Symposium : A Colloquium on International Law Textbooks in England, France and Germany

• Carty, A

Abstract

The Introduction raises at a general level the question whether and in what sense it is possible to speak of national textbook traditions in international law within Europe. As the articles which follow are the work of commentators on textbooks, the Introduction itself attempts to give a flavour of the residential colloquium in which authors of the textbooks themselves contributed effectively to the discussion of the themes of national textbook traditions. As the articles cannot embrace every theme of the textbook problematic, the Introduction places each of them in the wider context and invites further debate to flesh out the issues more fully.