
1. Introduction and Overview:: The Ambit of International Law
Vaughan Lowe
in International Law
Celebrated for their conceptual clarity, titles in the Clarendon Law Series offer concise, accessible overviews of major fields of law and legal thought. This book is a text about ...
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13. International Economic Law
Martin Dixon, Robert McCorquodale, and Sarah Williams
in Cases & Materials on International Law (6th edn)
This chapter begins by defining international economic law. It then discusses the main international economic institutions: the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and ...
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8. Terrorism
Antonio Cassese, Paola Gaeta, Laurel Baig, Mary Fan, Christopher Gosnell, and Alex Whiting
in Cassese's International Criminal Law (3rd edn)
Terrorism, as in the case of torture and aggression, is often treated as outside the ‘core crimes’ bracket of deserving international criminal adjudication. Many states believe that ...
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15. The repression of international crimes in domestic jurisdictions
Antonio Cassese, Paola Gaeta, Laurel Baig, Mary Fan, Christopher Gosnell, and Alex Whiting
in Cassese's International Criminal Law (3rd edn)
This chapter discusses the relation between international law and criminal jurisdiction by states and examines the main heads of jurisdiction applied by states. It then analyzes the content ...
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16. The Role of the United Nations
Antonio Cassese
in International Law (2nd edn)
This chapter discusses the role of the United Nations, covering the grand design of the post-Second World War period; goals and structure of the new organization; principal achievements and ...
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9. Postscript
Vaughan Lowe
in International Law
Celebrated for their conceptual clarity, titles in the Clarendon Law Series offer concise, accessible overviews of major fields of law and legal thought. This chapter presents some brief, ...
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10. State responsibility
Gleider Hernández
in International Law
This chapter illustrates the concept of responsibility in international law. Within international law, the term ‘responsibility’ has long been understood to denote how fault or blame is ...
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4. War crimes
Antonio Cassese, Paola Gaeta, Laurel Baig, Mary Fan, Christopher Gosnell, and Alex Whiting
in Cassese's International Criminal Law (3rd edn)
This chapter begins with a discussion of the notion of war crimes. It then covers the criminalization of the serious violation of a rule of international humanitarian law; the objective and ...
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1. The Nature of the International Legal System
Martin Dixon, Robert McCorquodale, and Sarah Williams
in Cases & Materials on International Law (6th edn)
International law is a description of an entire legal system: the international legal system. It is an international legal system by which legal rules are created in order to structure and ...
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5. International law and environmental protection
Stuart Bell, Donald McGillivray, Ole W. Pedersen, Emma Lees, and Elen Stokes
in Environmental Law (9th edn)
This chapter describes the development, scope, and application of international environmental law, which has expanded significantly since the late 1960s. The focus is on international ...
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1. Fundamentals of international criminal law
Antonio Cassese, Paola Gaeta, Laurel Baig, Mary Fan, Christopher Gosnell, and Alex Whiting
in Cassese's International Criminal Law (3rd edn)
International criminal law (ICL) is a body of international rules designed both to proscribe certain categories of conduct (war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, torture, ...
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19. The Protection of Human Rights
Antonio Cassese
in International Law (2nd edn)
The human rights doctrine forces States to give account of how they treat their nationals, administer justice, run prisons, and so on. Potentially, it can subvert their domestic order and, ...
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1. The sources of international criminal law
Douglas Guilfoyle
in International Criminal Law
This chapter provides a brief introduction to the two main sources of public international law, treaty law and customary international law. It provides a basic overview of the law of ...
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23. International Investment Law
Surya P Subedi
in International Law (5th edn)
This chapter discusses the development and current state of international investment law, which encompasses international finance law, international trade law, international investment law, ...
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15. Enforcement
Antonio Cassese
in International Law (2nd edn)
This chapter first summarizes traditional law on two main grounds: this body of law has not been completely superseded, let alone obliterated, by the new law; it is impossible to fully ...
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5. The Internationalization of Public Law and its Impact on the UK
David Feldman
in The Changing Constitution (9th edn)
Municipal public law (by which is meant the public law of national or sub-national polities, including but not limited to local government) is always influenced by events taking place ...
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1. The history and nature of international law
Gleider Hernández
in International Law
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the history and nature of international law. Rather than regulating the behaviour of individuals in their relations with one another, ...
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5. Soft Law in International Law-Making
Alan Boyle
in International Law (5th edn)
From a law-making perspective the term ’soft lawʼ is in most cases simply a convenient description for a variety of non-legally binding instruments used in contemporary international ...
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22. Laws around the World
Geoffrey Rivlin
in First Steps in the Law (7th edn)
This chapter examines the different laws of the international community of Nations. International law is the law between Nations. It has developed out of customs over the centuries, but it ...
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3. The Principles of the International Legal System
Vaughan Lowe
in International Law
Celebrated for their conceptual clarity, titles in the Clarendon Law Series offer concise, accessible overviews of major fields of law and legal thought. The closest thing to a manifesto ...
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