The Thin Justice of International Law A Moral Reckoning of the Law of Nations

Steven R. Ratner, Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

Steven Ratner is the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. His research has focused on a range of contemporary challenges facing governments and international institutions, including ethnic conflict, territorial borders, implementation of peace agreements, regulation of foreign investment and global business, the normative orders concerning armed conflict, and accountability for human rights violations. For the last ten years his research has concerned issues at the intersection of ethics and international law. Outside the academy, he was a member of the UN Secretary-General's Group of Experts on Cambodia in 1998-99 and of the UN's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka in 2010-11. Since 2009, he has served on the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law.

Introduction: Looking for Justice in International Law
Part I: The Framework of Thin Justice
1. Legal and Ethical Approaches to Global Justice: The Dialogue of the (Near-)Deaf
2. Conceptual Groundwork for a Standard of Global Justice
3. A Standard of Global Justice
Part II: The Justice of Core Norms on Statehood
4. Norms of Territorial Integrity and Political Independence: The Ban on the Use of Force and Non-Intervention
5. The Claims of Peoples: Self-Determination and State Borders
6. Norms of Participation: Sovereign Equality of States
7. Sovereign Equality's Limits: Membership and Decisionmaking in International Organizations
Part III: The Justice of Territorially Based Protections of Human Rights
8. Human Rights for Whom? Territoriality, Extraterritoriality, and Universal Jurisdiction
9. Extraterritorial Protection through Force: From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect
Part IV: The Justice of Core Norms on the Global Economy
10. Regulating Global Trade
11. Regulating Foreign Investment
Part V: Limitations and Aspirations
12. The Limits of Thin Justice: International Humanitarian, Criminal, and Environmental Law
13. Beyond Thin Justice