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020 _a9780192868695
_q(hardback)
020 _z9780192695116
020 _z9780192695123
020 _z9780191964725
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
042 _apcc
100 1 _aDerrig, Ríán,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe New Haven School :
_bAclaw - general public international law: ACSA /
_cRíán Derrig.
250 _a1.
263 _a2503
264 1 _aNew York :
_bOxford university press,
_c2025.
300 _apages cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aHistory and theory of Intl Law series
520 _a"This book is an intellectual history of the 'New Haven School', a school of legal theory and practice associated with Yale Law School in the city of New Haven. New Haven School 'policy-oriented jurisprudence' - so-called for its emphasis on using law to pursue acknowledged policy aims - was developed from the 1940s by Harold Lasswell, a central figure of twentieth century American political science, and Myres McDougal, a prominent international lawyer. The book argues that the New Haven School style of argument was representative of mid-century American international law. Through the biographies and scholarship of Lasswell, McDougal, and New Haven School members, and using previously unexploited archival materials, the book explores how this body of legal theory was shaped and how it influenced the legal arguments made by McDougal and other members of the school in support of Cold War anti-communist policy positions and legal practice of the United States. The book shows that the New Haven School represented a specific anti-formalism and a collection of methods that characterised how American scholars and lawyers practised international law in the middle of the twentieth century, and still do today"--
_cProvided by publisher.
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/9780191964725.001.0001
_yClick here to Access
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