The past two hundred years have seen the transformation of public international law from a rule-based extrusion of diplomacy into a fully-fledged legal system.

Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing the field's d

This book contains excerpts in extenso from leading cases in general international law, and seeks to provide a greater volume of case law than that currently av

Offers a new perspective on international law and international legal argumentation: to what event is international law a belief system?

In 1949 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its first judgment in the Corfu Channel Case. In diffusing an early Cold War dispute, the Court art