Cases & Materials on International Law is a topical and engaging companion for study, offering broad coverage on public international law and placing disputes directly within the context of contemporary debate. The book contains the essential cases and materials that students need in order to fully understand and analyse the international legal system, drawing on a truly global range of jurisdictions and sources. Expert author commentary and notes place selected extracts within the wider legal framework and explain the complexities of the principles of law to students.
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Review from previous edition TBC - The coverage, commentary and ease of understanding are the key strengths of this book. Dixon et al is accessible, detailed and thorough * Katherine Reece Thomas, City University *
1: The nature of the international legal system
2: Sources of international law
3: The law of treaties
4: International law and domestic law
5: Legal Personality and recognition
6: International human rights law
7: Sovereignty over territory
8: Jurisdictional sovereignty
9: State responsibility
10: Peaceful settlement of international disputes
11: The use of force, collective security and peacekeeping
12: Immunities from national jurisdiction
13: Law of the sea
14: International environmental law
Professor Martin Dixon is Professor of the Law of Real Property and Fellow of Queen's College at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Robert McCorquodale is Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Nottingham.
Professor Sarah Williams is a Professor in the School of Global and Public Law at UNSW Sydney and an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute.
