Selfless Intervention - The Exercise of Jurisdiction in the Common Interest

This book discusses under what conditions states can take unilateral action to promote the interests of the international community. It puts forward an argument in favour of unilateral action in the common interest, but suggests a number of restraining techniques to limit its intrusiveness.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction: international law and cosmopolitanism


• 2: Selfless intervention: the promise of unilateral jurisdiction


• 3: Selfless jurisdiction and the national interest: between cosmopolitanism and parochialism


• 4: Limitations to the exercise of jurisdiction in the common interest


• 5: The selfless exercise of jurisdiction to protect human rights and the environment


• 6: Concluding observations

About the author

Cedric Ryngaert is Professor of Public International Law and Head of the Department of International and European Law at Utrecht University. He is also the programme leader of the LLM in Public International Law at Utrecht University. He studied law at Leuven University and obtained his PhD from Leuven in 2007. He is the author of, among other publications, Jurisdiction in International Law (OUP 2015, 2nd ed).

Summary

This book discusses under what conditions states can take unilateral action to promote the interests of the international community. It puts forward an argument in favour of unilateral action in the common interest, but suggests a number of restraining techniques to limit its intrusiveness.

Product details

• Authors: Cedric Ryngaert, Cedric (Professor of Public Internationa Ryngaert, Ryngaert Cedric
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2020
• EAN: 9780198851783
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885178-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Environmental, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Public international law: territory and statehood, International law of territory & statehood, Public international law: jurisdiction and immunities, Jurisdiction & Immunities