"It is very much to Dr. Bunn-Livingstone’s credit that she has both seen this crucial problem of modern international treaty law and has set about studying it and dissecting its implications for practice, and the ways in which a degree of legal pluralism in both its weak and strong forms are present in the current international legal system. It is not a task which many international lawyers have shown much appetite to tackle. But that renders this contribution to our knowledge the more important." - From the Foreword by Sir Robert Y. Jennings, QC.
"Although Juricultural Pluralism vis-à-vis Treaty Law is academic in nature, different sections of the book may appeal to a broader portion of the legal and sociological field. Scholars will appreciate the careful review of scholarship and the extensive use of footnotes throughout, though the minutely navigated presentation of theoretical concepts will be of limited use to practitioners. Lawyers and policy-makers working at the inter-state level may find interest in the close analysis of legal culture in state treaty interpretation, and human rights practitioners in particular will value Bunn-Livingstone’s explanation and tabular presentation of the reasons for state reservations to major human rights instruments." - Odette Lienau, in: Interights Bulletin, 2004