Monthly archive October, 2018

Uses and possible misuses of a Comparative International Law approach

1. The question In a recent monograph[1] and in a subsequent edited volume,[2] Anthea Roberts makes the case for the adoption of a comparative international law (CIL)[3] approach in the study and practice of international law.[4] CIL is a project addressed primarily to international lawyers rather than States.[5] It offers a vision of what international...

Is International Law International? Exploring its normative underpinnings

1. Introduction Is International Law International? The title of the celebrated book authored by Anthea Roberts[1] poses a prima facie straightforward, binary question. In line with Roberts’s high quality scholarship, the book raises challenging questions that go deep to issues, such as the source of international law’s authority and the structure of the international order....

Doctrinal thoughts on a doctrinal approach to the problem of diversity in International Law. Revisiting Anthea Roberts’ Is International Law International? and Comparative International Law

Introduced by Maurizio Arcari and Paolo Palchetti   One of the most interesting trends of the recently published literature on international law is the increasing attention paid to the role and place of legal scholars in the context of the international legal order. In parallel with legal analyses concerned with the growing influence exerted by...