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Examples & Explanations for International Law, Third Edition

Authors
  • Valerie Epps
  • Lorie Graham
  • Daniel Rietiker
  • Amy B. Van Zyl-Chavarro
Series / Examples & Explanations Series
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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
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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