NEW AVENUES TO FREEDOM

Authors

Edwin D. Dickinson, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

Lay opinion regards the law of nations as a weak and ineffective system. It is the fashion to deplore the inefficacy: of its precepts and to regard it as a sort of benevolent code unsupported by any forces which can really compel observance. There is a good deal of loose talk about providing sanctions. The truth is, however, that few systems of law are so infested with tyrannies. It is not sanctions which are needed so much as opportunities for growth. It is not the buttressing of existing dogmas which is required so much as new avenues to freedom.

Recommended Citation

Edwin D. Dickinson, NEW AVENUES TO FREEDOM, 25 Mich. L. Rev. 622 (1927).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol25/iss6/4