Public international law: treaties and other sources

Investment arbitration has become the primary means of settling disputes between states and foreign investors.

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.

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.

Sayle's book is a remarkably well-documented history of the NATO alliance.

A study of state responsibility for acts committed in the course of different stages of adjudicatory process.

Africa often remains neglected in studies that discuss the historical relationship between international law and imperialism during the nineteenth century.

This book represents one of the first comparative studies of international treaty ratification processes in multiple issue areas.

This is the long-awaited second edition of this widely-referenced work on the substantive law principles of investment treaty arbitration.

A history of international law in public debates and its resulting popular language of international law.

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

Comprehensively investigate key characteristics, evolutionary path, driving forces, interpreting methodologies, and some missing puzzles of Chinese BITs.

The thawing Antarctic continent offers living space and marine and mineral resources that were previously inaccessible.

Since the second edition of this commentary on the Charter of the United Nations was published, the text of the Charter may not have changed but the world has.

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

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.

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

Clear and concise: a landmark publication in the teaching of international law from one of the world''s leading international lawyers.

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?

Offers a new perspective on international law and international legal argumentation: to what event is international law a belief system?

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 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.

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.

A wide-ranging and in-depth 2002 survey of U.

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

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.

The violent eruption of the Libya crisis and the seemingly uncoordinated reaction of the international community highlighted once more that efficient crisis management needs to grasp a situation in all its complexity, before being able to act appropriately: The legitimacy of any intervention is crucial for its success, and therefore an international mandate, a coherent approach and a sensible combination of civilian and military means are indispensable.

In this book, Eldar Haber describes how copyright has become over-criminalized.

This new edition of Hugh Thirlway's authoritative text provides an introduction to one of the fundamental questions of the discipline: what is, and what is not, a source of international law.

The effective and efficient management of water is a major problem, not just for economic growth and development in the Nile River basin, but also for the peaceful coexistence of the millions of people who live in the region.

This book focuses on Anglo-American disputes arising out of the civil war in the United States and British interests in the American continent: the Geneva Arbitration, the Venezuela-Guiana Arbitration and the Bhering Sea Arbitration.

Since the enactment of the 1996 Brazilian Arbitration Law, Brazil has become one of the fastest growing arbitration markets in the world; currently ranking third in the top-ten list of countries with most parties involved in ICC Arbitrations.

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.

Following the agreement made by Prime Minister David Cameron with the EU on 18-19 February 2016, the day for the referendum for the UK to remain in or leave the EU is set for 23 June 2016.

Comparative analysis of the public bureaucracy''s implementation of two ASEAN policies in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam.

The third edition of this acclaimed textbook on peace-making after the First World War advances that the responsibility for the outbreak of a new, even more ruinous, war in 1939 cannot be ascribed entirely to the planet's most powerful men and their meeting in Paris in January 1919 to reassemble a shattered world.

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

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

Clear and concise: a landmark publication in the teaching of international law from one of the world''s leading international lawyers.

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

Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it.

The treatment of foreign investors and of their investments on the territory of a host State is often subject to a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) signed by the national State of the investors and the host State.

This is a study of the principal negotiating processes and law-making tools through which contemporary international law is made.

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

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

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

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

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.