Published: 2007
Total Pages: 504
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"The author, director of the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, examines in this course the multilateral rights and obligations in International Law. He starts by introducing terms that a priori do not seem to pose any particular problem (such as for instance the terms bilateral and multilateral), but that on closer inspection deserve to be looked at in more detail. He then gives an historical outline of the development of multilateral law-making. In the next chapter he examines the multilateral treaty as constitution and the United Nation Charter. James Crawford then studies the "sources" of international law as sources of multilateral rights and obligations: multilateral rights and obligations as components of general international law, and the development of the multilateral categories (jus cogens, etc.). In the last chapters, Professor Crawford tackles the question of claims for breaches of multilateral obligations and the decriminalization of State responsibility by looking at the peremptory norms and international crimes of State"--Publisher's description.