1 Chi J Intl L 257
Michael Byers

There are those who worry that international law poses something of a threat to the U.S. National interest. To others, this concern seems misplaced; even if international law is not directly beneficial to the United States, it is clearly beneficial to at least some other countries. In this article, Prof. Byers argues that these two positions, which might be characterized as the "realist" position and the "idealist" position, are both flawed, as international law is in fact very much in the U.S. National interest.