Public international law: treaties and other sources

This book addresses the crucial - but oddly neglected - question of what it means to say climate change is political.

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 book revisits the theory of the sources of international law from the perspective of formalism.

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

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

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 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981, is the only universal human rights instrument specifically focusing on religious intolerance and discrimination.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) oversees the negotiation and enforcement of formal rules governing international trade.

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

This book focuses on how public and private international law address civil liability for transboundary pollution.

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

In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of investors seeking compensation from states perceived to have expropriated their projects.

This concise updated collection of essential EU primary and secondary law effectively guides students to the material they need during exams.

Governments are rightly discussing reform of investment treaties, and of the incredibly powerful system of 'investor-state dispute settlement' (ISDS) upon which they rest.

Along with treaties, custom is one of the sources of international law.

An International Court of Civil Justice would give victims of multinationals a day in court while offering corporate defendants a cheaper, fairer litigation alternative.

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

This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a new perspective on world history.

The Geneva Conventions are the best-known and longest-established laws governing warfare, but what difference do they make to how states engage in armed conflict?

Explains what bilateral tax treaties are and what they share with the UN and OECD Model Conventions.

Discusses key issues under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that affect the further design of national and international law on biosafety.

Patrick Dumberry provides a comprehensive analysis of the rules of customary international law in the field of international investment law.

This book provides a conceptual and legal analysis of the core of investment protection guarantees that emerge from international treaties signed since 1959 for the promotion and protection of foreign investment.

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

International Law is both an introduction to the subject and a critical consideration of its central themes and debates.

Treaty shopping, also known under the terms of nationality planning, corporate (re-)structuring or corporate maneuvering, implies a strategic change of nationality or strategic invocation of another nationality with the aim of accessing another (usually more favourable) investment treaty for purposes of investment arbitration.

On September 5, 2009, the commanding officer of NATO's German troops in Afghanistan ordered a U.

Along with treaties, custom is one of the sources of international law.

The First Bilateral Investment Treaties is the first and only history of the U.

In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the number of investors seeking compensation from states perceived to have expropriated their projects.

Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.

This book provides an article-by-article commentary on the text of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and its Annexes, one of the cornerstone disarmament and arms control agreements.

Over the past 10 years, the content and application of international trade law has grown dramatically.

This book should be read by anyone with an interest in the interaction between trade law and international standardization.

This is the second volume in a series which has been founded by the Faculty of Law in the University of Western Ontario as a forum for presentation of research in law and related social sciences.

Challenging the classic narrative that sovereign states make the law that constrains them, this book argues that treaties and other sources of international law form only the starting point of legal authority.

The occurrence of treaties throughout the Ancient Near East has been investigated on a number of occasions, generally in order to resolve certain questions arising in the biblical field.

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

Large-scale population transfers are immensely disruptive.

Now in its third edition, this book is the authoritative text on one of the world's most important human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an "e;entangling alliance"e; with ten European nations.

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

This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an "e;entangling alliance"e; with ten European nations.

The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change.

This book should be read by anyone with an interest in the interaction between trade law and international standardization.

This study examines the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).

'It will change the way you remember the 20th century and read the news in the 21st' Steven Pinker'A clarion call to preserve law and order across our planet' Philippe Sands'A fascinating and important book .

Overview with case studies will appeal to generalists and specialists in international law and relations.