Public international law: treaties and other sources

This book identifies a paradigm shift in international investment law and enquires into how states reassert control over investment treaties.

Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in the scale and importance of economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights), culminating in the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in December 2008.

The Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) had many opponents when, in 1995, it came up for extension.

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.

Traditionally, international investment law was conceptualised as a set of norms aiming to ensure good governance for foreign investors, in exchange for their capital and know-how.

This book is intended to promote discussion and understanding of customary law and to explore its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa.

This is the first text to address all the instruments that will govern choice-of-court agreements in Europe and to engage in a practical discussion of their mutual relationship.

This book explores the large and controversial subject of the use of force in international law.

This book provides a serious and timely perspective on the relationship between two important and dynamic fields of international law.

This book provides legal interpretation of the TRIPS Agreement for facilitating innovation of and access to environmentally sound technologies.

This Commentary provides an article-by-article summary of the TEU, the TFEU, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, offering a quick reference to the provisions of the Treaties and how they are interpreted and applied in practice.

This second edition identifies the problems of interpreting WTO agreements, addressing the legislative developments and updating the case law.

Failings of the International Court of Justice critically examines the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice.

Explores which laws and actors govern the negotiation, interpretation and implementation of peace agreements to settle intra-state conflicts.

The United Nations Convention against Corruption includes 71 articles, and takes a notably comprehensive approach to the problem of corruption, as it addresses prevention, criminalization, international cooperation, and asset recovery.

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 frequent claims that the regulation of international law is uncertain, vague, ambiguous, or indeterminate, which does not support the desired stability, transparency, or predictability of international legal relations.

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 1968 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty has proven the most complicated and controversial of all arms control treaties, both in principle and in practice.

How can strategic treaty management complement legal compliance mechanisms to drive more effective and responsive treaties within global governance networks?

Addresses challenges to the implementation of international human rights law from institutional, normative and practical perspectives.

Garantías sociales en el ordenamiento internacional y en los procesos de integración, es el título del número 12 de la Colección IUS COGENS: Derecho Internacional e Integración.

The doctrine of state immunity bars a national court from adjudicating or enforcing claims against foreign states.

The enhanced cooperation mechanism allows at least nine Member States to introduce secondary EU law which is only binding among these Member States.

This book uses the case of Northern Ireland to evaluate theoretical approaches in international relations.

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 Oxford Handbook of International Legal Theory provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the major thinkers, concepts, approaches, and debates that have shaped contemporary international legal theory.

The Brussels I Regulation has undergone a lengthy review process, resulting in Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (recast).

International lawyers have long recognised the importance of interpretation to their academic discipline and professional practice.

This Commentary provides an article-by-article summary of the TEU, the TFEU, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, offering a quick reference to the provisions of the Treaties and how they are interpreted and applied in practice.

International law's rich existence in the world can be illuminated by its objects.

The enhanced cooperation mechanism allows at least nine Member States to introduce secondary EU law which is only binding among these Member States.

An examination of the scope of States'' right of self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter in the post-9/11 security environment.

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

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most extensive and widely ratified international human rights treaty.

How did Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic become the newest members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?

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

The signing of the Association Agreement and DCFTA between Moldova and the European Union in 2014 was a strategic political act to deepen the realisation of Moldova's 'European choice'.

This volume analyses key theoretical, institutional and legal aspects of intergenerational equity and justice in multi-level sustainable development treaty implementation.

This book examines whether international agreements between non-state actors can be identified as a source of international law using objective criteria.

Under the relevant rules of international law, treaties are interpreted in accordance with the ordinary meaning of the language they use, their object and purpose, and the intention of the drafters, but also in light of the subsequent practice of its parties.

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.

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.

Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, a role it retained until the end of the Cold War.

Does a right to property exist under international law?

Customary international law is one of the principal sources of public international law.

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