Description

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General Principles and the Coherence of International Lawprovides a collection of intellectually stimulating contributions from leading international lawyers to the discourse on the role of general principles in international law. Offering a comprehensive analysis of the doctrines, practices, and debates on general principles of law, the volume assesses their role in safeguarding the coherence of the international legal system. This important book addresses the relationship between principles of law and the other sources of international law, explores the interplay between principles of law and domestic and regional legal systems and the role of principles of law with regard to three specific regimes of international law: investment law, human rights law and environmental law.

About the Author

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Mads Andenas is Professor at the University of Oslo and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He was Director of the Centre of European Law, King's College London and The British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London. He was the General Editor of the ICLQ and is General Editor of the EBLR. He is on the Panel of Arbitrators of ICSID. Malgosia Fitzmaurice is Professor of International Law at Queen Mary University of London. Her main research interests are: the Law of Treaties; Sources of International Law; Environmental Law, Water Law and Indigenous Peoples. She has published widely on these topics. She is also Editor in chief of the journal International Community Law Review. Attila Tanzi, Ph.D., is Chair of International Law at the University of Bologna; a Member of the PCA, and of the PCA specialised list of arbitrators for environmental disputes; Chairman of the Implementation Committee of the UNECE 1992 Water Convention. Jan Wouters is Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair and Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute for International Law, KU Leuven. He also teaches at Columbia University, SciencesPo, LUISS and the College of Europe, and is Of Counsel at Linklaters. He has published widely on International and EU Law, Global Governance and International Organizations. Ludovica Chiussi is a Doctoral Research Fellow in International Law at the Universities of Oslo and Bologna.