Michael Wood, Eran Sthoeger

The Un Security Council and International Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This accessibly-written book provides lawyers, diplomats, scholars and students the tools to understand the law governing the powers of the UN Security Council, as conceived in the Charter and as they apply and evolve in practice, and explores the powers and limits of the Council within the international legal system.

Produktdetails

• Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781108728737
• ISBN-10: 1108728731
• Artikelnr.: 68887651

Autorenporträt

Michael Wood is a Barrister at Twenty Essex Chambers. He is a Member of the UN International Law Commission, and a Senior Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. Michael Wood was legal adviser to the UK Foreign Office between 1970 and 2006. He was a lawyer in the UK Mission to the UN between 1991 and 1994, working mostly on Security Council matters. He has acted for many governments before the ICJ and other international courts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The legal nature of the security council
2. Decisions of the security council
3. The powers of the security Council
4. Possible limits in the powers of the security council
5. The security council and measures not involving the use of force
6. The security council and the use of force
7. The security council, international organizations and the use of force
8. The security council and the international court of justice
9. The security council's contribution to the development of international law
Conclusions.