Provisional Summary Record

Provisional Summary Record
Author: Committee on the Peaceful Use of the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor Beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release:
Genre: Ocean bottom
ISBN:

State Succession to Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts

State Succession to Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts
Author: Grega Pajnkihar
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2023-08-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004679413

Ongoing work of the International Law Commission on State succession with respect to State responsibility begs the question: how does this new matter fit into the broader concept of State succession? This book presents a detailed analysis of the complete codified field of State succession, with new observations and the relevant elements of State responsibility. Dr. Grega Pajnkihar provides insight into how these two areas of international law are interlinked and why State responsibility should not be treated differently from other matters of succession.

The Authority of the International Committee of the Red Cross

The Authority of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Author: Linus Jannek Mührel
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2024-02-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004687823

This book conducts the first ever comprehensive study of the ICRC’s interpretations and law-ascertainments. It analyses in detail their impact on the development of international humanitarian law and international law in general as well as the reasons for their impact. This analysis involves the discussion of the ICRC’s authority. Is it legal or just factual authority? The analysis also illuminates the direction that IHL – and international law in general – develops. This insight sheds light on the question of the current type of international law, i.e., what international law is and who makes it.

Modification of Treaties by Subsequent Practice

Modification of Treaties by Subsequent Practice
Author: Irina Buga
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2018
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198787820

This book explores the process of treaty modification by subsequent practice, explaining how such practice can significantly revise treaty obligations or even create new ones, allowing evolution of the law.

Sovereignty and the Sea

Sovereignty and the Sea
Author: John G. Butcher
Publisher: NUS Press
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2017-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9814722219

Until the mid-1950s nearly all the waters lying between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago were as open to the ships of all nations as the waters of the great oceans. In order to enhance its failing sovereign grasp over the nation, as well as to deter perceived external threats to Indonesia’s national integrity, in 1957 the Indonesian government declared that it had “absolute sovereignty” over all the waters lying within straight baselines drawn between the outermost islands of Indonesia. At a single step, Indonesia had asserted its dominion over a vast swathe of what had hitherto been seas open to all, and made its lands and the seas it now claimed a single unified entity for the first time. International outrage and alarm ensued, expressed especially by the great maritime nations. Nevertheless, despite its low international profile, its relative poverty, and its often frail state capacity, Indonesia eventually succeeded in gaining international recognition for its claim when, in 1982, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea formally recognized the existence of a new category of states known as “archipelagic states” and declared that these states had sovereignty over their “archipelagic waters”. Sovereignty and the Sea explains how Indonesia succeeded in its extraordinary claim. At the heart of Indonesia’s archipelagic campaign was a small group of Indonesian diplomats. Largely because of their dogged persistence, negotiating skills, and willingness to make difficult compromises Indonesia became the greatest archipelagic state in the world.

International Organizations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution

International Organizations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2019-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9004407413

This second volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law examines the role of international organizations in promoting effective dispute resolution. It is divided into five parts to reflect a series of overarching themes and relationships. Firstly, international arbitration’s effectiveness and affinity with multilateral institutions. Second, international organizations as proponents of the norms of dispute resolution. Third, the dispute resolution mandates of international organizations. Fourth, the role of dispute resolution and economic development. Together, this diversity of perspectives offers convincing evidence that effective dispute resolution is a precondition to successful economic development—and that international organizations have an essential role to play in promoting both. The fifth part presents the 2018 AIIB Law Lecture given by Georg Nolte, Chair of the International Law Commission, on the subject of ‘International Organizations in the Recent Work of the International Law Commission’ and the 2018 AIIB Legal Conference Report.

The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law

The Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Customary International Law
Author: Panos Merkouris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 647
Release: 2022-05-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1009035843

This volume discusses the theory, practice, and interpretation of customary international law, as well as new developments and future research trajectories. Combining discussions of familiar concepts with new ideas, it is useful for researchers, scholars, and practitioners of international law. Available Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Enforcing International Law

Enforcing International Law
Author: Math Noortmann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317143493

Until recently, the fundamental link between two basic concepts in international law, namely the right to self-help and the obligation to settle disputes by peaceful means, has been neglected in doctrine and practice. The main issue is that international law traditionally recognizes the right of states to safeguard their own rights by resorting to countermeasures as well as the obligation to settle their disputes by accepted and recognized diplomatic and judicial procedures. Both concepts are based on their own merits, which are assumed to be valid in contemporary international law. It is the primary purpose of this study to determine which rules and principles govern the relationship between the two concepts. The book's major findings arise from an analysis of scholarly work, supported by examples from five different case studies. Drawing insights from legal as well as political science, it will be a valuable resource for students, academics and policy makers in international law, international relations and related areas.