Resumen de International Law as a Belief System . By Jean D’Aspremont

Richard Clements (res.)

• In International Law as a Belief System, Jean d’Aspremont grapples with the role international lawyers play in constructing their field. The book represents a consolidation of ideas originating elsewhere, notably in the pages of this journal and in a collection of the author’s essays published in 2015.1 In this new and insightful work, d’Aspremont aims ‘to make international lawyers sensitive to an image of what they are potentially thinking when they deploy the modes of legal reasoning prescribed by the fundamental doctrines of international law they are trained to apply’ (117). He invites us to imagine international law as a belief system, with the ultimate aim of suspending our belief so as to unlearn...