Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law

Chapter 1. Introduction  Chapter 2. History  Chapter 3. Sources of international law  Chapter 4. International law and municipal law  Chapter 5. Creation and recognition of States  Chapter 6. Legal personality of non-State entities  Chapter 7. Territory  Chapter 8. The law of the sea  Chapter 9. Airspace and outer space  Chapter 10. State jurisdiction  Chapter 11. Immunity from jurisdiction  Chapter 12. Law of treaties  Chapter 13. State responsibility  Chapter 14. State succession  Chapter 15. Protected persons and entities: nationality and individual rights  Chapter 16. Protected persons and entities: human rights, group rights, and self-determination  Chapter 17. Protection of the environment  Chapter 18. International economic relations  Chapter 19. International criminal justice  Chapter 20. Use of force  Chapter 21. Laws applicable to war and armed conflict  Chapter 22. The United Nations and peace and security  Chapter 23. Settlement of disputes

Biography

Alexander Orakhelashvili (LLM Leiden, PhD Cantab), Professor at the University of Birmingham, UK, has taught and researched public international law at four British universities over the past twenty-five years. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and events on developments in public international law, and has given invited papers at the events and conferences held in the UK, the USA, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Japan. He has provided legal advice regarding public international law issues in litigation before English and American courts. Apart from Akehurst, his publications include ten books, including seven sole-authored monographs: Peremptory Norms in International Law (2006), The Interpretation of Acts and Rules in Public International Law (2008), Collective Security (2011), Domesticating Kelsen: Towards the Pure Theory of English Law (2019), International Law and International Politics: Foundations of Interdisciplinary Analysis (2020), Causation in International Law (2022), The Essence and Reality of Statehood: Effectiveness, Recognition and Legitimacy (2025), as well as three edited collections and more than ninety articles and book chapters in leading journals and edited collections.

"This 10th edition is another welcome and masterful update by Alexander Orakhelashvili. For this most recent edition, he has added recent case law on climate law, and updated the book in light of the global pushback against international institutions."

Kevin W. Gray, Lecturer, University of Toronto, Canada

"Orakhelashvili has comprehensively updated this most welcome new edition Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law. It continues to provide a detailed yet accessible volume on international law that will as a result be of interest to a wide audience, including students of all levels, academics, practitioners, and anybody with an interest in international law as it operates in both its historical and contemporary context."

Christian Henderson, Professor of International Law, University of Sussex, UK