International Law

In 2002 a fifteen-year-old Canadian citizen was captured in Afghanistan for allegedly killing an American soldier. A badly wounded Omar Khadr was t...

2020 marks the 50th year of the coming into force of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Convention 1967 and the formal establishme...

Designed for the general reader and students of law, this is a concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is dominant in most o...

Since the end of the Cold War, the protection of human life has been a key priority of the international community. Though France has been at the f...

The most comprehensive and up-to-date volume on environmental analysis available today, this is the standard laboratory reference for any environme...

Human Rights, now in its fourth edition, is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. Its unique interdisciplinary approach inv...

The tremendous growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa comes at a time when the field of international investment law and arbitration i...

In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN’s “Responsibility to Prot...

International human rights law is undoubtedly intertwined with politics. This Research Handbook explores and provokes reflection on how politics im...

Who is a vulnerable person in human rights law? This important book assesses the treatment of vulnerability by the European Court of Human Rights,...

Adopted in the aftermath of the Second World War and implemented as a ‘living instrument’, the European Convention on Human Rights has, over the pa...

The exit of the United Kingdom from the EU represents the first large-scale reversal of European integration. It will, in particular, have an appre...

In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN’s “Responsibility to Prot...

International justice has become a crucial part of the ongoing political debates about the future of shattered societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwand...

In an increasingly complex and interdependent world, states resort to a bewildering array of regulatory agreements to deal with problems as dispara...

Engaging in sex, becoming parents, raising children: these are among the most personal decisions we make, and for people with mental retardation, t...

Hailed in the Foreign Service Journal as “a landmark book that should command the attention of every serious student of American diplomacy, interna...

Foreign Policy. “In the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that states may prohibit physician-assisted suicide. Expressing the views of his fellow justices, Chief Justice Rehnqui...

For the most part, competition policy literature has focused on large economies. Yet the economic paradigms on which such policies are based do not...

Looking at Classical warfare from the perspective of the non-belligerents, Robert A. Bauslaugh brings together the scattered evidence testifying to...

Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's place of birth or naturaliz...

The Growth of World Law tells the story of the achievements that constitute an historic trend in the half century since the inauguration of the Lea...

This book provides the first analytic account of the United Nations relief operation in Bangladesh. Written by a United Nations staff member involv...