social-scientific methodology that it recommended has become a normal mode of international law scholarship. And the dominant idealistic view of international law that the book criticized is today in shambles, unable to explain the turmoil in international politics. This Essay reflects on the book’s reception and corrects common misperceptions of its argument
The Future of Felon Disenfranchisement Reform: Evidence from the Campaign to Restore Voting Rights in Florida
Get PDFGeoffrey Stone, Informal 4
No full textGeoffrey Stone, the Harry Kalven Jr. Professor in the Law School and university provost (1993-2002) at the University of Chicago.
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Geoffrey Stone, Group 3
No full textGeoffrey Stone (third, left), the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor in the University of Chicago Law School, speaks with students.
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Phil C. Neal, Formal 1
No full textPhil C. Neal, the Harry A. Bigelow Professor of Law, and dean of the Law School at the University of Chicago.
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