A scrap of paper provides most valuable insights into the role of international law during world war i isabel v hulls subtly nuanced discussion of the belligerents legal views and their background should be taken into account in any future study on decision making in the war replacing the long lasting cliche of the great war as the epoch of complete breakdown of international law . A century after the outbreak of the great war we have forgotten the central role that international law and the dramatically different interpretations of it played in the conflicts origins and conduct in a scrap of paper isabel v hull compares wartime decision making in germany great britain and france weighing the impact of legal considerations in each throughout she emphasizes the . A scrap of paper breaking and making international law during the great war by isabel v hull a scrap of paper breaking and making international law during the great war by isabel v hull ithaca ny cornell up 2014 pp 368 45 william mulligan william mulligan 1 university college dublin search for other works by this author on oxford academic google scholar the english . A scrap of paper breaking and making international law during the great war isabel v hull a scrap of paper breaking and making international law during the great war cornell university press 2014 pp 384 4500 isbn 9780801452734 umut ozsu umut ozsu university of manitoba search for other works by this author on oxford academic google scholar international journal of . The first book on international law and the great war published since 1920 a scrap of paper is a passionate defense of the role that the law must play to govern interstate relations in both peace and war