The management of fisheries at the international level is no longer the exclusive preserve of states and international organizations. The proliferation of private certification initiatives, the reach of which defies territorial boundaries, has heralded an era of transnational fisheries...

The author considers the principle in international law of the survival of accrued treaty rights and obligations upon the termination of a treaty, and analyses the precise scope of the exception to that principle set out in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. The scope of the exception...

This article discusses the problem of the meaning of the term ‘worker' as used in ILO Standards, with particular reference to the principles of freedom of association, both in terms of the constitutional obligation to respect those principles, and of the core freedom of association...

The aim of this paper is to analyze whether there is a BRICS perspective on international law and what would be its main features. In the first part, the investigation inquires, based on Nietzsche's theory of perspectivism, what a perspective is and whether the BRICS fulfils these theoretical...

These remarks delivered at the 2008 ASIL meeting, critique the notion of progress as it is deployed in discussion of international law. Drawing on human rights and environmental law, this brief essay describes the disconnect between progress in enacting international law and progress in...

The paper examines the legality under international law of the EU's trade agreements covering occupied territories by focusing on two case-studies: Palestine and Western Sahara. Two main questions will be examined: first, is the EU's practice in conformity with its obligations under...

The paper examines the legality under international law of the EU's trade agreements covering occupied territories by focusing on two case-studies: Palestine and Western Sahara. Two main questions will be examined: first, is the EU's practice in conformity with its obligations under...

In this article, I respond to Twining's lecture, ‘Globalisation and Legal Scholarship'. Through an overview of the effect these changes had on the WTO I will describe how a lawyer or scholar of an ‘established transnational field' experienced the phenomenon of globalisation. In the WTO, the...