so skillfully and systematically interlaces national religious and secular law in the Islamic context with important choices states make in the international legal system. Powell is one of the few Western scholars who demonstrates that the label “Islamic law” is about as simplistic as “Western law.” This book successfully connects the legal and especially the constitutional variation within Islamic law states with international law in a satisfying way. It is a significant contribution to understanding the uneven participation of states in the international legal system.

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公海治理：差距和挑战。由 Robert C. Beckman、Millicent McCreath、J. Ashley Roach 和 Jin Sun 编辑。莱顿/波士顿：Brill Nijhoff，2018 年。Pp。xvii, 318. 索引。

如此巧妙和系统地将伊斯兰背景下的国家宗教和世俗法律与各国在国际法律体系中做出的重要选择交织在一起。鲍威尔是少数证明“伊斯兰法”的标签与“西方法”一样简单的西方学者之一。这本书以令人满意的方式成功地将伊斯兰法律国家内部的法律，尤其是宪法的变化与国际法联系起来。它对理解各国在国际法律体系中的参与程度不均做出了重大贡献。