Tag: Public law

  • Subjects of international Law

    States: Identity, Recognition, and Succession This Section covers the following subjects: State Identity Sovereignty Legitimacy Recognition of States Recognition of Governments State Succession State Responsibility and Diplomatic Protection This Section covers the […]

  • Subjects of international Law

    States: Identity, Recognition, and Succession This Section covers the following subjects: State Identity Sovereignty Legitimacy Recognition of States Recognition of Governments State Succession State Responsibility and Diplomatic Protection This Section covers the […]

  • Public Law Contents

    Public Law Contents Introduction to Public Law Constitutions in the World Constitutional law Sources of Public Law Principles of Public Law The rule of law Judicial independence Constitutional conventions and prerogative powers Good Governance – Scrutiny, Accountability, & Transparency Good governance: an introduction Parliamentary scrutiny of central government and administration Parliament: law-making and self-regulation The…

  • Public versus Private Law

    Public versus Private Law Public law affects and protects society, while private law affects and protects people. Public Law Public law is a branch of law which determines and regulates the organization and functioning of states (countries). Public law regulates the relationship between the government and its citizens. Constitutional law is one type of public…

  • Encyclopedia of Public International Law updates

    Encyclopedia of Public International Law updates The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. The May 2011 update adds 46 new articles to the Encyclopedia. Highlights include topics such as Compliance, Amnesties, International Administration of Territory, and Gay Rights.…

  • Encyclopedia of Public International Law update

    Encyclopedia of Public International Law update The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. The March 2012 update adds over 200 new articles. Highlights include highly-anticipated contributions on such central topics as Foreign Relations, International Co-operation, International humanitarian law…

  • Law, War and Crime

    Law, War and Crime Gerry Simpson (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2007, ix + 225 pp) Law, War and Crime is a history of International Criminal Law . The field is a young one and its tensions, ironies and incoherencies, illuminated in the first five chapters of Gerry Simpson’s book, are many; can, and how does, International…

  • Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession

    Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession Aleksander Pavkovi? and Peter Radan (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, 277 pp) This book offers a very useful addition to contemporary scholarship on secession. For an interested audience of non-experts, it covers the main relevant on-going debates on the definition of secession, on its causes, on the normative debate…

  • Institutions in International Law

    Institutions in International Law In national law, the main institutions are independent courts, representative parliaments, an accountable executive, the administration (including the police) and the legal profession. They all serve the civil society. John Locke, in his Two Treatises of Government, and Montesquieu , in The Spirit of the Laws, advocated for a separation of…

  • List of international public law topics

    List of international public law topics This is a comprehensive list of entries dealing with public international law, including those areas of law dealing with the United Nations System and the Law of Nations. There is also a separate List of treaties . Treaties International Courts and Tribunals International Organizations International Criminal Law International environmental…

  • Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law

    The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Written by over 800 of the world’s leading authorities in public international law, and edited at Max Planck Institute, one of the premier research institution for international law, this is a reference work on international law whith the highest prestige. It contains 1,618 articles covering the full…

  • International Law Encyclopedia 10

    International Law Encyclopedia 10 LIST OF ENTRIES IN VOLUME X Treaties , Provisional Application René Lefeber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Treaties , Registration and Publication Richard Caddell . .…

  • International Law Encyclopedia 9

    International Law Encyclopedia 9 LIST OF ENTRIES IN VOLUME IX Sanctions Alain Pellet and Alina Miron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Gabrielle…

  • International Law Encyclopedia 8

    International Law Encyclopedia 8 LIST OF ENTRIES IN VOLUME VIII Pacifi c Islands Jon M Van Dyke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…

  • International law Encyclopedy 7

    International law Encyclopedy 7 LIST OF ENTRIES IN VOLUME VII Martini Case Wolfgang Weiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…