Preface 1
Introduction 6
PART 1 The Politics of International Law&ELIHU ROOT 9
1 The need of popular understanding of international law 11
2 The politics of international law&martti koskenniemi 13
PART 2 History of International Law 41
3 Introduction to The Epochs ofInternatinal Law&Wilhelm G.Grewe 43
4 International law and the nineteenth century:history of an illusion&David Kennedy 74
5 Finding the peripheries:sovereignty and colonialism in nineteenth-century international law&Antony Anghie 107
PART 3 The Concept of International Law 181
6 International law&H.l.A.Hart 183
7 Towards relative normativity in international law?&Prosper Weil 201
PART 4 International Law and its Self-identity 233
8 The new international law: protection of the rights of individuals rather than states&Louis B.Sohn 235
9 From bilateralism to community interest in international law&Bruno Simma 295
10 Whither the international community?&Georges Abi-Saab 431
PART 5 International Governance and Global Administrative Law 451
11 The emergence of global administrative law&Benedict kingsbury,Nico keisch and richard B.Stewart 453
PART 6 Epilogue 501
12 The geology of international law: governance,democracy and legitimacy&Joseph Weiler 503