Bøger i Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law serien

Neil Craik examines the structure and role of international rules requiring States to undertake environmental impact assessments where their proposed activities may have adverse environmental consequences for other States or for global environmental resources, such as biodiversity or climate change.

The League of Nations, the United Nations and other international actors have exercised powers of governance and administration over territorial entities in the twentieth century. This book traces the historical background, practice and legal challenges of this type of engagement.

This book analyzes the new phenomenon of international organizations assuming the powers of a national government in order to reform political institutions. After reviewing the history of internationalized territories, this book examines why these 'humanitarian occupations' occurred and whether they were legally justified.

Alfred Rubin argues that longstanding disagreements between lawyers, ethicists and political scientists are unlikely to be resolved soon, and that it is unlikely that an international criminal court can be instituted today to enforce ethicists' versions of 'international law'.

This book investigates how national courts 'react' to disputes involving international organizations.

Malcolm Evans describes the ways in which the freedom of religious belief has been incorporated into the legislation of Europe. He goes on to examine the mechanisms by which this freedom is guaranteed, and a number of problematic cases which have recently been discussed in the Council of Europe.

Governments are regarded as the sole representatives of their populations on the international plane. It is therefore important that other voices can be heard in international fora alongside governments. NGOs have an increasingly important legal and political role. This 2006 book explores the possibilities for participation of NGOs in international law.

The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the UN, and successor of the PCIJ, which was the first real permanent court of justice at the international level. Drawing on archival material, this 2005 book describes the groundbreaking contributions of the PCIJ to international law.

One of the most prominent and urgent problems in international governance is how the different branches and norms of international law interact and what to do in the event of conflict. With no single 'international legislator' and a multitude of states, international organisations and tribunals making and enforcing the law, the international legal system is decentralised.

Most conflicts are internal, yet under international law, accountability for acts committed by armed groups is unclear. These groups should be legally identified, argues Liesbeth Zegveld, in this award-winning scholarship. Of interest to academics, postgraduate students and professionals involved with armed conflict and international relations.

This book gives an analysis of the legal issues raised by the international fight against money laundering. A comparative research of the criminal and preventive law aspects from an international perspective, it contains a most detailed overview on the rules and practices of international co-operation in the fight against money laundering.

A penetrating analysis of the relation between trade and environmental protection policies in the EC and the US. Geradin argues that the international tensions in these areas can be resolved by the free trade provisions of the EC Treaty and the US Constitution, and from the setting of common environmental standards.

This 2005 book traces the history of regulation at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and investigates the political, economic and social forces influencing the IMO treaties. This is an important book, which uncovers the politics behind the law and offers solutions for overcoming the deficiencies in the regulatory system.

Moir examines the laws designed to protect civilians in internal armed conflict. He traces the development of international law from the nineteenth century to conflicts in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia; how human rights can protect during armed conflict; and how effectively (and by whom) the rules can be enforced.

Internally displaced persons have been forced to leave their homes because of war and human rights abuses, but have not left their country. This has major consequences in terms of the protection available to them. This 2005 book aims to offer an overview of this important humanitarian and human rights challenge.

The concept of obligations erga omnes - obligations to the international community as a whole - has fascinated international lawyers for decades. This book shows how this highly controversial concept has become part of modern-day international law, and how it will enhance human rights in the future.

This 2001 study of the origins of international law contains topical literature and archaeological evidence. David J. Bederman examines three critical areas in which law influenced ancient state relations - diplomacy, treaty-making and warfare - in the Near East (2800-700 BCE), the Greek city-states (500-338 BCE) and Rome (358-168 BCE).

The Chernobyl disaster is an example of an activity conducted by one state which has caused serious adverse effects in another. This study of the international rules and procedure for compensation for victims will be of use to academics and professionals involved with transboundary disputes.

International organizations are major players on the international scene, whose acts and activities affect individuals, companies and states. Damage to interests or violation of rights sometimes occur (such as during peacekeeping operations). Are the remedies provided by international organizations adequate? Wellens' study includes suggestions for alternative remedial options.

How do international human rights and humanitarian law protect vulnerable individuals during peace and war? Provost analyses systemic similarities and differences between the two to examine how they are each built to achieve their similar goal.

When does international law give a group the right to choose its sovereignty? In a fresh perspective on this familiar question, Knop analyses how many of the groups that self-determination most affects have been marginalized in its interpretation and how key cases have grappled with this problem of diversity.

Against the background of recent armed conflicts under the United Nations Charter, this 2004 book considers how the requirements of proportionality and necessity operate as legal restraints on the forceful actions of States. It also examines the relationship between proportionality in the law on the use of force and international humanitarian law.

An exploration of the historical evolution of international investment law. Combining analyses in legal history, political narratives, and current controversies surrounding investment law and environmental protection objectives, this book will engage scholars and students of international investment law, international legal history and critical legal theory.

This book examines how unequal sovereigns have had a major impact on the way international relations are conducted. The author offers a way of understanding recent transformations in the global political order by recalling the lessons of the past, in particular the recent conflicts in Kosovo and Afghanistan.

This book examines the relationship between imperialism and international law. It argues that colonial confrontation was central to the formation of international law and, in particular, its founding concept, sovereignty. This book will be of interest to students of international law and relations, history, post-colonial studies and development studies.

This study analyses the evolution of permanent sovereignty from a political claim to a principle of international law, and examines its significance for such controversial issues as people's rights, nationalization and environmental politics.

During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions. Orford argues that humanitarian intervention had far more exploitative effects. What, if anything, has been lost in the move from humanitarian intervention to the war on terror?

As international lawyers make law, they make non-law. Understandings of extra-legality, illegality and the like help shape the limits of global political possibility. Fleur Johns explores how non-legality is crafted in areas ranging from torture to foreign investment and from climate change to disaster relief and explains why this matters.

Since the decision of the International Court of Justice in LaGrand (Germany v United States of America), the law of provisional measures has expanded dramatically both in terms of the volume of relevant decisions and the complexity of their reasoning. Provisional Measures before International Courts and Tribunals seeks to describe and evaluate this expansion, and to undertake a comparative analysis of provisional measures jurisprudence in a range of significant international courts and tribunals so as to situate interim relief in the wider procedure of those adjudicative bodies. The result is the first comprehensive examination of the law of provisional measures in over a decade, and the first to compare investor-state arbitration jurisprudence with more traditional inter-state courts and tribunals.

This interdisciplinary study engages law, history, and political theory in a first attempt to crystallize the lessons the global 'refugee crisis' can teach us about the nature of international law. It connects the dots between the actions of Jewish migrants to Palestine after WWII, Vietnamese 'boatpeople', Haitian refugees seeking to reach Florida, Middle Eastern migrants and refugees bound to Australia, and Syrian refugees currently crossing the Mediterranean, and then legal responses by states and international organizations to these movements. Through its account of maritime migration, the book proposes a theory of human rights modelled around an encounter between individuals in which one of the parties is at great risk. It weaves together primary sources, insights from the work of twentieth-century thinkers such as Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas, and other legal materials to form a rich account of an issue of increasing global concern.