This volume represents an attempt to lay out the established black letter international law governing slavery and lesser types of human exploitation as it developed through modern history and exists t
This book critically investigates modern international law – assessing the range of its ambitions and, crucially, its failings. Drawing upon the history of early modern political thought and contempor
This book examines the international law of forcible intervention in civil wars, in particular the role of party-consent in affecting the legality of such intervention. In modern international law, it
This 11th volume in the annual Yearbook states its focus on the Lithuanian School of International Law: Traditions and Modern Developments. This is the first volume in the series to be devoted to a pa
Modern international law is widely understood as an autonomous system of binding legal rules. Nevertheless, this claim to autonomy is far from uncontroversial. International lawyers have faced recurre
This study is based on the following questions: Which jurisdiction can and should be exercised for the prosecution of individuals responsible for gross and serious violations of human rights? And espe
Rosenne presents a revised and updated version of the "General Course in Public International Law" which the author delivered at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2001. The General Course was
It is a fundamental term of the social contract that people trade allegiance for protection. In the nineteenth century, as millions of people made their way around the world, they entangled the world in web of allegiance that had enormous political consequences. Nationality was increasingly difficult to define. Just who was a national in a world where millions lived well beyond the borders of their sovereign state? As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, jurists and policymakers began to think of ways to cut the web of obligation that had enabled world politics. They proposed to modernize international law to include subjects other than the state. Many of these experiments failed. But, by the mid-twentieth century, an international legal system predicated upon absolute universality and operated by intergovernmental organizations came to the fore. Under this system, individuals gradually became subjects of international law outside of their personal citizenship, culminatin
We would be better able to understand the emergence of the modern concept of international law if we were to pay more attention to the individual contexts of those that were writing about it, in parti
This volume (originally written as a doctoral dissertation at Julius-Maximilians-U., Germany) analyzes one of the key standards of modern international investment law--the fair and equitable treatment
This is the first comprehensive account of the modern international law of treaty interpretation expressed in 1969 Vienna Convention, Articles 31-33. As stated by the anonymous referee, it is the mos
The International Labour Organization is responsible for the only two international Conventions ever adopted for the protection of the rights and cultures of indigenous and tribal peoples. The Indigen
