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The Human Rights Treaty Obligations of Peacekeepers
Do States, through their military forces, have legal obligations under human rights treaties towards the local civilian population during UN-mandated peace operations? It is …
The Law of Internal Armed Conflict
Laws regulating armed conflict have existed for centuries, but the bulk of these provisions have been concerned with wars between states. Relatively little attention has been paid …
Proportionality and Deference in Investor-State Arbitration
In this study, Caroline Henckels examines how investment tribunals have balanced the competing interests of host states and foreign investors in determining state liability in …
International Investment Law and Legal Theory
Expropriation is a hotly debated issue in international investment law. This is the first study to provide a detailed analysis of its norm-theoretical dimension, setting out the …
Exclusion from Public Space
Hardly known twenty years ago, exclusion from public space has today become a standard tool of state intervention. Every year, tens of thousands of homeless individuals, drug …
Non-Legality in International Law
International lawyers typically start with the legal. What is a legal as opposed to a political question? How should international law adapt to the unforeseen? These are the routes …
Democracy, Minorities and International Law
This work explores the contribution that international law may make to the resolution of culture conflicts - political disputes between the members of different ethno-cultural …
Proof of Causation in Tort Law
Causation is a foundational concept in tort law: in claims for compensation, a claimant must demonstrate that the defendant was a cause of the injury suffered in order for …
International Courts and Environmental Protection
International environmental law has come of age, yet the global environment continues to deteriorate. The challenge of the twenty-first century is to reverse this process by …
The Individual in the International Legal System
Kate Parlett's study of the individual in the international legal system examines the way in which individuals have come to have a certain status in international law, from the …
Conflict of Laws
This clear and authoritative introduction to the principles of a complex and rapidly changing area of the law now appears in a revised and updated form, with a completely new …
State Control over Private Military and Security Companies in Armed Conflict
The past two decades have witnessed the rapid proliferation of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in armed conflicts around the world, with PMSCs participating in, for …