An Introduction to Public International Law

Höfundur: Cecily Rose (Útgáfa: 2)
An Introduction to Public International Law

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Written for students working in a range of disciplines, this textbook provides an accessible, balanced, and nuanced introduction to the field of public international law. It offers the basic concepts and legal frameworks of public international law while acknowledging the field's inherent complexities and controversies. Featuring numerous carefully chosen and clearly explained examples, it demonstrates how the law applies in practice, and public international law's pervasive influence on world affairs.

Aiming not to over-emphasize any particular domestic jurisprudence or research interest, this textbook offers a global overview of public international law that will be highly valuable to any student new to the study of this very significant field. The 2nd edition has been updated to address the latest developments in the field. It includes new and current examples and cases in key areas, such as human rights law, criminal law, humanitarian law, and environmental law.

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Útgefandi
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781009580366
Print ISBN
9781009580380
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
2
Höfundar
Cecily Rose
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2026-04-30
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
10
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

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  • Cover
  • Half title
  • Title page
  • Imprints page
  • Contents
  • Author Biographies
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Cases
  • International Courts and Tribunals
  • Human Rights Committee
  • International Court of Justice (ICJ)
  • International Criminal Court (ICC)
  • International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
  • International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
  • International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)
  • Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ)
  • Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL)
  • Regional Courts and Tribunals
  • African Commission on Human and People’s Rights
  • Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
  • European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
  • Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR)
  • National Courts
  • Canada
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Arbitral Courts and Tribunals and Conciliation Commissions
  • International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
  • International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
  • Iran–US Claims Tribunal
  • London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
  • Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
  • Reports of International Arbitral Awards (RIAA)
  • World Trade Organization (WTO)
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Basic Features of International Law
  • 1.1.1 Sovereignty
  • 1.1.2 Consent
  • 1.1.3 States and Non-state Actors
  • 1.2 The Domestic Law Analogy
  • 1.3 The Relationship between International and Domestic Law
  • 1.4 The Approach and Structure of This Book
  • Recommended Reading
  • Part I The Foundations of Public International Law
  • 2 Sources of International Law
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Article 38 of the Statute of the ICJ
  • 2.3 Treaty Law
  • 2.4 Customary International Law
  • 2.4.1 General Practice
  • 2.4.2 Opinio Juris
  • 2.4.3 Particular Customary International Law
  • 2.4.4 The Relationship between Treaty Law and Customary International Law
  • 2.5 Other Sources of International Law
  • 2.5.1 General Principles of Law
  • 2.5.2 Decisions of International Organizations
  • 2.5.3 Unilateral Declarations
  • 2.6 Subsidiary Means for the Determination of International Law
  • 2.7 Non-binding International Instruments
  • 2.8 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 3 Subjects, Statehood, and Self-Determination
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Subjects of International Law
  • 3.2.1 States
  • 3.2.2 International Organizations
  • 3.2.3 Individuals
  • 3.2.4 Groups of Individuals
  • 3.2.5 Multinational Corporations
  • 3.3 Statehood
  • 3.3.1 State Sovereignty
  • 3.3.2 Criteria for Statehood
  • 3.3.2.1 Permanent Population
  • 3.3.2.2 Defined Territory
  • 3.3.2.3 Effective Government
  • 3.3.2.4 Capacity to Enter into International Relations
  • 3.3.3 Recognition of States
  • 3.3.4 Illegality and Non-recognition
  • 3.3.5 Creation and Extinction of States
  • 3.3.6 State Succession
  • 3.4 Right to Self-Determination
  • 3.4.1 Decolonization Process
  • 3.4.2 Contemporary Meaning
  • 3.4.3 Remedial Secession
  • 3.5 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 4 Law of Treaties
