ABSTRACT
Much of modern international law is the product of individuals performing the decision functions, which the author has reviewed. The New Haven School is also concerned with the way the observer looks at things, whether State Responsibility, the ability of the United Nations to perform its security functions, or the way freedom of the oceans is accommodated with security needs. New Haven focuses on the range of centralized and decentralized settings in which decisions are made, their varying degree of organization and formality, the extent to which they are specialized and the extent to which they are continuous or episodic. From the standpoint of the New Haven School, jurisprudence is a theory about making social choices. The primary jurisprudential and intellectual tasks are the prescription and application of policy in ways that maintain community order and, simultaneously, achieve the best possible approximation of the community's social goals.
