Pace International Law Review Volume 5 Issue 1 Article 7 January 1993 The Return of Article 42: Enemy of the Good for Collective Security Sarah Rumage Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pilr Recommended Citation Sarah Rumage, The Return of Article 42: Enemy of the Good for Collective Security, 5 Pace Int'l L. Rev. 211 (1993) Available at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pilr/vol5/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at DigitalCommons@Pace. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pace International Law Review by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Pace. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ARTICLE THE RETURN OF ARTICLE 42: ENEMY OF THE GOOD FOR COLLECTIVE SECURITY Sarah Rumaget "The best is the enemy of the good."' "Human beings do not ever make laws; it is the accidents and catastrophes of all kinds happening in every conceivable way, that make laws for us."' t Sarah Rumage, J.D. New York Law School 1982; M.A. History, New York Univer- sity 1993; LL.M. New York University 1993; Member of the Committee on Military Af- fairs and Justice of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. I am deeply grateful to Professor Thomas M. Franck, not only for his helpful com- ments but for his unparalleled teaching and his many kindnesses to me. I would also like to thank the other "Great Minds" - Anthony D'Amato, Richard Falk, Michael Reis- man, Louis Henkin, Eugene Rostow, Al Rubin, Oscar Schachter, and Burns Weston - who made this article possible, all of whom graciously answered my numerous (and often impertinent) questions at various ASIL meetings - a busy time when they had people far more famous than myself to talk to.