Books in the Studies in International Law series

Sanctions have become an increasingly popular tool of foreign policy. Bringing together scholars and government and private practitioners, this book provides an overview of recent developments and an analysis of the problems that they have engendered

International law has long been dominated by the state, but the rise of the notion of common goods challenges this dominance. This volume explores the transformative impact that this is having on international law.

This book examines the issues and challenges raised by the debarment or disqualification of corrupt suppliers from public contracts, comparing and contrasting the legal, practical and institutional approaches to the implementation of the disqualification.

This book analyses the emerging practice in the post-Cold War era of the creation of a democratic political system along with the creation of new states.

A recent development in the immigration policies of several European states is to make the admission of foreign nationals dependent upon criteria relating to their integration. This book aims to clarify the legal implications of these policies.

This book aims at the resolution of the dilemma regarding whether armed intervention as a response to gross human rights violations is ever legally justified without Security Council authorisation.

This edited collection focuses upon the growth and complexity of legal methods used in international dispute settlement, which includes judicial settlement, arbitration and other legal means.

To anyone setting out to explore the entanglement of international criminal justice with the interests of States, Germany is a particularly curious, exemplary case. This book draws on government documents and interviews with policymakers, to enrich a broader debate which has to date often been focused primarily on the United States.

The outsourcing of military and security services is the object of intense legal debate. This book analyses and discusses the interplay between international, European, and domestic regulatory measures in the field of private military and security companies (PMSCs).

The law governing unilateral declarations of intention by states is far from clear. This monograph fills a gap in international legal scholarship by raising and answering the question of the precise legal value of such pledges in the realm of public international law.

This book explores the distinction and relationship between two principal branches of international law regulating the use of force: jus ad bellum (international law regulating the resort to force) and jus in bello (international humanitarian law).

Increasingly, European and other Western states have sought to control the movement of refugees outside their borders. This book focuses on the legal implications of external mechanisms of migration control for the protection of refugees and irregular migrants.

This book aims to enhance our understanding of how international and national courts can, and do, contribute to or mitigate problems associated with fragmentation. It contains case studies from international regimes (eg WTO, IMF, ECtHR) and from various national jurisdictions (including Japan, Norway, Switzerland and the UK).

This book explores the importance of legal contexts and institutional settings to international law-interpretation and application.

The increasingly transnational nature of terrorist activities compels the international community to strengthen the legal framework in which counter-terrorist activities should occur, including at the intergovernmental level. This monograph examines one such important intergovernmental organisation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

This book is the second in a series which addresses practical issues relating to contracting under the Cape Town Convention.

This book analyses the legal questions raised by terrorism, and efforts to fight it, from the perspective of international humanitarian law.

This book argues that an international community of liberal states has increasingly demonstrated a tendency to deny non-liberal states their previously held sovereign right to non-intervention; and that this has impacted profoundly on international law.

This new work contributes to addressing the challenge of eradicating global hunger, by looking at the obstacles which prevent the implementation of a right to food in the era of globalisation.

This book explores how contract claims against states are dealt with in the parallel processes of treaty-based and contract-based arbitration.

This book considers the effects of sovereignty and bilateralism on the Gibraltar dispute, and examines the resulting deficits of governance.

This edited collection focuses upon the growth and complexity of legal methods used in international dispute settlement, which includes judicial settlement, arbitration and other legal means.

This book restates the deliberative ideal developed by Habermas, and applies this to the systems of global governance.

This book offers comprehensive institutional, thematic and regional analysis of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the powers of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

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

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.