Statehood and the State-Like in International Law

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Personality


• 2: State-like entities in past eras of international law


• 3: States: the effectiveness and recognition norms


• 4: States: exceptions


• 5: Other state-like entities in a world of states


• Conclusion

About the author

Rowan Nicholson completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 2017. He also has Honours degrees in Law and Arts from the University of Adelaide, a Master of International Relations from Macquarie University, and an LLM from Cambridge. In the past he has been a legal practitioner in Australia and the senior associate to Professor James Crawford, in which capacity he worked on cases before the International Court of Justice. He lectures at the University of Sydney Law School and is co-director of the Sydney Centre for International Law. His research explores the history and theory of international law, especially statehood, sovereignty, and legal personality.

Summary

This book sets out to answer the question of when a political entity becomes a state in international law, one of the foundational questions of the discipline.

Product details

• Authors: Rowan Nicholson, Rowan (Associate Lecturer Nicholson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2019
• EAN: 9780198851219
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885121-9
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Oxford Monographs in International Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / International, LAW / Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Public international law: territory and statehood, International law of territory & statehood