Building on session reports collected over a span of two years, this Working Paper consolidates the extensive discussions that took place within the EUI Working Group on International Criminal Law. Under the banner of international criminal law, a broad variety of issues, including both...

A growing number of international instruments tend to define in human rights terms a rightto water possessed by each individual. How to define this right? Is it already admitted in positive international law and how to compare it with the classical customary rules of public international law...

When having established a contract with a foreign private investor, State 'emanations'endowed with their own legal personality are able to be involved in international arbitral proceedings. This raises in particular the issue of how to define and identify such emanations of a sovereign State and...