United Nations Justice

United Nations Justice
Author: Calin Trenkov-Wermuth
Publisher: UN
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN:

"At the end of the 20th century, and at the dawn of the 21st, the United Nations was tasked with the administration of justice in territories placed under its executive authority, an undertaking for which there was no established precedent or doctrine. Examining the UN's legal and judicial reform efforts in Kosovo and East Timor, this volume argues that rather than helping to establish a sustainable legal system, the UN's approach detracted from it, as it confused ends with means."--Publisher's description.

Security Detention in International Territorial Administrations: Kosovo, East Timor, and Iraq

Security Detention in International Territorial Administrations: Kosovo, East Timor, and Iraq
Author: Omer Faruk Direk
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2015-07-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004302980

What happens after a governing body is ousted during the course of armed conflict? In some cases, international organizations like the United Nations will appoint other States or itself to administer the transition of the post-conflict State to a place of lasting peace. In practice, however, this mission is hardly linear and becomes further complicated when these administrations are faced with threats to the fragile peace. Security Detention in International Territorial Administrations examines the legal and policy questions surrounding the behavior of these post-conflict administrations. This includes discussion about apportionment of responsibility in peace support operations, norm conflict issues in UN Security Council resolutions, and requirements of international human rights law in the fulfillment of these missions. The discussion concludes with a survey of security detention practices in three recent post-conflict administrations in Kosovo, East Timor, and Iraq.

Legitimacy in International Law

Legitimacy in International Law
Author: Rüdiger Wolfrum
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2008-02-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3540777644

There has been intense debate in recent times over the legitimacy or otherwise of international law. This book contains fresh perspectives on these questions, offered at an international and interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and International Law. At issue are questions including, for example, whether international law lacks legitimacy in general and whether international law or a part of it has yielded to the facts of power.

International Law in Domestic Courts

International Law in Domestic Courts
Author: André Nollkaemper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 769
Release: 2018
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198739745

The Oxford ILDC online database, an online collection of domestic court decisions which apply international law, has been providing scholars with insights for many years. This ILDC Casebook is the perfect companion, introducing key court decisions with brief introductory and connecting texts. An ideal text for practitioners, judged, government officials, as well as for students on international law courses, the ILDC Casebook explains the theories and doctrines underlying the use by domestic courts of international law, and illustrates the key importance of domestic courts in the development of international law.

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Author: Amal Alamuddin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2014-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199687455

The Special Tribunal of the Lebanon is the first international Tribunal established to try the perpetrators of a terrorist act: the murder of the Lebanese Prime Minister in 2005. This book, written by practitioners with experience of the court and experts in international criminal law, provides a detailed assessment of its unique law and practice.

The Nature of International Law

The Nature of International Law
Author: Miodrag A. Jovanović
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2019-04-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108473334

The Nature of International Law provides a comprehensive analytical account of international law within the prototype theory of concepts.

The Responsibility to Protect

The Responsibility to Protect
Author: International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2001
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780889369634

Responsibility to Protect: Research, bibliography, background. Supplementary volume to the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

Humanitarian Military Intervention

Humanitarian Military Intervention
Author: Taylor B. Seybolt
Publisher: SIPRI Publication
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199551057

The author describes the reasons why humanitarian military interventions succeed or fail, basing his analysis on the interventions carried out in the 1990s in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Kosovo, and East Timor.

Secession

Secession
Author: Marcelo G. Kohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2006-03-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521849289

This book is a comprehensive study of secession from an international law perspective.

Revisiting the Law of Occupation

Revisiting the Law of Occupation
Author: Hanne Cuyckens
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2017-10-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004353976

In Revisiting the Law of Occupation, Hanne Cuyckens assesses the crucial challenges faced by the law of occupation. Through examples such as the occupation of the Palestinian Territories and the 2003 occupation of Iraq, the author convincingly demonstrates that although the law of occupation may no longer be perceived as adequate to address contemporary forms of occupation, a formal modification of the law is neither desirable nor feasible. The author identifies means by which the potential dichotomy between the law and the facts can be addressed without formal modification of the former: 1) flexible interpretation of the law itself; 2) the role of International Human Rights law as gap-filler; and 3) the role of the UNSC as a modulator of the law.