Reference Works
- Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law: CustomDefinition of custom in the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.).
Custom as a Source of Law by
A central puzzle in jurisprudence has been the role of custom in law. Custom is simply the practices and usages of distinctive communities. But are such customs legally binding? Can custom be law, even before it is recognized by authoritative legislation or precedent? And, assuming that custom is a source of law, what are its constituent elements? Is proof of a consistent and long-standing practice sufficient, or must there be an extra ingredient - that the usage is pursued out of a sense of legal obligation, or, at least, that the custom is reasonable and efficacious? And, most tantalizing of all, is custom a source of law that we should embrace in modern, sophisticated legal systems, or is the notion of law from below outdated, or even dangerous, today? This volume answers these questions through a rigorous multidisciplinary, historical, and comparative approach, offering a fresh perspective on custom's enduring place in both domestic and international law.
Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 0521721822Publication Date: 2010-08-16Custom in Present International Law by The main points discussed in the book include the requirements and the mechanism of international law formation, kinds of international customary rules, relation of customary rules to other kinds of rules of international law, the ascertaining of customary international law, and the basis of its binding force.
Call Number: KZ3179 .W64 1993ISBN: 0792320093Publication Date: 1993-01-01
The Sources of International Law by
The question of what is, and what is not, part of international law is fundamental in shaping its current form and its development. Traditionally, treaties between states and state practice were seen as the primary means with which to create international law. However, the definition of whatthe sources of international law are, and how they operate, has been questioned in significant ways. Particularly this has been seen in the more recent developments in the notion of customary international law, which stands alongside international treaties and instruments as a key foundation uponwhich international law is built. This book provides a key inquiry into all the recognised, or asserted, sources of international law.It investigates the impact of ethical principles on the creation of international law; whether "soft law" norms come into being through the same sources as binding international law; and whether jus cogens norms, and those involving rights and obligations erga omnes have a unique place in thecreation of international legal norms. It studies the notion of "general principles of international law" within international law's sub-disciplines, and the evolving relationship between treaty-based law and customary international law. Re-examining the traditional model, it investigates theincreasing role of international jurisprudence, and looks at the nature of international organisations and non-state actors as potential new sources of international law. The book provides a perfect introduction to the law of sources, as well as innovative perspectives on new developments, making itessential reading for anyone studying or working in international law.
Call Number: KZ1279 .T45 2014ISBN: 0199685401Publication Date: 2014-05-27
International Law by
This new edition of International Law confirms the text's status as the definitive book on the subject. Combining both his expertise as academic and practitioner, Malcolm Shaw's survey of the subject motivates and challenges both student and professional. By offering an unbeatable combination of clarity of expression and academic rigour, he ensures both understanding and critical analysis in an engaging and authoritative style. The text has been updated throughout to reflect recent case law and treaty developments. It retains the detailed references which encourage and assist further reading and study.
Call Number: KZ3275 .S53 2014ISBN: 9781107040861Publication Date: 2014-09-18
Books on Customary International Law
Custom, Power, and the Power of Rules by Call Number: electronic bookISBN: 0511011563Publication Date: 1999
International Customary Law and Codification by Call Number: K3179 .T55 1972ISBN: 9028600825Publication Date: 1972-12-31
The Changing Nature of Customary International Law by
This book examines the evolution of customary international law (CIL) as a source of international law. Using the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as a key case study, the book explores the importance of CIL in the development of international criminal law and focuses on the ways in which international criminal tribunals can be said to change the ways in which CIL is formed and identified. In doing so, the book surveys the process and substance of CIL, as well as the problematic distinction between the elements of state practice and opinio juris. By applying an inclusive positivist approach, Noora Arajarvi analyses the methodologies of identification of CIL in selected cases of the ICTY, and their normative foundations. Through examination of the case-law and the reasoning of courts and tribunals, Arajarvi demonstrates to what extent the court's chosen method of identification of CIL affects the process of custom formation and the resulting system of norms in general. The book will be of great value to researchers and scholars of international law, international relations, and practitioners with interests in customary international law."
Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 1134067275Publication Date: 2014-04-24
The Philosophy of Customary Law by Call Number: K282 .M87 2014ISBN: 9780199370627Publication Date: 2014-04-17Concept of Custom in International Law by
Call Number: KZ1277 .D35 1971ISBN: 0801406196Publication Date: 1971-06-01Theory of custom
The Termination and Revision of Treaties in the Light of New Customary International Law by
This highly original and challenging study offers an examination of the tensions which exist between the two most important sources of international law: Treaty and Custom. Through detailed analysis of state practice and key decisions of international tribunals, the author considers the circumstances by which new customary law may abrogate the obligations of a prior treaty, and argues that there is a special category of situations which supports the right of a state to renegotiate a treaty by an appeal to new customary law. Scholarly and thought-provoking, this is an original and, at times, controversial study which will become essential reading for all those interested in the sources of international law and the observance and enforcement of treaty obligations.
