Overlapping Individual and Interstate Claims in International Law

Focused on the relationship between individual and interstate claims under international law, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of the potential for such overlapping claims to arise and explores, through a rigorous analysis of the law of State responsibility, how public international law regulates that overlap.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: State Responsibility


• 2: Overlapping Individual and Interstate Claims


• 3: The Application of Diplomatic Protection-Based Rules


• 4: Res Judicata, Double Recovery, and Related Provisions and Principles


• 5: Consent and Waiver


• 6: Countermeasures and Self-Defence


• Conclusion

About the author

Dr Jessica Howley holds BCL, MPhil and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA/LLB from the University of Queensland. She has worked as a former Legal Officer at the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, as an Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice, and as an Associate to a Justice of the High Court of Australia.

Summary

Focused on the relationship between individual and interstate claims under international law, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of the potential for such overlapping claims to arise and explores, through a rigorous analysis of the law of State responsibility, how public international law regulates that overlap.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Howley, Jessica (Legal Officer Howley
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2024
• EAN: 9780192871466
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287146-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Oxford Monographs in International Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Courts, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Public international law: diplomatic law, Investment Treaties & Disputes, Responsibility of states & other entities, Diplomatic law, International law: courts and procedures, International courts & procedures