This book explains the phenomenon of states' compliance with human rights tribunals' rulings using theories from international law, human rights, and international relations.

This book provides expert analysis of the impact of international and national courts on the development of international law applying to armed conflicts.

Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy? This book examines this question.

This book seeks to determine the level of substantive protection that investment treaties should provide to foreign investment.

Since the decision of the International Court of Justice in LaGrand (Germany v United States of America), the law of provisional measures has expanded dramatically both in terms of the volume of relevant decisions and the complexity of their reasoning. Provisional Measures before International Courts and Tribunals seeks to describe and evaluate this expansion, and to undertake a comparative analysis of provisional measures jurisprudence in a range of significant international courts and tribunals so as to situate interim relief in the wider procedure of those adjudicative bodies. The result...

A paradigm change is occurring, in the course of which human beings are becoming the primary international legal persons. In numerous areas of public international law, substantive rights and obligations of individuals arguably flow directly from international law. The novel legal status of humans in international law is now captured with a concept borrowed from constitutional doctrine: international rights of the person, as opposed to international law protecting persons. Combining doctrinal analysis with current practice, this book is the most comprehensive contemporary analysis of the...

Integrates legal, historical, and philosophical materials to illuminate the migration topic and to provide a novel theory of human rights.

This book explores the implications of banning people from public space for the rule of law, fundamental rights, and democracy.

A richly textured account of the making, implementing, and changing of international legal regimes, which encompasses law, politics and economics.

This book explores the historical origins of international law, with a focus on the contributions and participation of non-Western people.