Call Number: KZ1303.3 .K66 1994ISBN: 0198258429Publication Date: 1995-03-02
Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change by Call Number: KZ1277 .S33 2013ISBN: 9781107035232Publication Date: 2013-05-31
International Law in the U. S. Legal System by Call Number: KF4581 .B73 2015ISBN: 9780190217761Publication Date: 2015-04-21Chapter 5. Customary International Law
Peremptory International Law - Jus Cogens by
Robert Kolb, one of the leading international scholars of his generation, offers a seminal survey of the question of peremptory international law. The author analyses and systemises different questions, such as: the typology of peremptory norms beyond the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; here he distinguishes between 'public order' jus cogens and mere 'public utility' jus cogens. Furthermore, what about relative jus cogens, such as regional jus cogens norms or conventional jus cogens norms? What about some consequences of jus cogens breaches in the law of State responsibility: are they themselves jus cogens? Thus, can individual war reparations be renounced by lump-sum agreements? What happens if different jus cogens norms are in conflict? Is there a difference between the scope of jus cogens in inter-State relations and its scope for other subjects of law, such as the UN and its Security Council? Is jus cogens necessarily predicated on the concept of a hierarchy of norms? What is the exact extent of the peremptory nature of some rules? Sometimes, only the core of a principle is peremptory, while its normative periphery is not. Also, in the use of force, the peremptory character of the provision is compatible with agreements falling under the recognised exceptions, such as collective self-defence. These and other unusual questions are discussed in the present book.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781782257271Publication Date: 2015-10-08
Jus Cogens by
One of the most complex doctrines in contemporary international law, jus cogens is the immediate product of the socialization of the international community following the Second World War. However, the doctrine resonates in a centuries-old legal tradition which constrains the dynamics of voluntarism that characterize conventional international law. To reconcile this modern iteration of individual-oriented public order norms with the traditionally State-based form of international law, Thomas Weatherall applies the idea of a social contract to structure the analysis of jus cogens into four areas: authority, sources, content and enforcement. The legal and political implications of this analysis give form to jus cogens as the product of interrelation across an individual-oriented normative framework, a State-based legal order, and values common to the international community as a whole.
Call Number: KZ1261 .W43 2015ISBN: 1107081769Publication Date: 2015-07-16Practice and Methods of International Law by
Call Number: KZ3405 .R67 A36 1984ISBN: 0379201402Publication Date: 1984-01-01Chapter 3 Customary International Law
Theory
Description of resources that provide evidence of custom
The Authority of International Law by Call Number: KZ3410 .C348 2015ISBN: 9780199685097Publication Date: 2015-12-01Includes a section starting on page 112 entitled:
Customary International Law and the Participation of Political Organs
Judicial Application of International Law in Southeast Europe by
Discusses the status of customary international law in countries in Southeast Europe.
This edited volume presents comparative research on how the courts in Southeast Europe apply international law. After the introductory Part I, Part II discusses specific areas of international law, notably the law of Association Agreements between the EU and third countries, the law of the World Trade Organization, and international environmental law (the Aarhus Convention). Part III consists of country reports on how national courts in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia are currently applying international law.
Call Number: KZ3410 .J83 2015ISBN: 9783662463833Publication Date: 2015-05-08
The Assault on International Law by
Discusses the interaction between U.S. law and customary international law
International law presents a conceptual riddle. Why comply with it when there is no world government to enforce it? The United States has a long history of skepticism towards international law, but 9/11 ushered in a particularly virulent phase of American exceptionalism. Torture becameofficial government policy, President Bush denied that the Geneva Conventions applied to the war against al-Qaeda, and the US drifted away from international institutions like the International Criminal Court and the United Nations. Although American politicians and their legal advisors are often the public face of this attack, the root of this movement is a coordinated and deliberate attack by law professors hostile to its philosophical foundations, including Eric Posner, Jack Goldsmith, Adrian Vermeule, and John Yoo. In aseries of influential writings they have claimed that since states are motivated primarily by self-interest, compliance with international law is nothing more than high-minded talk. These abstract arguments then provide a foundation for dangerous legal conclusions: that international law is largelyirrelevant to determining how and when terrorists can be captured or killed; that the US President alone should be directing the War on Terror without significant input from Congress or the judiciary; that US courts should not hear lawsuits alleging violations of international law; and that the USshould block any international criminal court with jurisdiction over Americans. Put together, these polemical accounts had an enormous impact on how politicians conduct foreign policy and how judges decide cases - ultimately triggering America's pernicious withdrawal from international cooperation. In The Assault on International Law, Jens Ohlin exposes the mistaken assumptions of these "New Realists," in particular their impoverished utilization of rational choice theory. In contrast, he provides an alternate vision of international law based on a truly innovative theory of human rationality.According to Ohlin, rationality requires that agents follow through on their plans even when faced with opportunities for defection. Seen in this light, international law is the product of nation-states cooperating to escape a brutish State of Nature - a result that is not only legally binding butalso in each state's self-interest.
Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 9780199987405Publication Date: 2015-01-23
Public Purpose in International Law by
Chapter 2 is on Identifying Public Purpose in Customary International Law
This text explores how the public purpose doctrine reconciles the often conflicting, but equally binding, obligations that states have to engage in regulatory sovereignty while honoring host-state obligations to protect foreign investment. The work examines the multiple permutations and iterations of the public purpose doctrine and concludes that this principle needs to be reconceptualized to meet the imperatives of economic globalization and of a new paradigm of sovereignty that is based on the interdependence, and not independence, of states. It contends that the historical expression of the public purpose doctrine in customary and conventional international law is fraught with fundamental flaws that, if not corrected, will give rise to disparities in the relationship between investors and states, asymmetries with respect to industrialized nations and developing states, and, ultimately, process legitimacy concerns.
Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 9781107081741Publication Date: 2015-02-19
Jurisdiction in International Law by
p. 34 Section 2.2 Customary International Law
(a) Persisting influence of Lotus
p. 44 (e) Method of ascertaining customary international law
This fully updated second edition of Jurisdiction in International Law examines the international law of jurisdiction, focusing on the areas of law where jurisdiction is most contentious: criminal, antitrust, securities, discovery, and international humanitarian and human rights law. SinceF.A. Mann's work in the 1980s, no analytical overview has been attempted of this crucial topic in international law: prescribing the admissible geographical reach of a State's laws. This new edition includes new material on personal jurisdiction in the U.S., extraterritorial applicatins of human rights treaties, discussions on cyberspace, the Morrison case. Jurisdiction in International Law has been updated covering developments in sanction and tax laws, and includes furtherexploration on transnational tort litigation and universal civil jurisdiction.The need for such an overview has grown more pressing in recent years as the traditional framework of the law of jurisdiction, grounded in the principles of sovereignty and territoriality, has been undermined by piecemeal developments. Antitrust jurisdiction is heading in new directions, influencedby law and economics approaches; new EC rules are reshaping jurisdiction in securities law; the U.S. is arguably overreaching in the field of corporate governance law; and the universality principle has gained ground in European criminal law and U.S. tort law. Such developments have given rise to conflicts over competency that struggle to be resolved within traditional jurisdiction theory. This study proposes an innovative approach that departs from the classical solutions and advocates a general principle of international subsidiary jurisdiction. Underthe new proposed rule, States would be entitled, and at times even obliged, to exercise subsidiary jurisdiction over internationally relevant situations in the interest of the international community if the State having primary jurisdiction fails to assume its responsibility.
Call Number: KZ4017 .R96 2015ISBN: 0199688516Publication Date: 2015-06-16
International Law by
International Law provides a lucid and comprehensive exposition of the basic precepts necessary for understanding the international legal process, while presenting a general, integrated overview of contemporary international law. The text is presented in a user-friendly/ accessible style, providing an ideal concise overview that offers sufficient detail for the work to be adopted as a core text.
This text should be regarded as an essential purchase for students following courses in International Law as it continues to map current undergraduate course syllabi and also incorporates discussion of issues studied as part of International-related LLMs. International Law is also a key reference tool for non-law students following courses in subject areas such as International Politics, International Relations, Human Rights etc, as well as for academics and practitioners requiring a concise overview of current developments.
Features and benefits include:
Designed for use as both a concise narrative companion to casebooks and as a standalone introductory text
Provides a lucid and full exposition of the basic precepts necessary for complete understanding of the international legal process
Covers researching International Law on the Internet to encourage and assist further research
Incorporates discussion of UK and US cases and sources – comparative scope ensures text will be an essential resource for UK and International markets
Call Number: KZ3295 .W35 I58 2016ISBN: 9780414055513Publication Date: 2016
Immunity of Heads of State and State Officials for International Crimes by
Ramona Pedretti offers, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the rules of customary international law relating to immunity of Heads of State and other State officials in the context of crimes pursuant to international law and their relationship with core principles of international law. The book gives the reader a full picture of this topical issue which is located at the heart of today's development of international law. It contains an in-depth evaluation of a vast amount of relevant material, ranging from domestic laws to judicial decisions of domestic and international courts. The fact that the International Law Commission is deliberating the issue with a view to drafting an international treaty underscores the book's importance and timeliness.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9789004287761Publication Date: 2014-11-26
