2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2014. — 808 p. — ISBN10: 019967907X Complete International Law combines a wide range of case extracts with incisive author commentary to clearly demonstrate legal principles and the significance of case law. This innovative text encourages an active approach to learning with key point summaries, thinking points and self-test questions...
London, 1866. - 514 p. Revised with notes and cases brought down to the present time. Index of Cases Of the Foundation and History of the Law of Nations Of the Rights and Duties of Nations in a State of Independence, of Intervention, and of Recognition Ambassadors and Consuls Of the Declaration and Other Early Measures of a State of War Of the Various Kinds of Property Liable...
Springer, 2014. — XIV, 737 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-00067-1, ISBN: 978-3-319-00068-8 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-00068-8. Commentary on a key treaty in aviation law Comprehensive article-by-article explanations Practical commentary coupled with in-depth scholary analysis This book is both a repertory guide to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention) as...
Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. — 321 p. The law governing the international claims of dual nationals relates to, and is influenced by, the wider subject of the individual’s standing at the international level. But while the latter had, as a result of modern trends in human rights, hugely improved as from the middle of the last century, no occasion to test its...
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1956. — 143 p. The extent to which the famous Warsaw Convention of 1929 applies to air transport conducted under "charters" or leases has become an intricate problem. In far-away 1929, the business was conducted on a direct basis between a carrier and each passenger and each shipper of a parcel. The draftsmen did not envisage a single airliner...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 245 p. Just war has attracted considerable attention. The words peace and justice are often used together. Surprisingly, however, little conceptual thinking has gone into what constitutes a just peace. This book, which includes some of the world's leading scholars, debates and develops the concept of just peace. The problem with the idea of a...
Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 482 p. This work examines the local remedies rule historically and particularly in modern international law. Not only is the customary international law discussed but the application, inter alia, of the rule conventionally to human rights protection and generally to international organizations is also covered. It is as...
Leiden, Nederland: Brill, 2020. — xviii, 383 p. In this book, I examine how Swiss courts, but also domestic courts in general, do and must interpret international law. For this purpose, I analyze whether they comply with what international law requires from States when they interpret their international legal obligations. I also assess whether Swiss courts’ interpretations are...
London, New York: Routledge, 2009. — xxxiv, 468 p. Routledge Handbook of International Law provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of international politics and international law. Each chapter is written by a leading expert and provides a state-of-the-art overview of the most significant areas within the field. The nature of international law. Evolution of...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 842 p. A concise account of international law by an experienced practitioner, this book explains how states and international organizations, especially the United Nations, make and use international law. The nature of international law and its fundamental concepts and principles are described. The difference and relationship between various...
2nd ed. — New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 527 p. International law. States and recognition. Territory. Jurisdiction. The law of treaties. Diplomatic privileges and immunities. State immunity. Nationality, aliens and refugees. International organisations. The United Nations, including the use of force. Human rights. The law of armed conflict (international...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 186 p. — ISBN13: 9780199676538. If you're serious about exam success, it's time to Concentrate! International Law Concentrate is the essential study and revision guide for law students looking for extra marks. The clear, succinct coverage enables you to quickly grasp the fundamental principles of this area of law and helps you to succeed in...
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004. — 215 p. — ISBN 90–04–13698–3. The purpose of this book is to enter into the history of the mental-social phenomena that are the word sovereignty and the myth of Westphalia. Given the circularity of language, the project proposes to examine the reality-creating role of language, as an organic instrument of social power within humanity. In...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 332 p. The point of departure of this book is that the disciplines of international law and international relations are inexorably inter-linked. Neither can be understood properly in isolation. Like every legal system that operates in a specific societal system, international law functions in the international system. International law grows...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 344 p. - ISBN13: 978-0-521-51618-1 This analysis of Hans Kelsen’s international law theory takes into account the context of the German international legal discourse in the first half of the twentieth century, including the reactions of Carl Schmitt and other Weimar opponents of Kelsen. The relationship between his Pure Theory of Law and his...
Oxford University Press, 2017. The question of the sources of international law inevitably raises some well-known scholarly controversies: where do the rules of international law come from? And more precisely: through which processes are they made, how are they ascertained, and where does the international legal order begin and end? This is the static question of the pedigree...
