The Advancement of International Law.

Prelims -- Series Editor's Preface -- Contents -- Part 1 Advances in the Techniques of International Law -- 1 State Contracts and their Governing Law: A Reappraisal -- 2 The International Responsibility of States based on Investment Promotion and Protection Treaties -- 3 The State's Normative Freedom and the Question of Indirect Expropriation -- Part II Advances in the Theoretical Analysis of International Law -- 4 Some Theoretical Reflections on State Contracts -- 5 Hans Kelsen and the Advancement of International Law -- 6 The Notion of Civitas Maxima in Kelsen's Work -- 7 International Courts in an Interstate Society -- 8 The State within the Meaning of International Law and the State within the Meaning of Municipal Law (On the Theory of the Dual Personality of the State) -- Part III European Union Law: International Law Surpassed or International Law Advancing? -- 9 On the Legal Nature of the European Communities -- 10 A Federation of Nation States or a Federal State? -- 11 Is there a European Approach to Human Rights? -- Index.

The reflections in this book make for a clearer theoretical understanding of what constitutes true advancement in international law.

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