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The institute is one of the most important research institutions in the German-speaking world in the fields of international law, European law, comparative public law, and for the theoretical frameworks of transnational law. It has traditionally performed important advisory functions for parliaments, administrative organs and courts concerned ...
The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is an online encyclopedia dealing with international law.It was published under the auspices of Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law until his successor Anne Peters became general editor in 2021. [1]
The journal publishes articles on public and private international law and comparative law. It also publishes reviews of new books in the field. As of 2018, the Berkeley Journal of International Law was the 26th most cited international law journal in the United States, according to the W&L Law Journal Rankings. [1]
Many early international legal theorists were concerned with axiomatic truths thought to be reposed in natural law.Sixteenth century natural law writer, Francisco de Vitoria, a professor of theology at the University of Salamanca, examined the questions of the just war, the Spanish authority in the Americas, and the rights of the Native American people.
Third World approaches to international law (TWAIL) is a critical school of international legal scholarship [1] and an intellectual and political movement. [2] It is a "broad dialectic opposition to international law", [3] which perceives international law as facilitating the continuing exploitation of the Third World through subordination to the West.
Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice is generally recognized as a definitive statement of the sources of international law. [2] It requires the Court to apply, among other things, (a) international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states; (b) international custom, as evidence of a general ...
It also publishes shorter academic notes on policy issues of international character, recent developments in international law, and book reviews. It is published by the Stanford Law School and was established in 1966. The journal also hosts keynote speakers and annual symposia.
The journal publishes four issues per year on diverse topics in both public and private international law. Recent issues have included articles on international human rights law, privatization in Eastern Europe and Latin America, international aspects of intellectual property law, the future of nationalism, and asset securitization in Japan.