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The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment
In the history of how the law has dealt with environmental issues over the last century or so, the 1920s and 30s and the key role of the League of Nations in particular remain …
Diversity and Self-determination in International Law
The emergence of new states and independence movements after the Cold War has intensified the long-standing disagreement among international lawyers over the right of …
The Rebirth of Territory
The concept of territory is central in international law, but a detailed analysis of how the concept is used in both discourse and practice has been lacking until now. Rather than …
Enforcing Obligations Erga Omnes in International Law
The concept of obligations erga omnes - obligations to the international community as a whole - has fascinated international lawyers for decades, yet its precise implications …
Virtue in Global Governance
Since rules - legal, ethical or otherwise - cannot determine their own application, they require persons of flesh and blood to interpret and apply them in concrete cases. …
Popular Governance of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Under what conditions does a post-conflict government have authority? What challenges to its legitimacy does it face? To what standards can it be held accountable? Via case studies …
Negative Comparative Law
Written under the sign of Beckett, this book addresses comparative law's commitment to the deterritorialization of the legal and its attendant claim for the normative relevance of …
Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards
The debate on indigenous rights has revealed some serious difficulties for current international law, posed mainly by different understandings of important concepts. This book …
Narratives of Hunger in International Law
This book explores the role that the language of international law plays in constructing understandings - or narratives - of hunger in the context of climate change. The story is …
International Law-Making by the International Court of Justice and International Law Commission
The book provides an unparalleled account of the links that draw together the International Court of Justice and the International Law Commission, exposing the depth of the …
Rewriting Histories of the Use of Force
It is commonly taught that the prohibition of the use of force is an achievement of the twentieth century and that beforehand States were free to resort to the arms as they …
Religious Liberty and International Law in Europe
The freedom of religion is one of the oldest and most controversial of the claims that are now recognized as forming part of the corpus of human rights. In this important and …