Anthea Roberts: Is international law international?

Abstract

Anthea Roberts’ monograph Is International Law International? is an analysis of the approaches of both practitioners and academics towards public international law in the five permanent member states of the United Nations Security Council. She studies the historical, geopolitical, educational and socio-economic factors which have played a role not only in the evolution of research and study of public international law in these states, but also in defining the vastly different and often parochial understanding of the subject by international law practitioners and academics in these states.