Non-State Actors and International Obligations Creation, Evolution and Enforcement

This collection studies the contribution of non-state actors to international obligations. Chapters by academics and practitioners address the role that these actors play in the sources of obligations, their implementation, human rights aspects, dispute settlement, responsibility and legal accountability.

About the author

James Summers, LL.D Helsinki (2004), lectures at Lancaster University. He is author of Peoples and International Law (2nd edn, Brill/Nijhoff 2014) and edited Kosovo: A Precedent? (Brill/Nijhoff 2011) and Contemporary Challenges to the Laws of War (CUP 2014).

Alex Gough is a PhD candidate in the Law School at Lancaster University, UK. His PhD research receives interdisciplinary supervision between Lancaster Law School and Lancaster Environment Centre. In the latter he currently holds the position of Senior Teaching Associate.

Product details

• Assisted by: James Summers (Editor), Alex Gough (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 11.10.2018
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law
• EAN: 9789004340237
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34023-7
• Pages: 488
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 23.9 x 3.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 839 g
• Subjects: LAW / International; LAW / Public; Legal Reference / Law Profession