Oona A. Hathaway is a leading scholar of international law, holding a distinguished professorship at Yale Law School. Her research delves into the foundational principles of modern international law, exploring its intricate relationship with U.S. constitutional law and the mechanisms for its enforcement, particularly within the context of armed conflict. Hathaway co-authored 'The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World,' offering critical insights into ambitious historical efforts to abolish war and their profound impact on reshaping global order. Her work provides readers with a compelling analysis of the forces shaping international legal structures and their influence on the world stage.
Legality is a profound work in analytical jurisprudence, the branch of legal philosophy which deals with metaphysical questions about the law. In this book, the author shows how law can be thought of as a set of plans to achieve complex human goals.
Genuine originality is unusual in political history. The Internationalists is an original book. Louis Menand New Yorker
"The Internationalists tells the story of the Peace Pact by placing it in the long history of international law from the seventeenth century through the present, tracing this rich history through a fascinating and diverse array of lawyers, politicians and intellectuals--Hugo Grotius, Nishi Amane, Salmon Levinson, James Shotwell, Sumner Welles, Carl Schmitt, Hersch Lauterpacht, and Sayyid Qutb. It tells of a centuries-long struggle of ideas over the role of war in a just world order. It details the brutal world of conflict the Peace Pact helped extinguish, and the subsequent era where tariffs and sanctions take the place of tanks and gunships."--Amazon