Jack Goldsmith and Daryl Levinson, Law for States: International Law, Constitutional Law, Public Law, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 1792 (2009).

Dennis Patterson

It is a staple of the international law literature that international law is not or might not “really be law” because, among other things, it lacks what H.L.A. Hart refers to as a “rule of recognition.”  The contrast is most stark when one compares international law with domestic or municipal law.  In the case of the latter, there is […]