TY - BOOK AU - Perreau-Saussine,Amanda AU - Murphy,James B. TI - The nature of customary law SN - 0521875110 (hbk.) AV - KD 8864 N38 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Cambridge : PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - Customary law N1 - "Legal, historical and philosophical perspectives" -- Cover; Includes bibliographical references and index; pt.1. Custom and morality: natural law, customary law and ius gentium --; Pitfalls in the interpretation of customary law; Frederick Schauer --; The moral role of conventions; Ross Harrison --; Habit and convention at the foundation of custom; James Bernard Murphy --; Custom, ordinance and natural right in Gratian's Decretum; Jean Porter --; Vitoria and Suarez on ius gentium, natural law, and custom; Brian Tierney --; Custom and positivity: an examination of the philosophic ground of the Hegel-Savigny controversy; Christoph Kletzer; pt.2. Custom and the law: custom, common law and customary international law --; Custom in medieval law; David Ibbetson --; Siege warfare in the early modern age: a study on the customary laws of war; Randall Lesaffer --; The idea of common law as custom; Alan Cromartie --; Three ways of writing a treatise on public international law: textbooks and the nature of customary international law; Amanda Perrau-Saussine --; Custom, common law reasoning and the law of nations in the nineteenth century; Michael Lobban --; Custom in international law: a normative practice account; Gerald J. Postema --; Customary international law and the quest for global justice; John Tasioulas ER -