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.
Territorial Disputes and State Sovereignty: International Law and Politics
1st Edition
By Jorge E. Núñez
December 19, 2022
Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this book opens new ground for research on territorial disputes. Many sovereignty conflicts remain unresolved around the world. Current solutions in law, political science and international relations generally prove problematic to at least one of the ...
WTO Jurisprudence: Governments, Private Rights, and International Trade
1st Edition
By Wenwei Guan
May 06, 2022
This book offers a critical examination of the jurisprudence of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as an emancipatory international social contract on trade. The book suggests that the WTO is an international organization built and operating on member states’ attribution of authority through ...
Universal Jurisdiction in International Criminal Law: The Debate and the Battle for Hegemony
1st Edition
By Aisling O'Sullivan
October 18, 2018
With the sensational arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, the rise to prominence of universal jurisdiction over crimes against international law seemed to be assured. The arrest of Pinochet and the ensuing proceedings before the UK courts brought universal jurisdiction into ...
The Responsibility to Protect in International Law: An Emerging Paradigm Shift
1st Edition
By Susan Breau
September 10, 2018
This book will consider a rapidly emerging guiding general principle in international relations and, arguably, in international law: the Responsibility to Protect. This principle is a solution proposed to a key preoccupation in both international relations and international law scholarship: how the...
Latin America and the International Court of Justice: Contributions to International Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida, Jean-Marc Sorel
June 01, 2018
This book aims to evaluate the contribution of Latin America to the development of international law at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This contemporary approach to international adjudication includes the historical contribution of the region to the development of international law ...
Legal Accountability and Britain's Wars 2000-2015
1st Edition
By Peter Rowe
June 01, 2018
This book discusses the manner in which Britain’s wars, which took place between 2000 and 2015, have interacted with the relevant principles of international law and English law for the purpose, primarily, of considering legal accountability. During a debate in the House of Lords in 2005 a former ...
Reciprocity in International Law: Its impact and function
1st Edition
By Shahrad Nasrolahi Fard
June 01, 2018
In international relations, reciprocity describes an environment in which States support one another for short- or long-term advantage through the balancing of rights, duties and interests. This book examines reciprocity in the context of international law. It considers the role reciprocity plays ...
Seeking Justice in International Law: The Significance and Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
1st Edition
By Mauro Barelli
June 01, 2018
Today human rights represent a primary concern of the international legal system. The international community’s commitment to the protection and promotion of human rights, however, does not always produce the results hoped for by the advocates of a more justice-oriented system of international law....
The International Criminal Court and Global Social Control: International Criminal Justice in Late Modernity
1st Edition
By Nerida Chazal
June 01, 2018
The International Criminal Court was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. At its genesis the ICC was expected to help prevent atrocities from arising or escalating by ending the impunity of leaders and administering punishment for the commission of ...
Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics: A Distributive Justice Issue
1st Edition
By Jorge E. Núñez
January 08, 2018
Many conflicts throughout the world can be characterized as sovereignty conflicts in which two states claim exclusive sovereign rights for different reasons over the same piece of land. It is increasingly clear that the available remedies have been less than successful in many of these cases, and ...
The Right to Democracy in International Law: Between Procedure, Substance and the Philosophy of John Rawls
1st Edition
By Khalifa A Alfadhel
January 08, 2018
This book explores the right to democracy in international law and contemporary democratic theory, asking whether international law encompasses a substantive or procedural understanding of the notion. The book considers whether there can be considered to be a basis for the right to democracy in ...
The Rule of Law in the United Nations Security Council Decision-Making Process: Turning the Focus Inwards
1st Edition
By Sherif Elgebeily
January 08, 2018
The UN Security Council is entrusted under the UN Charter with primary responsibility for the maintenance and restoration of the international peace; it is the only body with the power to authorise military intervention legally and impose international sanctions where it decides. However, its ...