The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50
The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50

Author: Jorge E. Viñuales

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 1047

ISBN-13: 1108662307

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The year 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations Organisation, and the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Friendly Relations Declaration, which states the fundamental principles of the international legal order. In commemoration, some of the world's most prominent international law scholars from all continents have come together to offer a comprehensive study of the fundamental principles of international law. Each chapter in this volume reflects decades of experience, work and reflection by the most authoritative voices of the field. At the same time, the book is an invitation to end narrow specialisation and re-engage with the wider body of rules and processes that lie at the foundations of the international legal order.

International Law
International Law

Author: Vaughan Lowe

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007-09-27

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0191027286

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International Law is both an introduction to the subject and a critical consideration of its central themes and debates. The opening chapters of the book explain how international law underpins the international political and economic system by establishing the basic principle of the independence of States, and their right to choose their own political, economic, and cultural systems. Subsequent chapters then focus on considerations that limit national freedom of choice (e.g. human rights, the interconnected global economy, the environment). Through the organizing concepts of territory, sovereignty, and jurisdiction the book shows how international law seeks to achieve an established set of principles according to which the power to make and enforce policies is distributed among States.

Cross-border Water Trade: Legal and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Cross-border Water Trade: Legal and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Author: Piotr Szwedo

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-12

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9004382895

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Cross-border Water Trade: Legal and Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a critical assessment of one of the growing problems faced by the international community — the global water deficit. Cross-border water trade is a solution that generates ethical and economic but also legal challenges. Economic, humanitarian and environmental approaches each highlight different and sometimes conflicting aspects of the international commercialization of water. Finding an equilibrium for all the dimensions required an interdisciplinary path incorporating certain perspectives of natural law. The significance of such theoretical underpinnings is not merely academic but also quite practical, with concrete consequences for the legal status of water and its fitness for international trade.

The Spratly Islands and International Law
The Spratly Islands and International Law

Author: Xuechan Ma

Publisher: Queen Mary Studies in Internat

Published: 2021-12-02

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9789004504325

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"In The Spratly Islands and International Law, Xuechan Ma offers a detailed analysis of legal solutions to achieve coexistence and cooperation in the Spratly Islands in the absence of maritime delimitation.

International Dispute Settlement: Room for Innovations?
International Dispute Settlement: Room for Innovations?

Author: Rüdiger Wolfrum

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 3642349676

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This publication succeeds previously published seminars of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany) dealing with evolving principles and new developments in international law. Due to the limits of traditional dispute settlement in international law and the ongoing scholarly debate on those limits, it focuses on possible innovations and functional approaches to improve international dispute settlement mechanisms. In doing so, it covers a wide variety of topics such as procedures of the WTO, advisory opinions of international courts and tribunals, the privatization of international dispute settlement, the interaction between counsels and international courts and tribunals, and the law-making function of international courts. The aim of this publication is to contribute to the cross-fertilization between these mechanisms and to offer creative impulses for the promotion of international dispute settlement.

International Law: A Very Short Introduction
International Law: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Vaughan Lowe

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-11-26

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0191576204

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Interest in international law has increased greatly over the past decade, largely because of its central place in discussions such as the Iraq War and Guantanamo, the World Trade Organisation, the anti-capitalist movement, the Kyoto Convention on climate change, and the apparent failure of the international system to deal with the situations in Palestine and Darfur, and the plights of refugees and illegal immigrants around the world. This Very Short Introduction explains what international law is, what its role in international society is, and how it operates. Vaughan Lowe examines what international law can and cannot do and what it is and what it isn't doing to make the world a better place. Focussing on the problems the world faces, Lowe uses terrorism, environmental change, poverty, and international violence to demonstrate the theories and practice of international law, and how the principles can be used for international co-operation.

The United Nations and Decolonization
The United Nations and Decolonization

Author: Nicole Eggers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-27

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 135104401X

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Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories. The authors in this book explore this dynamic in order to expand our understanding of both the achievements and the limits of international support for the independence of colonized peoples. This book will prove foundational for scholars and students of modern history, international history, and postcolonial history.

Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe

Author: Great Britain. Prime Minister

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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Conference paper comprising the text of the final act adopted at the conference on security and co-operation in europe, concerning peaceful international relations and international cooperation between the participating states (incl. European countries, the USA and Canada) - includes measures relating to disarmament, economic relations, defence manoeuvres, trade relations, scientific cooperation, etc. Conf helsinki 1973 jul 3. Conference held in Geneva 1973 September 18 to jul 21. Conf helsinki 1975 aug 1.

The International Rule of Law
The International Rule of Law

Author: Heike Krieger

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0198843607

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Introduction -- Historical perspectives -- Actor-centred perspectives -- System- oriented perspectives -- Justice and legitimacy.