International Law

The broader transatlantic relationship is increasingly described in terms of crisis. The European Union as a whole is focused on financial crisis m...

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics in the world...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1979, globally the most popular of human rights treaties, requires States Parties to take ...

The first two years of the Obama administration have led to expectations, both in the United States and abroad, that in the coming years America wi...

An exposé of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a d...

Hiding in Plain Sight tells the story of the global effort to apprehend the world's most wanted fugitives. Beginning with the flight of tens of tho...

This book analyses the allocation of the burden of proof in consumer sale cases, in particular the application of the presumption of non-conformity...

Although the relationship between international human rights law and the law of armed conflict has been the subject of significant recent academic ...

The Irish Yearbook of International Law is intended to stimulate further research into Ireland's practice in international affairs and foreign poli...

Essential for practitioners and academics who need to research, interpret and apply principles of environmental law, this work provides an insight ...

The new edition of this highly regarded work has been fully updated to reflect current trends and concerns in commercial litigation practice. It co...

Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through propert...

Brownlie's Documents on Human Rights provides an extensive collection of key documents covering all elements of the subject, accompanied by authori...

The book offers a theoretically justified and pragmatic concept of the so-called 'lex mercatoria' contributing to the debate concerning the existen...

In United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics, Zachary D. Kaufman explores the U.S. government's su...

Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving ...

Private military and security companies (PMSCs) have been used in every peace operation since 1990, and reliance on them is increasing at a time wh...

Technical standards are ubiquitous in the modern networked economy. They allow products made and sold by different vendors to interoperate with lit...

The international legal framework for valuing the carbon stored in forests, known as 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation'...