Explains why successful international peacebuilding depends on the unorthodox actions of country-based staff, whose deviations from approved procedures make global governance organizations accountable to local realities.
An exploration of economic rights afforded Indigenous peoples in international law and their diffusion to international trade and investment instruments.
An innovative analysis of international rules and rule-making in the Global South, focusing on the increasing interventionism of regional institutions.
Establishes a framework for analyzing and assessing the accountability mechanisms of international organizations, and applies it to three case studies.
This book examines anti-corporate activism in the United States, providing a nuanced understanding of the changing focal points of challenges to corporations.
Many of the most controversial areas of reform initiated by the Lisbon Treaty were not negotiated in the Treaty itself, but left to be resolved during its implementation.
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.
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.
Extensively updated, this third edition textbook clearly conveys the set-up of international organisations and the logic behind international institutional law.
The book examines one of the most debated issues in current international law: to what extent the international legal system has constitutional features comparable to what we find in national law.
Using the theoretical tools drawn from historical materialism and deconstruction, Tzouvala offers a comprehensive history of the standard of civilisation.
The first comprehensive overview of international immunity law, offering an essential work of reference for scholars, practitioners and legal advisors.
The first comprehensive overview of international immunity law, offering an essential work of reference for scholars, practitioners and legal advisors.