Product Description: Today, international law is everywhere. Wars are declared and conducted in its name, and in its name rights are both protected and renounced. It is also international law which determines who owns and uses the world's scarcest resources...read more

Drawing from a range of materials, Martti Koskenniemi demonstrates how international law becomes vulnerable to the contrasting criticisms of being either an irrelevant moralist Utopia or a manipulable façade for State interests. He examines the conflicts inherent in international law--sources, sovereignty, 'custom' and 'world order--and shows how legal discourse about such subjects can be described in terms of a small number of argumentative rules. Originally published in English in Finland in 1989, this reissue includes a newly written Epilogue by the author.

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Product Description: The present collection of essays for Martti Koskenniemi provides a wide-ranging overview of the state of Nordic international legal scholarship. In addition to the more theoretical discussions, it engages with a variety of current debates (such as the war on terrorism, the criminalization of international law and the position of human rights in the European Union, for example)...read more

Product Description: Despite its Finnish innitiative and pedigrees, the Finnish Yearbook of International Law does not restrict itself to purely 'Finnish' topics. On the contrary, it reflects the many connections in law between the national and the international...read more

Product Description: Despite its Finnish initiative and pedigrees, The Finnish Yearbook of International Law does not restrict itself to purely Finnish' topics. On the contrary, it reflects the many connections in law between the national and the international...read more

Product Description: The Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations devoted its Session of 1996 to the Succession of States, including for the second time this topic in its programme, but in a context very different from that in which the 1962 Session had been held...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The debate about the relationship between international and community law usually centres on the question of which of these two "belongs" to the other, and how "special" community legal order is in relation to international law. In this volume, a distinguished group of Finnish and British academics and practitioners have attempted to steer clear of this arena, and have sought to clearly examine the international law aspects of the activities of the Community and the Union...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As of Volume VII, 1996, "The Finnish Yearbook" will be published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/Kluwer Law International. Despite its Finnish initiative and pedigrees, "The Finnish Yearbook of International Law" does not restrict itself to purely Finnish' topics...read more

Product Description: This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching...read more