Public international law: international organizations and institutions

International Law and the European Union addresses the public international law issues that arise from the European Union''s international action.

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

This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.

Demonstrates how the Reagan administration and members of Congress shaped US human rights policy in the late Cold War.

Michael Vagias analyses the law and procedure surrounding the territorial jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

The first book-length study of international law through the lens of altruism.

Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights argues for an expansive definition of human rights, one that encompasses the harm caused by multiple, intersecting forms of subordination.

A new and systematic view of how global international society came into being and acquired its current structure and dynamics.

A new and systematic view of how global international society came into being and acquired its current structure and dynamics.

Based on in-depth fieldwork, Tim Glawion explores how local security functions in some of the world''s most fragile states across Central and East Africa.

The first book to study how peace operations have engaged with business to influence its peace-building impact in fragile and conflict-affected societies.

A new history of the idea of the modern state and its ''personality'', showing the centrality of Pufendorf to its development and propagation.

Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law''s history and its relation to empire and capitalism.

The right to a fair trial is the most litigated human right in the world.

This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.

International organizations are increasingly operating across borders and engaging in legal transactions in virtually all jurisdictions.

This Commentary offers detailed background and analysis of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was adopted at the UN Headquarters in New York in July 2017.

Essential for students and scholars in politics and law, Pelc provides a comprehensive account of the politics of treaty flexibility.

Explores the contributions of international courts and tribunals in terms of performance by offering a comparative analysis of international courts.

This book analyzes new developments in human rights, intellectual property, disarmament, and migration from a perspective rooted in Vatican tradition.

While treaties can be notoriously difficult to amend by formal means, they must nevertheless be adapted over time in order to remain useful.

A novel and ground-breaking analysis of the prosecution of environmental harm before the International Criminal Court, addressing both the substance and procedure.

Laura Grenfell critically evaluates how the rule of law is contextualized and promoted in states where customary law is prevalent.

Is the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system (DSS) effective?

Peoples and minorities in many parts of the world assert a right to self-determination, autonomy, and even secession from a state, which naturally conflicts with that state's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

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

This book assesses whether a new category of religious actors has been constructed within international law.

Exploring theoretical foundations for the distribution of shared responsibility, this book provides a basis for the development of international law.

The first book to analyse and make proposals for improving the law and management of collaborative defence procurement programmes.

This book focuses on a review of how sixty years of case-law and regulatory activity transformed the European continent and the world.

An analysis of the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in international norm creation and the progressive development of international humanitarian law.

Takes stock of current challenges to the world trading system and develops scenarios for the future.

Examining the legacy of Alberico Gentili, this book questions conventional narratives about how states monopolized the right to wage war.

The application of international law to state contracts with foreign private companies was the cause of continuing controversy throughout much of the twentieth century.

A comprehensive and comparative overview of the law of provisional measures between different international courts and tribunals.

This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of international legal debates between 1955 and 1975 related to the formal decolonization process.

Procedural issues are an area of increasing complexity and concern in modern investment arbitration, and one in which very little guidance currently exists.

Evaluates the fundamental legitimacy of judicial practice in the growing number of environmental cases heard before international courts.

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

The Court of Justice of the European Union has often been characterised both as a motor of integration and a judicial law-maker.

Teaches how and why states make, break, and uphold international law using accessible explanations and contemporary international issues.

This book describes the rules governing appeals before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

This book explores the history and agendas of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) through its activities in South Asia.

Different countries incorporate and interpret international law in different ways.

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

How can procedural objections be used to address the emerging phenomenon of forum shopping before international tribunals?

The European Court of Human Rights is one of the main players in interpreting international human rights law where issues of general international law arise.