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 What Is a Treaty?
  • 4.3 Treaty Making
  • 4.3.1 Expressing Consent to Be Bound by a Treaty
  • 4.3.2 Entry into Force
  • 4.3.3 Reservations
  • 4.4 Treaties in Operation
  • 4.4.1 The Performance and Scope of the Application of Treaties
  • 4.4.2 The Interpretation of Treaties
  • 4.5 Invalidating, Terminating, and Suspending Treaties
  • 4.5.1 Invalidity
  • 4.5.2 The Suspension and Termination of Treaties
  • 4.6 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 5 Law of State Responsibility
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Internationally Wrongful Act
  • 5.2.1 Attribution
  • 5.2.1.1 Core Forms of Attribution
  • 5.2.1.2 An Exceptional Form of Attribution: Private Conduct Instructed, Directed, or Controlled by the State
  • 5.2.1.3 Other Exceptional Forms of Attribution
  • 5.2.2 Breach
  • 5.3 Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness
  • 5.3.1 Consent
  • 5.3.2 Self-Defence
  • 5.3.3 Countermeasures
  • 5.3.4 Force Majeure
  • 5.3.5 Distress
  • 5.3.6 Necessity
  • 5.4 Legal Consequences of an Internationally Wrongful Act
  • 5.4.1 General Legal Consequences
  • 5.4.1.1 Cessation and Non-repetition
  • 5.4.1.2 Reparations
  • 5.4.2 Legal Consequences of a Serious Breach of a Peremptory Norm
  • 5.5 Implementation of State Responsibility
  • 5.5.1 Invocation
  • 5.5.2 Countermeasures
  • 5.6 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 6 Jurisdiction
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Enforcement Jurisdiction
  • 6.3 Prescriptive Jurisdiction
  • 6.3.1 Introduction
  • 6.3.2 The Territoriality Principle
  • 6.3.3 The Nationality Principle
  • 6.3.4 The Protective Principle
  • 6.3.5 The Universality Principle
  • 6.3.6 Concurrent Jurisdiction
  • 6.4 Adjudicative Jurisdiction
  • 6.5 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 7 Immunities
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 State Immunity
  • 7.2.1 State Immunity’s Basic Function and Legal Bases
  • 7.2.2 Scope of State Immunity
  • 7.2.3 State Immunity from Enforcement Jurisdiction
  • 7.3 Immunity of State Officials
  • 7.3.1 Functional and Personal Immunities
  • 7.3.2 Immunities and International Crimes
  • 7.3.2.1 Personal Immunity
  • 7.3.2.2 Functional Immunity
  • 7.4 Diplomatic and Consular Immunities
  • 7.5 Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations
  • 7.6 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 8 International Organizations
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Legal Status, Privileges, and Immunities
  • 8.2.1 Legal Status
  • 8.2.2 Privileges and Immunities
  • 8.3 Membership
  • 8.4 Powers
  • 8.5 Institutional Structure
  • 8.6 Decision-Making and Decisions
  • 8.6.1 Decision-Making
  • 8.6.2 Decisions
  • 8.7 Finances
  • 8.8 Responsibility
  • 8.9 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 9 International Dispute Settlement
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.1.1 The Concept of a Dispute
  • 9.1.2 Dispute Settlement from the Covenant of the League of Nations to the United Nations Charter
  • 9.2 Diplomatic Methods of Dispute Settlement
  • 9.2.1 Negotiations
  • 9.2.2 Mediation
  • 9.2.3 Inquiry
  • 9.2.4 Conciliation
  • 9.3 Legal Methods of Dispute Settlement
  • 9.3.1 Arbitration
  • 9.3.2 Adjudication
  • 9.3.3 Methods for Consenting to Arbitration and Adjudication
  • 9.4 The Rise of Public Interest Litigation before the ICJ
  • 9.5 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • Part II The Branches of Public International Law
  • 10 International Human Rights Law
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Development of International Human Rights Law
  • 10.3 Categories of Human Rights
  • 10.3.1 Civil and Political Rights
  • 10.3.2 Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
  • 10.3.3 Collective Rights
  • 10.4 Scope of Human Rights Norms
  • 10.4.1 Addressees of Human Rights Norms
  • 10.4.2 Territorial Scope of Human Rights Norms
  • 10.4.3 Restrictions on Human Rights
  • 10.4.3.1 Derogation in Time of Public Emergency
  • 10.4.3.2 Limitation Clauses and Absolute Rights
  • 10.5 Monitoring and Compliance Mechanisms
  • 10.5.1 Charter-Based Mechanisms
  • 10.5.2 Treaty-Based Mechanisms
  • 10.5.3 Regional Systems
  • 10.5.3.1 Europe
  • 10.5.3.2 The Americas
  • 10.5.3.3 Africa
  • 10.6 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 11 Law on the Use of Force
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Collective Security and the League of Nations
  • 11.3 UN Charter Framework
  • 11.3.1 Obligation to Settle Disputes Peacefully and Prohibition of the Use of Force
  • 11.3.2 Roles of the Security Council and General Assembly
  • 11.3.3 Measures Not Involving the Use of Force
  • 11.4 Prohibition of the Threat or Use of Force (Article 2(4))
  • 11.5 Collective Use of Force: Authorization of the Use of Force by the Security Council
