Series: ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory

Over the past two centuries, the concept of human dignity has moved from the fringes to the centre of the international legal system. Human Dignity in International Law is the first detailed historical, theoretical and legal investigation of human dignity as a normative value, the intellectual sources that shaped its legal recognition, and the main legal instruments used to give...

Non-state law is playing an increasing role in both public and private ordering. Numerous organisations have emerged alongside the nation-state, each purporting to provide their members with rules and norms to govern their conduct and organise their affairs. The nation-state increasingly finds itself sandwiched between two broad and contrasting categories of non-state law. The first—law above the state—captures legal systems...

Jurisprudence has up until recently largely neglected international law as a subject of philosophizing. The Nature of International Law tries to offset against this deficiency by providing a comprehensive explanatory account of international law. It does so within an analytical tradition, albeit within the one which departs from the nowadays dominant method of the metaphysically-driven conceptual analysis. Instead, it adopts...