This third edition of Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in
action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings. By …

International law is in a period of transition. After World War II, but especially since the
1980s, human rights expanded to almost every corner of international law. In doing so, they …

This systematic analysis of State complicity in international law focuses on the rules of State
responsibility. Combining a theoretical perspective on complicity based on the concept of …

In international law, as in any other legal system, respect and protection of human rights can
be guaranteed only by the availability of effective judicial remedies. When a right is violated …

This article forms a contribution to the ongoing scholarly debate on the possible effect of jus
cogens norms. For the purpose of the article, it is assumed that peremptory norms certainly …

Customary international law is one of the principal sources of public international law.
Although its existence is uncontroversial, until now the content of customary international …

In the wake of the calamitous events of September 11, 2001, public international law has
endured some of the greatest tests of its several-hundred-year history and emerged as one …

This book continues the three-volume series edited by Sir Arthur Watts and published in
1999 and 2000. It contains the final product of the International Law Commission (ILC)'s …

The proper way of addressing the impact of normative hierarchy on state immunity is to
adopt the normative-evidentiary approach cleansed of preconceptions motivated by certain …

Since its first" official" recognition as a concept of international law in the 1969 Vienna
Convention on the Law of Treaties (the" Vienna Convention"),'jus cogenS2 has had both a …