Oona A. Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and the Director of the Center for Global Legal Challenges. She has published essays and opinion pieces in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy. She served as the Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense in 2014-2015, for which she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. She is a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser of the US Department of State and an active member of the US Supreme Court bar. She earned her BA from Harvard College and a JD from Yale Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of The Yale Law Journal. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Scott J. Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, where he is the Director of the Center for Law and Philosophy. He is also the Visiting Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College, London. He earned his BA and PhD degrees in philosophy from Columbia University and a JD from Yale Law School, where he was senior editor of The Yale Law Journal. He is the author of Legality and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Law. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
"The one book every student should read in 2018."--Steven Pinker,
Business Insider
"This is a marvelously readable book that makes what could have
been arcane matters of international jurisprudence comprehensible
and lively. Anecdote and colourful characters abound, and the
writing rests on a very serious trawl through some far-flung
archives. Much here to enjoy and much to ponder."--The Guardian
"The Internationalists provides a great service in illustrating the
ways in which law can speak powerfully to individual
decision-makers. As a legal history, the book is
indispensable."--The Washington Post
"One of the pleasures of this thought-provoking and comprehensively
researched book is that it challenges us to see the figures who
thought they could outlaw war not as fools but as pragmatists whose
failed idea had a surprising afterlife in the creation of the
postwar world....The case that the authors make is clever and
nuanced."--The Wall Street Journal
"Genuine originality is unusual in political history. The
Internationalists is an original book. There is something sweet
about the fact that it is also a book written by two law professors
in which most of the heroes are law professors. Sweet but
significant, because one of the points of The Internationalists is
that ideas matter. Hathaway and Shapiro further believe that ideas
are produced by human beings, something that can be
under-recognized in intellectual histories, which often take the
form of books talking to books. [This] is a story about individuals
who used ideas to change the world."--Louis Menand, The New
Yorker
"The Internationalists, by Yale law school professors Scott Shapiro
and Oona Hathaway, is a provocative, fascinating, and significant
book. It deserves to be on the bookshelf of all serious students of
foreign affairs and promises to rattle conventional wisdom as well
as foster a healthy debate."--Jay Winik, author of April 1865 and
1944, Historian-in-Residence, Council on Foreign Relations
"A fascinating and challenging book, which raises gravely important
issues for the present... Given the state of the world, The
Internationalists has come along at the right moment."--Margaret
MacMillan, The Financial Times
"An engrossing narrative that provides a new framework for
interpreting international relations over the previous five
centuries."--Library Journal, Starred Review
"In this timely, elegant and powerful book, Oona Hathaway and Scott
Shapiro help us understand the momentous significance of the
individuals who imagined an end to war. As the world stands on the
cusp of a return to an earlier age, THE INTERNATIONALISTS is a
clarion call to maintain law and order across our
planet."--Philippe Sands QC, Professor of Law, University College
London and author of East West Street
"Hathaway and Shapiro adopt a fundamentally revisionist perspective
on the oft-dismissed Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact of 1928, positing
that the agreement 'marked the beginning of the end' of war between
states. The pact inspired the human-rights revolution, the use of
economic sanctions, and the creation of international organizations
focusing on peace....the authors provocatively argue that, since
1945, conquest 'has nearly disappeared' as 'an accepted procedure
for changing borders'....Hathaway and Shapiro's conclusion can be
debated--but not easily dismissed."--Publishers Weekly
"A searching analysis of contending views of state violence and
warfare....Rich in implication, particularly in a bellicose time,
and of much interest to students of modern history and
international relations."--Kirkus Reviews
"Sweeping and yet personable at the same time, The
Internationalists explores the profound implications of the
outlawry of war. Professors Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro enrich
their analysis with vignettes of the many individuals (some unknown
to most students of History) who played such important roles in
this story. None have put it all together in the way that Hathaway
and Shapiro have done in this book."--Paul Kennedy, Professor of
History, Yale University, and author of The Rise and Fall of Great
Powers
"Like The Clash of Civilizations and The End of History, this
brilliant book lays out a vision that makes sense of the world
today in the context of centuries of history. Hathaway and Shapiro
tell their story with literary flair, analytical depth, and
historical meticulousness. It will change the way you remember the
20th century and read the news in the 21st."--Steven Pinker,
Johnstone Professor, Harvard University, and the author of The
Better Angels of Our Nature
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