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International Human Rights and Islamic Law
This volume examines the important question of whether or not international human rights and Islamic law are compatible. It asks whether Muslim States can comply with international …
The International Minimum Standard and Fair and Equitable Treatment
Investment protection treaties generally provide for the obligation to treat investments fairly and equitably, even if the wording of the rule and its relationship with the …
Disobeying the Security Council
This book examines how the United Nations Security Council, in exercising its power to impose binding non-forcible measures ('sanctions') under Article 41 of the UN Charter, may …
Defining Terrorism in International Law
Despite numerous efforts since the 1920s, the international community has failed to define or criminalize 'terrorism' in international law. This book first explores the policy …
Formalism and the Sources of International Law
This book revisits the theory of the sources of international law from the perspective of formalism. It critically analyses the virtues of formalism, construed as a theory of law …
International Justice and the International Criminal Court
Since the Nuremberg Trials of top Nazi leaders following the Second World War, international law has affirmed that no-one, whatever their rank or office, is above accountability …
The Responsibility of States for International Crimes
This text focuses on the concept of state responsibility for international crimes, which gained support following World War I, but was pushed into the background by the development …
International Organizations as Law-makers
International Organizations as Law-makers addresses how international organizations with a global reach, such as the UN and the WTO, have changed the mechanisms and reasoning …
Towards an International Criminal Procedure
The aim of this book is to develop an international criminal procedural order. The Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was agreed in 1998. This provides a rough …
International Management of Hazardous Wastes
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal celebrates its tenth anniversary in 1999. As the only treaty addressing …
Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law
The recent explosion of investment treaty arbitration marks a revolutionary change in both international and public law, above all because it demonstrates how states have …
Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties
Questions as to when a state owes obligations under a human rights treaty towards an individual located outside its territory are being brought more and more frequently before both …