The break-up of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia and the unification of Germany in the 1990s marked the dramatic return to center stage in international law of the issue of State succession. This book deals with one particularly controversial aspect of State succession that until now has not received much attention: the question of State succession to international responsibility. In State Succession to International Responsibility the international lawyer and scholar Patrick Dumberry addresses the question, critical for our times, whether or not a new State may be held...
The break-up of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia and the unification of Germany in the 1990s marked the dramatic return to center stage...
Rules of customary international law provide basic legal protections to foreign investors doing business abroad. These rules remain of fundamental importance today despite the growing number of investment treaties containing substantive investment protection. In this book, Patrick Dumberry provides a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of custom in the field of international investment law. He analyses two fundamental questions: how customary rules are created in this field and how they can be identified. The book examines the types of manifestation of State practice which should be...
Rules of customary international law provide basic legal protections to foreign investors doing business abroad. These rules remain of fundamental imp...
This book contains an analysis of the Resolution adopted in 2015 by the Institute of International Law, on the question of state succession in matters of state responsibility. It explains the content of each provision based on a comprehensive survey of state practice, juridical decisions, and scholarly works.
This book contains an analysis of the Resolution adopted in 2015 by the Institute of International Law, on the question of state succession in matters...