OUVRAGE : G. Distefano, Fundamentals of Public International Law: A Sketch of the International Legal Order

Giovanni DISTEFANO

Fundamentals of Public International Law, by Giovanni Distefano, provides an overview of public international law’s main principles and fundamental institutions. By introducing the foundations of the legal reasoning underlying public international law, the extensive volume offers essential tools for any international lawyer, regardless of the specific field of specialization. Dealing expansively with subjects, sources and guarantees of international law, university students, scholars and practitioners alike will benefit from the book’s treatment of what has been called the “Institutes” of public international law.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Abbreviations
Table of Cases

Prolegomena: The Structure and Characteristics of the International Legal Order

Subjects of International Law
Legal Personality
The Sovereign State as the Primary and Original Subject of pil

The System of Sources of pil

Preliminary Remarks: The Ingredients of the Normative System
Article 38 of the icj Statute: The Substantive Constitution of the International Legal Order in Respect of Sources
Customary International Law and Its Codification
International Treaty
Forgotten, Minor and Hidden Sources

Non-coercive Guarantees

State Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts
Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes

Back Matter

Free access
Subject Index

Giovanni DISTEFANO, Fundamentals of Public International Law: A Sketch of the International Legal Order, Leiden, Brill/Nijhoff, 2019 (954 pp.)