The United States and the World Court As a `Supreme Court of the Nations' Dreams, Illusions and Disillusion:Dreams, Illusions, and Disillusion (Legal Aspects of International Organization, 26.) [Hardcover]

Michla Pomerance (Author)

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Publication Date: February 20, 1996 | ISBN-10: 9041102043 | ISBN-13: 978-9041102041 | Edition: 1

The hope that international adjudication will some day come to replace international aggression has long been a fond aspiration of mankind, and nowhere, perhaps, has it taken firmer root than in the United States. The US Supreme Court has been held up as a model for the successful adjudication of interstate disputes and for the evolution of a body of revered legal norms. Yet America's own record vis-a-vis international adjudication and the international court has been marked by ambivalence and a sharp dichotomy between rhetoric and deeds. Integrating legal and historical materials and insights, this volume examines the troubled saga of the US pursuit of the "Supreme Court of the Nations" idea, from its early pre-World War I origins through the present post-Nicaragua period of US reserve, disillusionment and reassessment. Spurning a "morality-play" interpretive mould, the author pays particular attention to recurrent themes and the roots of their recurrence; the specific cadences and nuances in the "grand" and lesser US debates on the Court; the continuities and changes in both partners of the US-Court relationship; and the various prisms through which that relationship might be viewed. In this manner, the contemporary debate on the future contours of the US-Court nexus is illuminated.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 524 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (February 20, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9041102043
• ISBN-13: 978-9041102041
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches
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