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Aggression

Constantine Antonopoulos

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Aggression Introduction The crime of aggression, or crime against peace, was first introduced in the constituent instrument establishing the Nu...

Agreements, Bilateral and Regional Trade

John Shijian Mo

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements Introduction Bilateral trade agreements (BTAs) and regional trade agreements (RTAs) are an important so...

Agreements, Multilateral Environmental

Ole Kristian Fauchald

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Multilateral Environmental Agreements Introduction Although multilateral agreements to protect environmental goods have existed for more than ...

Consular Relations

John Quigley

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Consular Relations Introduction Rights and duties of states as they send and receive consular representatives is the subject matter of the fiel...

Courts, International

Cesare P. R. Romano

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

International Courts Introduction The multiplication of international courts is one of the most remarkable changes in international law and rel...

Crimes against Humanity

Beth van Schaack

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Crimes Against Humanity Introduction Crimes against humanity have both a colloquial and a legal existence. In daily parlance, the term is employ...

Criminal Law, International

Ilias Bantekas

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

International Criminal Law Introduction International criminal law (ICL) is a discipline that straddles public international law and criminal l...

Environmental Compliance Mechanisms

Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Panos Merkouris

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Environmental Compliance Mechanisms Introduction Compliance mechanisms can be found in treaties regulating such diverse issues as human rights,...

Estoppel

Emmanuel Voyiakis

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Estoppel Introduction As it is most commonly described, estoppel is a rule of international law that bars a party from going back on its previo...

Feminist Approaches to International Law

Dianne Otto

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Feminist Approaches to International Law Introduction Feminist perspectives have informed the development of international law at least since t...

General Customary Law

Tony Carty

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

General Customary Law Introduction International society is divided into sovereign states and does not have an international legislature, execu...

Genocide

Christine Byron

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Genocide Introduction Genocide has been called the “crime of crimes” and the gravest violation of human rights it is possible to commit. It was...

Human Rights

Jessica Almqvist

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Human Rights Introduction The adoption in 1945 of the UN Charter and in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights marks the initial sta...

Immunities

Lorna McGregor

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Immunities Introduction International law characterizes the immunities of states and their officials as procedural rules that prevent the adjud...

Immunity, Sovereign

Xiaodong Yang

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Sovereign Immunity Introduction Sovereign immunity, or state immunity, is a principle of customary international law, by virtue of which one so...

Institutional Law

Jan Klabbers

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Institutional Law Introduction International organizations, it is often said, are strange creatures. On the one hand, they are created by their...

International Environmental Law

Jutta Brunnée

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

International Environmental Law Introduction International environmental law encompasses the legal norms and processes that address transbound...

Intervention

Nicholas Tsagourias

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Intervention Introduction Intervention refers to interference in the affairs of a state. Such interference can take many different forms: polit...

Intervention, Humanitarian

Dino Kritsiotis

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

Humanitarian Intervention Introduction This article begins with an assessment of the conceptual parameters of “humanitarian intervention” that ...

Jurisdiction

Xiaodong Yang

Subject: International Law »

Date Added: 2012-10-25

Jurisdiction Introduction “Jurisdiction” is arguably the most versatile term in current international law. Frequently used in international le...