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Readership: Students of international law and international relations, academics, diplomats, and officials from governments and international organizations working with international law
Andrew Clapham
Andrew Clapham worked as the Representative of Amnesty International at the United Nations in New York from 1991 to 1997. Since 1997 he has been teaching human rights law and public international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He has worked as an Adviser to the UN High Commissioners for Human Rights Mary Robinson and Sergio Vieira de Mello. His other published work includes: International Human Rights Lexicon (OUP 2005) (with Susan Marks) Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors (OUP 2006) and Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2007). He is an academic associate member of Matrix Chambers in London.
"...an inspired and very impressive work indeed. If the chief qualities which made Brierly stand out were its straightforward and fluent prose, a balanced choice of topics discussed, and above the hopeful and humane - yet unfailingly sober - assessment of the role of international law in the world community by which the analysis was underlain, then these qualities have been admirably preserved and in fact honed to perfection." - Eirik Bjorge, Law Quarterly Review
Preface To The First Edition Preface To The Seventh Edition 1: The Origins of International Law 2: The Basis of Obligation In International Law 3: The Legal Organization of International Society 4: States 5: The Territory of States 6: Jurisdiction 7: Treaties 8: International Disputes and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security 9: Resort to Force
