Books in the Studies in International Law series

This book covers the most pressing legal issues raised by the impact of biotechnologies on different categories of international norms.

This book addresses a broad range of theoretical and practical aspects of the question of allocation of authority in international law.

This book considers the link between the discipline of international lawyers and the foundations issues of jurisprudential method.

This book reviews state responses to terrorist violence and assesses the effects of modern counterterrorism law and policies on democratic states.

This book assesses whether the 'war on terror' can be accommodated within the existing legal framework limiting the use of force.

The book investigates whether amnesty entails violation of a state's international obligations or whether it can contribute to peace and justice.

This book deals with the proliferation of SALW and their unregulated trade and transfer across borders.

This book, written by leading experts, comprehensively analyses the suitability of existing legal tools to enforce rules prohibiting terrorism.

In this book international lawyers address the intellectual challenges concerning African states and peoples contributions to international law.

This book evaluates the concept of human security in terms of international law and sheds light on debates about it's potential and limitations.

This book is an interdisciplinary work, aimed at academics and practitioners, which focuses on five key dimensions of BIT arbitration.

This book is systematic overview of the different tools through which the human rights accountability of transnational corporations may be improved.

This book follows and complements the previous volume Biotechnology and International Law (Hart 2006) bringing a specific focus on human rights.

This book constructs a version of property that articulates both its private and public function and restores some balance to the discourse.

This work focuses on whether the use of nuclear weapons during international armed conflict violates existing norms of public international law.

The aim of this book is the quest for a well-balanced legal system that reconciles predictability and flexibility in the law of maritime delimitation.

This book tracks the contributions to the development of human rights law made by judges of the International Court of Justice.

This book, written by leading experts, comprehensively analyses the suitability of existing legal tools to enforce rules prohibiting terrorism.

In this original and incisive study, the author investigates the relationship between Islamic law, States practices and International terrorism.

This book examines the legal and policy issues involved in the establishment and functioning of the Permanent International Criminal Court.

This book examines the development of collective security by regional organisations particularly after the Cold War.

The role and position of non-state actors in international law is the subject of a long-standing and intensive scholarly debate. This book explores the participation of this new category of actors in an international legal system that has historically been dominated by states. It explores the most important issues, actors and theoretical approaches with respect to these new participants in international law. It provides the reader with a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the most important legal and political developments and perspectives.Relevant non-state actors discussed in this volume include, in particular, international governmental organisations, international non-governmental organisations, multinational companies, investors and armed opposition groups. Their legal position is considered in relation to specific issue-areas, such as humanitarian law, human rights, the use of force and international responsibility. The main legal theories on non-state actors'' position in international law - neo-positivism, the policy-oriented approach and transnational law - are covered at the beginning of the book, and the essential political science perspectives - on non-state actors'' role in international politics and globalisation, as well as their soft power - are presented at the end.

The principal aim of this book is to address the international legal questions arising from the 'right of visit on the high seas' in the 21st century.

This book provides a rigorous application of international legal rules governing the proper interpretation of the institutions' mandates.

This book responds to the contemporary challenges faced by the international protection regime, in particular the human rights of those displaced.