title: Send Back the Lifeboats: Confronting the Project of Saving International Law
abstract: This piece critically evaluates the inclination of international lawyers to feel that international law needs to be saved. In doing so, it provides some observations on the self-destructive processes of international law. This piece constitutes a response to an article entitled "Groundwork for International Law" in which Anthony D’Amato offers a comprehensive account of how international law is formed and structured. Parts I and II sketch the various facets and implications of D’Amato’s self-pre
journal: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)