In this article, I respond to Twining's lecture, ‘Globalisation and Legal Scholarship'. Through an overview of the effect these changes had on the WTO I will describe how a lawyer or scholar of an ‘established transnational field' experienced the phenomenon of globalisation. In the WTO, the...

This is the introduction to a book that explores the consequences of European integration for the application of public international law in the European Union and its Member States. As a consequence of the combination of expansion of the regulatory domain of international law and the increasing...

Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) have become an essential legal instrument in international investment law for economic growth and development. BITs and multilateral investment treaties encourage foreign direct investment by providing legal protection to investors of the “home” state,...

In the most recent few years, customary international law is increasingly crystalizing to affirm that states must grant nationality to children born in their territory, if they would be otherwise stateless. In prior scholarship, this author has argued that such a norm of a customary...

No one can deny the terrible toll that a nuclear bomb has on humans and our environment. But what about the impacts of weapons containing depleted uranium (DU), a low-level radioactive waste product? A number of countries, including the United States, have used DU munitions during times of war....

The outbreaks and persistence of inter-state or international conflicts call into question the efficacy of international law and international politics as instruments for the maintenance of peace, order and stability in the relations between countries. This paper argues that the resolution of...

In the last years of Chief Justice Rehnquist's tenure, the Supreme Court held that due process bars criminal prosecution of same-sex intimacy and that it is cruel and unusual to execute mentally retarded persons or juveniles. Each of the later decisions not only overruled precedents set earlier...

A review of the scope, legality and enforceability This article aims to provide the reader with a critical analysis of the scope, legality and enforceability of The Right to Development the (RTD), more precisely of “the right to a process of development in which all rights and fundamental...