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Examples & Explanations for International Law, Third Edition

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Authors
  • Valerie Epps
  • Lorie Graham
  • Daniel Rietiker
  • Amy B. Van Zyl-Chavarro
Series / Examples & Explanations Series
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Book length
510 pages
Publication Date
2023-07-11
Edition
Third Edition
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Description

Beginning with an introduction to the main principles and sources of international law, this study aid uses E&E pedagogy as it moves on to cover specific areas of international law, covering a wide array of topics from human rights and extradition, to the law of the sea and the laws of war. From start to finish this concise paperback offers a succinct but comprehensive overview of public international law.

New to the Third Edition:

  • Meticulously updated by the authors and containing analysis of a number of new important legal developments at the international and regional level, such as those arising from the war in Ukraine and efforts to limit the threat of nuclear weapons

Benefits for instructors and students:

  • Text materials clarify essentials of international law
  • Explains the status of various actors operative in international law
  • Analyzes international dispute settlement and limits on national jurisdiction
  • Examples provide complex questions modeled on real-world problems
  • Explanations answer questions and provide careful analysis
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About the authors
Valerie Epps

Valerie Epps is a Professor Emerita at Suffolk University Law School, where she has taught courses in Public International Law, The Laws of War, International Human Rights, Immigration and Refugee Law, and Chinese Law Ancient and Modern. She was the Founder and Co-Director of the International Law Concentration from 2003 to 2011, and the co-director of the Summer Program in International and Comparative Law, Lund, Sweden, in 2012, 2009 and 2001. She has been a visiting professor of law at Hongik University College of Law in Seoul, South Korea; a Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer at Fudan University Law School in Shanghai, China; and a Fulbright Specialist at the Women’s Law College, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Professor Epps has also taught courses in International Law at Brandeis University, Legal Studies Department; Boston University Law School; University of San Diego Law School, Mexico City and Paris Programs; and has taught courses on International Human Rights for Iraqi judges, prosecutors and lawyers on behalf of the International Bar Association in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

She served as law clerk to Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; as Vice-President of The International Law Association (American Branch); as International Law Section Chair of the Association of American Law Schools; and on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.

Lorie Graham

Professor Graham has been teaching at Suffolk University Law School since 1999, where she teaches courses on International Human Rights Law, Property, International Law, Indigenous Peoples Rights, and Constitutional Law, and has been the co-director of the International Law Concentration 2012. She was previously a Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University, Spring 2019, Spring 2015 and Spring 2014; Visiting Professor, Legal Studies Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1998-1999; Lecturer, Harvard Law School, Spring 1998; Program Director, Harvard University Native American Program, 1995-1997; Attorney, Kramer, Levin, Naftalis, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel, 1992-1994; and Law Clerk, Judge Richard D. Simons, New York State Court of Appeals, 1990-1992.

Daniel Rietiker

Dr. Daniel Rietiker is an adjunct professor in public international law at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and a senior lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France), where he has been dealing with high profile cases, inter alia, in the field of freedom of expression, international child abductions and cases involving measures against persons suspected of international terrorism. He holds a diploma in international relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID) and a PhD from the University of Lausanne. In 2014, he has been a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program of Harvard Law School conducting research on a new, human-centred approach to weapons, in particular nuclear weapons, published in 2017 (Humanization of Arms Control, Paving the Way for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, Routledge 2017). His publications and past lectures cover various topics in the field of human rights and arms control law. He is also a general editor of the Hague Yearbook of International Law. He has been teaching Suffolk University Law School since 2014. During these years, he has been supervising several Suffolk University Law students having been admitted for internship at the ECtHR (Strasbourg).

Amy B. Van Zyl-Chavarro

Amy Van Zyl-Chavarro is a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, where she recently received her LL.M. degree and where she is researching the idea of a human right to the environment as understood within international and regional human rights systems. The publication of her first article on the topic is forthcoming: Defining the Right to a Healthy Environment: Insights from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 55 ENV’T L. (forthcoming Mar. 2025). She also volunteers with Harvard Law’s Human Rights Entrepreneurs and Incubator Clinic. For a number of years, she taught International Human Rights courses at Suffolk University Law School (2017-2023) and later at Roger Williams University School of Law (2023). Since 2012 she has partnered with the Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Clinic at Suffolk Law School on research and advocacy projects. She has also worked on advocacy projects with the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL). Prior to devoting herself fully to international human rights law, she spent a decade working in immigration and refugee advocacy. She received her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 2008.

Other book collaborations include Education, Media, and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Carolina Academic Press, 2018) and Indigenous Education and the UNDRIP: Article 14, in The U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Commentary (Marc Weller and Jessie Hohmann eds., Oxford University Press, 2018) (both collaborations with Lorie Graham).

Product Information
Edition
Third Edition
Publication date
2023-07-11
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
510
Paperback
9781543807677
Connected eBook with Study Center (Digital Only)
9781543835892
Subject
International Law and Foreign Relations
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