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Author:   Eric A. Posner
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.40cm
Weight:   0.539kg
ISBN:  

9780226675749

ISBN 10:   0226675742
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   30 September 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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This trenchant and rigorous book provides a much-needed antidote to the sanctimony and sermonizing that permeates international law. It lays bare international law's circularity and demonstrates that much of the edifice is built on illusion. The 'establishment' will be forced into contortions to answer its arguments. It's a bracing, refreshingly and altogether scintillating read. - Michael J. Glennon, author of Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism after Kosovo

Posner has provided an intellectual history of a concept, 'legalism,' as well as what could be considered the sociology of a profession. (Journal of International Law and Politics) A spirited attack on 'excessive faith in the efficiency of international law.' (Foreign Affairs)

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Eric A. Posner is the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts and The Limits of International Law.

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