As a result of the growing prominence of international organizations and non-binding instruments there is increasing controversy as to how to delineate the boundaries of international law. This book advocates a return to a more formal way of determining what is and isn't interna…
The heuristics debate
"The Power of Human Rights (published in 1999) was an innovative and influential contribution to the study of international human rights. At its centre was a 'spiral model' of human rights change which described the various socialisation processes through which international nor…
Third Parties in International Law examines the impact upon the traditional bilateral framework for the regulation of international affairs that has been made by the accommodation of third party claims and interests. There is a detailed analysis of the position of third parties …
The present monograph examines whether corporate obligations, namely obligations binding directly upon a corporation under positive international!aw, have indeed emerged, as well as what challenges are facing international la\v as a result of the emergence of corporate obligatio…
The sources of normativity
by Korsgaard, Christine Marion, Cohen, G. A., O'Neill, Onora
The normative rhetoric of tannaitic literature (the earliest extant corpus of rabbinic Judaism) is predominantly deontological. Prior scholarship on rabbinic supererogation, and on points of contact with Greco-Roman virtue discourse, has identified non-deontological aspects of t…
This text provides an explanation of the role of international law in today's world, and shows why there are no acceptable arguments to justify the use of torture and secret prisons, or to support the notion of a 'global battlefield'