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color=#0000ff size=2>Out of curiosity, what examples of customary international
environmental law would you say are "properly supported by state practice and
universal agreement"? This is an issue that I have been following for a
while, and I have found very few examples of state-by-state analysis to show
state practice. It would be great to know where this has been
done.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
intlawprofessors-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au
[mailto:intlawprofessors-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Fernando Teson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 09, 2010 9:46
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Mary Durfee<BR><B>Cc:</B>
intlawprofessors@mailman.anu.edu.au<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [IntLawProfessors]
FW: Okla state question 755 update<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Sure, there is a lot of customary law that is legitimate, properly
supported by state practice and universal agreement. But unfortunately there's a
lot of "fake custom" generated by academics and norm entrepreneurs who exploit
the relative indeterminacy of the concept of custom in order to present their
own desiderata as if they were genuine, binding norms.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Mary Durfee <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:mhdurfee@mtu.edu">mhdurfee@mtu.edu</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Perhaps
scholarship and some opinions have gone in that direction, but not the actual
operations in US State and in other departments. For example, there's a
new semi-journalistic account, the Least Worst Place on the efforts in State
and in the US Marine Corps to make Guantanamo legal under the Geneva
Conventions. There were actively overruled, but there was little doubt
in their minds on what the rules were.<BR><BR>There is a brand of IR
scholarship that I find really interesting, the way different courts,
municipal and otherwise, use human rights law to give more effect to it.
Kathryn Sikkink at Minnesota has done work in this area and there seems
to be a lot of work going on among Ph.D. students at Virginia.<BR><FONT
color=#888888><BR>Mary Durfee, Ph.D.<BR>Associate Professor of
Government<BR>Social Sciences Dept.<BR>Michigan Technological
University<BR>Houghton, MI 49931<BR>Work: 906-487-2112<BR>Cell:
906-369-2112<BR></FONT>
<DIV class=im><BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "prabhakarsingh
adv" <<A
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"William Slomanson" <<A
href="mailto:bills@tjsl.edu">bills@tjsl.edu</A>>, <A
href="mailto:intlawprofessors-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au">intlawprofessors-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au</A>,
"Fernando Teson" <<A
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<DIV class=im>Sent: Monday, November 8, 2010 7:35:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
Eastern<BR>Subject: Re: [IntLawProfessors] FW: Okla state question 755
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<DIV class=im>Dear Profs.<BR>This is very educative for an Indian law teacher.
I have been thinking how the "third world sees constitutionalism in
international law?" With Posnerian view, American scholarship has moved
further away to the idea that international relations is the determining
factor and int'l is almost obsolete.<BR>Best,<BR>Prabhakar<BR>Sent on my
BlackBerry® from Vodafone<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=im>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: William Slomanson <<A
href="mailto:bills@tjsl.edu">bills@tjsl.edu</A>><BR>Sender: <A
href="mailto:intlawprofessors-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au">intlawprofessors-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au</A><BR>Date:
Tue, 9 Nov 2010 00:17:54<BR>To: Fernando Teson<<A
href="mailto:fteson@law.fsu.edu">fteson@law.fsu.edu</A>><BR></DIV>
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Re: [IntLawProfessors] FW: Okla state question 755 update<BR><BR></DIV>
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