Oxford University Press, 2010. - 626 p. - ISBN 978–0–19–920858–6 (hbk.) ; ISBN 978–0–19–920857–9 (pbk.) International law has recently emerged as the subject-matter of an exciting new field of philosophical investigation. The Philosophy of International Law contains 29 cutting-edge essays by leading philosophers and international lawyers, all published here in English for the...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 640 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-02138-9. Some joint academic projects originate from, and thrive on, long-established professional partnerships and scientific affinities. Others are far more casual and spontaneous.Happenstance definitely plays a role in the latter. The idea of doing a research project together came to us while walking to a...
Routledge, 2009. 160 p. This volume considers the most recent demands for justice within the international system, examining how such aspirations often confl ict with norms of state sovereignty and non-intervention. From an interdisciplinary approach that combines issues of international relations with international law, this book addresses issues neglected in both disciplines...
Hart Publishing, 2017. — 637 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84946-788-9; 978-1-50991-878-2; 978-1-50991-879-9. The Landmark Cases collected in this book serve at least two other useful purposes. They remind one in the first place that no dispute going to judicial settlement ever consists of one single isolated legal issue. Indeed, one of the most striking indicators of international law as a...
Springer, 2017. — 158 p. — ISBN: 978-94-6265-197-5 ; ISBN: 978-94-6265-198-2. Professor Blackshaw has succeeded in providing, within a very limited space, a broad glimpse of sports law as a subject and the various intricacies that it holds. Any one of the topics addressed in this work on its own can be the subject of a major textbook. To condense all of this into a single...
Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2012. — 400 p. — ISBN: 978-0-85793-955-5. Public International Law offers a comprehensive understanding of international law as well as a fresh and highly accessible approach. While explaining the theory and development of international law, this work also examines how it functions in practice. Case studies and recent examples are infused in the...
Brill, 2010. — 532 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-17714-7. On 30 August 2009 Vera Gowlland-Debbas retired from her professorial chair in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Vera Gowlland-Debbas was closely associated with the Institute and its predecessor, the Graduate Institute of International Studies, as a student, then as a...
Springer, 2007. — 136 p. — ISBN: 978-3-540-71100-1. Diplomacy is transforming and expanding its role as the method of interstate relations to a general instrument of communication among globalized societies. Adapting to globalization, the practice of diplomacy is shared by non-state participants, thus becoming privatized and popularized. This book offers a comprehensive...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 211 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–878987–1. This book is about the prospects for global governance without the great powers. More specifically, it concerns the consequences of pursuing international legal rules and more broadly, norms, in situations where the most powerful states in the international system do not support the rule-making efforts. The...
Routledge, 2016. — 325 p. — ISBN: 9781138830516. This book will consider a rapidly emerging guiding general principle in international relations and, arguably, in international law: the Responsibility to Protect. This principle is a solution proposed to a key preoccupation in both international relations and international law scholarship: how the international community is to...
7th edition. - New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. — li, 784 p. Preliminary Topics. Personality and Recognition. Territorial Sovereignty. Law of the Sea. Common Ameneties and Co-operation in the Ues of Resources. State Jurisdiction. Rules of Attribution. The Law of Responsibility. The Protection of Individuals and Groups. International Transactions. Transmission of Rights...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 522 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-829535-8 ; 978-0-19-929798-6. A distinctive feature of the book is its holistic, systematic approach. It provides a principled account of how an international legal order that takes human rights seriously should respond to issues concerning military intervention, secession, and claims to self-determination short of...
Martinus Nijhoff, 2008. — 1133 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-16727-8. The editors and the contributors dedicate this Festschrift to Gerhard Hafner on the occasion of his 65th birthday and his retirement as a professor of international law at the University of Vienna on 30 September 2008. 53 authors have contributed to this volume in honour of Gerhard Hafner and his impressive career as...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 550 p. — ISBN10: 0-521-81949-0. Twelve leading scholars of international law and international relations consider whether the current strength of the United States is leading to change in the international legal system. This book demonstrates that the effects of U.S. domination of the foundations of international law are real, but also...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 274 p. — ISBN: 0-521-63289-7 ; ISBN: 0-521-63408-3. The subject of customary international law as a general phenomenon is hardly more suitable for graduate research students in international law than Fermat’s last theorem used to be for their counterparts in mathematics. The central puzzles of a discipline, which generations of its senior...
