Philosophy and International Law

David Lefkowitz is Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law (PPEL) at the University of Richmond. He is the founding coordinator of the PPEL Program and also has served as a Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton University, Class of 1958 Ethics Fellow at the US Naval Academy, and Isaac Manasseh Meyer Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore.

• 1. Introduction; 2. John Austin: enforcement and international law; 3. H. L. A. Hart: social rules, officials, and international law; 4. Ronald Dworkin: interpretivism and international law; 5. An international rule of law?; 6. The legitimacy of international law; 7. International human rights law: concepts and grounds of human rights; 8. The law of war and its relationship to the morality of war; 9. International criminal law: crimes against humanity and universal jurisdiction; 10. International law and secession; 11. International trade law: free trade, fair trade, and trade in stolen goods.