Public international law: treaties and other sources

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.

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.

Many international obligations are subject to exceptions.

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.

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

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 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 monograph examines the relationship between treaties providing for uninterrupted energy transit and countermeasures under the law of international responsibility.

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 entangling alliance with ten European nations.

The Council of Europe, of which all European States are members, plays a pivotal role in the promotion and protection of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in Europe.

The rise of investment arbitration in the last decade has generated an unprecedented body of arbitral case law.

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

The perceived impact of WTO law on the domestic regulatory autonomy of WTO Members is increasingly becoming the subject of controversy and debate.

Large-scale population transfers are immensely disruptive.

Why do some attempts to conclude alliance treaties end in failure?

Soft law increasingly shapes and impacts the content of international law in multiple ways, from being a first step in a norm-making process to providing detailed rules and technical standards required for the interpretation and the implementation of treaties.

The four Geneva Conventions, adopted in 1949, remain the fundamental basis of contemporary international humanitarian law.

From trade relations to greenhouse gases, from shipwrecks to cybercrime, treaties structure the rights and obligations of states, international organizations, and individuals.

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

This book queries, through the prism of the Convention for the Protection and the Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (the Convention), the ways in which the processes and substance of international law-making have shifted in response to new technologies and new actors.

The existing literature on the substantive and procedural aspects of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) relies heavily on investment treaty arbitration decisions as a source of law.

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

First published in 2006, this essential tool for researchers and practitioners captures the international law practice of a global player.

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

In contrast to the views current only a few years ago, when federalism as a system of government was regarded, in academic circles in North America at least, as passe and even reactionary, there is today throughout the world, and especially in Western Europe, a tremendous interest in the federal idea.

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

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der Frage der Reform der Verfassungsvertrage der Europaischen Union aus gegenwartiger Perspektive.

This volume is an edited collection of essays on various aspects of the 2010 Kosovo Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice.

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.

Customary international law is a widely-recognised modality of international lawmaking.

Article-by-article commentary on the Third Geneva Convention based on latest practice, case law, academic commentary and ICRC experience.

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

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.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues of international law.

La moderna romanistica denomina pignus in causa iudicati captum a la forma de ejecucion de las condenas dinerarias utilizadas en el sistema procesal denominado extraordinaria cognitio.

This book examines the implications of geographical change for maritime jurisdiction under the law of the sea.

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.

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

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).

For Moldova, the signing of the Association Agreement and the DCFTA with the European Union in 2014 was an act of strategic geopolitical significance.

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 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 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.

Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather events, high-level climate change diplomacy, special UN days of celebration, and popular media references to impending ecological collapse, most students are not exposed to the detailed presentation and analysis of the international relations and diplomacy of environmental policy-making.

First published in 1917, Satow's Diplomatic Practice has long been hailed as a classic and authoritative text.

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'.