Human Flourishing: The End of Law

W. Michael Reisman is Myres McDougal Professor Emeritus of Law at the Yale Law School and has been visiting professor in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Berlin, Basel, Paris, Tel Aviv and Geneva. Roza Pati is Professor of Law, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, and Director of the LL.M. / J.S.D. Program in Intercultural Human Rights and the Human Trafficking Academy at St. Thomas University College of Law.

Acknowledgments

List of Tables and Figures

Notes on Contributors

Dedication

Siegfried Wiessner: Publications



PART 1: Siegfried Wiessner, The Person



1 Siegfried Wiessner: A Life in the Pursuit of Human Flourishing for All

 W. Michael Reisman and Roza Pati

2 A Modern-Day Alexis de Tocqueville in our Midst: Siegfried Wiessner, a Foreign-Born Champion of American Democracy and Human Flourishing

 David A. Armstrong

3 Susan, Siegfried, Oklahoma, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

 Kirke Kickingbird



PART 2: Flourishing and Human Dignity: A Theory about Law



4 The Dignity of Belonging

 Adeno Addis

5 Human Dignity in International Law from a Chinese Traditional Cultural Perspective

 Guiguo Wang

6 Philosophical Implications of Human Flourishing

 Philip Larrey

7 Fraternity in the Law as a Means of Human Flourishing

 John Makdisi

8 Individual and Communal Flourishing through Faith for Rights

 Ibrahim Salama and Michael Wiener

9 Neither “Genteel Hoax” Nor “Slot Machine”: Constitutional Interpretation in Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence

 Christian Lee González-Rivera



PART 3: World Order



10 Ukraine, “Who Decides,” and Minimum World Public Order

 Nicholas Rostow

11 International Law after the Pandemic: The Contribution of the 2021 Resolution of the Institut de Droit International

 Francesco Francioni

12 Governometrics and Rule of Law Transformations in Low and Middle-Income Countries

 Craig Hammer



PART 4: Human Rights



13 Ensuring Compliance with and Execution of Human Rights Commitments

 Eckart Klein

14 Islamic Law-Ethics and the Struggle against Slavery and Human Trafficking

 Abadir M. Ibrahim

15 From Non-Discrimination to Substantive Equality: The On-going Struggle

 Virgínia Brás Gomes

16 Asylum from the Perspectives of International and Islamic Law: A Comparative Analysis

 Mohammad Bayoumi

17 The Dilemma of Forgiveness: The Personal in the Holocaust

 Keith D. Nunes

18 The Sermon on the Mount: Going the Extra Mile and Flourishing

 Gordon T. Butler

19 Native | Emigrant: The Curious Immigration Case of Forcibly Displaced Native Americans and Examination of the Rights of the Wampanoag Tribal Descendants in Bermuda

 Michael Vastine

20 Protecting Women and Children under Egyptian Family Law: A Journey of Increasing Rights

 Ahmed Mohamed El Demery



PART 5: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples



21 Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Justice Still Needed

 S. James Anaya

22 ILA Resolution No. 5/2012 and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

 Federico Lenzerini

23 K’íilich Ha’ – Sacred Water, Autonomy and Self-Determination-Based Normative Systems of the Maya

 Manuel May Castillo and Lola Cubells Aguilar

24 Framework and Anthropological Features in the Awas Tingni Case

 Mariana Monteiro de Matos



PART 6: Cultural Heritage Law



25 The UNESCO World Heritage List – Revisited

 Michael Kilian

26 Reflections on Cultural Identity and Diversity as Common Heritage of Humanity

 Fausto Pocar

27 Cultural Heritage in International Indigenous Rights Declarations: Beyond Recognition

 Lucas Lixinski



PART 7: Space Law



28 The Beginning of the End of International Space Law

 Ram S. Jakhu and Nishith Mishra

29 Space, Satellites and Siegfried Wiessner’s Universe of Human Aspirations: Preventing and Punishing Mass Murder Crimes through Aerial Satellite Evidence

 Qerim Qerimi

30 The Consciousness of Astronautical Ethics

 Roy Balleste



PART 8: International Investment Law and Arbitration



31 The Search for Truth v. The Preservation of the Integrity of International Investment Arbitration Proceedings: The Issue of Admissibility of Illegally Obtained Evidence under the Revised ICSID Arbitration Rules

 Stephan Wilske



PART 9: Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence



32 A “Public Order of Human Dignity” and Justice as an “Open Concept”: The Missing Lessons of Legal Education

 Jay Silver

33 The Public Authority Defense, January 6, 2021, and the Following Orders Defense: A Juxtaposition

 Alfredo Garcia

34 Childhood Gender Transitioning and Human Flourishing

 June Mary Zekan Makdisi

35 To Procreate or Not to Procreate

 Lauren Gilbert

36 Children’s Picture Books and the Rule of Law: The Jurisprudence of “The Poky Little Puppy”

 Lenora Ledwon

37 Policy-Oriented Jurisprudence and Constitutive Process in Mexico: Toward a Public Order of Human Dignity in Turbulent Times

 Jaime Olaiz-González



PART 10: Law and the Environment



38 Upholding the Philosophy of International Environmental Law through the Domestication of Environmental Conventions: An Imperative for Nigeria

 Jude O. Ezeanokwasa

39 International Obligations Leading to Protecting Vulnerable States from the Climate Crisis

 Cosmin I. Corendea