A contemporary concept of monetary sovereignty

Monetary sovereignty is a crucial legal concept dictating that states have sovereignty over their own monetary, financial, and fiscal affairs. However, it does not feature as part of any key instruments of international law, including the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund. Rather ...

The decolonization of international Law

state succession and the Law of treaties

The issue of state succession continues to be a vital and complex focal point for public international lawyers, yet it has remained strangely resistant to effective articulation. The formative period in this respect was that of decolonization which marked for many the time when international ...

The Immunities of States and their Officials in International Criminal Law and International Human Rights Law

The development of international human rights law and international criminal law has triggered the question whether states and their officials can still shield themselves from foreign jurisdiction by invoking international immunity rules when human rights issues are involved. The Pinochet case was the first case ...

Jurisdiction in international Law

This book examines the international law of jurisdiction, focusing on the areas of law where jurisdiction is most contentious: criminal, antitrust, securities, discovery, and international humanitarian and human rights law. Since F.A. Mann's work in the 1980s, no analytical overview has been attempted ...

Defining terrorism in international Law

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 ...

Human Rights in international criminal proceedings

International justice and the International Criminal Court

between sovereignty and the rule of Law

Since the Nuremberg Trials of top Nazi leaders following the Second World War, international law has affirmed that no-one, whatever their rank or office, is above accountability for their crimes. Yet the Cold War put geopolitical agendas ahead of effective action against war crimes and ...