I wish to acknowledge the places that made this work possible, including
The Law Faculty, the Lauterpacht Center For Research in International
Law, and the Fellows and Staff of Wolfson College, all at the University of
Cambridge, The School of International Studies, Simon Fraser University,
The Fellows and Staff of Exeter College, the librarians at the Codrington
Library, All Souls College, and the Collingwood Archive at the Bodleian
Libraries, as well as the Facilities of Law and Philosophy at the University
of Oxford, and Lehigh University. People, including Philip Allott, James
Crawford, Vaughn Lowe, John Harriss, Roger O’Keefe, Chester Brown,
Amanda Perreau-Saussine, Susan Marks, and David Braybrooke, as well
as the manuscript reviewers, inspired and improved the argument herein.
I have also drawn on components of previously published articles for this
effort, including “Justice-As-Sovereignty: David Hume & the Origins of
International Law,” British Year Book of International Law , 79 (2007):
429–479; “A Proposal for ‘Philosophical Method’ in Comparative and
International Law,” Pace International Law Review ( Pace International
Law Review , Online. 1, no. 3 (2009): 1–14; http://digitalcommons.pace.edu
/pilronline/3/ ); and “Philosophical-Policy & International Dispute Settlement:
Process ?? Principle and the Ascendance of the WTO’s Concept of
Justice,” Journal of International Dispute Settlement , (2012): 59–73. I sincerely
thank the editors of these journals. A special thanks also goes to
Mr Brian O’Connor at Palgrave-MacMillan for his enthusiasm about this
entire project, and its publication.