The advent of cyberspace has led to a dramatic increase in state-sponsored political and economic espionage. This monograph argues that these practices represent a threat to the maintenance of international peace and security and assesses the extent to which international law regulates this conduct. The traditional view among international legal scholars is that, in the absence of direct and specific international law on the topic of espionage, cyber espionage constitutes an extra-legal activity that is unconstrained by international law. This monograph challenges that assumption and reveals that there are general principles of international law as well as specialised international legal regimes that indirectly regulate cyber espionage. In terms of general principles of international law, this monograph explores how the rules of territorial sovereignty, non-intervention and the non-use of force apply to cyber espionage. In relation to specialised regimes, this monograph investigates the role of diplomatic and consular law, international human rights law and the law of the World Trade Organization in addressing cyber espionage. This monograph also examines whether developments in customary international law have carved out espionage exceptions to those international legal rules that otherwise prohibit cyber espionage as well as considering whether the doctrines of self-defence and necessity can be invoked to justify cyber espionage. Notwithstanding the applicability of international law, this monograph concludes that policymakers should nevertheless devise an international law of espionage which, as lex specialis, contains rules that are specifically designed to confront the growing threat posed by cyber espionage.
Buchan: Cyber Espionage and International Law
Maia, Akandji-Kombé, & Harelimana: L'apport de l'Afrique à la justice internationale pénale
Quel est l'apport de l'Afrique au mouvement de pénalisation qui traverse le droit international ? Telle est la question à laquelle cet ouvrage propose d'apporter des éclairages au travers de contributions de plusieurs experts.
Azari: La demande reconventionnelle devant la Cour internationale de justice
La demande reconventionnelle est une action en justice ; une conclusion du défendeur qui poursuit des avantages autres que le simple rejet de la prétention du demandeur. Admise dans toutes les juridictions, devant la Cour internationale de Justice, elle présente des caractéristiques particulières que cet essai a pour vocation d'analyser et de mettre en lumière. Selon la jurisprudence, une demande reconventionnelle est une demande autonome et indépendante. Formée par le défendeur, elle est à la fois un moyen de défense et une demande incidente. Pour être recevable, elle doit relever de la compétence de la Cour et entretenir une connexité directe avec la demande principale. Toutefois, la question est de savoir si la Cour peut refuser une demande reconventionnelle et, inversement, l'accepter quand la connexité fait défaut.
Dornbusch: Kampfführungsrecht im internationalen Cyberkrieg
Der ‚Cyberkrieg’ ist ein hoch brisantes Thema im sicherheitspolitischen Diskurs. Bisher hat sich kein Zwischenfall zugetragen, der durch die Staatengemeinschaft als bewaffneter Konflikt im rechtlichen Sinne anerkannt und ausschließlich mit Cyberangriffen geführt wurde. Und auch wenn ein solcher Cyberkrieg im engeren Sinne zurzeit als unwahrscheinlich gehandelt wird, haben die Staaten das Potenzial und die Gefahr des Einsatzes von Mitteln und Methoden der Cyberkriegsführung erkannt.
Die Arbeit zeigt, dass gegenwärtige Computernetzwerkoperationen selten als völkerrechtliche Gewaltanwendung zu qualifizieren sind, die einen internationalen bewaffneten Konflikt auslösen. Zudem wird herausgearbeitet, inwiefern die kampfführungsrechtlichen Vorgaben, die vor dem Hintergrund des Einsatzes konventioneller Waffengewalt entstanden sind, auch im Bereich der Cyberkriegsführung Schutz garantieren können.
Cyber warfare is an issue of extreme importance in the current debate on security policy. So far, there has been no cyber incident that states have acknowledged as an armed conflict in the legal sense. And even if, nowadays, a war exclusively fought with cyber attacks seems unrealistic, states have recognised the potential as well as the threat that cyber warfare poses to modern information societies. The book demonstrates that computer network operations are unlikely to amount to a use of force or an international armed conflict. In addition, the book examines the question whether the ‘conventional’ rules of conduct of hostilities offer a comprehensive protection with regard to cyber warfare.
Boisson de Chazournes, Mbengue, Tignino, & Sangbana: The UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses: A Commentary
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses plays a crucial role in protecting and managing international watercourses and other sources of fresh water. Boisson de Chazournes, Mbengue, Tignino, and Sangbana head a team of experts in this Commentary, examining the travaux préparatoires leading to the Convention and the practice that has developed since the adoption of the Convention in 1997. Tackling the rationale and objectives of the provisions, they offer crucial insights to the Convention's impact on the development of a universal regime for shared water resources.
