Five Masters of International Law: Conversations with R-J Dupuy, E Jim?nez de Ar

Description: Five Masters of International Law by Antonio Cassese This book of interviews offers a unique and important insight into the legal minds and outlook of five distinguished international lawyers. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book consists of interviews with five distinguished international lawyers from the UK, USA, Uruguay and France, conducted by the editor, Antonio Cassese, between 1993 and 1995. Each interview is preceded by a brief intellectual portrait of the interviewee. In his general introduction Cassese stresses that the interviews, all based on the same questionnaire, were intended to bring out not only the main ideas associated with each scholar in the fields of international law and international relations, but also his intellectual and philosophical background, his general outlook and his views of the prospects for the evolution of the international community. In his final essay, Cassese brings together the main threads of the interviews and points to the parallels and divergences appearing from them.This book offers a unique and important insight into the legal minds and outlook of a select group of prominent scholars of international law and legal institutions during the last years of the twentieth century. Author Biography Antonio Cassese is an international lawyer who has combined a career as a university professor with membership of important UN bodies, and, latterly, membership of several international tribunals. Most recently (1993-2000) he was a judge and President (1993-1997) of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Chairman of the UN International Commission of Inquiry into Crimes in Darfur (Sudan), Independent Expert appointed by the UN Secretary-General to review the efficiency of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and, since March 2009, Judge and President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Table of Contents Basic QuestionnaireRené-Jean DupuyInterview with René-Jean Dupuy: June 1993I. The Formative YearsII. Encounters with Other International LawyersIII. The Role of the Jurist as Scholar and PractitionerIV. A Look at the International CommunityV. The Jurist and Global RealityEduardo Jiménez de AréchagaInterview with Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga: November 1993I. The Role of Legal Scholarship at the Start of Judge de Aréchagas Scholarly ActivityII. Meeting Other International LawyersIII. Jiménez de Aréchagas Academic and Political CareerIV. Thoughts About the International CommunityV. The Jurist and Global RealitySir Robert JenningsInterview with Sir Robert Jennings: October 1994I. The Beginning as a ScholarII. Encounters with Other ScholarsIII. The Role of the Jurist as Scholar and PractitionerIV. A Look at the International CommunityV. The Jurist and Global RealityLouis HenkinInterview with Louis Henkin: February 1995I. The Formative YearsII. Encounters with Other International LawyersIII. The Role of the Jurist as Scholar and PractitionerIV. A Look at the International CommunityV. Some Personal QuestionsOscar SchachterInterview with Oscar Schachter: February 1995I. The Beginning as a ScholarII. The Policy-Science Approach versus the Strictly Legal ApproachIII. Encounters with Other International LawyersIV. The Theoretical Approach to International LawV. The Role of the Jurist as Scholar and PractitionerVI. A Look at the International CommunityVII. The Jurist and Global RealityFinal RemarksBy Way of ConclusionI. On the Limits of my Attempt to Highlight the Main Points of the InterviewsII. Basic CommonalitiesIII. The European Kernel in the Education of the IntervieweesIV. Legal PositivismV. Scholar versus PractitionerVI. Political InvolvementVII. The Evils of the Current International CommunityVIII. The Outlook for the World CommunityIX. Personal MattersX. Final Observations Review This book...filled me with admiration. It is so typical of certain features of Ninos character, especially his intellectual curiosity and his modesty. Nino, himself a great master of international law, felt the need to interview five masters of international law. It is also highly significant that he emphasizes and praises the human qualities of the interviewees, which were also his own, such as simplicity, affability, gentleness, urbanity, esprit de finesse and witty irony.Each interview makes for lively and interesting reading: one grasps the rich and different personalities of the interviewees...In spite and beyond their differences, they present important common features. All of them embraced legal positivism, though to varying degrees. -- Peter Leuprecht * Journal of International Criminal Justice Volume 10 *While it is not a textbook by any stretch of the imagination, the reader comes out of the book with the feeling of actually having learned something, not so much on the level of technical detail ... but rather on the level of inspiration: what it means to be an international lawyer and to work, in one way or another, for the common good.Casseses interviews follow roughly identical patterns but, fortunately, he has been wise enough to let his conversation partners expand a bit whenever they were so inclined: it is the combination of Casseses astute questioning and his liberal handling of the interviews which makes for lively, engaged reading....this is a lovely book, and it might well be a good idea to repeat the effort with other international lawyers reaching the end of long and distinguished careers. -- Jan Klabbers * Global Law Books *In short, Five Masters is a unique and fascinating work, and the field of international law would be poorer without it. One can only hope that similar books will be produced by and with the current and future generations of great international lawyers. -- Sondre Torp Helmersen * Zeitschrift fur Auslandisches * Review Quote While it is not a textbook by any stretch of the imagination, the reader comes out of the book with the feeling of actually having learned something, not so much on the level of technical detail ... but rather on the level of inspiration: what it means to be an international lawyer and to work, in one way or another, for the common good.Casseses interviews follow roughly identical patterns but, fortunately, he has been wise enough to let his conversation partners expand a bit whenever they were so inclined: it is the combination of Casseses astute questioning and his liberal handling of the interviews which makes for lively, engaged reading....this is a lovely book, and it might well be a good idea to repeat the effort with other international lawyers reaching the end of long and distinguished careers.Jan KlabbersGlobal Law BooksNovember 2011 Details ISBN1849461201 Year 2011 ISBN-10 1849461201 ISBN-13 9781849461207 Format Paperback Imprint Hart Publishing Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 341.0922 Short Title 5 MASTERS OF INTL LAW Language English Media Book Pages 306 Publication Date 2011-03-15 Illustrations black & white illustrations Author Antonio Cassese Affiliation European University Institute, Florence, Italy UK Release Date 2011-03-15 NZ Release Date 2011-03-15 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Subtitle Conversations with R-J Dupuy, E Jiménez de Aréchaga, R Jennings, L Henkin and O Schachter Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2011-03-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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