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DOES INTERNATIONAL LAW MATTER?

REMARKS BY DAVID D. CARON*

"Does international law matter?" That such a skeptical question is posed is troubling. The question of whether international law matters echoes older questions we have debated, but it is also new and has a particularly American flavor. It is American both in the sense that we have very high expectations that international law, like all of law, should matter and in the sense that we are disappointed with it when it does not stop a terrorist or a war. It is troubling in that there are senior officials in this administration who have asserted, and would assert again, that international law does not matter. So I stress at the outset that this question is not merely an ...

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