Hart Publishing, 2009. — 309 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84113-357-7. International lawyers have often been interested in the link between their discipline and the foundational issues of jurisprudential method, but little that is systematic has been written on this subject. In this book, an attempt is made to fill this gap by focusing on issues of concept-formation in legal science in...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978 0 7486 2255 9 (hardback) A fundamental challenge to the foundations of the discipline of international law. This book offers an internal critique of the discipline of international law whilst showing the necessary place for philosophy within this subject area. By reintroducing philosophy into the heart of the...
London/New York: Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, 2011 - ISBN: 978-90-481-9010-2 (Print) 978-90-481-9011-9 (Online). "Semiotics of International Law: Trade and Translation" underscores the challenges of international law in a multicultural, multilingual world, offers a perspective on the role of diplomatic and juridical discourse in international order, shows how semantics and...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 723 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–969166–1 ; 978–0–19–964708–8. The approach we take in this book aims to avoid the extremes of both blind acquiescence to present conditions and the illusion of being able to revolutionize the fundamentals. Our approach reflects the attitude of the ‘judicious reformer’, whose contributions are not obfuscated by an...
Hart Publishing, 2011. — 307 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84946-120-7. The unexpectedly favourable reception of my interview with BAV Röling,1 set me thinking that I could repeat the experiment by preparing a series of questions which would serve as a blueprint for interviewing other distinguished international lawyers. True, for certain readers, an interview may prove less interesting...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 571 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–965793–3. Whether fairly or not, the world regards international law today as in need of rehabilitation; and even those who have a confident belief in its future will probably concede that the comparatively small part that it plays in the sphere of international relations as a whole is disappointing. Brierly’s critical...
8th Ed. — Oxford University Press, 2012. — 1110 p. — ISBN10: 0199699690. — ISBN13: 978-0199699698. This is the eighth edition of Sir Ian Brownlie's classic distillation of public international law. Serving as a single volume introduction to the field as a whole, the book seeks to present international law as a system that is based on, and helps structure, relations among states...
Hart Publishing, 2011. - 150 p. - ISBN: 978-1-84113-235-8 Law research students often begin their PhDs without having an awareness of methodology, or the opportunity to think about the practice of research and its theoretical implications. Law Schools are, however, increasingly alive to the need to provide training in research methods to their students. They are also alive to...
Irvin Law, 2008. — 644 p. — ISBN: 978-1-55221-139-7. This book is intended as a systematic introduction to this complex and increasingly important area of the law. It describes and places in context the fundamental elements of the international legal system — the subjects of international law, its key institutional structures, its sources, its interaction with domestic legal...
German law journal, Vol. 08 No 01 (57-80 p.) Overview In the 1990s, the belief in the inexorable advent of the global liberal democratic order and the gradual disappearance of the non-democratic regimes was to fade in light of an increasingly anarchic world arena, the rise in the number of interethnic wars, the emergence of failed states, and so on. The dispute over the...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 470 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-14039-4. This book is premised on the idea that international law consists of a family of professions in which a great variety of professionals are engaged. This idea is often neglected in scholarly work; it is more common to construe international law as a normative order meant to guide the behaviour of a wide range...
Denza, Eileen. Oxford University Press. 2008. 3rd Edition. 556p. ISBN: 0199216851 Diplomatic Law was first published in 1976. Written with the benefit of the author's deep and practical understanding of the subject as a Legal Counselor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, it has become widely regarded as the leading work in the field. Denza places each provision of the...
Denza, Eileen. Oxford University Press. 2016. 4th Edition. 560p. ISBN: 0198703961 The 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations has for over 50 years been central to diplomacy and applied to all forms of relations among sovereign States. Participation is almost universal. The rules giving special protection to ambassadors are the oldest established in international law and...
6th ed. — Oxford, 2016. — 800 p. — ISBN: 019872764X. Cases & Materials on International Law is a topical and engaging companion for study, offering broad coverage on public international law and placing disputes directly within the context of contemporary debate. The book contains the essential cases and materials that students need in order to fully understand and analyze the...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 432 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-51439-2. This is a book about constitutional practice – and constitutional discourse – at transnational sites of governance. For some readers, this may seem an odd topic. As a historical matter, constitutional discourse has predominantly – but not exclusively – occurred in the domestic legal setting. However, as...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. — li, 841 p. Introduction: International Law in Practice. The History and Theory of International Law. The Structure of International Obligation. The Subjects of the International Legal Order. The Scope of Sovereignty. Responsibility. Responding to Breaches of International Obligations. The Application of International Law.
