Responsibility of states & other entities

Outsourcing Rulemaking Powers identifies the shared constitutional principles that determine the limits to the outsourcing of rulemaking powers. Through the examination of multiple countries, this book argues that there should be minimal legal safeguards to which all rules must heed, in particular those made by autonomous public or private actors. Learn More

This book provides a concise and objective appraisal of international arms control and disarmament with a clear focus on the law, key mechanisms, and institutions. Learn More

This book provides a concise and objective appraisal of international arms control and disarmament with a clear focus on the law, key mechanisms, and institutions. Learn More

This book explores the notions of global public goods, global commons, and fundamental values as conceptual tools for the protection of the general interests of the international community. It explores how states and other actors have used international law to protect general interests, and outlines significant challenges still to be addressed. Learn More

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field. Learn More

This book explores how states, scholars and other actors have justified war from early modernity to the present. Looking at narratives of the justification of war in theory and practice, this book offers a comprehensive investigation of the emergence of the modern international order and its normative foundation. Learn More

Detention under international law is highly regulated, but the law appears to be silent on non-international armed conflicts. This book uses case studies to examine the extent to which international humanitarian law can be applied in non-international contexts, and sets out a concrete proposal for how the law might develop in this area. Learn More

Attribution in International Law and Arbitration critically discusses and proposes solutions for the application of the international rules of attribution (or attributability, imputation, imputability) of unlawful conduct of States in the domains of public international law, international investment law, and international business law Learn More

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field. Learn More

This book provides a detailed legal commentary of the Articles of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was passed in July 2017. Laying out its scope and the obligations of signatory states, this commentary clarifies the regulations overseeing the complex relationships between signatory states and nuclear weapon states. Learn More

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field. Learn More

Emissions trading schemes are the future of climate policy. This book provides a definitive assessment of whether and how emissions trading schemes around the world are regulated by international economic law - that is, by the World Trade Organization, international investment agreements, and free trade agreements. Learn More

This monograph traces the intellectual history of the international legal personality of individuals. It demonstrates how many international lawyers still rely on the idea that states are the only subjects of international law, whereas practice shows that the question of the international legal rights and duties of any entity is strictly empirical. Learn More

To what extent are states expected to take into account the interests of others when conducting relations with other states? This is thequestion examined by this book as it considers the various manifestations of what has been described as community interests in areas regulated by international law. Learn More