Resumen de International Law Theories: An Inquiry into Different Ways of Thinking. By Andrea Bianchi

Dana Burchardt (res.)

• Doing law versus thinking about law: this is the central dichotomy that Andrea Bianchi addresses in his recent contribution on international law theories. ‘As most of the international legal scholarship published nowadays is focused on the technicalities of lawmaking, adjudication and enforcement’ (6) and thus on ‘doing law’, the author’s mission expressed in this book is to ‘get an increasing number of scholars, researchers and students’ to think about law and to realize that there are in fact ‘different ways in which one can think about international law… as a discipline and a profession’ (1). The result is an insightful introduction and inquiry into theoretical thinking in general, and international law theory in particular. Divided...