The Role of History in Thomas Franck's Fairness in International Law and Institutions

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* Senior Lecturer, Durham University and Deputy Director, Durham European Law Institute. 1 T. M. Franck, Fairness in International Law and Institutions (1995) [hereinafter Fairness]. 2 Some notable examples of historically informed scholarship include M. Koskenniemi, From Apology to Utopia: The Structure of International Legal Argument (1989); A. Cassese, International Law in a Divided World (1986); M. Evans, Religious Liberty and International Law in Europe (1997); Nathaniel Berman’s work such as ‘“But the Alternative is Despair”: European Nationalism and the Modernist Renewal of International Law’, 106 Harvard Law Review (1993) 1792, which is cited by Franck in The Empowered Self (1999) [hereinafter The Empowered Self], at 228–229. 3 A historical viewpoint has been more common in the past: see Allott’s discussion of the origins of modern international law in P. Allott, International Law and International Revolution: Reconceiving the World (1989). 4 Charlesworth, ‘International Law: A Discipline of Crisis’, 65 Modern Law Review (2002) 377. EJIL (2002), Vol. 13 No. 4, 927–940 The Role of History in Thomas Franck’s Fairness in International Law and Institutions