Less is more : rules and principles in international law-making / Vaughan Lowe -- An amodernist approach to international law : the law of the sea in the Amarna letters / Erdem Denk -- The sources of public international law historically considered / Dino Kritsiotis -- The United Nations and human rights : reform through review? / Malcolm Evans -- United Nations human rights treaty bodies : universality and national implementation / Geir Ulfstein -- International parental child abduction and the need for alternative regimes? / Urfan Khaliq -- Coastal state jurisdiction in ice-covered areas : the impacts of climate change and the polar code / Tore Henriksen -- The responsibility and liability of flag states in the context of fisheries / Daniel Owen -- Compulsory inter-state adjudication in the anthropocene : achieving the paradoxical? / Duncan French -- The challenge of effective compliance and enforcement with international environmental law / Catherine Redgwell -- Where's the catch? shifting stocks, international fisheries management and the climate change conundrum / Richard Caddell -- The influence of jus cogens on international crimes : have they made any difference? / Robert Cryer -- The achievements and limits of global counter-terrorism cooperation / Jacques Hartmann.
Summary:
"The aim of this collection of essays in Robin Churchill's honour to discuss the key examples of the achievements of international law - with the express aim of exploring both what it has achieved and also its limits. This will serve as a response to the two popular but opposite misconceptions about the role of international law. One view is that international law is too weak to improve the World in any significant way. The other view is that international law is a panacea that can be used to rid the world of many of its ills. The book is divided into four distinct parts, each reflecting on what international law has achieved within broadly defined substantive areas. It opens with a discussion on general international law and international human rights Law, before exploring the law of the sea and fisheries. It then looks at international environmental law before finally examining the use of force and international criminal law. The chapters and the collection overall will provide a contrast to the popular misconceptions about international law by offering examples of both the success and also limitations of it as a system"-- Provided by publisher.
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