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1. International Law, Regulation and Resistance

   Critical Spaces

   By Zoe Pearson

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   International Law, Regulation and Resistance presents a critique of international law through an interdisciplinary analysis and engagement with the emerging literature from critical legal geography. The book draws upon existing critiques of international law to examine how different spaces affect...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Reforming the UN Security Council Membership

   The illusion of representativeness

   By Sabine Hassler

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   There have been many calls for changes to the membership of the United Nations Security Council over the past fifty years, and the Council is now, more than ever, seen as out of step with current realities. The continuing failure to reflect changing realities directly affects the perception of...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The ICJ and the Evolution of International Law

   The Enduring Impact of the Corfu Channel Case

   Edited by Karine Bannelier, Théodore Christakis, Sarah Heathcote

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   In 1949 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its first judgment in the Corfu Channel Case. In diffusing an early Cold War dispute, the Court articulated a set of legal principles which continue to shape our appreciation of the international legal order. Many of the issues dealt...

   Published November 2nd 2011 by Routledge
4. International Law in a Multipolar World

   Edited by Matthew Happold

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, international law has sought to configure itself as a universal system. Yet, despite the best efforts of international institutions, scholars and others to assert theuniversal application of international law, its relevance and applicability has...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Law on the Use of Force

   A Feminist Analysis

   By Gina Heathcote

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   The book presents the international laws on the use of force whilst demonstrating the unique insight a feminist analysis offers this central area of international law. The book highlights key conceptual barriers to the enhanced application of the law of the use of force, and develops international...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. Sovereignty and Jurisdiction in Airspace and Outer Space

   Legal Criteria for Spatial Delimitation

   By Gbenga Oduntan

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   Sovereignty and jurisdiction are legal doctrines of a complex nature, which have been subject to differing interpretations by scholars in legal literature. The tridimensionality of state territory recognised under customary international law subsists until the present but there are other...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Problem of Enforcement in International Law

   Countermeasures, the Non-Injured State and the Idea of International Community

   By Elena Katselli Proukaki

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   This book explores the contentious topic of how collective and community issues should be protected and enforced in international law. Elena Katselli Proukaki takes a detailed look at the issue of third-State countermeasures, and considers the work the International Law Commission has done in this...

   Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Law of Consular Access

   A Documentary Guide

   By John Quigley, William J. Aceves, Adele Shank

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of litigation at the international and domestic levels concerning consular access for foreign nationals charged with a criminal offence. The issue has complicated relations between countries, with the majority of litigation involving the United...

   Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge
9. International Legal Theory

   Essays and engagements, 1966-2006

   By Nicholas Onuf

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   Nicholas Onuf’s International Legal Theory: Essays and Engagements 1966-2007 is a collection of the author’s articles and book reviews from the period, including some previously unpublished material. The book records the author’s efforts to address important problems in international legal theory...

   Published July 18th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
10. International Economic Actors and Human Rights

    By Adam McBeth

    Series: Routledge Research in International Law

    In noting that the actions of entities other than states in the economic arena can and often do have a profound effect on human rights, this book poses the question as to how international human rights law can and should address that situation. This book takes three very different categories of...

    Published July 17th 2011 by Routledge