Oxford University Press, 1921. - 276 p. (eng) Publications of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Interantional Law, Washington. The Classics of International Law Series (No. 9 of the series). Edited by James Brown Scott This series, which includes the classic works connected with the history and development of international law, was undertaken by the...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 272 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-19-516839-6 ; ISBN: 0-19-516839-9 International law has long been burdened with the charge that it is not really law. This misleading claim is premised on some undeniable but misunderstood facts about international law: that it lacks a centralized or effective legislature, executive, or judiciary; that it favors powerful...
German law journal, Vol. 08 No 01 (1-20 p.) Introduction - From Province to Protectorate to State? The province of Kosovo – 2 million people in 11,000 square kilometres of territory nestled between Serbia to the North and Albania and Macedonia to the South – was thrust into the international limelight when Serbian actions to repress Kosovo Albanian calls for independence made...
The Harvard research in international law : contemporary analysis. and appraisal / Edited by John P. Grant and J. Craig Barker. number of pages 554. ISBN: 978-0-8377-3038-7 (cloth : alk. paper). The Harvard Research: Genesis to Exodus and Beyond. Nationality. Responsibility of States for Injuries to Foreigners. Territorial Waters. Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities. The Legal...
University of Minnesota Press, 1996. - 296 p. - ISBN: 0-8166-2666-9 Sovereigns, Quasi Sovereigns, and Africans was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In this trenchant critique, Siba N'Zatioula...
Oxford University Press, 2008. - 273 p. How International Law Works presents a theory of international law, how it operates, and why it works. Though appeals to international law have grown ever more central to international disputes and international relations, there is no well-developed, comprehensive theory of how international law shapes policy outcomes. Filling a...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 488 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-9764-9. Understanding International Law presents a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the various aspects of international law while addressing its interrelationship with world politics. Presents well-organized, balanced coverage of all aspects of international law. Includes discussion of the efficacy of international...
Recueil des Cours. The Netherlands, Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1974.. Volume 140. 416 p. (P.1-320). Basic Elements. International Society and International Legal Community. Subjects of international law. The position of the individual in the system of international. Principles and Rules of General International Law. Formation of International Law. Treaties....
London, Sydney: Cavendish Publishing Limited, 1998. — xxxvi, 883 p. The Relationship between Municipal Law and International Law. Sources of International Law. The Law of Treaties. Subjects of International Law. Recognition and Legitimation. Territorial Rights. Jurisdiction. Immunities from National Jurisdiction. State Responsibility. Law of the Sea. Air and Space Law. The Use...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 261 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–968811–1. My interest in the sociology of international law grew out of reading some studies in the early 2000s, comparing rational choice and sociological analyses of social phenomena. Following some research work on the rational choice model and international law, the thick and richly textured account of the ‘homo...
Genève, Bureau international du Travail, 2004, 710 p. Rarely have offi cials been identified to such an extent with a specific field of ILO action as Nicolas Valticos was with the Organization’s standards-related activities. So much so that, for over 30 years, it was almost tautological to refer to standards and the inspired Director of NORMES. The International Labour...
Recueil des Cours. The Netherlands, Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1967.. Volume 121. 606 p. (P.323-605). The Sources of the Law. Persons and Recognition. State Territory. The High Seas, Airspace and Outer Space. Acquisition and Loss of Territorial Sovereignty. State Succession. Nationality. The Responsibility of States. State Responsibility (cont.). Problems of...
New York, The MacMillan Company, 1948. - 236 p. Note on abbrevations. The Subjects of a modern law of nations. Recognition. Nationality and the rights of man. Responsibility of states for injuries to individuals. The law of contractual agreements. The legal regulation of the use of force. Rights and duties in case of illegal use of force.
Recueil des Cours. The Netherlands, Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1978.. Volume 159. 463 p. (P.1-343). Custom as a source of international law. Law of treaties. The invalidity and termination of treaties. General principles of international law governing the conduct of states. Collective measures for the maintenance of peace and security. Peaceful settlement of...
