Fundamental Theory of International Law
Faculty
Y. Onuma
Description
This seminar has three objectives: (1) to consider the meaning of the “system” of international law by comparing major textbooks on international law and similar writings such as general courses on international law at the Hague Academy of International Law; (2) to locate specific problems which participants of the seminar are tackling within such “systems”; and (3) to secure a third party perspective on the student’s research theme and method ology , and to evaluate their meaning and significance in international law.
We plan to take up Onuma’s International Law (2005) as a standard of comparison, and compare with it the following: Takano’s textbooks, I, II (1985/86); Yamamoto’s textbook (1994); Brownlie’s Principles of Public International Law (2003); Higgins’s Problems and Process (1994); Allott’s The Health of Nations (2002); Reisman et al’s International Law in Contemporary Perspective (2004); Hague Lectures by R.J. Dupuy (1979), Schacter (1985), Abi-Saab (1987), Henkin (1990), and Weil (1992); Kelsen’s Principles of International Law (1966); De Visscher’s Théorie et réalité en droit international public (1970); Charlesworth and Chinkin’s Boundaries of International Law (2004).