Efnisyfirlit

• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• Preface
• About the authors
• Acknowledgements
• Table of cases
• Table of statutes
• Table of treaties and other international instruments
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 The nature of international law
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Nature and significance of international law
• 1.2.1 The rule of ‘international’ law
• 1.2.2 Respect for international law
• 1.2.3 Do rules or norms matter in creating international order?
• 1.2.4 The institutional framework
• 1.3 Public and private international law
• 1.4 The role and nature of participation in international law
• 1.5 The limits of international law
• 1.6 Australian perspectives
• Further reading
• 2 Sources of international law
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.1.1 The traditional sources of international law
• 2.1.2 Hierarchy of norms
• 2.2 Customary international law
• 2.2.1 Jurisprudence of the ICJ
• 2.2.2 Local or regional custom
• 2.2.3 The persistent objector
• 2.3 Treaties
• 2.4 Treaties and customary international law
• 2.5 General principles of law
• 2.6 Subsidiary sources of international law
• 2.6.1 Judicial decisions
• 2.6.2 Contributions of publicists
• 2.7 Alternative sources of international law
• 2.7.1 UN practices and the formation of international law
• 2.7.2 Soft law
• Further reading
• 3 Law of treaties
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.1.1 Growth of treaty-making
• 3.2 What is a treaty?
• 3.2.1 Instruments of less than treaty status
• 3.2.2 Unilateral declarations
• 3.3 Treaty negotiation
• 3.4 Treaty creation
• 3.5 Entry into force of a treaty
• 3.5.1 VCLT provisions
• 3.5.2 Australian practice
• 3.6 Reservations, objections and declarations
• 3.6.1 Reservations
• 3.6.2 Declarations
• 3.7 Legal obligations
• 3.7.1 Following entry into force of a treaty
• 3.7.2 By States that have signed but not ratified the treaty
• 3.8 Treaty interpretation
• 3.8.1 Application of the VCLT rules
• 3.8.2 Australian approaches
• 3.9 Invalidity of a treaty
• 3.10 Suspension or termination of a treaty
• 3.10.1 General provisions
• 3.10.2 Termination as a consequence of material breach
• 3.10.3 Impossibility of performance and fundamental change of circumstances
• 3.11 Treaty amendment and modification
• Further reading
• 4 International and municipal law
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 International law in municipal law
• 4.2.1 Theoretical perspectives: the monism-dualism debate
• 4.2.2 The ‘transformation’ and ‘incorporation’ approaches
• 4.3 Australian law and international law
• 4.3.1 Development of Australia’s international personality
• 4.3.2 Treaty-making in Australia
• 4.3.3 Responses by Australian courts to international law
• 4.4 Customary international law and its influence upon the common law
• 4.5 Treaties and municipal law: basic principles
• 4.6 Treaties and municipal law: implementation
• 4.7 Treaties and municipal law: the courts
• 4.8 Treaties and municipal law: constitutional and legislative options
• Further reading
• 5 International legal personality
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Statehood
• 5.2.1 Permanent population
• 5.2.2 Defined territory
• 5.2.3 Government
• 5.2.4 Capacity to enter into relations
• 5.2.5 The Holy See (Vatican City)
• 5.2.6 The status of Taiwan
• 5.2.7 The status of Palestine
• 5.3 Recognition of States
• 5.3.1 Recognition of statehood and recognition of governments
• 5.3.2 State practice: recognition of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• 5.3.3 Australian practice
• 5.4 Non-State actors
• 5.4.1 International organisations
• 5.4.2 Other international legal persons
• 5.5 Peoples and the right to self-determination
• 5.6 Secession
• Further reading
• 6 Sovereignty over territory
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Occupation and acquiescence
• 6.2.1 Terra nullius and indigenous rights
• 6.3 Critical date
• 6.4 Discovery
• 6.5 Accretion
• 6.6 Cession and annexation
• 6.7 Postcolonial critiques
• 6.8 Antarctica
• 6.9 Common heritage of mankind
• Further reading
• 7 Jurisdiction
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Types of jurisdiction
• 7.3 Territorial jurisdiction
• 7.4 Nationality jurisdiction
• 7.5 Universal jurisdiction
• 7.6 Protective principle
• 7.7 Passive personality jurisdiction
• 7.8 Foreign State immunity
• 7.9 Diplomatic immunity
• Further reading
• 8 State responsibility
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Basic principles
• 8.3 Wrongful acts
