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><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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>
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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>
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</div><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>
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