A Concise Introduction to International Law: (Giappichelli co-publications)

Table of Contents:
Preface to the second edition XIII Preface to the first edition XV List of abbreviations XVII Chapter; What is international law 1. Who needs a basic knowledge of international law and why; 2. Regulating the relations between states and constraining their external sovereignty…; 3. …And internal sovereignty; 4. Why do states undertake international obligations?; 4.1. The example of the Rio Grande Agreement; 5. Why do states comply with and breach international law?; 6. Can we speak of a Constitution of the international society of states? A brief history; 7. Differences and similarities between international law and domestic jurisdictions; 7.1. Predictability; 8. Concluding remarks; Further reading; Chapter; Who makes international law and its recipients 1. The subjects and actors of international law. Introductory remarks; 2. States and statehood; 3. Intergovernmental organisations; 4. Non-state entities; Further reading; Chapter; Making and changing international rules 1. Sources of law and sources of international law; 2. Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice; 3. International agreements. Introductory qualifications; 4. International custom; 5. General principles of law; 6. Relationship between the sources of international law; 7. So-called ‘soft-law instruments’; Further reading; Chapter; International law and domestic jurisdictions 1. Background; 2. The monism v dualism controversy and balancing; 3. Municipal law in international law and before international courts and tribunals; 4. International law in municipal law and before domestic courts and tribunals; 5. The doctrine of incorporation of customs and transformation of treaties in common law jurisdictions; 6. The ‘receipt’ of international law in civil law jurisdictions; 7. The crux of the matter: conflict and precedence; 8. Jurisprudential nationalism; Further reading; Chapter; Breaching international law and its consequences 1. Introduction; 2. International wrongs and state responsibility; 3. State liability and civil liability; Further reading; Chapter; The international means of dispute settlement 1. Introduction; 2. The existence of a legal dispute; 3. Diplomatic means of dispute settlement; 4. Adjudicative means; 5. Institutional means for the settlement of disputes over collective interests and emerging cases of resort to adjudication; Further reading; Chapter; Select areas of substantive international law 1. Introduction; 2. International economic law; 3. The law of the sea; 4. International human rights law; 5. International environmental law; 6. International criminal law and justice; 7. The law of jurisdictional immunities; 8. International law on migration; Further reading; Conclusions: Multilateralism v Unilateralism

About the Author :
Attila M. Tanzi, Ph.D., Chair of International Law at the University of Bologna; President of the Italian Branch of the International Law Association; Chairman of the Implementation Committee of the UNECE 1992 Water Convention; a Member of the PCA (Permanent Court of Arbitration) specialised list of arbitrators for environmental disputes; a Conciliator at the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. Counsel or arbitrator in various interstate, investment and commercial international arbitrations, he is regularly instructed by governments and international organisations on issues of international law. Formerly, a visiting professor at Queen Mary University of London, Université Paris II, Panthéon-Assas and University of Vienna and a visiting lecturer in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, India and Peru. He has published extensively in English, French, Spanish and Italian on state responsibility, foreign investment law, environmental law, law of the sea, law of international organisations and jurisdictional immunities.