International Law


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International Law provides a comprehensive theoretical examination of the key areas of international law. In addition to classic cases and materials, Carlo Focarelli addresses the latest relevant international practice to illustrate contemporary themes and trends in international law and to examine its most topical challenges.




Curso de derecho internacional público y organizaciones internacionales


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Este Curso de Derecho Internacional Público y Organizaciones Internacionales está pensado básicamente para los alumnos de la licenciatura española en Derecho, a los que se pretende iniciar por senderos transitables y atractivos, pero desde luego científicos, en el complejo universo de la normativa internacional.




Curso de Derecho Internacional Público y de Organizaciones Internacionales


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Este Curso de Derecho Internacional Público y Organizaciones Internacionales está pensado básicamente para los alumnos que cursan la carrera de Derecho en el llamado Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, a los que se pretende iniciar por senderos transitables y atractivos, pero desde luego científicos, en el complejo universo de la normativa internacional. Lo que se propone el autor es presentar el Derecho Internacional en su dimensión positiva y, por consiguiente, con el mayor número posible de referencias a las normas en vigor, enfoque que tiene la ventaja, entre otras, de atenuar la tendencia hacia concepciones personales y excesivamente subjetivas de la disciplina al poner énfasis en un factor cierto de objetivación: las fuentes del Derecho. Bien entendido que este enfoque no supone renunciar a otras perspectivas metodológicas, como la axiológica y la sociológico-política, una y otra de capital importancia.




Perspectives on International Law


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In the spirit of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations and the United Nations Decade of International Law, the contributors to Perspectives on International Law honour with this legal treatise a devoted friend of the United Nations and international law, Judge Manfred Lachs - a noted judge, diplomat, humanist and, above all, teacher. The work includes a variety of perspectives on international law relating to what were Judge Lachs' four main areas of interest: the theory and practice of international law, the United Nations, the World Court, and space law. The book meets the need for a reference work covering selected subject areas and providing different perspectives on some of the key issues of current concern. Many eminent experts in various fields related to international law, including Judges of the International Court of Justice, diplomats, and professors of law - most of whom knew Judge Lachs personally - have contributed. Each chapter has been prepared specifically for the book. The contributors represent all political, legal and cultural regions of the world and provide a range of backgrounds and viewpoints, offering a variety of new ideas for strengthening international law, based on their assessment of the lessons of the past.




Spanish Yearbook of International Law


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The Spanish Yearbook of International Law brings together information concerning Spanish legal practice and a bibliography over the period of one year and makes it available to an international readership. It serves as a vehicle for furthering knowledge of Spanish practice in the field of international law among an audience with no knowledge of Spanish. It deals with both private and public international law, taken in a broad sense to include summary treatment of international organizations of which Spain is a member.







La Diplomatie Multilatérale


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In the first part of this book, distinguished diplomats and eminent academics have contributed papers on the concept of international organization, on international conference diplomacy and on negotiating strategies, while experts have provided practical advice on conference management and tips on getting ideas and positions heard and understood in this particular setting. A second part includes notices on the United Nations organizations headquartered in Geneva, with special emphasis on what may be called their institutional culture', and a third part, including an invaluable presentation by the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, is devoted to the question of privileges and immunities. There are many studies, academic or otherwise, on the United Nations organizations but hardly any provide this kind of practical guidance for diplomats and national officials first confronted with the Geneva multilateral setting. The book is primarily intended for them, but is also of interest for those concerned with international relations.




War, Peace and International Order?


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Chapter 9 The Hague as a framework for British and American newspapers' public presentations of the First World War -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Norway's legalistic approach to peace in the aftermath of the First World War -- The Scandinavian proposal for an international judicial organisation -- Drafting the Permanent Court of International Justice's statute -- The establishment of the Permanent Court of International Justice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Against the Hague Conventions: Promoting new rules for neutralityin the Cold War -- The communist 're-discovery' of neutrality -- Attempts at reshaping neutrality in the Cold War era -- New rules for neutrals -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 12 The neutrals and Spanish neutrality: A legal approach to international peacein constitutional texts -- A commitment to peace -- (Re)defining neutrality in a system of collective security in the League of Nations era -- The law of war in an age of democracy -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Index







International Law of Victims


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After having ignored victims, only recently both domestic and international law have begun to pay attention to them. As a consequence, different international norms related to victims have progressively been introduced. These are norms generally characterized by a certain concept from the perspective of victims, as well as by the enumeration of a list of rights to which they are entitle to; rights upon which the international statute of victims is built. In reverse, these catalogues of rights are the states’ obligations. Most of these rights are already existent in the international law of human rights. Consequently, they are not new but consolidated rights. Others are strictly linked to victims, concerning the following categories: victims of crime, victims of abuse of power, victims of gross violations of international human rights law, victims of serious violations of international humanitarian law, victims of enforced disappearance, victims of violations of international criminal law and victims of terrorism.