Leading Works in International Law

ISBN-13: 9780367679217 / Twarda / 2023 / 248 str.

Opis

This volume provides an innovative and engaging way of assessing the development of international law scholarship and practice by focusing on the ‘leading works’ of the discipline. It presents contributions from leading scholars of public international law and the works discussed represent a diverse range of subjects within the broader discipline.

Spis treści

Foreword;  1. Prologue;  2. The International Law of Occupation;  3. The Creation of States in International Law;  4. The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World;  5. Treaty Withdrawals in a Turbulent World: A Retrospective on Exiting Treaties;  6. The Object of Critique: What is International Law?;  7. Before and After ‘Vengeance and Forgiveness’;  8. On the Frontlines: Gender, War and the Post-Conflict Process;  9. Newness, Imperialism, and International Legal Reform in Our Time: A TWAIL Perspective;  10. Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21^st Century;  11. Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics;  12. Battling Against Power: The International Law on Foreign Investment;  13. Epilogue;  Index

O autorze

Donna Lyons (Attorney-at-Law, New York; PhD, Trinity College Dublin; LLM, New York University; LLB, Trinity College Dublin has held academic appointments at several Irish and international law schools. Donna’s research interests include public international law, international human rights law, and international criminal law, and well as numerous aspects of Irish law and policy, and she has published, presented, and been awarded competitive research funding both domestically and internationally within these fields.