Talking International Law

Ian Johnstone is Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has served as Dean ad interim and as Academic Dean of the School. Prior to joining Fletcher in 2000, Johnstone served in the United Nations' Office of the Secretary-General. He has held Visiting Professor positions at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and at New York University School of Law. He has served on the editorial boards of Global Governance and International Organizations Law Review. Steven R. Ratner is the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the Director of the University of Michigan Donia Human Rights Center. His research addresses a range of issues in international law, including linkages with political philosophy and international relations theory. He has served in U.S. State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser, on expert panels of the UNSecretary-General addressing atrocities in Sri Lanka and Cambodia, in the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and on the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law.

• Chapter 1. Introduction by Ian Johnstone and Steven RatnerChapter 2. Why Use the Language of the Law in Global Politics? On the Legitimacy Effects of Claiming to Act Legally by Ingo VenzkeChapter 3. Arguing about the Jus ad Bellum by Monica HakimiChapter 4. International Law as Process: Argumentation in the United Nations Security Council by Scott P. SheeranChapter 5. Protesting the Preamble: Normative Pronouncements and Feminist Jurisprudence in the Security Council by Gina HeathcoteChapter 6. Persuasion About/Without International Law: The Case of Cybersecurity Norms by Steven R. RatnerChapter 7. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Law: Why Argue and to What Effect? by Ian JohnstoneChapter 8. Mass Atrocity Crimes and Human Rights Discourse at the United Nations Security Council: Three Case Studies by Bruno Stagno-UgarteChapter 9. Non-State Armed Actors and International Legal Argumentation: Patterns, Processes, and Putative Effects by Hyeran JoChapter 10. Argumentation Through Law: An Analysis of Decisions of the African Union by Wouter WernerChapter 11. The Sanctions Regime of the African Union in the Case of Unconstitutional Change of Government by Namira NegmChapter 12. Legal Argumentation in the Evolving Climate Regime by Jutta BrunnéeChapter 13. Law and Science in Environmental Governance: The Effects of Legal and Scientific Argumentation in the International Whaling Commission by Lisbeth ZimmermannChapter 14. International Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom: A Focus on Intellectual Property by Edward KwakwaChapter 15. Arguing about Trade Law Beyond the Courtroom by Kathleen ClaussenChapter 16. The Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations by Stephen Mathias and Nicolas PerezChapter 17. Towards a Theory of Legal Argumentation by Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner

This pioneering book explores why, how, and by whom legal arguments are given outside the courtroom. Bringing together law and political sciences, the editors proceed both bottom up and top down: Building on a gamut of approaches in both disciplines and on case studies by the contributing scholars and practitioners, the book charts new territory. The outcome is a novel theory for understanding the motives, modes, and effects of legal argumentation in global affairs." -Professor Anne Peters, Director, The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg, Germany