Conservative and progressive visions in French international legal doctrine

European Journal of International Law

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 525-537

  Carty, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 27644535911     PISSN: 09385428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejil/chi129     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Given the character of the Société française pour le droit international, centred around the institution of the annual Colloquium, not to mention numerous additional tables rondes, which encourages extensive open debate among French international lawyers.
2. Carty, 'Convergences and Divergences in European International Law Traditions', 11 EJIL (2000) 713.
3. See A. Carty, State and Nation in the International Law Tradition: A History of French-German Antagonisms and Possible Responses in the Spanish Late Medieval Tradition (2004), at 215-242.
4. M. Perrin de Brichambaut, J. F. Dobelle, and M.R. d'Haussy, Leçons (2002), at 22. They continue to draw upon Serge Sur for a typology of the basic character of international law (ibid., at 24-26), in the sense of relative absence of institutionalization beyond the state.
5. Weil, 'Towards Relative Normativity in International Law?' 77 AJIL (1983) 413.
6. Sur, 'The State between Fragmentation and Globalisation', 8 EJIL (1997) 421, at 422.
7. Ibid., at 426.
8. Brichambaut, Dobelle, and d'Haussy, supra note 4, at 43-45, views now systematically developed in R. Cooper, The Breaking of Nations (2004).
9. Published in the Colloque de Paris (2001), at 49-65.
10. See the final sentence of a summary of Sur's argument, in Brichambaut, Dobelle, and d'Haussy, supra note 4, at 32.
11. Ibid., especially at paras. 51-57, at 98-107.
12. Ibid., at para. 208, at 325.
13. See ibid., in particular, para, 128, at 207, and, generally, paras, 124-128, at 201-207. This passage in French does not seem happily constructed: 'Personne n'ose prétendre d'un traité organisant, par exemple, un recours illégitime à la force, conserve sa pleine validité au regard du droit positif parce qu'il est contraire au seul droit naturel'!
14. ICJ Reports (1986) 1, at 124-125.
15. Ibid., at para. 288, at 449.
16. Combacau, 'Le droit international:bRic a brac ou system?' [1986] Archives de philosophie du droit Le système juridique 1, at 85 ff.
17. See Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2nd edn., 1970) and the application of these ideas by M. Hollis and S. Smith in Explaining and Understanding International Relations (1990).
18. Supra note 12, esp. at 99.
19. See Carty, 'The Terrors of Sovereignty and the Freedom to Fear', in J. Strawson (ed.), Law After Ground Zero (2002), at 44 ff.
20. A. Cassese, International Law (2001), at 47.
21. Themes I explore in 'Scandinavian Realism and Phenomenological Approaches to Statehood and General Custom in International Law', 14 EJIL (2003) 817, at 820 and 837.
22. P. Legendre, Sur la question dogmatique en Occident (1999), at 205.