Contents

pp vii-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-12

PART I - The quest for objectivity: the method and construction of universal law

pp 13-14

1 - Method and construction of international law in nineteenth-century German scholarship

pp 15-43

2 - Kelsenian formalism as critical methodology in international law

pp 44-77

3 - An “objective” architecture of international law: Kelsen, Kunz, and Verdross

pp 78-118

PART II - The outlines of the cosmopolitan project – the actors, sources, and courts of universal law

pp 119-122

4 - The new actors of universal law

pp 123-152

5 - Legal sources as universal instruments of law-creation

pp 153-190

6 - The international judiciary as the functional center of universal law

pp 191-224

7 - The role of the international legal scholar after Kelsen – a concluding reflection

pp 225-232

Postscript – on Kelsenian formalism in international law (2010)

pp 233-271

Career sketches: Hans Kelsen, Alfred Verdross, and Josef Laurenz Kunz

pp 272-285

Bibliography

pp 286-315

Index

pp 316-324

CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW

pp 325-328