International Law, Volumes I and II (Multiple-component retail product)

Contents: Volume I: Introduction; Part I The Nature of International Law: Sovereignty, Hans Kelsen; The science of international law: its task and method, L. Oppenheim; Legal positivism as normative politics: international society, balance of power and Lassa Oppenheim's positive international law, Benedict Kingsbury; The Grotian tradition in international law, H. Lauterpacht; The United Nations Charter as constitution of the international community, Bardo Fassbender; Two liberalisms, Gerry Simpson; Policy considerations and the international judicial process, Rosalyn Higgins. Part II The Sources of International Law: Towards relative normativity in international law?, Prosper Weil; In defence of relative normativity: communitarian values and the Nicaragua case, John Tasioulas; Normative hierarchy in international law, Dinah Shelton; Universal international law, Jonathan I. Charney; Universality or integrity: some reflections on reservations to general multilateral treaties, Catherine Redgwell; Name index. Volume II: Part III Personality: The criteria for statehood in international law, James Crawford; The constitutive versus the declaratory theory of recognition: tertium non datur?, Stefan Talmon; The emerging right to democratic governance, Thomas M. Franck; The 'not-a-cat' syndrome: can the international human rights regime accommodate non-state actors?, Philip Alston. Part IV Jurisdiction and Immunity: Jurisdiction in international law, Michael Akehurst; US extraterritorial jurisdiction: the Helms-Burton and D'Amato Acts, Vaughan Lowe; The problem of jurisdictional immunities of foreign states, H. Lauterpacht; Immunity versus human rights: the Pinochet case, Andrea Bianchi; State immunity, human rights, and Jus Cogens: a critique of the normative hierarchy theory, Lee M. Caplan. Part V The Future of International Law: Global governance as administration - national and transnational approaches to global administrative law, Benedict Kingsbury, Nico Krisch, Richa