Law Among Nations: An Introduction to Public International Law

Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing the field's development and stressing key principles, processes, and landmark cases.

This comprehensive text eliminates the need for multiple books by combining discussions of theory and state practice with excerpts from landmark cases. The book has been updated in light of the continuing revolution in communication technology, the dense web of linkages between countries that involve individuals, and bodies both formal and informal; and covers important and controversial areas such as human rights, the environment, and issues associated with the use of force. Renowned for its rigorous approach and clear explanations, Law Among Nations remains the gold standard for undergraduate introductions to international law.

New to the Twelfth Edition

• Added or expanded coverage of timely issues in international law:

New chapter on international economic law

• Drones (UAVs) and their use
• Spying and international law
• Chinese views on international law
• Cybercrime and responses
• The Julian Assange Case
• Environmental law
• Expanded discussion of space law
• Expanded discussion of conflict and non-state actors
• Final cases in the ICTY (MICT)

• Thoroughly rewritten chapters in areas of great change:

• International criminal law
• Just war, self defense, and war crime law