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A timely, thought-provoking and innovative reappraisal of the core actors on the international stage: states.
List of contents
An Australian in England Philippe Sands; James Crawford: the earlier years Ivan Shearer; Part I. Sovereignty: 1. The war against cliché: dispatches from the international legal front Susan Marks and Karen Knop; 2. International law and the responsibility to protect Michael Byers; 3. Human rights beyond borders at the World Court Ralph Wilde; 4. Fragmentation, regime interaction and sovereignty Margaret Young; 5. The legitimacy of investment treaties: between exit, voice and James Crawford's quest for a more democratic international law Lluis Paradell-Trius; 6. Polar territorial and maritime sovereignty in the twenty-first century Don Rothwell; 7. An enquiry into the palimpsestic nature of territorial sovereignty in East Asia - with particular reference to the Senkaku/Diaoyudao question Keun-Gwan Lee; 8. General legal characteristics of states: a view from the past of the Permanent Court of International Justice Ole Spiermann; Part II. Statehood: 9. The Security Council and statehood Christine Chinkin; 10. The dynamics of statehood in the practice of international and English courts Alexander Orakhelashvili; 11. How to recognise a state (and not): some practical considerations Tom Grant; 12. An analysis of the 1969 Act of Free Choice in West Papua Tom Musgrave; 13. Recognition of the State of Palestine: still too much too soon? Yael Ronen; 14. The role of the Uti Possidetis Principle in the Resolution of Maritime Boundary Disputes Suzanne Lalonde; 15. A room for 'state continuity' in international law? A constitutionalist perspective Ineta Ziemele; Part III. State Responsibility: 16. Law-making in complex processes: the World Court and the modern law of state responsibility Christian Tams; 17. Defending individual ships from pirates: questions of state responsibility and immunity Douglas Guilfoyle; 18. Excessive collateral civilian casualties and military necessity: awkward crossroads in international humanitarian law between state responsibility and individual criminal liability Yutaka Arai-Takahashi; 19. Third-party countermeasures: observations on a controversial concept Martin Dawidowicz; 20. The Appellate Body's use of the articles on state responsibility in US - anti-dumping and countervailing duties (China) Isabelle Van Damme; 21. The application of the rules on countermeasures in investment claims: visions and realities of international law as an open system Kate Parlett; 22. The external relations of the European Union and its Member States: lessons from recent developments in the economic sphere Damien Geradin; 23. Invoking, establishing and remedying state responsibility in mixed multi-party disputes: lessons from Eurotunnel Freya Baetens.
About the author
Christine Chinkin is Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a barrister, a member of Matrix Chambers and William Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan.Freya Baetens is Associate Professor of Law, Director of Studies and Head of the LUC Research Centre at Leiden University, The Netherlands, Visiting Professor at the World Trade Institute at Berne University, Switzerland, and Associate Lawyer with VVGB (Brussels Bar).
Summary
This collection of essays analyses the core building blocks of international law: sovereignty, statehood and state responsibility. The critical assessment of the enduring value of these concepts and the challenges faced enables readers to understand the dynamic application and interpretation of living legal thought in practice.
