GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works Faculty Scholarship 2006 Review Essay: 'Seeing Beyond the Limits of International Law,' Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner, 'The Limits of International Law' Paul Schiff Berman George Washington University Law School,
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[email protected]. Book Review Essay Seeing Beyond the Limits of International Law THE LIMITS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Jack L. Goldsmith† & Eric A. Posner.‡ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 226. $29.95. Reviewed by Paul Schiff Berman* If the 1990s were for many a time of optimism about the efficacy of international law and legal institutions,1 the first decade of the twenty-first century has brought a backlash, at least in the United States. The Bush administration’s hostility to international law is well documented,2 Republicans in Congress are decrying the mere citation of foreign or international sources in U.S. Supreme Court opinions,3 and a cadre of international law scholars, seemingly motivated by concerns that international legal norms might pose undue limitations on state prerogatives or democratic processes, are arguing against the implementation of such norms domestically.4 Even those who are inclined to be more sympathetic to † Professor of Law, Harvard University.