Bücher der Reihe Oxford Monographs in International Law

This book provides a legal analysis of the institutional mechanisms and processes which the UN employs to use force to maintain or restore peace.

Outlines investment treaty arbitration as a public law system, by demonstrating the significance of giving arbitrators comprehensive jurisdiction to decide regulatory disputes between business and state. This book exposes some consequences of transplanting rules of commercial arbitration into the regulatory sphere.

Provides a comprehensive analysis that asks whether Muslim States can comply with international human rights law whilst adhering to Islamic law. This work examines the traditional arguments on this subject, and offers a vision of the realisation of international human rights within the application of Islamic law.

This detailed reference work on international law has been designed for legal scholars, practising international lawyers, government legal advisers, and advanced students of international law.

This book addresses a dilemma at the heart of the 'War on Terror': Is it ever justifiable to torture terrorists when innocent lives are at stake? The book analyses the moral arguments and presents a passionate defence of prohibition. It also examines current State practice and the models of legalising torture suggested in Israel and the US.

This book examines the international lawfulness of state-sponsored targeted killings in military and police operations. Through an exhaustive analysis of recent state practice and jurisprudence, the book establishes when targeted killing may be considered lawful, and what legal restraints are imposed on the practice in times of war and peace.

This book deals with the international response to one of the most serious environmental problems we face at the end of this century: transboundary traffic in hazardous wastes. It analyses the key international treaties in this field, and proposes ways to build a comprehensive global waste management regime.

Peremptory norms are non-derogable standards of international public policy, which impose limits on how far governments, politicians, and diplomats can further their own goals in making international transactions. This monograph analyses the questions raised by the legal effects of peremptory norms of international law (jus cogens).

Examines the many failed attempts by the international community and the United Nations since the 1920s to define and criminalize terrorism. This book explains why the international community should define and criminalize terrorism, how it should define it, and what it should exclude from the definition of terrorism.

This is the first examination of the origins and development of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) as a human rights treaty. It looks at the work of the UN Committee charged with monitoring States' compliance with their treaty obligations.

Analyses the institutional characteristics of the Committee, how it has developed its practices and procedures under the Covenant and the Optional Protocol, and discusses the jurisprudence of the Committee under selected key articles of the Covenant.

In the last few years, the Security Council has imposed highly controversial sanctions on both individuals and States, some of which can be considered to violate international law. This book argues that the law of international responsibility allows States to disobey these obligations when they would result in a serious violation of human rights.

The Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was agreed in 1998. This provides a rough outline of a procedure, but it still needs to be made workable for the prosecution of international criminals. The aim of this book is to develop an international criminal procedural order.

This book reviews the rapid recent development of international criminal law, and explores solutions to key problems of official immunities, universal jurisdiction, the International Criminal Court and the stance of the United States, seeking to clarify how justice can best be done in a system of sovereign States.

Provides a conceptual and legal analysis of one of the most important challenges facing international organizations: their exercise of sovereign powers. This book examines the exercise of sovereign powers by organizations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and the European Union.

This book explores the relationship between self-determination and minority rights in international law. It is detailed in its treatment of the subject, discussing very recent events, such as the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, in an historical context.

This is a definitive monograph on the concept of obligations ergo omnes---international obligations owed to the international community as a whole and binding irrespective of consent. Ragazzi adopts a pragmatic approach that identifies five common elements among the examples of obligations ergo omnes given by the International Court.

Addresses how international organizations with a global reach, such as the UN and the WTO, have changed the mechanisms and reasoning behind the implementation and enforcement of international law. This book examines the impact of the institutions on international law through the day to day application and interpretation of institutional law.

Focuses on the concept of state responsibility for international crimes which gained support following the First World War, but was pushed into the background by the development of the principle of individual criminal responsibility under international law after the Second World War. This book considers the history and merits of this concept.

Challenges several traditional assumptions concerning human rights. In particular, the book challenges the presumption that the fundamental rights and freedoms contained in the European Convention on Human Rights are irrelevant for cases which concern the sphere of relations between individuals.

This book deals with the protection of human rights in international criminal proceedings. Its basic assumption is that human rights are the yardstick against which to measure the conformity of international criminal proceedings with the rule of law and fundamental principles of justice.

Investment protection treaties generally include, in one form or another, the obligation to treat investments fairly and equitably. This book examines the relationship between this obligation and the minimum standard that can be found in customary international law, tracing the history of both concepts, their differences and similarities.