Herding Schrödinger’s Cats: The Limits of the Social Science Approach to International Law
Journal: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Year: 2021

The struggle to assert the legitimacy and relevance of international law is integral to its story. Among academics, that tale has seen other lawyers question whether it is “really” law, while scholars of international relations have dismissed it in a bemused footnote. Among politicians, the narrative has been one of efforts to establish international law as more than simply one foreign policy justification among others. The turn to social science offers a double remedy: rigorous methods that wil