ABSTRACT
Who or what is entitled to act on the international plane? Where should responsibility for violations of international law lie? What sort of entities are capable of possessing international legal rights? What is the status of individuals, minority groups, non-governmental bodies, international organisations and animals in the international legal order and how has their status shifted over time? International Legal Personality contains fourteen articles that address these and related questions. In historical and contemporary writings, international lawyers grapple with the nature of legal identity, and confront global distributions of authority and responsibility, as they explore who or what is a 'person' in the international legal order. These essays document the emergence of an international legal order increasingly conceived in terms of patterns and probabilities, rather than as the stagecraft of a small company of permanent players.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
Personhood and Personality in International Law
part II|108 pages
States, Peoples and Cities
part III|56 pages
Individuals
part IV|140 pages
International Organizations
part V|68 pages
Non-human and Non-state Actors
part VI|84 pages
Possibilities