Developments in Customary International Law
Developments in Customary International Law

Author: Birgit Schlütter

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-05-17

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 9047431154

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Customary international law is the most important source of international criminal law. Fifty years after the Nuremberg trials, many convictions imposed by the tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda are still based on customary international law alone. The International Criminal Court, by contrast, has not yet had much opportunity to give more guidance on this matter. Hence, it is worthwhile to provide an overview of the current status of custom by analysing the ad hoc tribunal’s case law on this point. Including a comprehensive synopsis of current literature and a contrast of the ad hoc tribunal’s case law with the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, this book offers an inclusive insight into the source’s past and future.

Developments of International Law in Treaty Making
Developments of International Law in Treaty Making

Author: Rudiger Wolfrum

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-03-29

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 9783540252993

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The book explores the various means of making non-conventional/non-treaty law and the cross-cutting issues that they raise. Law-making by technical/informal expert bodies, Conferences of Parties, international organizations, the UN Security Council, regional organizations and arrangements and non-state actors is examined in turn. This forms the basis for the analysis of the complementarity of international treaty law, customary international law and non-traditional law-making, potential subject matters of non-treaty law-making, domestic consequences of non-treaty law-making, proliferation of actors, commissions and treaty bodies of the UN system, and International courts and tribunals.

The European Union and Customary International Law
The European Union and Customary International Law

Author: Fernando Lusa Bordin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-11-03

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1108832970

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The book offers a systematic discussion of the facets of the relationship between the European Union and customary international law.

Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change
Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change

Author: Michael P. Scharf

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-31

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1107276764

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This is the first book to explore the concept of 'Grotian Moments'. Named for Hugo Grotius, whose masterpiece De jure belli ac pacis helped marshal in the modern system of international law, Grotian Moments are transformative developments that generate the unique conditions for accelerated formation of customary international law. In periods of fundamental change, whether by technological advances, the commission of new forms of crimes against humanity, or the development of new means of warfare or terrorism, customary international law may form much more rapidly and with less state practice than is normally the case to keep up with the pace of developments. The book examines the historic underpinnings of the Grotian Moment concept, provides a theoretical framework for testing its existence and application, and analyzes six case studies of potential Grotian Moments: Nuremberg, the continental shelf, space law, the Yugoslavia Tribunal's Tadic decision, the 1999 NATO intervention in Serbia and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Customary International Law
Customary International Law

Author: Brian D. Lepard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-01-11

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 052119136X

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This book sets out to articulate a comprehensive theory of customary international law that can effectively resolve the conceptual and practical enigmas surrounding it. It takes a multidisciplinary approach and draws insights from international law, legal theory, political science, and game theory. It is anchored in a sophisticated ethical framework and explores the interrelationships between customary international law and ethics.

Fundamentals of Public International Law
Fundamentals of Public International Law

Author: Giovanni Distefano

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 991

ISBN-13: 9004396691

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Fundamentals of Public International Law, by Giovanni Distefano, provides an overview of public international law’s main principles and fundamental institutions. By introducing the foundations of the legal reasoning underlying public international law, the extensive volume offers essential tools for any international lawyer, regardless of the specific field of specialization. Dealing expansively with subjects, sources and guarantees of international law, university students, scholars and practitioners alike will benefit from the book’s treatment of what has been called the “Institutes” of public international law.

The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development
The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development

Author: Peter Orebech

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0521859255

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For many nations, a key challenge is how to achieve sustainable development without a return to centralized planning. Using case studies from Greenland, Hawaii and northern Norway, this 2006 book examines whether 'bottom-up' systems such as customary law can play a critical role in achieving viable systems for managing natural resources. Customary law consists of underlying social norms that may become the acknowledged law of the land. The key to determining whether a custom constitutes customary law is whether the public acts as if the observance of the custom is legally obligated. While the use of customary law does not always produce sustainability, the study of customary methods of resource management can produce valuable insights into methods of managing resources in a sustainable way.

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.

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.