The International Public: A Farewell to Functions in International Law

Frédéric Mégret's extremely rich and interesting article implicates a wide range of issues. Luckily, a lot has already been written about some of them elsewhere. In any case, the limited scope of this essay precludes engaging with them all again here. What it will do instead is explore ways of...

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