The advancement of international law / Charles Leben.

The advancement of international law presupposes that the objections are met. The 'realist' objection claims that sovereign states deciding matters cast over the precept that 'might is right'. This title shows the invention of two techniques in positive law: state contracts and t...

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Superior document:French studies in international law ; v. 3
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:French studies in international law ; v. 3.
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Physical Description:xii, 333 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • State contracts and their governing law : a reappraisal
  • The international responsibility of states based on investment promotion and protection treaties
  • The state's normative freedom and the question of indirect expropriation
  • Some theoretical reflections on state contracts
  • Hans Kelsen and the advancement of international law
  • The notion of Civitas Maxima in Kelsen's work
  • International courts in an interstate society
  • The state within the meaning of international law and the state within the meaning of municipal law (on the theory of the dual personality of the state)
  • On the legal nature of the European Communities centralisation/decentralisation of a legal order
  • A federation of nation states or a federal state?
  • Is there a European approach to human rights?.