Ashgate Publishing, 2010. — 554 p. — (The Library of Essays in International Law). — ISBN: 978-0-7546-2828-6 Who or what is entitled to act on the international plane? Where should responsibility for violations of international law lie? What sort of entities are capable of possessing international legal rights? What is the status of individuals, minority groups,...
Edward Elgar, 2011. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84980-368-7. The corporation has been described as ‘the most effective structure for capital accumulation’, having ‘the potential to demonstrate an effective management system’ because ‘it allows a separation of ownership from management’. In other words, the usefulness of the corporate form – indeed the very basis of itscreation and...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 545 p. — ISBN 978– 0– 19– 876858– 6. For many centuries, thinkers have tried to understand and to conceptualize political and legal order beyond the boundaries of sovereign territories. Their concepts, deeply entangled with ideas of theology, state formation, and human nature, form the bedrock of today's theoretical discourses on international...
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009. — 625 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-17587-7. Essays in Honour of Colin Warbrick. Colin Warbrick is an international lawyer who is at once a fine generalist and also a leading specialist in particular topics. He has, among other things, written about the use of force, diplomatic representation and protection, recognition, the Security Council and UN...
Routledge, 2011. — 303 p. — ISBN: 0-203-84721 In this regard, the present book is quite remarkable. Its author is courageous enough to confess unconditional (but note: never uncritical!) adherence to a legal theory which has set up an intellectual Reinheitsgebot that very few academics, even in Hans Kelsen’s Viennese home turf, are still willing, or able, to follow....
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1944. — 155 p. — ISBN: 1-58477-103-8. Kelsen departs from his theories on pure law and here proposes a formula for international peace. He proffers "peace guaranteed by compulsory adjudication of international disputes," the formation of a world court with the authority to resolve international conflicts, and "peace...
Springer, 2017. — 401 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-54656-8 ; ISBN: 978-3-319-54657-5. After finishing my mandate as chairman of the United Nations International Law Commission’s Open-Ended Working Group on the topic obligation to extradite of prosecute (aut dedere aut judicare) in 2014, I was interested in taking up the topic protection of personal data in transborder flow of...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 370 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-03622-2. This volume is, first and foremost, a study in global governance, written from the perspective, mostly, of academics working in the legal field but aspiring to look beyond disciplinary boundaries. A majority of the authors have been affiliated with the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 414 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-954342-7. This book has been a long time coming. It started when, some five years ago, the present authors met at a conference in Turku, Finland, and agreed to ‘do something together’. It became readily apparent that none of us were interested in organizing a conference or series of seminars. It also became clear that...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 342 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-19487-7 ; ISBN: 978-0-521-14406-3. Written by one of the world's leading international lawyers, this is a landmark publication in the teaching of international law. International law can be defined as 'the rules governing the legal relationship between nations and states', but in reality it is much more complex, with...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 460 p. — (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law). — ISBN: 0521781787, 0521067405 When does international law give a group the right to choose its sovereignty? In an original perspective on this familiar question, Knop analyzes the ways that many of the groups that the right of self-determination most affects-including...
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC , 2016 - 511 p. This book seeks to analyze various aspects of international law, the link being how they structure and marshal the different forces in the international legal order. It takes the following approaches to the matter. First, an attempt is made to determine the fundamental characteristics of international law, the forces that delineate and...
2nd edition. — Moscow: Statut Press, 2014. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-5-8354-1066-8. Authors describe the mechanism that gave rise to international space law, trace its history, analyze its fundamental principles, and examine the legal aspects of many practical space activities: space communications, the remote sensing of the Earth, space meteorology, navigation, the exploration of...
Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. — 493 p. This book clarifies factors that play an important role in securing the effectiveness of legal regimes that aim to protect public interests of the international community. In Part 1, the authors focus on theoretical problems arising in the implementation process of those legal regimes from both a constitutional and functional perspective. In...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. 704 p. ISBN: 0521838061 Drawing from a range of materials, Martti Koskenniemi demonstrates how international law becomes vulnerable to the contrasting criticisms of being either an irrelevant moralist Utopia or a manipulable facade for State interests. He examines the conflicts inherent in international law--sources, sovereignty, 'custom' and...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 305 p. — ISBN: 9780190642709. This book makes a signal contribution to the progressive development of international law by its searching study of the place of general principles of law in contemporary international arbitration and their relationship to due process of law in international and national proceedings. It proceeds to expound the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, Reprint edition, 526 p. — 2011. — ISBN: 978–0–19–960881–2 The Function of Law in the International Community, first published in 1933, is one of the seminal works on international law. Its author, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, is widely considered to be one of the great international lawyers of the 20th century. It continues to influence those...
