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International Law, Eighth Edition, by the deeply experienced authorship team of Allen S. Weiner, Duncan B. Hollis, and Chimène I. Keitner, provides students with a foundational understanding of international law for those required to confront legal problems across borders, including treaties, customary international law, jurisdiction, and the UN system. International Law, Eighth Edition, by the deeply experienced authorship team of Allen S. Weiner, Duncan B. Hollis, and Chimène I. Keitner, provides students with a foundational understanding of international law for those required to confront legal problems across borders, including treaties, customary international law, jurisdiction, and the UN system.
International Law, Eighth Edition, offers a comprehensive treatment of contemporary international law, including key recent developments in the field, and provides comprehensive coverage of foundational international law questions faced by practitioners, including the nature and sources of international law, the subjects of international law (states and international organizations), and the jurisdictional powers and immunities of states. Authored by international law professors and leading scholars in the field who also have significant practical experience, the book also addresses key doctrinal topics, with reference to important contemporary foreign policy issues, including (i) international human rights, (ii) the law of the sea, (iii) international environmental law, (iv) the use of force and the law of armed conflict, and (v) international criminal law.
New to the Eighth Edition:
Detailed treatment of the legal issues arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Vignettes highlighting the operation of international law in other contemporary crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar
Deeper comparative treatment of international law principles of jurisdiction and immunity
Coverage of major recent international cases including the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on self-determination (the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965) and the Dutch Supreme Court case on the international human right to a healthy environment (Netherlands v. Urgenda)
Discussion of international law principles governing election interference and other harmful cyber operations
Increased diversity of authors and perspectives
Professors and students will benefit from:
Comprehensive and rigorous treatment of a full range of the most important international issues, crafted in a manner than lends itself to easy customization and adaptable classroom use
Thoroughly updated text that includes discussion of important recent legal developments, including important actions by international organizations and decisions by international courts and tribunals along with expert scholarly analysis
Presentation of diverse scholarly perspectives of the history and functioning of international law
Accessible prose for students new to the topic, along with nuanced analysis for more in-depth discussions
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Allen S. Weiner is Senior Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where he serves as Director of the Program in International and Comparative Law.& He is also Director of the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation and the Stanford Humanitarian Program.& His research and teaching focus on the fields of international security, international conflict resolution, and humanitarian law.& In the realm of international security, his work spans such issues as international law and the response to the contemporary security threats, the relationship between international and domestic law in the context of&armed conflict, the law of war, just war theory, and international criminal law (including transitional justice). &In the realm of international conflict resolution, his highly multidisciplinary work analyzes the barriers to resolving intractable political conflicts. &In the humanitarian realm, Senior Lecturer Weiner pursues projects in collaboration with practitioners to develop solutions to humanitarian challenges, including those that intersect with technology. &Weiner’s scholarship is deeply informed by experience; he practiced international law in the U.S. Department of State, in the Office of the Legal Adviser in Washington, DC, and the Office of the Legal Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, for more than a decade before joining the Stanford faculty, advising government policymakers, participating in international negotiations, and representing the United States in litigation before international courts and tribunals.
Duncan B. Hollis
Professor
Temple University Law School
Duncan B. Hollis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple Law School, co-director of Temple University’s Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology (iLIT), and a co-convenor (with Professor Dapo Akande) of The Oxford Process on International Law Protections in Cyberspace. His scholarship engages with issues of international law, with a particular emphasis on treaties, norms, and other forms of international regulation. He is the editor of the emThe Oxford Guide to Treatiesem (OUP, 2nd ed., 2020), the first edition of which was awarded a 2013 American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit, and (with Jens Ohlin) emDefending Democracies: Combating Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Ageem (OUP, 2021).& Professor Hollis is currently a non-resident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an elected member of the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law, and an elected Member of the American Law Institute, where he served as an Adviser on its project to draft a Fourth Restatement on the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. From 2016-2020, he served as a member of the OAS’s Inter-American Juridical Committee, including as Rapporteur for projects on binding and non-binding agreements and& improving the transparency of State views on international law’s application to cyberspace.& Today, Professor Hollis regularly consults with governments, international organizations, and other stakeholders on issues of international law and international relations, including working regularly with the Microsoft Corporation on its Digital Peace agenda.