International Law: Cases and Commentary (American Casebook Series)

Introduces the history and nature of international law, and examines the sources of international lawtreatise, custom, general principles, jus cogens, and equity. Also covers important fields of international law: individuals and human rights; recognition and self-determination; war and peace and the United Nations; Antarctica, outer space, the law of the sea, and international environmental laws; and international conflict of laws, foreign sovereign immunity, and act of state.