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'What's wrong with international law?'
This is the question Professor A.H.A. Soons provocatively posed to his colleagues around the world when leaving his chair in public international law at Utrecht University. Meant to provoke discussion about what actually is wrong with international law as well as act in defence of the discipline, his conclusion was a resounding 'nothing!'
Honouring Professor Soons's achievements throughout his long career as a scholar and a practitioner of international law, this Liber Amicorum exmaines whether, indeed, there is something wrong with international law. The contributors identify gaps or 'wrong norms' in specific fields of international law, and assess whether there is something wrong with the regulatory function of international law as a system for creating global public order.
This is the question Professor A.H.A. Soons provocatively posed to his colleagues around the world when leaving his chair in public international law at Utrecht University. Meant to provoke discussion about what actually is wrong with international law as well as act in defence of the discipline, his conclusion was a resounding 'nothing!'
Honouring Professor Soons's achievements throughout his long career as a scholar and a practitioner of international law, this Liber Amicorum exmaines whether, indeed, there is something wrong with international law. The contributors identify gaps or 'wrong norms' in specific fields of international law, and assess whether there is something wrong with the regulatory function of international law as a system for creating global public order.
Price: $290.00
Pages: 482
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill | Nijhoff
Series: Nova et Vetera Iuris Gentium
Publication Date:
30 April 2015
ISBN: 9789004259089
Format: Hardcover
"[The contributors] have presented a book that is an essential reading for any academic and practitioner working in the field of IL. It offers such a wealth of original insight and of proposals for re-interpretation and change that it is far more useful for the daily work of international law than many of the self-declared ‘handbooks’, ‘research handbooks’ or ‘guides’ on IL." - Peter Hilpold, The University of Innsbruck
Editors:
Cedric Ryngaert, Ph.D. (Leuven, 2007) is Chair of Public International Law at Utrecht University and has published widely on various questions of international law. His most recent book is Jurisdiction in International Law (OUP 2015, 2nd ed.).
Erik J. Molenaar, Ph.D. (Utrecht, 1998) is Deputy Director, Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, Utrecht University and Professor, K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, University of Tromsø. His research focuses mainly on marine pullution, fisheries and the polar regions.
Sarah M.H. Nouwen, Ph.D. (Cambridge, 2010) is Lecturer in Law and Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and fellow of Pembroke College. She is the author of Complementarity in the Line of Fire (CUP, 2013).
Contributors:
Henk Addink, Pieter Bekker, Matthijs de Blois, Irina Buga, Guido den Dekker, John Dugard, John Gamble, Jenny E. Goldschmidt, Thomas Innes, Teun Gaspers, Vivian van der Kuil, Patricia Jimenez Kwast, Kenneth J. Keith, Peter van Krieken, Charlotte Ku, Johan G. Lammers, Brianne McGonigle Leyh, André Nollkaemper, Frans Pennings, M.C.W. Pinto, Rosemary Rayfuse, Jessica N.M. Schechinger, Otto Spijkers, Yoshinobu Takei, Seline Trevisanut, Arie Trouwborst, Ramses A. Wessel
Cedric Ryngaert, Ph.D. (Leuven, 2007) is Chair of Public International Law at Utrecht University and has published widely on various questions of international law. His most recent book is Jurisdiction in International Law (OUP 2015, 2nd ed.).
Erik J. Molenaar, Ph.D. (Utrecht, 1998) is Deputy Director, Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, Utrecht University and Professor, K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, University of Tromsø. His research focuses mainly on marine pullution, fisheries and the polar regions.
Sarah M.H. Nouwen, Ph.D. (Cambridge, 2010) is Lecturer in Law and Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and fellow of Pembroke College. She is the author of Complementarity in the Line of Fire (CUP, 2013).
Contributors:
Henk Addink, Pieter Bekker, Matthijs de Blois, Irina Buga, Guido den Dekker, John Dugard, John Gamble, Jenny E. Goldschmidt, Thomas Innes, Teun Gaspers, Vivian van der Kuil, Patricia Jimenez Kwast, Kenneth J. Keith, Peter van Krieken, Charlotte Ku, Johan G. Lammers, Brianne McGonigle Leyh, André Nollkaemper, Frans Pennings, M.C.W. Pinto, Rosemary Rayfuse, Jessica N.M. Schechinger, Otto Spijkers, Yoshinobu Takei, Seline Trevisanut, Arie Trouwborst, Ramses A. Wessel