Third edition of the Précis de droit international public: Stéphane Beaulac & Miriam Cohen

The 3rd edition of the Précis de droit international public, published by LexisNexis, by professors Stéphane Beaulac and Miriam Cohen, has just been published.

While retaining its basic structure, which has proven its worth in classrooms for more than a decade, the new edition of this didactic work substantially adjusts the organization of the content, especially with regard to international subjects and actors. The mission as well as the formula of the book remain the same: to examine the essential questions of the field in a simple and efficient way, in particular with regard to international and national jurisprudence, drawn from both classic decisions and contemporary cases. In terms of historical and theoretical elements, while the focus remains on the dominant epistemology - the Westphalian paradigm, the structural idea of sovereignty, legal positivism, the voluntarist thesis - other schools are also addressed, including the postcolonialist critique of international law.

The core of the book still studies the sources of public international law: treaties and custom, in all their ramifications, together with general principles, jurisprudence and doctrine, as well as related concepts (erga omnes obligations and jus cogens norms). In addition, increased attention is given to soft law. With its recent significant developments, the problem of inter-legality and the reception of international law in Canadian and Quebec domestic law is then examined. The last part, redesigned in two chapters, aims to give a modern and applied perspective to this theme, which on the one hand, will go beyond States and other subjects of international law to include non-state actors, and on the other hand, will propose case studies on Taiwan, Palestine and Kosovo.

Rounding out the volume are three important issues for the discipline that, incidentally, have shown some momentum at the international level: jurisdiction, immunities, and state responsibility.

 

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This content has been updated on 19 April 2022 at 14 h 22 min.