Routledge, 2014. — 382 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-65956-7 ; ISBN: 978-0-203-07487-9. This book explores law-making in international affairs and is compiled to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Professor Jan Klabbers, a leading international law and international relations scholar, who has made significant contributions to the understanding of the sources of international legal...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 587 p. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are playing an increasing political role on the international scene, and their position in relation to international law is generally regarded as important but informal. Their actual legal status has not been the subject of much investigation. This book examines the legal status of NGOs in...
Routledge, 1994. — 277 p. — ISBN: 0-203-21595-8 ; ISBN: 0-203-21643-1 ; ISBN: 0-415-08441-5. With the fall of communism and the appearance of a new world order, it is hoped that the United Nations will become the principle organisation for the regulation of relations between states as well as for the settlement of conflict. The recent crises over Iraq and the continued...
3rd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2015. — 674 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-022798-2 Applies the New Haven School approach explaining discrete aspects of the global decision process and their effects on the content of international legal norms. Provides an in-depth treatment of the key features of the New Haven School of international law. References both classic historical...
Seventh revised edition. London, New York: Routledge, 1997. xxii, 449 p. First published in 1970, A Modern Introduction to International Law rapidly established itself as the most widely used and successful textbook in its field. This new edition is now completely revised and updated to take account of many new developments. It is ideal for students of international politics,...
Lausanne; Paris: Payot, 1917. — 631 p. Préface. Les Jeunes-Turcs avant la guerre. L'héritage d'Abd-ul-Hamid. Le régime jeune-turc. La politique intérieure des Jeunes-Turcs. Première période (du 10 juillet 1908 au 13 avril 1909). Deuxième période (du 1 3 /26 avril 1909 au 9 /22 juillet 1912). Troisième période (du 9 juillet 1912 au 10 janvier 1913). Quatrième période (du 10...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 331 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-88255-2. Against expectations that the turn away from state socialism would likewise initiate a turn away from Marxist thought, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in Marxism and its reassessment by a new generation of theorists. This book pursues that interest with specific reference to international...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 472 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-08174-1. This text explores how the public purpose doctrine reconciles the often conflicting, but equally binding, obligations that states have to engage in regulatory sovereignty while honoring host-state obligations to protect foreign investment. The work examines the multiple permutations and iterations of the...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 273 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–968279–9 ; ISBN 978–0–19–968280–5. This book on Hobbes began life 35 years ago when I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Hobbes’s political and legal philosophy, which started under the supervision of Hannah Arendt and concluded under Anthony Quinton’s direction after Arendt’s death. Upon completing the dissertation I...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005. — 387 p. This book is a revised version of a doctoral thesis researched at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, under the supervision of Fred Halliday. Despite our many theoretical and political differences (some of them rehearsed below), he was an exemplary supervisor, and I am extremely...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 420 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-51541-2 ; ISBN: 978-0-521-73130-0. This book is about the relationship – past, present and future – between public and private international law.1 In the study of international law, a sharp distinction is usually drawn between public international law, concerned with the rights and obligations of states with respect...
Springer, 2009. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-90-481-2690-3 e-ISBN: 978-90-481-2691-0. Substate nationalism, especially in the past fifteen years, has noticeably affected the political and territorial stability of many countries, both democratic and democratizing. Norms exist to limit the behavior of collective agents in relation to individuals; the set of universally accepted human...
Oxford University Press , 2016. — 273 p. — ISBN: 0190622938. Necessity is a notoriously dangerous and slippery concept-dangerous because it contemplates virtually unrestrained killing in warfare and slippery when used in conflicting ways in different areas of international law. Jens David Ohlin and Larry May untangle these confusing strands and perform a descriptive mapping of...
