International Law in the Interdisciplinary Mirror
American Journal of International Law, Vol. 94, p. 594, 2000
6 Pages Posted: 8 Oct 2009 Last revised: 27 Oct 2009
Date Written: October 4, 2009
Abstract
This article is a review essay of Anthony Clark Arend's book Legal Rules and International Society. It is also a comment on innovative, cross-disciplinary work in legal scholarship. It uses Jorge Luis Borges' short story "Menard: Author of the Quixote" as a springboard for analyzing the dilemma of exhaustion of possibilities in international scholarship. Arend's excellent reinvention of international law doctrine from a constructivist international relations point of view is seen through a Borgesian lens as a restatement that reinvigorates legal scholarship.
Keywords: international law, constructivism, Borges, interdisciplarity
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