Public international law: responsibility of states and other entities

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

Terrorism and International Law: Accountability, Remedies, and Reform A Report of the IBA Task Force on Terrorism examines the developments in international law and practice in a dynamic and often controversial area.

What is Justice?

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.

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

This second edition of International Environmental Law, Policy, and Ethics revises and expands this groundbreaking study into the question of why the environment is protected in the international arena.

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

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

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 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.

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.

This book sets out the legal issues surrounding privatized peacekeepers, and asks the essential questions for the debate going forward.

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

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

This book examines the extent to which international law places obligations directly on corporate entities.

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

The idea of cultural heritage as an 'international public good' can be traced back to the Preamble of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, according to which "e;damage to cultural property belonging to any people whatsoever means damage to the cultural heritage of all mankind"e;.

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.

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

The rules of state responsibility have an important but under-utilized role to play in the terrorism context.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

This book explores the extent to which the EU, and its Member States, are responsible for violations of international law.

Public international law has embarked on a new chapter.

International law has long differentiated between international and non-international armed conflicts, traditionally regulating the former far more comprehensively than the latter.

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 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.

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

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

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 three-volume Manual on International Maritime Law presents a systematic analysis of the history and contemporary development of international maritime law by leading contributors from across the world.

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.

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

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

The law of neutrality - the corpus of legal rules regulating the relationship between belligerents and States taking no part in hostilities - assumed its modern form in a world in which the waging of war was unconstrained.

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

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.

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 values of freedom and equality are at the heart of what it means for liberal states to do justice to their citizens.

What is Justice?

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

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