International Law as Behavior

Harlan Grant Cohen, Timothy Meyer

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781107188433
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316993019
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: International Law
• Index: Law

This volume includes chapters from an exciting group of scholars at the cutting edge of their fields to present a multi-disciplinary look at how international law shapes behavior. Contributors present overviews of the progress established fields have made in analyzing questions of interest, as well as speculations on the questions or insights that emerging methods might raise. In some chapters, there is a focus on how a particular method might raise or help answer questions, while others focus on a particular international law topic by drawing from a variety of fields through a multi-method approach to highlight how these fields may come together in a single project. Still others use behavioral insights as a form of critique to highlight the blind spots and related mistakes in more traditional analyses of the law. Throughout this volume, authors present creative, insightful, challenges to traditional international law scholarship.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 International Law As Behavior: An Agenda
• 2 Deadlines As Behavior in Diplomacy and International Law
• 3 Cooperating without Sanctions: Epistemic Institutions versus Credible Commitments Regimes in International Law
• 4 Egocentric Bias in Perceptions of Customary International Law
• 5 Explaining the Practical Purchase of Soft Law: Competing and Complementary Behavior Hypotheses
• 6 Toward an Anthropology of International Law
• 7 Transnational Collaborations in Transitional Justice
• 8 Advancing Neuroscience in International Law
• 9 The Missing Persons of International Law Scholarship: A Roadmap for Future Research
• 10 The Wrong Way to Weigh Rights
• Index