Edward Elgar, 2011. — 555 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84844-354-9. This Handbook brings together the scholarly input of a group of academics with an acknowledged expertise in the relevant areas of the theory and history of international law. It is also an eff ort conducted against the background that, despite the multiplication and diversifi cation of theoretical scholarship of...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 463 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-19666-6 (hardback) Cambridge studies in international and comparative law; 75. Kate Parlett's monograph on the individual in the international legal system examines the way in which individuals have come to have a certain status in international law, from the first treaties conferring rights and capacities on...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 307 p. Since the last comprehensive work devoted to denial of justice in international law was published in 1938, the possibilities for prosecuting this offence have evolved in fundamental ways. It is now settled law that States cannot disavow international responsibility by arguing that their courts are independent of the government. Even...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 333 p. Several current international legal issues are related to the concept of legal personality, including the determination of international rights and duties of non-state actors and the legal capacities of transnational institutions. When addressing these issues, different understandings of legal personality are employed. These...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 402 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–968933–0. The present study by Dirk Pulkowski is characterized simultaneously by the openness of its field of analysis and the rigorous intellectual coherence with which the author proceeds. While the author in no way makes light of the conclusions of the Commission, it is true that Dirk Pulkowski does not, explicitly,...
Kluwer Law International, 2002. — 516 p. — ISBN: 90-411-1890-X. This study is divided into three parts. Part I, entitled 'Statehood', consists of four chapters. This part will focus primarily on the concept of 'State' in international law, first from the perspective of the more or less generally accepted law of statehood, and thereafter in the light of additional criteria for...
Hart Publishing, 2005. — 276 p. — ISBN 1–84113–501–1 (hardback) This book is a result of my personal and longstanding interest in the field of international human rights law and Islamic law. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11 Islam and Muslims have increasingly been associated with international terrorism. It is nevertheless surprising to notice the lack of legal scholarship...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 324 p. Politics and law appear deeply entwined in contemporary international relations. Yet existing perspectives struggle to understand the complex interplay between these aspects of international life. In this path-breaking volume, a group of leading international relations scholars and legal theorists advance a new constructivist...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 433 p. — ISBN: 9780190696412. What a welcome event the publication of this book is! None of us can hereafter teach international law quite in the way we used to, without paying attention to the questions “whose international law is it?” and “where has it come from?” What aspects of the world does it highlight, and what does it seem to ignore?...
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. — 682 p. This collection is a continuation of the collection of my essays published in 1993 under the title An International Law Miscellany. It consists of a number of my scattered essays published between 1992 and 2005 in various Libri Amicorum and Festschriften, together with a few taken from periodical literature of the period. As before,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. - 273 p. - ISBN 978–0–19–968851–7 This fully updated second edition of Jurisdiction in International Law examines the international law of jurisdiction, focusing on the areas of law where jurisdiction is most contentious: criminal, antitrust, securities, discovery, and international humanitarian and human rights law. Since F.A. Mann's work in the...
Palgrave, 2011. — 311 p. — (Rethinking International Development). — ISBN: 9780230245914 The new global economy, which emerged in phases from the drive towards deregulation and the expansion of capital markets in the 1980s, firmly strapped prospects for high future growth rates to the ever more rapid movement of the factors of production and commerce across national frontiers....
Ashgate,2007. 350 p. ISBN: 0754672891 How should international law approach the critical issue of movement of peoples in the 21st century? This book presents a radical reappraisal of this controversial problem. Challenging present-day ideas of restrictions on freedom of movement and the international structure that controls entry to states, it argues for a new blueprint for...
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004. — 750 p. — ISBN: 90-04-14173-1. This volume on International Law and Sustainable Development. Principles and Practice is a tribute to the creativity of the contributors and to the seminal character of the concept of sustainable development. This concept, injected into the discourse on environment and development by the Brundtland Commission...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 1107435897; ISBN13: 978-1107435896 — (ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory) This book examines the boundary between parochial and cosmopolitan justice. To what extent should international law recognize or support the political, historical, cultural, and economic differences among nations? Ten lawyers and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. - 1431 p. ISBN 0 521 82473 7 hardback ISBN 0 521 53183 7 paperback A new chapter on Inter-state Courts and Tribunals pays special attention to the role of the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea, and there is a new chapter on International Humanitarian Law. Also examined are arbitration...
