The Role of Law in International Politics

Michael Byers is Associate Professor at Duke University Law School

• 1. The Importance of International Law ; 2. Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and the Image of Law in International Relations ; 3. How Do Norms Matter? ; 4. The Concept of International Law ; 5. Emerging Patterns of Governance and International Law ; 6. Domestic Politics and International Resources: What Role for International lAW? ; 7. Human Rights and the Politics of Representation: Is There a Role for International Law? ; 8. Politics and Human Rights: An Essential Symbiosis ; 9. Governing the Global Economy through Government Networks ; 10. The Politics of Law-Making: Are the Method and Character of Norm Creation Changing? ; 11. Regulating the International Economy: What Role for the State? ; 12. How to Regulate Globalization? ; 13. The Role of the United Nations Security Council in the International Legal System ; 14. The Functions of the United Nations Security Council in the International Legal System ; 15. The Limits of the Security Council's Powers and its Functions in the International Legal System: Some Reflections ; 16. Conclusion: International Law and the Changing Constitution of International Society

The Michael Byers' collection is excellent and makes a real contribution to thinking on the role of law in international politics. In impressive contributions by Martii Koskenniemi, Christine Chinkin and Anne-Marie Slaughter we are treated to examples of what scholarly work in this area should look like.