The Nature of customary law : legal, historical and philosophical perspectives / edited by Amanda Perreau-Saussine and James Bernard Murphy.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Customary law.

Customary law -- Philosophy.

Customary law -- History.

Customary law, International.

Part I. Custom and Morality: Natural Law, Customary Law, And Ius Gentium 1. Pitfalls in the interpretation of customary law / Frederick Schauer

2. The moral role of conventions / Ross Harrison

3. Habit and convention at the foundation of custom / James B. Murphy

4. Custom, ordinance and natural right in Gratian's Decretum / Jean Porter

5. Vitoria and Suarez on Ius Gentium Natural Law, and Custom / Brian Tierney

6. Custom and positivity: an examination of the philosophic ground of the Hegel-Savigny controversy / Christoph Kletzer

Part II. Custom and Law: Custom, Common Law, and Customary International Law 7. Custom in medieval law / David Ibbetson

8. Siege warfare in the early modern age: a study on the customary laws of war / Randall Lesaffer

9. The idea of common law as custom / Alan Cromartie

10. Three ways of writing a treatise on public international law: textbooks and the nature of customary international law / Amanda Perreau-Saussine

11. Custom, common law reasoning and the law of nations in the nineteenth century / Michael Lobban

12. Custom in international law: a normative practice account / Gerald J. Postema

13. Customary international law and the quest for global justice / John Tasioulas.

Some legal rules are not laid down by a legislator but grow instead from informal social practices. Nowhere are customary rules of law more prominent than in international law. In this book, a distinguished group of philosophers, historians and lawyers assesses the nature and significance of customary law.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521875110

ix, 338 p. ; 24 cm