Springer, 2012. — 435 p. — ISBN: 978-90-6704-851-4 ISBN: 978-90-6704-852-1. The book is an introduction to sports law, in particular International (worldwide) and European (EU) sports law. The chapters are all put in the perspective of the innovative sports law doctrine that is developed and presented in the opening chapter on what sports law is. After a general coverage of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. 777 p. ISBN13: 978-0-511-29494-5 ISBN10: 0-511-29494-8 This volume is intended to help readers understand the relationship between international law and international relations (IL/IR). As a testament to this dynamic area of inquiry, new research on IL/IR is now being published in a growing list of traditional law reviews and disciplinary...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 777 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-67991-5. This volume is intended to help readers understand the relationship between international law and international relations (IL/IR). As a testament to this dynamic area of inquiry, new research on IL/IR is now being published in a growing list of traditional law reviews and disciplinary journals. The...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 202 p. The theoretical foundations of constructivism and its treatment of law Challenging the common sense idea of law Introducing critical idea of jurisprudence Brown, desegregation and racism in America: the myth and reality of law's ability to solve complex social problems Constructing rape: defining the problem and finding the solution...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 352 p. — ISBN/ASIN: 0199450633, ISBN13: 9780199450633 The number of scholars engaging critically with the paradoxes hidden in international law continues to grow. This edited volume features contributions by scholars from around the world, from different generations, and with different critical perspectives, reflecting the vibrancy of...
Springer, 2016. — 1444 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-07541-9 ; ISBN: 978-3-319-07542-6. International Food Law and Policy is the first interdisciplinary piece of academic literature of its kind with a comprehensive, reader-friendly approach to teaching the major aspects of food regulation, law, policy, food safety and environmental sustainability in a global context. The sections are...
Routledge, 2013. — 225 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-66818-7 ; ISBN: 978-0-203-08396-3. This book proposes a novel theory of self-determination; the Rule of the Great Powers. This book argues that traditional legal norms on self determination have failed to explain and account for recent results of secessionist self-determination struggles. While secessionist groups like the East...
New York, United Nations, 2012. — 503 p. — ISBN: 978-92-1-133805-8 This publication contains summaries of judgments, advisory opinions and orders of the Permanent Court of International Justice. It has been prepared by the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs, in the framework of the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination...
2nd Ed. — Oxford University Press, 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0-198841-82-5. This new edition of Hugh Thirlway's authoritative text provides an introduction to one of the fundamental questions of the discipline: what is, and what is not, a source of international law. Traditionally, treaties between states and state practice were seen as the primary means with which to create...
Harvard University Press, 2008. — 369 p. — ISBN: 1: 978-0-674-03098-5. This book elaborate a law and economics–based theoretical understanding of the structure of the international legal system. The need for such a work is clear. Political science has only recently reengaged with international law. Economics has not sought to explain international law broadly, although it has...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 318 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-03589-8. This book is an attempt to draw together some of the theoretical and practical aspects of international-cooperation needs and legal responses in some of the critical areas of international public policy. International policy professionals, among them international lawyers, tend to examine only their...
The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff, 1962. — xii, 197 p. Civil Aviation has become a public utility service. Although civil aviation has enjoyed unflagging public interest since its birth in 1919, and even before that date, the factors governing the development of civil aviation are nevertheless not widely known. This applies not so much to technical development as to the political...
Gdańsk University Press, 2015. — 218 p. — ISBN: 978-83-7865-359-2 ; ISBN: 978-83-7865-361-5. The purpose of this book is to reconstruct the concept of “international community” and to provide a general picture sketched from the perspective of a bird’s-eye view of the theory and philosophy of international law. The aim is not so much to define international community but rather...
Springer, 2010. — 248 p. — (Max-Planck-Institut). — ISBN: 3642111769. This volume presents a high-level scholarly discussion on whether the concept of solidarity functions as a structural principle of international law and to what extent it has become a full-fledged legal principle. Each contributor addresses these questions by examining normative operations of the principle of...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 944 p. — ISBN: 0521844010 The immunity or exemption enjoyed by States from legal proceedings before foreign national courts is a crucial area of international law. On the basis of an exhaustive analysis of judicial decisions, international treaties, national legislation, government statements, deliberations in international organizations as...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 369 p. The ‘corporate social responsibility’ (‘CSR’) movement has been described as one of the most important social movements of our time. This book looks at what the CSR movement means for multinationals, for states and for international law. International law is often criticised for being too ‘state-centred’, and ill-equipped to deal with...
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