In this seminar, Professor Shun Kaku, of Waseda University's Faculty of Law, asks whether international law is really law. Many legal philosophers, HLA Hart among them, have doubted it or treated it as a marginal case, while most international lawyers take it for granted. The talk argues that the question has to be answered from inside the interpretive practice of law, and it draws on Ronald Dworkin's interpretivism to propose that domestic and international law form a web of laws that recognise one another, sharing a commitment to the rule of law.
Professor George Letsas, Professor of Philosophy of Law at UCL Laws, chairs the discussion. Kaku is a Professor of Legal Philosophy with research links to the universities of Cambridge and Tokyo, so the evening suits anyone with an interest in jurisprudence or the foundations of international law.
