The Art of Decision Making: Mirrors of Imagination, Masks of Fate
Article from: OGEL 1 (2003), in Book Reviews and Related Material
Helga Drummond
Wiley, Europe, Hardcover. ISBN: 0-471-49718-5, 320 pages, index. GBP 17.99, EUR 29.70 My own doctoral thesis (Thomas Wälde, Juristische Folgenorientierung, Athenaeum 1979) dealt with formal decision theory and its possible use in legal argument. I took a positive, though cautious view then. A much later (and hopefully more mature) work of mine criticized much of the instrumental concepts underlying the often illusionary quest for ‘effectiveness’ in international law (Austrian Review of Int’l & Comparative Law, Vol. 4, p. 164, 1999 – preliminary version on ...