1st Edition

Leading Works in International Law

Edited By Donna Lyons Copyright 2024
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

This volume provides an innovative and engaging way of assessing the development of international law scholarship and practice to date and its potential future development by focusing upon the ‘leading works’ of the discipline. International law has established itself as an important area of academic study and legal practice. Given its academic, legal and everyday significance and its prolific... Read more

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

 

Foreword

Gráinne de Búrca

 

1. Prologue

Donna Lyons

2. The International Law of Occupation

Eyal Benvenisti

3. The Creation of States in International Law

James Crawford and Freya Baetens

4. The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

Oona A Hathaway and Scott J Shapiro

5. Treaty Withdrawals in a Turbulent World: A Retrospective on Exiting Treaties

Laurence R Helfer

6. The Object of Critique: What is International Law?

David Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi

7. Before and After ‘Vengeance and Forgiveness’

Martha Minow

8. On the Frontlines: Gender, War and the Post-Conflict Process

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Naomi Cahn

9. Newness, Imperialism, and International Legal Reform in Our Time: A TWAIL

PerspectiveObiora Chinedu Okafor

10. Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

Kathryn Sikkink

11. Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics

Beth A Simmons

12. Battling Against Power: The International Law on Foreign Investment Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah

13. Epilogue

Donna Lyons

 

Index

Biography

Donna Lyons (Attorney-at-Law, New York; PhD, Trinity College Dublin; LLM, New York University; LLB, Trinity College Dublin has held academic appointments at several Irish and international law schools. Donna’s research interests include public international law, international human rights law, and international criminal law, and well as numerous aspects of Irish law and policy, and she has published, presented, and been awarded competitive research funding both domestically and internationally within these fields.