International law: contemporary issues and future developments

Featuring original contributions from scholars in law and politics, this book provides an overview of key issues facing international law today. The authors range from political science and law school instructors to professional researchers and lawyers in private practice, and they offer diverse, multinational perspectives on traditional and emergent issues in the practice and study of international law. Topics include R2P (Responsibility to Protect) and universal jurisdiction, non territorial subjects of international law, international political economics (IPE), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), international humanitarian law (IHL), the environment, political violence and terrorism, and post-colonialism. A concluding section on international political interaction covers a wide range of issues that link international politics to international law.

Introduction / Sanford R. Silverburg -- Prosecuting crimes against humanity : the revolution in international criminal law / Dave O. Benjamin -- The responsibility to protect and the north-south divide / Ramesh Thakur -- Responsibility to protect : new perspectives to an old dilemma / Giulherme M. Dias -- Universal jurisdiction as an international "false conflict" of laws / Anthony J. Colangelo -- Non-state actors, international law, and human rights / Elena Pariotti -- Disparate notions of fairness : comparative insider trading regulation in an evolving global landscape / Joan MacLeod Heminway -- China's first loss / Raj Bhala -- Corporations and international law / Emeka Duruigbo -- Reaching beyond the state : judicial independence, the inter-American court of human rights, and accountability in Guatemala / Jeffrey Davis and Edward H. Warner -- The upsurge in international courts after the establishment of the ICJ / Igor Borba -- Modern international humanitarian law / Stefan Kirchner -- Peace unkempt : how ambiguities in public international law and international humanitarian law contributed to the failed un intervention in Somalia / Bjorn Sorenson -- Space settlements, propert…