Hohmann & Joyce: International Law's Objects
- Jessie Hohmann & Daniel Joyce, Introduction
- Daniel Joyce, International Law's Cabinet of Curiosities
- Jessie Hohmann, The Lives of Objects
- Fleur Johns, Things we Make and Do with International Law
- Wouter Werner, Saying and Showing
- Isobel Roele, The Making of International Lawyers: Winnicott's Transitional Objects
- Nicole De Silva, African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Therese Murphy, AIDS Virus
- Ioannis Kalpouzos, Armed Drone
- Lucas Lixinski, Axum Stele
- Filippo Fontanelli & Giuseppe Bianco, Barcelona Traction Share
- Kimberley Trapp, Boots (on the Ground)
- Francois Finck, Border Check Point, the Moldovan Republic of Transnistria
- Jacqueline Mowbray, Breton Road Signs
- Anne-Charlotte Martineau, Chicotte
- Stephen Humphreys, Data: the Given
- Immi Tallgren, Déchiqueteuse (Papershredder)
- James Parker, Gavel
- Helmut Aust, 'Good Urban Citizen'
- Allesandra Arcuri, Glyphosate
- Kate Miles, Insulae Moluccae: Map of the Spice Islands 1594
- Ziv Bohrer, Jolly Roger
- Surabhi Ranganathan, Manganese Nodules
- Alex Mills, Mosul Four and Iran Six
- Gerry Simpson, NM 68226 84912; TQ 30052 80597
- Julia Dehm, One Tonne of Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (1tCO2e)
- Jessie Hohmann, Opium
- Jean d'Aspremont & Eric De Brabandere, Paintings of International Law's Textbooks
- Sarah Dehm, Passport
- Thomas MacManus, Peace Sign, La Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó
- Sophie Rigney, Postcard from the ICTY
- Andrew Lang, Purse Seine Net
- Geoff Gordon, Railway Clocks
- Alison Kesby, Refugee Chains
- Rosemary Rayfuse, Russian Flag at the North Pole
- Christine Schwöbel-Patel & Wouter Werner, Screen
- Lolita Buckner Inniss, Ships' Ballast
- Doug Guilfoyle, Somali Pirate Skiff
- Tanja Aalberts, Sovereign Mark of the Roi Né-Do'ucoula, King of Boma
- Daniel Litwin, Stained Glass Windows, the Great Hall of Justice of the Peace Palace
- Michael Fakhri, Sugar
- Ruth Buchanan & Jeff Hewitt, Treaty Canoe
- Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, Trees
- Charlie Peevers, USAID Rice - Haiti
- Jeffrey Smith, Western Sahara Boundary Marker
- Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Whale
de Paz González: The Social Rights Jurisprudence in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights continues to build justiciability to determine the social rights of marginalised individuals and groups in the Americas. In this engaging book, Isaac de Paz González unveils the abilities, and the practices of the Inter-American Court’s contribution to human rights policy in the Global South.
This innovative book offers a thorough and complete examination of the Inter-American Court’s jurisprudence over its forty years of existence, within the framework of Economic and Social Rights (ESR). The author offers a concise discussion of both the historic and landmark cases in regards to ESR, and its theoretical basis, as well as giving insight into how to further improve and protect the lives of the most vulnerable people in the Americas. This book also exposes the possibility of enforcing legal remedies for poverty and structural discrimination in order to seek social justice.
Radi: Research Handbook on Human Rights and Investment
- Yannick Radi, Introduction: Taking stock of the societal and legal interplay between human rights and investment
- Ursula Kriebaum, Human rights and international investment arbitration
- Rodrigo Polanco & Rodrigo Mella, Investment arbitration and human rights cases in Latin America
- Maria Fanou & Vassilis Tzevelekos, The shared territory of the ECHR and international investment law
- Laurence Boisson de Chazournes & Rukia Baruti, Human rights, international investment law and transparency
- Valentina Vadi, Human rights and investments at the WTO
- Gwen Lehane, Human Rights at the World Bank group
- Eric De Brabandere & Maryse Hazelzet, Corporate responsibility and human rights – Navigating between international, domestic and self-regulation
- Gilles Lhuilier, MNCs obligations in their 'sphere of influence'
- Joanna Kyriakakis, International criminal responsibilities for MNCs violations of human rights
- Antal Berkes, Extraterritorial responsibility of the home States for MNCs violations of human rights
- Jacky Mandelbaum & Jennifer Loutit, Extractive industry investments and human rights
- Kaitlin Cordes, Investments and human rights in the agricultural sector
- Dorothée Baumann-Pauly & Sarah Margaretha Jastram, Assessing human rights issues in the fashion industry – Challenges for investors
- Mara Tignino, Private investments and the human right to water
- Delphia Lim, Investments and human rights in Asia
Guariglia, Batros, Gallmetzer, & Mugwanya: The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court: Commentary and Digest of Jurisprudence
A comprehensive source of the most authoritative statements of the International Criminal Court's appellate jurisprudence. Its clear format includes commentaries followed by excerpts of the decisions and judgments, carefully selected by lawyers based on their relevance and grouped by topic. It provides a practical background to the International Criminal Court's appellate jurisprudence from experienced current and former Appeals Counsel of the Office of the Prosecutor of the Court, highlighting pertinent issues. In doing so, readers are given the tools to discern the meaning of the case law themselves, while attention is drawn to the most important developments in the jurisprudence. This text presents an authoritative and comprehensive digest of the Appeals Chamber's jurisprudence, bringing the relevant case extracts together for the first time with clear and informative commentary.
