Full Description
The Oxford Handbook of Jurisdiction in International Law provides an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the concept of jurisdiction in international law. Jurisdiction plays a fundamental role in international law, limiting the exercise of legal authority over international legal subjects. But despite its importance, the concept has remained, until now, underdeveloped. Discussions of jurisdiction in international law regularly refer to classic heads of jurisdiction based on territoriality or nationality, or use the SS Lotus decision of the Permanent Court of International Justice as a starting point. However, traditional understandings of jurisdiction are facing new challenges. Globalization has increased the need for jurisdiction to be applied extraterritorially, non-State forms of law provide new theoretical challenges and intersections between different forms of jurisdiction have become more intricate.
This Handbook provides a necessary re-examination of the concept of jurisdiction in international law through a thematic analysis of its history, its contemporary application, and how it needs to adapt to encompass future developments in international law. It examines some of the most contentious elements of jurisdiction by considering how the concept is being applied in specific substantive and institutional settings.
Contents
Part I: Introduction
1: Stephen Allen, Daniel Costelloe, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Paul Gragl, and Edward Guntrip: Introduction: Defining State Jurisdiction and Jurisdiction in International Law
Part II: History
2: Kaius Tuori: The Beginnings of State Jurisdiction in International Law until 1648
3: The Lotus Case in Context - Sovereignty, Westphalia, Vattel, Positivism
4: Nurfadzilah Yahaya: The European Concept of Legal Jurisdiction in the Colonies
5: Stephan Wittich: Immanuel Kant and Jurisdiction in International Law
Part III: Theory
6: Helen Quane: Navigating Diffuse Jurisdictions: An Intra-State Perspective
7: Paul Schiff Berman: Jurisdictional Pluralism
8: Mariana Valverde: Deepening the Conversation Between Sociolegal Theory and Legal Scholarship About Jurisdiction
9: Shaun McVeigh: Critical Approaches to Jurisdiction and International Law
Part IV: General International Law
10: Cedric Ryngaert: Cosmopolitan Jurisdiction and the National Interest
11: Paul Gragl: Jurisdictional Immunities of the State in International Law
12: Dino Kritsiotis: The Establishment, Change, and Expansion of Jurisdiction through Treaties
13: Uta Kohl: Territoriality and Globalization
14: Alex Mills: Private law Regulation and Private Interests in Public International Law Jurisdiction
15: Kimberly Trapp: Jurisdiction and State Responsibility
16: Stephen Allen: Enforcing Criminal Jurisdiction in the Clouds and International Law's Enduring Commitment to Territoriality
Part V: Contextualizing Jurisdiction - Substantive and Institutional Issues
17: Wouter Vandehole: The 'J' word: Driver or Spoiler of Change in Human Rights Law?
18: Edward Guntrip: International Investment Law, Hybrid Authority and Jurisdiction
19: Daniel Costelloe: Concepts of State Jurisdiction in the Contentious and Advisory Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of International Justice
20: Georg Kerschischnig and Blanca Montejo: The Evolving Nature of the Jurisdiction of the Security Council - a Look at Twenty-First Century Practice
21: Kirsten Schmalenbach: International Criminal Jurisdiction Revisited
22: James Summers: Jurisdiction and International Territorial Administration
