Lauri Mälksoo

Gebundenes Buch

Illegal Annexation and State Continuity

Beschreibung

This volume, now in its second and revised edition, deals with the legal status of the three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - as a consequence of the illegality of the Soviet annexation in 1940-1991. It offers a detailed historical overview of the Soviet takeover of the Baltic States in 1939/1940 and analysis of international law as it was in force, also regionally and bilaterally, at the time. It examines the role of the continuity of the diplomatic representations of the Baltic States and other manifestations of the Western non-recognition of the Soviet annexation. Moreover, the book examines the nature of the restoration of the Baltic States in 1991 based on their State continuity claim. It also studies in detail questions such as borders, citizenship and reparation claims, and asks to what extent State continuity could or could not be restored in practice.

Autor

Lauri Mälksoo is Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and a Member of the Institut de Droit International. He is a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and, from 2021, a member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission). He received his legal education at the University of Tartu, Georgetown University (LL.M) and Humboldt University Berlin (PhD). He has conducted post-doctoral studies at New York University, the University of Tokyo and has been research fellow at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Brill-Nijhoff) and belongs to the editorial board of the Review of Central and East European Law (Brill-Nijhoff) as well as the advisory board of the Journal of the History of International Law (Brill-Nijhoff).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9789004464889
• ISBN-10: 9004464883
• Artikelnr.: 64140031