1. This selection of UK materials on international law is made from published sources. It does not purport to include everything that could be of interest to an international
lawyer but it is not wholly restricted to materials that could be called ‘state practice’ in the strictest sense: some context is provided. [...]
Experiments in International Adjudication: Historical Accounts. By de la RasillaIgnacio and ViñualesJorge E. (eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019. xii + 327
pp. HB £110. [...]
The Inter-State Application under the European Convention on Human Rights: Between Collective Enforcement of Human Rights and International Dispute Settlement. By RisiniIsabella.
Brill-Nijhoff, Leiden, 2018. xvi + 278 pp. HB €115. [...]
1.Belhaj v Straw and others (United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and others intervening); Rahmatullah v Ministry of Defence and another (No 2) (United Nations Special
Rapporteur on Torture and others intervening), 17 January 2017, [2017] UKSC 3, [2017] AC 964 (SC(E))270Whether tort claims against members of the United Kingdom executive, [...]
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to determine whether a party to an armed conflict is bound to ensure that any incidental harm it may cause to enemy military personnel
not or no longer liable to attack remains below a certain threshold. While the law of armed conflict provides that incidental harm to civilians must not be excessive [...]
AbstractAccording to the dominant narrative, the right of self-determination became relevant as a matter of law only after the 1960s or even only in the early 1970s. However,
by reviving a seemingly forgotten episode in the legal history of self-determination, this article shows that during the UN Security Council’s second year of operation, [...]
The Crime of Aggression: A Commentary. Edited by Claus Kreß and Stefan Barriga. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017. 2 volumes, 1583pp. HB £236.99. The Crime of Aggression:
A Commentary. [...]
AbstractThe legal system must provide certainty for the addressees of criminal law that their acts will not be assessed more severely than they could have been at the time
when the act was committed (the lex mitior principle). At first sight, it is surprising that this guarantee is limited to statutory amendments and does not extend [...]
