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Papers The Irish Yearbook of International Law: At a moment of profound anxiety for the international legal system, the Editors of TheIrish Yearbook of International [...]
Tripolitania in the Roman Empire and Beyond Niccolo Mugnai (Editor) Roman-period Tripolitania conjures up images of the monumental architecture of Lepcis Magna and Sabratha,
but it was much more than this. This new volume provides up-to-date research by an international team of scholars who tackle important topics such as the urban [...]
Travels In Classical Libya: Snakes, Sands And Silphium Paul Wright Egypt, Carthage and other African civilisations are well documented but the land and people between
them are less well known yet also worthy of consideration. This collection of extracts from classical authors on subjects relating to ancient Libya presents more [...]
Libya Archaeological Guides: Cyrenaica Philip Kenrick, with a contribution by Ahmed Buzaian Philip Kenrick, with a contribution by Ahmed Buzaian This is the second volume
in this series, which was launched to great acclaim in 2009. Cyrenaica (known to the Arabs as the Jabal Akhdar, the Green Mountain) has a terrain which resembles [...]
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: the African Frontiers David Mattingly, Alan Rushworth, Victoria Leitch, Martin Sterry The frontiers of the Roman empire together form the largest
surviving monument of one of the world’s greatest stages. The Roman military remains in North Africa are remarkable in their variety and their state of preservation: [...]
[Terje Einarsen is Professor of International Law at the University of Bergen, former Judge at Gulating Court of Appeals and Chairperson of the Norwegian Section of International
Commission of Jurists] Part I of this post discussed the institutional and political context for the upcoming ASP meeting. [...]
[Terje Einarsen is Professor of International Law at the University of Bergen, former Judge at Gulating Court of Appeals and Chairperson of the Norwegian Section of International
Commission of Jurists] When the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) meet in New York on the 24th of July, to decide on the [...]
[Bikashita Choudhury is a Research Associate with the Ocean Law and Policy team at the Centre for International Law (CIL), National University of Singapore] When the United
States (US) detained the ship Marinera in the Atlantic Ocean, it reported that it had been tracking the ship for weeks, noting its suspicious behaviour and probable [...]
International organizations (IOs) play a central role in contemporary international law-making: they institutionalize most of the processes through which international law
is adopted today. From the perspective of the democratic legitimacy of international law, this raises the question of the conditions under which those IOs may be [...]
Dear Readers, Looking back at the last 20 years, the European Union has taken substantial strides towards establishing a specific legal framework to ensure the rights of defendants
in criminal proceedings – as set out in its secondary law, underpinned by the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. [...]