Chance, order, change: the course of international law : general course on public international law

Intro -- Chance, Order, Change :The Course of International Law -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction and overview -- Part I. International law as law -- Chapter I. Soft law for a hard world -- A. The realist challenge - "international law is too weak to be any good" -- B. Some responses to the realist challenge -- 1. The historiographical response -- 2. The empirical response -- 3. The processual response -- C. A Modern Analogue of Melos ? East Timor -- D. Conclusion : Incorporating and Transcending Realism -- Chapter II. International law as custom or false conssciousness ? -- A. Attempts to Define Customary International Law -- B. Opinio juris as an interloper -- 1. The recent origins of opinio juris -- 2. De-systematizing international law : The SS "Lotus" -- 3. How much opinio juris is required ? -- C. Opinio juris as an attitude of the subject of law -- D. Opinio juris in a world without institutions -- E. A false consciousness ? -- Chapter III. Sovereignty and law -- A. Sovereignty and its limits -- B. How can a sovereign State be "bound" by law ? -- 1. The "pure fact" view : Austin, Schmitt -- 2. The "legal" view : Kelsen, Lauterpacht -- 3. Schmitt and Kelsen compared -- C. The usefulness of "sovereignty" -- 1. The S word -- 2. The future of sovereignty -- D. Conclusion -- Chapter IV. Making law by treaty -- A. The Baxter paradox - "the more agreement, the less law" -- B. The North Sea Continental Shelf cases and the derivation of custom from treaty -- 1. Declaratory treaties -- 2. Universal treaties -- 3. Case study one : the 1949 Geneva Conventions -- 4. Case study two : the "outer continental shelf" underthe United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 -- C. Avoiding the Baxter paradox -- D. Solving the Baxter paradox -- Chapter V. International law and indeterminacy -- A. The problem of indeterminacy.