The Search for a New Normativity: Thomas Franck, Post-modern Neo-tribalism and the Law of Self-determination

* Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh. I am grateful to Bill Bowring, Holly Cullen, Thomas Franck, Kathryn Last, Victor Tadros and to all members of the ILA (British Branch) Committee on Theory and International Law for helpful comments on earlier drafts and seminar presentations of this paper. 1 Eisner, ‘A Procedural Model for the Resolution of Secessionist Disputes’, 33 Harvard International Law Journal (1992) 413. 2 T. M. Franck, Fairness in International Law and Institutions (1995) [hereinafter Fairness]. EJIL (2002), Vol. 13 No. 4, 941–960 The Search for a New Normativity: Thomas Franck, Post-modern Neo-tribalism and the Law of Self-determination