International Law - G - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
Law of Treaties, The
Antonio Remiro Brotons
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
The Law of Treaties Introduction The Law of Treaties is a set of international and national rules that governs the life of treaties from their ...
Military Necessity
David Turns
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Military Necessity Introduction Military necessity is one of the most fundamental yet most misunderstood and misrepresented principles of the i...
Minorities
Kristin Henrard
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Minorities Introduction Although there is still no generally agreed-upon definition of the concept “minority,” it has become clear that most i...
Nationality and Statelessness
Laura van Waas
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Nationality and Statelessness Introduction Nationality is the legal bond between a person and a state. It denotes membership and gives rise to ...
Natural Law
Craig Reeves
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Natural Law Introduction Natural law as a field of jurisprudence is part of a wider tradition of thought whose roots reach back into Greek phil...
New Approaches to International Law
Thomas Skouteris
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
New Approaches to International Law Introduction New Approaches to International Law captions scholarly work that has become known under numero...
Organizations, International
Alison Duxbury
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
International Organizations Introduction Since World War II, both the number and the variety of international organizations operating in the in...
Peace Keeping
Nigel D. White
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Peacekeeping Introduction Peacekeeping is a development of the Cold War. It was not envisaged by the UN Charter of 1945, but it has proved ...
Piracy
Monique Cormier, Gerry Simpson
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Piracy Introduction International law, it might be argued, is a legal system directed toward the defeat or suppression of a category of violato...
Political Science, International Law and
Wouter Werner
Subject: International Law »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
International Law and Political Science Introduction During the first decades following World War II, international law and international polit...
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