Böcker av David J. Bederman

This title was first published in 2001. This volume examines a question of law and jurisprudence: where did the special rules used to interpret legal texts come from, and why do they remain significant today? This study offers an intellectual history of these rules, these canons, and concludes they originated in classical antiquity.

Focuses on international law as the means of regulating and influencing international behavior. This work shows it to be a system unique in its nature - nonterritorial but secular, cosmopolitan, and traditional. It ranges across the series of cyclical processes and dialectics in international law to assess its prospects as a viable legal system.