International Law

The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law series describes and analyses the public law of the European legal space, an area that encompasses ...

The second edition of this well received handbook provides a comprehensive overview and annotated commentary of those areas of international law mo...

Natural resources often stretch across borders that separate modern nation states. This can create conflict and limit opportunities for regulated c...

This book contains the first academic translations of key legal texts from the Ayutthaya era (13511767), along with an essay on the role of law in ...

One might ask why the Soviet Union so adamantly promoted the definition of aggression and aggressive war while, as many have noted, conducting mili...

Starting as a civil uprising calling for liberal reforms in March 2011, the unrest in Syria rapidly deteriorated into a proxy-led armed conflict in...

The rise of Euroscepticism and populist backlash pose a dramatic challenge to the EU and highlight the EU's growing legal powers over core areas of...

This new edition provides a critical introduction to the concepts, principles and rules of international law through a consideration of contemporar...

This book tracks the development of the emerging international legal principle of a responsibility to protect over the past two decades. It contras...

Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing ...

Measuring Justice explores the ways in which South African court and managerial prosecutors deal with the quantification of social phenomena - such...

The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and the key problem of modern democracies. On the one hand, responsiveness is a centr...

This new consolidated table of treaties 1-160 covers in a single consolidation all treaties referred to in volumes 1-160 of the International Law R...

Malcolm Feeley, one of the founding giants of the law and society field, is also one of its most exciting, diverse, and contemporary scholars. His ...

Democracy, Ecological Integrity and International Law is the latest product of research by the Global Ecological Integrity Group (www.globalecointe...

The current horrific malaise in the state of Iraq has its roots in the US-led destruction of Iraq in 1991, followed by a decade of harsh US-led int...

It is clear that international law is not yet equipped to handle the ecological goods and services that exist simultaneously within and outside of ...

In Lawmaking under Pressure, Giovanni Mantilla analyzes the origins and development of the international humanitarian treaty rules that now exist t...

Law beyond the State brings together contributions by renowned experts on international and European Union law to celebrate the centennial of Goeth...

Breaking the Cycle of Mass Atrocities investigates the role of international criminal law at different stages of mass atrocities, shifting away fro...