Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law

Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law

Author: Valentin Jeutner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0198808372

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Many are familiar with the concept of a moral dilemma - a situation where a person faces a choice between two mutually exclusive actions. This book considers whether situations of this kind could and should exist within the sphere of international law.


Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law

Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law

Author: Valentin Jeutner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-08-04

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0192536052

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Conventionally, international legal scholarship concerned with norm conflicts focuses on identifying how international law can or should resolve them. This book adopts a different approach. It focuses on identifying those norm conflicts that law cannot and should not resolve. The book offers an unprecedented, controversial, yet sophisticated, argument in favour of construing such irresolvable conflicts as legal dilemmas. Legal dilemmas exist when a legal actor confronts a conflict between at least two legal norms that cannot be avoided or resolved. Addressing both academics and practitioners, the book aims to identify the character and consequences of legal dilemmas, to distil their legal function within the sphere of international law, and to encourage serious theoretical and practical investigation into the conditions that lead to a legal dilemma. The first part proposes a definition of legal dilemmas and distinguishes the term from numerous related concepts. Based on this definition, the second part scrutinises international law's contemporary norm conflict resolution and accommodation devices in order to identify their limited ability to resolve certain kinds of norm conflicts. Against the background of the limits identified in the second part, the third part outlines and evaluates the book's proposed method of dealing with legal dilemmas. In contrast to conventional approaches that recommend dealing with irresolvable norm conflicts by means of non liquet declarations, judicial law-making, or a balancing test, the book's proposal envisions that irresolvable norm conflicts are dealt with by judicial and sovereign actors in a complementary fashion. Judicial actors should openly acknowledge irresolvable conflicts and sovereign actors should decide with which norm they will comply. The book concludes with the argument that analysing various aspects of international law through the concept of a legal dilemma enhances its conceptual accuracy, facilitates more legitimate decision-making, and maintains its dynamic responsiveness.


Extraterritorial Use of Force Against Non-State Actors

Extraterritorial Use of Force Against Non-State Actors

Author: Noam Lubell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-05-27

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0199584842

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This book examines the legality of the use of force by states against individuals and non-state groups located beyond its borders, in light of applicable international law. The issues discussed include force used in the 'war on terror', pre-emptive self defence, and targeted killings of individuals.


The Nature of International Law

The Nature of International Law

Author: Miodrag A. Jovanović

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-25

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1108473334

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The Nature of International Law provides a comprehensive analytical account of international law within the prototype theory of concepts.


Concepts for International Law

Concepts for International Law

Author: Jean d’Aspremont

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 957

ISBN-13: 1783474688

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Concepts shape how we understand and participate in international legal affairs. They are an important site for order, struggle and change. This comprehensive and authoritative volume introduces a large number of concepts that have shaped, at various points in history, international legal practice and thought; intimates at how the many projects of international law have grappled with, and influenced, the world through certain concepts; and introduces new concepts into the discipline.


International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Author: Daniel H. Joyner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-03-05

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0191548189

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Proliferation of WMD technologies is by no means a new concern for the international community. Indeed, since the signing of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1968, tremendous energies have been expended upon diplomatic efforts to create a web of treaties and international organisations regulating the production and stockpiling of WMD sensitive materials within states, as well as their spread through the increasingly globalised channels of international trade to other states and non-state actors. However, the intervention in 2003 by Western powers in Iraq has served as an illustration of the importance of greater understanding of and attention to this area of law, as disagreements over its content and application have once again lead to a potentially destabilising armed intervention by members of the United Nations into the sovereign territory of another member state. Other ongoing disputes between states regarding the character of obligations assumed under non-proliferation treaty instruments, and the effect of international organisations' decisions in this area, form some of the most contentious and potentially destabilising issues of foreign policy concern for many states. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of international law and organisations in the area of WMD proliferation. It will serve both as a reference for understanding the law as it currently exists in its political and economic context, as well as an analysis of areas in which amendments to existing law and organisations are needed.


Theory of Obligations in International Law

Theory of Obligations in International Law

Author: Cezary Mik

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 1040020909

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Examining the fulfilment of international obligations by subjects of this law, this book explores the normative and functional links between the sources and rules of international law on the one hand, and the responsibility for violating international law on the other. In the sphere of law-making, the theory of obligations allows for a more precise and considered formulation of international obligations. It has the potential to enable subjects of international law to behave more rationally, allowing deeper reflection on whether to take on obligations and how to properly perform them. This book proposes a new approach to the issue of the proper operation of international law, with the theory of obligations at its heart. Linking the institutions and concepts of international law into a rational whole, the book offers an analysis of the operation of international law and the behaviour of its subjects to develop a framework for ensuring the ultimate effectiveness of international law. Analysing sources of law including treaties and common law, alongside the resolutions of international organisations, this book demonstrates the practical application of the subject with reference to the jurisprudence of international courts and other bodies. The volume will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners concerned with international law – its creation, performance, application, compliance, and enforcement.


The Effects of Armed Conflict on Investment Treaties

The Effects of Armed Conflict on Investment Treaties

Author: Tobias Ackermann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-08-25

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1009207830

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The book explores the effects of armed conflict and international humanitarian law on the interpretation and application of investment treaties.


Legal Monism

Legal Monism

Author: Paul Gragl

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0198796269

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In this first full-length study of legal monism, Paul Gragl advocates for the revival of legal monism as a solution to normative conflicts between different bodies of law. Using comprehensive and inter-disciplinary arguments, this book defends the theory against dualism and pluralism.


UN Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court

UN Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court

Author: Alexandre Skander Galand

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9004342214

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This book offers a unique critical analysis of the legal nature, effects and limits of UN Security Council referrals to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Alexandre Skander Galand provides, for the first time, a full picture of two competing understandings of the nature of the Security Council referrals to the ICC, and their respective normative interplay with legal barriers to the exercise of universal prescriptive and adjudicative jurisdiction. The book shows that the application of the Rome Statute through a Security Council referral is inherently limited by the UN Charter as well as the Rome Statute, and can conflict with other branches of international law, including international human rights law, the law on immunities and the law of treaties. Hence, it spells out a conception of the nature and effects of Security Council referrals that responds to these limits and, in turn, informs the reader on the nature of the ICC itself.