Alvarez: Boundaries of Investment Arbitration
The Boundaries of Investment Arbitration analyses references to European human rights and WTO law in investor-state rulings, advances reasons for these resorts to “non-investment” law, and puts these “boundary crossings” in broader context. It enumerates the legal gateways for these “public law” references and considers what engagement with human rights and trade law tells us about the motivations of investor-state arbitrators, scholars, and civil society. Exploring when and how arbitrators or litigants reach into other international law regimes to interpret the content of international investment law says a great deal about what that law is—and is not.
Hirsch & Lang: Research Handbook on the Sociology of International Law
- Moshe Hirsch & Andrew Lang, Introduction to the Research Handbook on the Sociology of International Law
- Bryant G. Garth, Issues of Empire, Contestation, and Hierarchy in the Globalization of Law
- Fabian Bohnenberger & Christian Joerges, A conflicts-law response to the precarious legitimacy of transnational trade governance
- Sabine Frerichs & Rick James, Correlated ownership: Polanyi, Commons, and the property continuum
- Wouter G. Werner, Regulating Speed: Social Acceleration and International Law
- Ruth Buchanan, Kimberley Byers & Kristina Mansveld, ‘What gets measured gets done’: exploring the social construction of globalized knowledge for development
- Andrew Lang, International lawyers and the study of expertise: representationalism and performativity
- Deval Desai, Ignorance/power: rule of law reform and the administrative law of global governance
- Mikael Rask Madsen, Reflexive Sociology of International Law: Pierre Bourdieu and the Globalization of Law
- Gregory Messenger, The practice of litigation at the ICJ: the role of counsel in the development of international law
- David Schneiderman, International investment law as formally rational law: a Weberian analysis
- Jeffrey L. Dunoff & Mark A. Pollack, Practice theory and international law
- Nicolas Lamp, The ‘practice turn’ in international law: insights from the theory of structuration
- Galit A. Sarfaty, An Anthropological Approach to International Economic Law
- Sergio Puig, Network analysis and the sociology of international law
- Shai Dothan, Social networks and the enforcement of international law
- Wolfgang Alschner, Locked in language: historical sociology and the path dependency of investment treaty design
- Sungjoon Cho, Social constructivism and the social construction of world economic reality
- Moshe Hirsch, Core Sociological Theories and International Law
Fernandez & de Frouville: Les mutations de la justice pénale internationale ?
L’organisation de la poursuite des responsables de crimes de masse se présente comme un phénomène contemporain, multidimensionnel et incertain. Un phénomène contemporain car si l’on met de côté le précédent controversé – mais néanmoins précieux – des Tribunaux militaires internationaux au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (Nuremberg et Tokyo), la justice pénale internationale est née il y a vingt-cinq ans seulement, lorsque le Conseil de sécurité créa le Tribunal pénal international pour l’ex-Yougoslavie (TPIY). Un phénomène multidimensionnel puisque, depuis la « renaissance » de la justice pénale internationale en 1993, ce sont trois générations de juridictions qui ont été inventées. Les deux Tribunaux pénaux internationaux (ex-Yougoslavie et Rwanda) ; neuf juridictions dites hybrides, mêlant aspects de droit interne et de droit international ; et une juridiction pénale internationale permanente, la Cour pénale internationale (CPI). Un phénomène incertain enfin car si la CPI s’affirme ainsi comme la pièce centrale de la justice pénale internationale, si elle fait pleinement partie du paysage institutionnel international, elle peine à correspondre à l’idéal du glaive et de la balance.











