Book ReviewsBook ReviewsKlabbersJanLecturer in International Law, University of Amsterdam121991383424428FranckT.M., The Power of Legitimacy Among Nations, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990, 303 pp. ISBN 0-19-506178-0.Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 19911991T.M.C. Asser PresspdfS0165070X00005702a.pdfdispartBook Reviews1.2nd edn. (1979) p. 47.2.Cf., the much used introduction of AkehurstM., A Modern Introduction to International Law, 6th edn. (1987) p. 8.3.Idem p. 10.4.Théories et réalités en droit international public, 4th edn. (1970).5.See in particular Dwarkin's Taking Rights Seriously (1977) and Law's Empire (1986). A useful survey is offered by WintgensL.J., ‘De rechtsfllosofie van Ronald Dworkin. Een kritische synthese’, Rechtskundig weekblad (03 02, 1991) pp. 897–905.6.DeVisscher speaks of ‘les fins humains dupouvoir’. Others like Myres S. McDougal and W. Michael Reisman speak of ‘world public order’ and ‘human dignity’ (cf., for example, ReismanW.M., ‘International Politics andInternational Law-Making – Reflections on the So-Called “Politicization” of the International Court’, in HeereW.P., ed., International Law and its Sources. Liber Amicorum Maarten Bos (1989) pp. 77–92) and in The Concept of International Law (1987) Ingrid Detter de Lupis discusses ‘the promotion of the welfare of mankind’ as a hypothetical goal.7.The Concept of Law (1961).8.This was already noted by van HoofG.J.H. in his doctoral dissertation Rethinking the Sources of International Law (1983), a book which eluded Franck's attention.9.See, far a different opinion, D'AmatoA., ‘Israel's Air Strike upon the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor

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