Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law, Volume 2, 2008

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This book continues the series Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law, containing the proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference organised by ESIL and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in 2008. The conference was entitled 'International Law in a Heterogeneous World', reflecting an idea which is central to the ESIL philosophy. Heterogeneity is considered one of the pillars upon which Europe's contribution to international law is built and the subject was considered in a number of panels, including such diverse topics as migration, the history of international law, the rules on warfare and international environmental law.

Helene Ruiz-Fabri is Professor of international law at the University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). She is also Director of the Institute of Comparative Studies of Paris and President of the European Society of International Law. Rudiger Wolfrum is Professor of international law at the University of Heidelberg and Director of the Heidelberg. Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Jana Gogolin is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.

...this volume contains a very useful, down-to-earth analysis of general conceptual aspects of international law. It is certainly good for international legal theory to be approached in such a transparent manner, cleansed of cliches and focusing on what international law actually is. This volume is certainly to be recommended to anyone who wishes to follow up on the pertinent issues of the relationship between international law, national interest, and ideological traditions. Alexander Orakhelashvili International and European Law Book Reviews Online June 09