• 8.4 Attribution
• 8.5 Reparation
• 8.6 Circumstances precluding wrongfulness
• 8.7 Countermeasures
• 8.8 Nationalisation of foreign assets
• 8.9 Diplomatic protection and nationality of claims
• 8.10 Treatment of foreign nationals
• 8.11 Exhaustion of local remedies
• Further reading
• 9 Human rights
• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 The nature of human rights as a discourse in international law
• 9.3 The UN system and the human rights discourse in international law
• 9.3.1 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• 9.3.2 Different kinds of human rights
• 9.3.3 The core treaties of the UN human rights system
• 9.3.4 The ICCPR and the ICESCR
• 9.3.5 Other core agreements of the UN human rights treaty system
• 9.4 Institutions and the human rights discourse within the UN
• 9.4.1 Institutions with a general mandate
• 9.4.2 Treaty bodies
• 9.5 Australia and the UN treaty bodies
• Further reading
• 10 Law of the sea
• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.1.1 Freedom of the seas
• 10.1.2 Codification
• 10.2 Maritime zones
• 10.2.1 Introduction
• 10.2.2 Baselines
• 10.2.3 Internal waters
• 10.3 Territorial sea
• 10.3.1 Nature of the territorial sea
• 10.3.2 Innocent passage
• 10.3.3 International straits
• 10.3.4 Archipelagic waters
• 10.4 Contiguous zone
• 10.5 Continental shelf
• 10.6 Exclusive economic zone (EEZ)
• 10.7 The high seas
• 10.8 The deep seabed
• 10.9 Delimitation of maritime boundaries
• 10.10 Protection of the marine environment
• 10.11 Dispute resolution and the law of the sea
• Further reading
• 11 International environmental law
• 11.1 Introduction: trends in international law-making for the environment
• 11.2 The development of international environmental law
• 11.3 Institutional framework
• 11.4 State responsibility and the prevention of environmental harm
• 11.5 Environmental principles
• 11.5.1 Sustainable development
• 11.5.2 Intergenerational equity
• 11.5.3 Precautionary principle
• 11.6 International environmental law in Australia: response to selected issues
• 11.6.1 World heritage
• 11.6.2 Climate change
• 11.6.3 Climate change in the Australian courts
• 11.7 Regional regimes
• 11.7.1 The relationship between global and regional agreements
• 11.7.2 A regional environmental regime: the Antarctic Treaty System
• Further reading
• 12 International trade law
• 12.1 Introduction
• 12.1.1 Economic theories of trade
• 12.1.2 History of international trade law
• 12.2 The World Trade Organization
• 12.2.1 WTO Agreement and Annexes
• 12.2.2 Structure of the WTO
• 12.2.3 Special and differential treatment
• 12.2.4 Dispute settlement at the WTO
• 12.3 Core disciplines of the GATT
• 12.3.1 Tariffs
• 12.3.2 Quantitative measures
• 12.3.3 ‘Most-favoured-nation’ (MFN)
• 12.3.4 National treatment
• 12.4 Exceptions
• 12.4.1 General exceptions
• 12.4.2 Security exception
• 12.4.3 Safeguards
• 12.5 Free trade agreements
• 12.6 The regimes on dumping and subsidies
• 12.6.1 Dumping
• 12.6.2 Subsidies and countervailing measures
• 12.7 Regulatory standards
• 12.7.1 The SPS Agreement
• 12.7.2 The TBT Agreement
• 12.8 Trade in services
• Further reading
• 13 Use of force
• 13.1 Introduction
• 13.2 Self-defence
• 13.2.1 Classical self-defence
• 13.2.2 Self-defence and non-State actors
• 13.2.3 Anticipatory self-defence
• 13.2.4 Collective self-defence
• 13.3 UN-sanctioned use of force
• 13.4 Intervention by consent
• 13.5 Humanitarian intervention and ‘responsibility to protect’
• Further reading
• 14 Enforcement of international law
• 14.1 Introduction
• 14.2 State enforcement
• 14.2.1 Jurisdiction
• 14.2.2 Piracy
• 14.2.3 War crimes and genocide
• 14.3 Collective enforcement
• 14.3.1 Sanctions
• 14.3.2 Peacekeeping
• Further reading
• 15 The peaceful settlement of international disputes
• 15.1 Obligation to settle disputes peacefully
• 15.2 Methods of dispute settlement
• 15.2.1 Negotiation
• 15.2.2 Enquiry
• 15.2.3 Mediation and conciliation
• 15.2.4 Arbitration
• 15.3 Judicial settlement of disputes
• 15.3.1 Introduction
• 15.3.2 Operation and membership of the ICJ
• 15.3.3 Jurisdiction
• 15.3.4 Special agreement
• 15.3.5 Provisions in treaties and conventions
• 15.3.6 Compulsory jurisdiction: the ‘optional clause’
• 15.3.7 Third parties
• 15.3.8 Provisional measures
• 15.3.9 Enforcement
• 15.4 Advisory jurisdiction of the ICJ
• 15.4.1 Introduction
• 15.4.2 Advisory jurisdiction
• 15.4.3 Effect of an advisory opinion
• 15.5 The relationship between the ICJ and the Security Council
• 15.6 Trends in dispute resolution
• Further reading
• Index