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Mark Weston Janis
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Professor Janis’ latest book on international law, America and the Law of Nations 1776-1939, explores the important role international law has played in America, starting with a chapter on “The Law of Nations and the New Republic: Jefferson and Madison,” and concluding with what the publisher describes as “an analysis of the wavering support to international law given by Woodrow Wilson and the emergence of a new isolationism” on the heels of World War I. According to Oxford University Press, it is the first book to deal with America’s relationship with international law in historical perspective. |
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"The international law community owes Professor Janis much gratitude for his extraordinary work of scholarship, analysis and insight into the role that the law of nations and international law have played in first, the formation of the United States, and then its development. In this era when not only the U.S. but all nations desperately need international law as a primary vehicle for resolving international disputes, and defusing dangerous activities that could lead to war, he has provided us with insight about the U.S. founding fathers foresight in embracing the law of nations as one of the rocks upon which the nation could be built, and how that embracing has shaped the United States in its development during the 200+ years of its existence."
James G. Apple
Editor-in-Chief, International Judicial Monitor, and
President, International Judicial Academy
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For anyone who hopes to understand the…complex role of America in the development of international law, America and the Law of Nations 1776-1939 is a crucial read.
Oxford University Press
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