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The normally challenging task of teaching international law is amplified when teaching international law in jurisdictions that face ongoing human rights problems and other failures of compliance with international law. In those jurisdictions, the dialectics between the globalized world economy and technology on the one hand and the intensification of hostility to human rights and substantive democracies (ie to the values of public international law) on the other hand are much more pronounced. Students will often resist international law and regard it as the 'enemy of the state' or a source of illegitimate foreign influence. The challenge of international law teachers in those jurisdictions is thus not only to teach international law but also to draw the students into – rather than alienate them from – thinking about their resistance to international law and about the relations between law, power and legitimacy. How to meet this and related challenges is the focus of this paper, which is based on the authors' practical experiences of teaching international law in several jurisdictions with an international law crisis including Hong Kong, Israel, and the People's Republic of China.

Universalising international law is one of the most urgent tasks awaiting those who wish to advance the discipline. Though all the world acknowledges its universal nature, it has long been confined in a largely monocultural mould. Indeed a tendency is sometimes discernible for international law to be compartmentalised and to function within a close cabinet of technical rules little known to those outside the ranks of specialists. This volume looks initially at some general aspects of universalisation. It thereafter adopts a universalist approach to some of the sources of international law and it deals with peace, the bedrock of international law, which likewise requires a universalist approach. It is hoped that these studies will highlight the imperative need that now exists for extending the conceptual framework of international law, thereby buttressing its moral authority and widening its appeal at a time when universal acceptance of international law is one of the most pressing demands of the international system

Analysing the nature of complicity in international criminal law, this book provides an account of the growing attention being paid to the issue. Exploring the responsibilities of individuals, states, and non-state actors in their obligations, the changing status of complicity in international law is demonstrated.

Preliminary Material /Russell Miller and Rebecca Bratspies -- Foreword: Progress in International Law? /José E. Alvarez -- Progress in International Law – an Explanation of the Project /Russell a. Miller and Rebecca M. Bratspies -- Evidence and Promise of Progress: Increased Interdependence, Rights and Responsibilities, Arenas of Interaction, and the Need for More Cooperative Uses of Armed Force /Jordan J. Paust -- Making Progress in International Institutions and Law /Barry E. Carter -- The Turning Aside. On International Law and Its History /Alexandra Kemmerer -- The Necessity of International Law against the A-normativity of Neo-Conservative Thought /Sergio Dellavalle -- Yom Kippur in Hell: the Empty Life of International Law /Ed Morgan -- Progress in International Organization: a Constitutionalist Reading /Christian Walter -- On the Borders of Justice: an Examination and Possible Solution to the Doctrine of Uti Possidetis /Daniel Luker -- The Evolving Role of Treaties in International Law /Karin Oellers-Frahm -- Customary International Law in the 21St Century /Andrew T. Guzman and Timothy L. Meyer -- Treaties as Domestic Law in the United States /Alex Glashausser -- The "Unsatisfactory Condition" of Customary International Law in the United States /Julian G. Ku -- In Quite a State: the Trials and Tribulations of an Old Concept in New Times /Florian Hoff Mann -- Between Incapacity and Indispensability: Th E United Nations and International Order in the 21St Century /Andreas Paulus -- Coordination of International Organizations — Intellectual Property Law as an Example: Can There Be Safety in Numbers? /Karen Kaiser -- Individual Progress in International Law: Considering Amnesty /Leila Nadya Sadat -- The Challenges of Evaluating NGO "Success" in Cross-Border Rights Initiatives: the Examples of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the Autotrim/Customtrim Initiative under the NAFTA Labor Side Agreement /Monica Schurtman -- Paradoxes of Personality: Transnational Corporations, Non-Governmental Organizations and Human Rights in International Law /Russell A. Miller -- Transnational Networks and the International Public Order /Jenia Iontcheva Turner -- Progress in International Adjudication: Revisiting Hudson's Assessment of the Future of International Courts /Cesare P R. Romano -- The "Precedential Judge Hudson"? Rivers, Oceans, Equity, and International Tribunals /Betsy Baker -- The Role of Transnational Judicial Dialogue in Shaping Transnational Speech: International Jurisdictional Conflicts in Hate Speech and Defamation Law /Melissa a. Waters -- Expanding Influence: Regional Human Rights Courts and Death Penalty Abolition /Kelly Parker -- Triumph of Progress: the Embrace of International Commercial Arbitration /Mary a. Bedikian -- International Security and the Use of Force /Abraham D. Sofaer -- Reforming the Security Council to Achieve Collective Security /Brian J. Foley -- Security Multilateralism: Progress and Paradox /Margaret E. McGuinness -- Legality versus Legitimacy and the Use of Force /Petr Válek -- The Phantom of the Neo-Global Era: International Law and the Implications of Non-State Terrorism on the Nexus of Self-Defense and the Use of Force /L. Waldron Davis.