The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-first Century

W. Michael Reisman is the McDougal Professor of International Law at the Yale Law School and also Honorary Professor in the City University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Institut de droit international, of the Board of Directors of the Foreign Policy Association and of the Advisory Committee on International Law of the US Department of State. He served formerly as President of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and Editor-in-Chief of
the American Journal of International Law.

Preface
chapter I. Breaking out of alice’s looking-glass: an introduction
chapter II. what is international law attached to ?
chapter III. Some propositions and conditioning factors
chapter IV. the world constitutive process and its decision functions
chapter V. the international lawmaking function
chapter VI. two modes of principled decision-making
chapter VII. the international law-applying function
chapter VIII. Participation arrangements for States: the transformation of self-determination and the emergence of the individual
chapter IX. Sovereignty and human rights: changing the internal arrangements of States by external means
chapter X. the actors theory has ignored
chapter XI. Human rights and individualism: regulating national control and providing international protection.
chapter XII. contingencies for the use of force : myth system and operational code
chapter XIII. the use and abuse of force : jus in bello
chapter XIV. the penumbra of professionalism : the citizenship role of the international lawyer
chapter XV. International law as a profession : dilemmas of identity and commitment.
About the author; Biographical note; Principal publications.