Fairness In International Law And Institutions

This work provides a vision for the development of international law and institutions and ends with a challenge to both scholars and practitioners to take up the issue of fairness in the law actively. This book is based on Professor Franck's highly acclaimed Hague Academy General Course. In it he offers a compelling view of the future of international legal reasoning and legal theory. The author offers a critical analysis of the prescriptive norms and institutions of modern international law and argues that international law has the capacity to advance, in practice, the abstract social values shared by the community of states and persons. This book is both thought-provoking and original and as such is essential reading for students of international law and legal theory.