Routledge Research in International Law
About the Book Series
The series offers a space for new and emerging scholars of international law to publish original arguments, as well as presenting alternative perspectives from more established names in international legal research. Works cover both the theory and practice of international law, presenting innovative analyses of the nature and state of international law itself as well as more specific studies within particular disciplines. The series will explore topics such as the changes to the international legal order, the processes of law-making and law-enforcement, as well as the range of actors in public international law. The books will take a variety of different methodological approaches to the subject including interdisciplinary, critical legal studies, feminist, and Third World approaches, as well as the sociology of international law. Looking at the past, present and future of international law the series reflects the current vitality and diversity of international legal scholarship.
Law Reforms Around the World: Perspectives from National and International Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Asif H Qureshi
May 27, 2025
Encapsulating Law Reform requires the creation of a discreet space occupied with normative self-generation, self-correction, and self-adaptation in the very anatomy of law and the architecture of legal systems. This ‘living dynamic trait’ should be a hallmark of the genetic material in the ...
Towards an Independent Kurdistan: Self-Determination in International Law
1st Edition
By Loqman Radpey
May 06, 2025
Kurdistan is among the world’s most notorious cases of self-determination denied, and the reasons why this outcome remains unachieved reveal as much about the biases of international law as they do about the merits of the case for Kurdistan. On the centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne, 24 July 1923,...
International Investment Law Reform: Contemporary Issues and Solutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Obiajunwa Ama
March 11, 2025
This book offers contemporary assessment of the challenges facing international investment law and proposes innovative solutions for reform. The most controversial issue in international investment law is on the settlement of investor-state disputes and its implications on national regulatory ...
The Sustainable Development Goals in International Law and Policy
1st Edition
By Erika Techera
February 07, 2025
This book introduces the reader to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in an accessible and concise way, examining sustainable development from an international law and policy perspective. The SDGs seek to stimulate social, economic and environmental action to achieve peace and prosperity for ...
Rural and Remote Communities as Non-State Actors: A Legal and Moral Argument
1st Edition
By Ciprian Nicolae Radavoi, David Price
November 29, 2024
While entities as different as armed groups, multinational corporations, political parties, megacities, labour unions, terrorist organisations, or indigenous peoples are mentioned as non-state actors in the relevant literature, rural communities are never referred to. This book addresses the role ...
Private International Law and Arbitral Jurisdiction
1st Edition
By Faidon Varesis
August 26, 2024
International commercial arbitration and litigation are often seen as competing fora, fields of law, or markets. This intersection is at its highest at the forefront of any proceedings, at the jurisdictional stage. The analysis of jurisdictional issues at the forefront of an arbitration has been ...
Small Island States & International Law: The Challenge of Rising Seas
1st Edition
By Carolin König
August 26, 2024
What happens under international law if a state perishes due to rising sea levels without a successor state being created? Will the state cease to exist? What would this mean for its population? Have international law and globalization progressed enough to protect the people thus affected, or does ...
Global Governance, Human Rights and International Law: Combating the Tragic Flaw
2nd Edition
By Errol Mendes
May 27, 2024
This book offers a stimulating introduction to the links between areas of global governance, human rights global economy and international law. By drawing on a range of diverse subject areas, it argues that the foundations of global governance, human rights and international law are undermined by a...
Ancient Indigenous Human Remains and the Law
1st Edition
By Fiona Batt
January 29, 2024
Indigenous peoples are increasingly making requests for the return of their ancestors’ human remains and ancient indigenous deoxyribonucleic acid. However, some museums and scientists have refused to repatriate indigenous human remains or have initiated protracted delays. There are successful ...
Secession and Statehood: Lessons from Spain and Catalonia
1st Edition
By Ana Gemma López Martín, José Antonio Perea Unceta
January 29, 2024
This book analyses the complex phenomenon of secession as a form of creation of States from the perspective of international law. As opposed to other approaches based on the analysis of the political foundation of the secessionist processes or on the construction of a legal basis that justifies the...
Technology, Sovereignty and International Law
1st Edition
By Francis Lyall
January 29, 2024
The dogma of the sovereignty of the state, deriving from the Peace of Westphalia, underpins much of the modern-day international system. However, developments in recent technology have led this ideology to depart from reality. Viewing state sovereignty through the prism of public international law,...
The International Court of Justice and Municipal Courts: An Inter-Judicial Dialogue
1st Edition
By Oktawian Kuc
January 29, 2024
Recent decades have brought international and municipal courts much closer together and induced meaningful cooperation. This holds true also for the International Court of Justice and domestic judicial institutions as they engage actively in an inter-judicial dialogue, particularly on the normative...