State Responsibility and Rebels - The History and Legacy of Protecting Investment Against Revolution

Explores the emergence and contestation of State responsibility for rebels in the context of the decolonisation of Latin America.

List of contents

1. The past and present of state responsibility for rebels; 2. The system: mixed claims commissions in the shadow of empire; 3. The cases: autonomy, ambiguity and doctrine in the work of the commissions; 4. The scholarship: resistance and development; 5. The codification projects: stalemate; 6. The legacy: protecting investment against revolution in the decolonised world.

About the author

Kathryn Greenman is Lecturer in Law at the University of Technology Sydney. She is a co-editor of Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) with Anne Orford, Ntina Tzouvala and Anna Saunders.

Summary

This book is for readers interested in the history of international law and arbitration, offering a comprehensive account of the operation of mixed claims commissions in the context of the decolonisation of Latin America and a fresh perspective on the question of responsibility for rebels and other non-State armed actors.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Greenman, Kathryn (University of Technology Greenman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781316517291
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51729-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Legal History, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Public International Law, Legal History