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Contemporary U.S. Theory of International Law*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Edward McWhinney
Edward McWhinney*
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Simon Fraser University
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My retrospective study, published in the twenty-fifth anniversary volume of this Yearbook, attempted a critical survey of post-war Soviet general theory of international law, and noted the signs of an intellectual changing of the guard and the emergence of a new generation of Soviet international legal theorists. Is it possible today to speak of a post-war U.S. general theory of international law, and, if so, can we speak of a generational change, in the late 1980's, similar to that in the Soviet Union?

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Notes and Comments/Notes et commentaires
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Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 26 , 1989 , pp. 281 - 295
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Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 1989

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References

1 “Contemporary Soviet General Theory of International Law: Reflections on the Tunkin Era,” 25 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 187–217 (1987).

2 Kennedy, , 26 Harv. Int’lL.J. 361, 366 (1985).Google Scholar

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4 International Law: Process and Prospect, 124.

5 International Legal Structures, 29.

6 See McWhinney, , “‘Classical’ Sources and the International Law-Making Process of Contemporary International Law,” in Ziccardi, (ed.), Le droit international à l’heure de sa codification: Études en l’honneur de Roberto Ago, vol. 1, at 341 (1987)Google Scholar; and, more generally, United Nations Law Making (1984),0115. 3 and 4).