Optimal Protection of International Law - Navigating Between European Absolutism and American Voluntarism

Klappentext In this book, Joost Pauwelyn considers how the increasingly sophisticated field of international law should be protected and enforced. Zusammenfassung In this book! Joost Pauwelyn considers how strongly international law should be protected. He proposes a framework for treaty negotiators! politicians and judges to enforce the ever-increasing list of rights and obligations between states on a sliding scale between strict inalienability and flexible liability. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The two extremes of 'European Absolutism' and 'American Voluntarism'; 3. Allocation, protection and back-up enforcement of entitlements; 4. How should International law entitlements be protected?; 5. How are international law entitlements currently protected?; 6. Back-up enforcement in international law; 7. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Joost Pauwelyn, Joost (Graduate Institute of Internation Pauwelyn, Pauwelyn Joost
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107406926
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40692-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Political science & theory, Public International Law, Political science and theory