Responsibility of states & other entities

The International Law Commission's Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms examines the ILC's Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms of General International Law. It provides a broader understanding of the Draft Conclusions and offers an analysis and evaluation of the legal issues and consequences raised by the Draft Conclusions. Learn More

Cultural Objects and Reparative Justice provides a comprehensive legal and historical analysis surrounding the question of where cultural objects removed without consent should be located. Following an interdisciplinary approach based in law, history, art history, anthropology, and archaeology, this book proposes a paradigm for reparations. Learn More

Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights provides novel insight into the elements underlying a state's responsibility to fulfil positive obligations. It is essential reading for academics, legal practitioners, and policymakers working across the diverse fields in which positive human rights obligations may apply. Learn More

Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia examines the role the doctrine of sovereignty played in debates over the legal status of the princely states of colonial South Asia, illustrating how different interpretations have shaped current understandings of international law and the modern Indian nation-state. Learn More

This volume contains a comprehensive legal analysis of the international frameworks governing the remediation of sea-dumped chemical weapons. It offers legal solutions to remedy sea-dumped chemical weapons and practical recommendations that can be put into practice by governments, scientists, industry, and civil society. Learn More

This book seeks to identify structures that trap workers in conditions of exploitation. It focuses specifically on 'state mediated structural injustice', where legislative schemes that promote otherwise legitimate aims create inadvertent vulnerabilities for workers. Learn More

Do humans have a right not to be trafficked? This book examines the legal nature of human trafficking and its relationship with human rights law. Drawing on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, it shows that human trafficking is indeed a human rights violation requiring legislative and institutional responses from states. Learn More

This book examines the ways in which domestic politics contributes to the emergence of international legal disputes that have far-ranging consequences for states and citizens. More broadly, it illustrates how globalization clashes with democratic decision-making and state sovereignty. Learn More

This volume explores how famine and mass starvation in our lifetime are the result of man-made policies, and invariably occur during times of armed conflict. It provides expert analysis on defining starvation, early warning systems, gender and mass starvation, the use of sanctions, reporting on, and memory of famine. Learn More

This monograph represents the most recent analysis of the use of the expression 'serious violations of human rights' in international practice. It proposes a systematic and structured engagement with the international practice around serious violations of human rights. Learn More

Environmental Law in Arab States offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the guiding principles and rules relating to environmental protection in the Arab region. Learn More

With essays from leading scholars in the field of international human rights law, this festschrift provides compelling analysis of the nature of compliance in the African human rights context, the challenges that affect its place in these legal systems, and the ways in which increased compliance can be achieved. 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

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