PIL 2C Reading List and Reaction Paper Assignments

SY 2013-2014
Study Guide Notes:
Choose a book or a pair of two articles from the list below and submit a book review (600
word max) or reaction paper to the two articles, due every 1st of the month (commencing
December).
EXTRA CREDITS FOR CHOOSING ST THOMAS MORE!! And for Locating Books on EBAY or
AMAZON for addition to the International Law Department Library!!
Books available in TCRL Reserve Shelf:
Bello, Walden (2005 ed.) The Anti-Development State.
Brierly, J.L. (1942 3rd ed.) The Law of Nations.
Cassese, Antonio (2005) International Law. [CHOOSE A CHAPTER]
Clapham, Andrew (2012 7th ed.),Brierlys Law of Nations.
De Chardin, Teilhard (1956) The Appearance of Man.
Kant, Immanuel (1961) Critique of Pure Reason.
Locke, John (1960) Two Treatises of Government.
Permanent Court of Arbitration (1928) Island of Palmas Case (or Miangas), United States v
Netherlands, Award, II RIAA 829, ICGJ 392 (PCA 1928), 4th April 1928.
Sands, Philippe (2005) Lawless World.
Tudor, Ioana (2008) The Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in the International Law of
Foreign Investment.
Other Items (mostly available on the web and the PIL2C Academic Box):
Aristotle 395 BC, Nichomean Ethics
D'Aspremont The Systemic Integration of International Law by Domestic Courts 2010.
Dworkin, Ronald (1986) Laws Empire. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press.
Dworkin, Ronald (2006) Justice in Robes. Harvard University Press.
Ely, John Hart (1980) Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press.
Franck, Thomas The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance N.Y. Times, Aug. 22, 1991, at
A15, col. 6; and id., Aug. 21, 1991, at A9, col. 1.
Fuller, Lon L. (1966) The Morality of Law: 1st (first) Edition. Yale University Press.
Hart, H. L. A. (1994) The Concept of Law. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford
University Press.
Jennings, R., What is International Law and How Do We Tell it When We See it?, in Collected
Writings of Sir Robert Jennings, vol. II, The Hague, Kluwer, 1998, pp. 730-759.
Johnstone, Ian Security Council Deliberations: The Power of the Better Argument, E.J.I.L.
2003, 14(3), 437-480
Kant, Immanuel (1795), Perpetual Peace
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kant/kant1.htm
Kennedy, Duncan Three Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850-2000, in David
Trubek& Alvaro Santos, The New Law and Economic Development 19-73 (2006).
Llamzon, The Generally Accepted Principles of International Law as Philippine Law: Towards a
Structurally Consistent Use of Customary International Law in Philippine Courts, J.D. Thesis
SY 2001-02, 47 Ateneo L.J. 243 (2002).
Michelman, F (1988) Laws Republic, 97 Yale LJ 14931537.

More, Thomas (1997) Utopia. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications.

Platos Republic
Rabindranath Tagore 1916, A Lecture
Rawls, John (1999) A Theory of Justice. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press.
Rawls, John (2005) Political Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press.
Raz, J., Authority, Law and Morality, Monist, Vol. 68, No. 3 (July 1985): 295.
S. R. Ratner & A. M. Slaughter, Appraising the Methods of International Law: A Prospectus for
Readers, 93 AJIL(1999) 291.
Scobbie, Ian Wicked Heresies or Legitimate Perspectives? Theory and International Law, in
International Law 59, 83-107 (Malcolm D. Evans 3rd ed., 2010).
Slaughter, Anne-Marie (2005) A New World Order. Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock: Princeton
University Press.