International law: international disputes and civil procedure

Within international law there is no unified concept of peace.

International Law is both an introduction to the subject and a critical consideration of its central themes and debates.

While international investment law is one of the most dynamic and thriving fields of international law, it is increasingly criticized for failing to strike a fair balance between private property rights and the public interest.

The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics provides a comprehensive analysis of the origins and development of one of the most striking supranational judicial institutions.

During the 1980s, thousands of Chadian citizens were detained, tortured, and raped by then-President Hissene Habre's security forces.

With the acceptance of international criminal procedure as a self-sustaining discipline and as the tribunals established to try the most serious crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and Rwanda have completed or are beginning to wind up their activities, the time is ripe for a critical evaluation of these international criminal tribunals and their legacy.

When the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance drafts its own procedural rules, and when it makes decisions on procedural matters, it turns to Paul Lasok's highly regarded book for confirmation and guidance.

In the context of harmonisation of arbitration law and practice worldwide, to what extent do local legal traditions still influence local arbitration practices, especially at a time when non-Western countries are playing an increasingly important role in international commercial and financial markets?

This text is a general introduction to American judicial process.

Written by a leading legal researcher, this book offers a comprehensive study of the principle, a frequently invoked but rarely analysed aspect of investment arbitration.

This book, first published in 2002, considers why states often use transboundary resources inefficiently, looking ahead to potential resolutions.

This book explores the large and controversial subject of the use of force in international law.

Arbitration of International Business Disputes 2nd edition is a fully revised and updated anthology of essays by Rusty Park, a leading scholar in international arbitration and a sought-after arbitrator for both commercial and investment treaty cases.

This book discusses how international judicial authority is established and managed in the field of international economic law.

International Criminal Law provides a comprehensive overview of an increasingly integral part of public international law.

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing.

Questions as to when a state owes obligations under a human rights treaty towards an individual located outside its territory are being brought more and more frequently before both international and domestic courts.

Mediation provides an attractive alternative to resolving disputes through court proceedings.

The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.

International investment law is one of the fastest growing areas of international law.

This collection of documents brings together a large number of primary sources on the peaceful settlement of disputes in a usable and affordable format.

Asymmetric jurisdiction clauses, giving one party a right to choose the forum for litigation after a dispute has already arisen, are widespread in international commercial contracting.

The vast majority of all international judicial decisions have been issued since 1990.

Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump's populist support in 2016, and his failed efforts to nullify the result of the 2020 election.

The modern public prosecutor is a figure both powerful and enigmatic.

Explores the ''unexhausted'' potential in current investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms to advance investors'' responsibility for their conduct.

This updated tenth edition covers all aspects of prisoners' rights, including an overview of the judicial system and constitutional law and explanation of specific constitutional issues regarding correctional populations.

Voices from Criminal Justice, Second Edition, gives students rich insight into the criminal justice system from the point of view of practitioners, as well as outsiders-citizens, clients, jurors, probationers, or inmates.

This book provides a full analytical overview of the establishment and functioning of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the newest and most controversial of the UN-sponsored international criminal courts.

With its often vague legal concepts and institutions that operate according to unfamiliar procedures, judicial decision-making is, in many respects, a highly enigmatic process.

This book re-imagines transitional justice as a movement, and explains why truth commissions are being promoted and created.

This book discusses the under-researched relationship between sentencing and the legitimacy of punishment.

Investor-state arbitration is a form of dispute settlement that allows foreign investors the opportunity to seek compensation for damages or discriminatory practices, most of which arise out of breaches of treaty obligations by the governments of host countries.

International Law is both an introduction to the subject and a critical consideration of its central themes and debates.

This book examines the challenges posed by the largely unfamiliar culture in which the Special Court for Sierra Leone operates.

The United Nations, whose specialized agencies were the subject of an Appendix to the 1958 edition of Oppenheim's International Law: Peace, has expanded beyond all recognition since its founding in 1945.

Investment arbitration has become the primary means of settling disputes between states and foreign investors.

Multinational Enterprises and the Law presents the only comprehensive, contemporary, and interdisciplinary account of the various techniques used to regulate multinational enterprises (MNEs) at the national, regional and multilateral levels.

Since World War II, there have been some 250 conflicts throughout the world, leaving between 70-170 million atrocity crime victims.

Transnational commercial law represents the outcome of work undertaken to harmonize national laws affecting domestic and cross-border transactions and is upheld by a diverse spectrum of instruments.

Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society.

In 1998, the Rome Statute to the International Criminal Court (ICC) emerged as a groundbreaking treaty both due to its codification of international criminal law and its recognition of the crimes committed against women in times of war and conflict.

This is a book about international criminal justice written by one of its foremost practitioners and academic thinkers, Judge Theodor Meron.

The last 150 years of international dispute resolution on sovereign debt offer lessons for the next wave of sovereign defaults.