International Law

As UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld shaped many of the fundamental principles and practices of international organisations, such as preventiv...

The right of transit passage in straits and the analogous right of archipelagic sealanes passage in archipelagic states, negotiated in the 1970s an...

What legal principles govern the external exercise of the public power of states within common law legal systems? Foreign Relations Law tackles thr...

Interrogating the concepts of allegiance and identity in a globalised world involves renewing our understanding of membership and participation wit...

The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions o...

Order within Anarchy focuses on how the laws of war create strategic expectations about how states and their soldiers will act during war, which ca...

As Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy chaired the Doha Round of negotiations and witnessed a rapidly changing internatio...

The global financial crisis and subsequent sovereign debt crisis in Europe demonstrated that the relationship between law and economics in the desi...

Why is there such a large gap between the declarations that countries make about human rights and their imperfect implementation of them? Why do st...

The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions o...

In 1960, there were 101 middle-income countries. By 2008, only thirteen of these had become high-income countries. Why do so many middle-income cou...

Climate change and rising oil prices have thrust the Arctic to the top of the foreign policy agenda and raised difficult issues of sovereignty, sec...

The world faces more than 60 million people displaced by armed conflict and disasters as of 2022. Climate change is set to trigger large-scale disp...

The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions o...

As Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy chaired the Doha Round of negotiations and witnessed a rapidly changing internatio...

Combatants are equal under the laws of armed conflict, regardless of whether the wars they fight are just or unjust, legal or illegal. They are per...

How to address the human rights violations of previous regimes and past periods of conflict is one of the most pressing questions facing government...

This is the first volume of the official record of the resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its seventy-first session, ...

In most post-conflict states, a strong level of legal pluralism is the norm, particularly in regions of Africa and Asia where between eighty and ni...