ABSTRACT

Public International Law provides the user with a readable, efficient, up-to-date and easy to understand text on the fundamental principles of the subject. It analyses new and significant developments in public international law, the most important being the repercussions of the military intervention of the United States and the United Kingdom in Iraq and of the "war on terror".

Coverage is included of: the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo Buy, Abu Ghraib prison and other places of detention, the situation in the Middle East after the death of Yasser Arafat, the US government’s new policy aimed at immunising its troops from prosecution in the ICC, the Darfur crises and the new reform of the functioning of the mechanism for enforcement of the ECHR by Protocol 14.

chapter 1|10 pages

History and Nature of International Law

chapter 2|23 pages

Sources of International Law

chapter 3|14 pages

International Law and Municipal Law

chapter 4|20 pages

International Personality

chapter 5|21 pages

Recognition

chapter 6|3 pages

Sovereignty and Equality of States

chapter 7|22 pages

Territorial Sovereignty

chapter 8|22 pages

Jurisdiction

chapter 9|26 pages

Immunity from Jurisdiction

chapter 10|56 pages

State Responsibility for Wrongful Acts

chapter 11|34 pages

The Law of Treaties

chapter 12|38 pages

The International Protection of Human Rights

chapter 14|30 pages

Self-Determination of Peoples

chapter 16|39 pages

The Use of Force

chapter 17|23 pages

Collective Security

chapter 18|43 pages

International Humanitarian Law