Public international law: international organizations and institutions

A multidisciplinary empirical study of how juvenile justice standards were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda.

A collection of expert essays analysing the AFSJ and its implications from the point of view of fundamental rights.

Peacebuilding is explained by combining interpretive frameworks (paradigms) that have evolved from the subfields of international relations and comparative politics.

Discusses the concept of unipolarity and the political implications of US primacy for the patterns of international politics.

Contrasts democratic and authoritarian approaches to international law, explaining how their interaction will affect the world in the future.

Article-by-article commentary on the Third Geneva Convention based on latest practice, case law, academic commentary and ICRC experience.

This book argues that informal state power explains the institutional design, performance shortcomings and legitimacy problems in international organizations.

Explores how Vattel used the natural law tradition to frame a pragmatic and treaty-oriented model of the law of nations.

In a world full of armed conflict and human misery, global justice remains one of the most compelling missions of our time.

A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

Explores family policies related to households of children with disabilities, providing an in-depth, evidence-based review of legal, programmatic issues.

This book discusses the conceptual foundations of due diligence obligations and their normative function in the law of international responsibility.

Examines the changing roles of the state, the citizen and the soldier, and the consequences for national and international security.

Now available as an eBook for the first time, this 2006 book from the Melland Schill series considers the main legal issues concerning the use of force by international organisations and states.

Matthew Kennedy exposes the challenges created by the integration and independence of TRIPS within the WTO.

The only comprehensive analysis of international refugee rights, anchored in the hard facts of refugee life around the world.

An analysis of the repeated existential crises affecting the resilience of the European Union in the twenty-first century.

This book represents the first comprehensive analysis of NGO participation at international criminal and human rights courts.

Explores the legal powers, limits and potential of the often misunderstood but highly important United Nations Security Council.

A new approach for studying the interaction between international and domestic processes of criminal law-making in today''s globalized world.

Drawing on expertise from across the worlds of the judiciary, the bar, and legal academia, this book provides fascinating insights into the role of a key Member State and how its legal influence informs the wider Union's development.

A study of how states can lawfully react to malicious cyber conduct, taking into account the problem of timely attribution.

Provides insight into how diverse societies observe and respond to changing environments, for those interested in climate science, policy and adaptation.

Originally published in 1995 and now available as an ebook.

This book traces the creation of international anti-corruption norms by states and other actors through four markedly different institutions: the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United Nations, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and the Financial Action Task Force.

This history of GATT explains how trade was implicated in foreign policy and international relations and connected to global order.

Brings together classic and more recent contributions on the nature and organization of firms.

Applies sociological concepts to international relations by examining how influential social ideas contribute to global governance.

A comprehensive account of legal professional privilege as it applies to corporations covering four major common law jurisdictions: the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States.

In the past twenty years, international criminal law has become one of the main areas of international legal scholarship and practice.

This book traces the creation of international anti-corruption norms by states and other actors through four markedly different institutions: the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United Nations, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, and the Financial Action Task Force.

What are the limits of human rights, and what do these limits mean?

How do parties to peace negotiations actually build durable peace and what conundrums must they solve to achieve durable peace?

A critical analysis of how international law operates in the ideology of the postcolonial state to marginalise minority groups.

Provides the first regulatory history of UN drug control and examines its enabling role in the modern ''war on drugs''.

This work explores in depth the legal consequences of peremptory norms.

Systematic analysis of the determinants of climate policy durability, combining state-of-the-art policy theories with empirical accounts of landmark political events

Dieses Werk liefert interdisziplinäre Ansätze, um die europäische Legitimation bei einem Fortschreiten des Integrationsprozesses zu stützen.

This book argues that policymakers capitalize on Scandinavia''s humanitarian reputation in world affairs to legitimize their policy and diplomatic interests.

The book analyzes State responsibility in international law from a holistic and critical perspective.

This book presents a thorough analysis of US intelligence reforms and their effects on national security and civil liberties.

Looks at international negotiation from a novel, relational international law perspective and challenges prescriptive models.

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.

Explores how the International Colonial Institute, a pervasive colonial think tank established in 1893, reformed colonialism to make empires last.

Critically explores how international law is mobilised, by global and local actors, to achieve or block global justice efforts.

Drawing on novel case studies, this book provides the first substantive theoretical framework for understanding transitional justice and visual art.

This book focusses on the debates concerning aspects of intellectual property law that bear on access to medicines in a set of developing countries.

Can the EU be held legally responsible for its contributions to human rights harms in its Integrated Border Management policy?

Provides the first in-depth exploration of rules of origin in ASEAN''s trade agreements, insightful to practitioners, policymakers and businesses.