Public international law: responsibility of states and other entities

Due diligence is a prominent concept in international law, frequently referred to in arbitral awards, court decisions, and in scholarly discussions on state responsibility.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of international cultural heritage law and policy since 1945.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.

The book outlines legal limits to the veto power of UN Security Council permanent members while atrocity crimes are occurring.

A timely analysis of State complicity in international law, which takes an innovative rule-of-law perspective.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.

There are few existential challenges more serious in the twenty first century than energy transition.

The question of the authority of international law over domestic authorities and the duties of state officials to international law are fundamental concerns in international legal theory and practice.

This book examines modern trends in intelligence oversight development and how these mechanisms bolster an internal security system, increasing the secrecy of the intelligence enterprise.

Using contemporary case studies, this book offers a novel legal perspective on the protection of cultural heritage during war.

The influence of international courts is ubiquitous, covering areas from the law of the sea to international criminal law.

The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts assesses the growing role of domestic courts in the interpretation of international law.

Traditionally, legitimacy has been associated exclusively with states.

This book examines an important unresolved question of current international law: the legal position of third-party countermeasures.

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.

This book examines how international law prohibits state and individual complicity.

Amid a global health crisis, the process for declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is at a crossroads.

This book examines an important unresolved question of current international law: the legal position of third-party countermeasures.

Introduces a novel concept of functional international responsibility in international economic law.

Over the past twenty-five years, significant changes in the conduct of wars have increasingly placed civilians in traditional military roles - employing civilians to execute drone strikes, the 'targeted killing' of suspected terrorists, the use of private security contractors in combat zones, and the spread of cyber attacks.

The announcement by China that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme confirms the status of this instrument as the pre-eminent policy choice for mitigating climate change.

Sovereign debt is necessary for the functioning of many modern states, yet its impact on human rights is underexplored in academic literature.

Given that persons typically have a right not to be subjected to the hard treatment of punishment, it would seem natural to conclude that the permissibility of punishment is centrally a question of rights.

State immunity, the idea that a state, including its individual organs, officials and other emanations, may not be proceeded against in the courts of another state in certain instances, has long been and remains a source of international controversy.

This book deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives, and as such, provides the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date.

The role and position of non-state actors in international law is the subject of a long-standing and intensive scholarly debate.

This book examines how the United Nations Security Council, in exercising its power to impose binding non-forcible measures ('sanctions') under Article 41 of the UN Charter, may violate international law.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.

The application of international law by domestic courts has gained increasing attention in recent years.

Challenges the centrality of uti possidetis in the law of territory, with in-depth human rights law coverage of African secession.

This book addresses the international legal obligation to protect economic, social, and cultural human rights in times of armed conflict and other situations of armed violence.

A fresh look at the bridges and boundaries between foreign relations law and public international law.

The margin of appreciation is a judicial doctrine whereby international courts allow states to have a measure of diversity in their interpretation of human rights treaty obligations.

Traditionally the issues concerning the exercise of administrative powers by public authorities were considered a type of national enclave.

Prosecution of serious crimes of international concern has been few and far between before and even after the establishment of the International Criminal Court in 2002.

In this unique, forward-looking Handbook, global legal observers assess the existence and emergence of under-researched disaster risk reduction law''.

The UN Security Council's transition to 'targeted sanctions' in the 1990s marked a revolutionary shift in the locus of the Council's decision-making from states to individuals.

Although sexual violence directed at both females and males is a reality in many on-going conflicts throughout the world today, accountability for the perpetrators of such violence remains the exception rather than the rule.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.

Focuses on the four individuals who created the world''s first international tribunals and how they sought justice for millions of victims.

The demise and rebirth of states brings with it a set of very complicated legal issues, among which is the question of how to deal with that state's cultural heritage, whether within its boundaries or not.

The international law on the use of force is one of the oldest branches of international law.

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

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.