Public international law: responsibility of states and other entities

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

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

Comparative perspective identifies common drivers of protective state-building and cross-national differences in the politics of protection.

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

Suggests that the Euro-crisis ought to be conceptualised as an inevitable symptom of the inherent systemic flaws of the EU.

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

Comparative perspective identifies common drivers of protective state-building and cross-national differences in the politics of protection.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure.

Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure.

Public international law has embarked on a new chapter.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication that 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 Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication that 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.

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

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

The history of war is also a history of its justification.

The history of war is also a history of its justification.

Arms control and disarmament are key elements in promoting international peace and security.

Arms control and disarmament are key elements in promoting international peace and security.

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 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.

Attribution in International Law and Arbitration clarifies and critically discusses the international rules of attribution of conduct, particularly regarding their application to states under international investment law.

Attribution in International Law and Arbitration clarifies and critically discusses the international rules of attribution of conduct, particularly regarding their application to states under international investment law.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

Traditionally, legitimacy has been associated exclusively with states.

Traditionally, legitimacy has been associated exclusively with states.

This book explores the extent to which contemporary international law expects states to take into account the interests of others - namely third states or their citizens - when they form and implement their policies, negotiate agreements, and generally conduct their relations with other states.

This book explores the extent to which contemporary international law expects states to take into account the interests of others - namely third states or their citizens - when they form and implement their policies, negotiate agreements, and generally conduct their relations with other states.

This is the first monograph to scrutinize the relationship between the concept of international legal personality as a theoretical construct and the position of the ultimate subject, the individual, as a matter of positive international law.

This is the first monograph to scrutinize the relationship between the concept of international legal personality as a theoretical construct and the position of the ultimate subject, the individual, as a matter of positive international law.

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.

What is Justice?

What is Justice?

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

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

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.

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

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