The United States and International Law: Paradoxes of Support Across Contemporary Issues, a volume I co-edited with Lucrecia García Iommi (Fairfield University), was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2022. It explores variations in U.S. support for international law using a shared framework and new five-part conceptualization of support (leadership, consent, internalization, compliance, enforcement) and bringing together experts across twelve diverse issue areas: conquest, world courts, the use of force, nuclear proliferation, trade, human rights, war crimes, torture, targeted killings, law of the sea, environmental politics, and cybersecurity.

Disaggregating support along these five dimensions enables us to investigate paradoxes of support in U.S. foreign policy – areas in which the United States supports international law along one dimension while undermining it along another. Our contributors offer compelling analyses within their own issue areas, and drawing on those analyses enables us to draw conclusions about the multifaceted U.S. relationship with international law.

With its intuitive conceptual framework and original research contributions spanning diverse areas of international law, this volume is an excellent resource for scholars as well as graduate and undergraduate students of international law or U.S. foreign policy.