Samantha Besson, Sovereignty in Conflict, European Integration online Papers (EIoP), Vol. 8, No. 15, 2004
Category Archives: A. Contributions to the foundations of public international law
Theorizing the Sources of International Law
Samantha Besson, ‘‘Theorizing the Sources of International Law’ in Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas (eds.), The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) pp. 164-185.
What is Positive International Law?
Paul Guggenheim, ‘What is Positive International Law’ in George A. Lipsky Law and Politics in the World Community: Essays on Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory and Related Problems in International Law (University of California Press, Berkley and Los Angeles, 1953) pp. 15-30.
Soft Law – Norms in the Twilight between Law and Politics
Daniel Thürer, ‘Soft Law – Norms in the Twilight between Law and Politics’ in Daniel Thürer, International law as Progress and Prospect (Dike Verlag Ag, Zurich/ St. Gallen, 2009) pp. 159-178.
Island of Las Palmas, 1928 – The concept of territorial Sovereignty
In the words of Professor Daniel-Erasmus Khan: “Max Huber is the ‘Island of Palmas case’ and the ‘Island of Palmas case’ is Max Huber.”
On the Place of the Law of Nations in the History of Mankind
Max Huber, ‘On the Place of the Law of Nations in the History of Mankind’ in Symbolae Verzijl: Présentées Au Professeur J.H.W. Verzijl à l’Occasion de son LXX-Ième Anniversaire (Martinus Nijhoff, Law Haye 1958) pp. 190-195.
Das moderne Völkerrecht der civilisierten Staten
Johann Caspar Bluntschli, Das moderne Völkerrecht der civilisierten Staten (Nördlingen, Druck und Verlag der C.H. Beck’schen Buchhandlung, 1872) [The modern international law of civilized states].
The Law of Nations – Chapter XII Of Treaties Of Alliance, And Other Republic Treaties
Emer De Vattel, ‘Of Treaties Of Alliance, And Other Public Treaties’ in Emer De Vattel, The Law of Nations (Translated by Joseph Chitty, with additional notes and references by Edward D. Ingraham. Philadelphia,T. & J.W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1853) pp. 192-212.
Principles of Natural and Politic Law
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, ‘Of the Nature of Man, considered with regard to Right: Of the Understanding, and whatever is relative to this Faculty’ in Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Principles of Natural and Politic Law (translated into English by Thomas Nuggent, [1748] Indiana: Liberty Fund, 2006).