Bederman, David J. <br/><br/>
The Spirit of International Law  [electronic resource] / 
by David J. Bederman. 
 - Athens, Ga. :  University of Georgia Press,  c2002. 
 - 1 online resource (xvi, 274 p. ) 
 - The spirit of the laws .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-256) and index. 
<br/><br/>Authority and obligation --<br/>Sources --<br/>Methods and approaches --<br/>Subjects and objects --<br/>Coherence and sophistication --<br/>Values and paradoxes --<br/>Confines --<br/>Formalism and pragmatism --<br/>Enforcement and compliance --<br/>Rectitude and ambition --<br/>Skepticism and exuberance. 
<br/><br/> "In this study, David J. Bederman focuses on international law as a current, practical means of regulating and influencing international behavior. He shows it to be a system unique in its nature - nonterritorial but secular, cosmopolitan, and traditional. Part intellectual history and part contemporary review, The Spirit of International Law ranges across the series of cyclical processes and dialectics in international law over the past five centuries to assess its current prospects as a viable legal system. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780820326399 0820326399 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>International law.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KZ3410  / .B433 2002