International Law as Behavior

Description

This volume includes chapters from an exciting group of scholars at the cutting edge of their fields to present a multi-disciplinary look at how international law shapes behavior. Contributors present overviews of the progress established fields have made in analyzing questions of interest, as well as speculations on the questions or insights that emerging methods might raise. In some chapters, there is a focus on how a particular method might raise or help answer questions, while others focus on a particular international law topic by drawing from a variety of fields through a multi-method approach to highlight how these fields may come together in a single project. Still others use behavioral insights as a form of critique to highlight the blind spots and related mistakes in more traditional analyses of the law. Throughout this volume, authors present creative, insightful, challenges to traditional international law scholarship.

Harlan Grant Cohen is Gabriel M. Wilner/UGA Foundation Professor in International Law and Faculty Co-Director at Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia. He is an expert in international legal theory, global governance, and U.S. foreign relations law, as well as an elected member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and the American Law Institute. He is co-editor of Legitimacy and International Courts (2018, with Grossman, Follesdal, and Ulfstein). Timothy Meyer is Professor of Law and Director of the International Legal Studies Program at Vanderbilt University Law School. A former U.S. State Department lawyer, he is an expert in public international law. His research has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the California Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Journal of Legal Analysis, and the European Journal of International Law.