The Cambridge Companion to International Law

摘要

Although billed as an introductory work on international law in its own right, this book, true to its title, best serves its readers as an accompaniment to the subject, complementing existing texts. In writing it, its editors, both scholars in the field, have taken care to ensure that all major traditional international law themes are treated. As stated in the introduction, their intent was to put together "a volume that goes beyond a mere repackaging of existing materials [aiming] at a politically and historically informed account of the role of international law in the world", which would appeal to a diverse readership of lawyers, scholars, and professionals, as well as non-specialists. The book constitutes their attempt "to highlight the variety of professional, practical, and literary contexts in which international law appears, the many vocabularies in which it is spoken and the plurality of meanings it carries", an endeavor in which they most certainly succeed.