International Legal Compliance: An Annotated Bibliography

From the Law Librarian Blog, 4/13/2005:

"Professor William C. Bradford (Indiana) has
compilied a bibliography on a subset of international
law he has naming rights to, namely, "international
legal compliance". See Willian C. Brandford,
International Legal Compliance: An Annotated
Bibliography, 30 N.C.J. Int'l L. & Com. Reg. 379 (2004)."

What is international legal compliance (ILC)?
The E-LawLibrarian blog quotes Bradford:

'International legal compliance (ILC)...

was born in the early 1990s from the revived debate

between legalization theorists, a group committed to

the belief that the transformation wrought by the

end of the Cold War has rendered international law

independently capable of constraining and shaping

the behavior of states, and their critics, a group

committed to the contrary notion that international

law remains primarily an aspirational enterprise

subordinate to politics and epiphenomenal to state practice.'

The literature relating to the questions of

whether, why, and under what circumstances

states choose to comply with international law

has produced a body of scholarship consisting of

eight books and nearly one hundred substantive

articles, according to Professor Bradford."