The Mavrommatis dispute was about the fate of conflicting concessions for the supply of water and electricity and associated economic and political control over Palestine in the interwar period. Both water and electricity were essential to the aspirations of the Jewish people to create a...

This book offers a collaborative account of the profound impact and enduring questions surrounding the historic event known as Brexit, i.e. the United Kingdom’s decision to terminate its membership in the European Union in 2020. The book is a collection of thought-provoking contributions...

As a hybrid provision, the much-discussed withdrawal provision in Article 50 of the TEU is part of European Union law yet also anchored in public international law. Due to this anchoring of EU law, the UK's withdrawal raises important questions of public international law that are the focus of...

The UK has made major contributions to the development of investor-state dispute settlement from 1920-2020. This essay shows that the UK contributed in three ways (1) law-making, both before and after the launch of its investment treaty programme in the early 1970s; (2) dispute settlement –...