  • 11.5.1 Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression
  • 11.5.2 UN Peacekeeping Forces
  • 11.5.3 Security Council-Authorized Coalitions
  • 11.6 Unilateral Use of Force: Self-Defence
  • 11.6.1 Armed Attack
  • 11.6.2 Necessity and Proportionality
  • 11.6.3 Non-state Actors
  • 11.6.4 Function of the Security Council
  • 11.7 Humanitarian Intervention and ‘Responsibility to Protect’
  • 11.8 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 12 International Humanitarian Law
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 IHL’s Rationale and Relationships with Other Bodies of Law
  • 12.2.1 Rationale
  • 12.2.2 The Relationship between Jus in Bello and Jus ad Bellum
  • 12.2.3 The Relationship between IHL and International Human Rights Law
  • 12.3 Scope of Application
  • 12.3.1 International and Non-international Armed Conflicts in the Geneva Conventions
  • 12.3.2 International and Non-international Armed Conflicts in the Additional Protocols
  • 12.4 The Conduct of Hostilities
  • 12.4.1 The Methods of Warfare
  • 12.4.1.1 Principle of Distinction
  • 12.4.1.2 Prohibition of Indiscriminate Attacks
  • 12.4.1.3 Principle of Proportionality
  • 12.4.1.4 Principle of Precautions
  • 12.4.2 The Means of Warfare
  • 12.4.3 Conduct of Hostilities in Non-international Armed Conflicts
  • 12.5 The Protection of Persons
  • 12.5.1 Protection of Wounded Persons
  • 12.5.2 Protection of Prisoners of War
  • 12.5.3 Detention of Civilians in International Armed Conflicts
  • 12.6 The Implementation and Enforcement of IHL
  • 12.7 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 13 International Criminal Law
  • 13.1 Introduction
  • 13.2 A History of International Criminal Law
  • 13.2.1 International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo
  • 13.2.2 Ad Hoc Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
  • 13.2.3 Hybrid or Internationalized Criminal Courts and Tribunals
  • 13.2.4 The Creation of the ICC
  • 13.3 Substantive Aspects of International Criminal Law
  • 13.3.1 Genocide
  • 13.3.2 Crimes against Humanity
  • 13.3.3 War Crimes
  • 13.3.4 Crime of Aggression
  • 13.4 Procedural Aspects of International Criminal Law
  • 13.4.1 Jurisdiction
  • 13.4.2 Admissibility
  • 13.4.3 Modes of Liability
  • 13.4.4 Immunity
  • 13.5 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 14 International Economic Law
  • 14.1 Introduction
  • 14.2 International Trade Law
  • 14.2.1 Introduction
  • 14.2.2 Fundamental Rules of International Trade Law
  • 14.2.2.1 Reduction of Tariffs and Prohibition of Non-tariff Barriers
  • 14.2.2.2 Non-discrimination: Most Favoured Nation Treatment and National Treatment
  • 14.2.2.3 Exceptions
  • 14.2.3 International Dispute Settlement
  • 14.3 International Investment Law
  • 14.3.1 Introduction
  • 14.3.2 Fundamental Rules of International Investment Law
  • 14.3.2.1 Expropriation
  • 14.3.2.2 Non-discrimination: National Treatment and MFN
  • 14.3.2.3 Fair and Equitable Treatment
  • 14.3.2.4 Full Protection and Security
  • 14.3.3 The Settlement of Disputes Arising out of Foreign Investments
  • 14.3.4 The ‘Backlash’
  • 14.4 International Monetary Law
  • 14.4.1 Stable Exchange Rates and Surveillance by the IMF
  • 14.4.2 Balance of Payments Problems and Conditionality
  • 14.5 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 15 Law of the Sea
  • 15.1 Introduction
  • 15.2 A History of the Law of the Sea
  • 15.2.1 The Origins of the Law of the Sea
  • 15.2.2 Codification of the Law of the Sea
  • 15.2.3 UNCLOS: The World Constitution of the Oceans
  • 15.3 Maritime Areas
  • 15.3.1 Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone
  • 15.3.2 Continental Shelf
  • 15.3.3 The EEZ
  • 15.3.4 Islands and Archipelagos
  • 15.4 Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
  • 15.4.1 The High Seas
  • 15.4.2 The Area
  • 15.5 Thematic Topics in the Law of the Sea
  • 15.5.1 Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries
  • 15.5.2 Protection of the Marine Environment
  • 15.5.3 Developing Countries and the Law of the Sea
  • 15.5.4 A Sea of Troubles: The Peaceful Settlement of Maritime Disputes
  • 15.6 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • 16 International Environmental Law
  • 16.1 Introduction
  • 16.2 International Environmental Law as a Field of International Law
  • 16.2.1 The Evolution of General Principles of International Environmental Law
  • 16.2.1.1 The Principle of Prevention
  • 16.2.1.2 Environmental Impact Assessments
  • 16.2.1.3 Precautionary Principle
  • 16.2.1.4 The Principle of Sustainable Development
  • 16.2.2 Institutional Architecture for Environmental Protection
  • 16.2.3 Principal Characteristics of International Environmental Law
  • 16.3 Concerns Addressed by International Environmental Law
  • 16.3.1 Conservation of Flora and Fauna
  • 16.3.2 Climate Change
  • 16.3.3 Pollution
  • 16.4 Compliance and Enforcement
  • 16.5 Concluding Remarks
  • Recommended Reading
  • Index