International Law: A Basic Bibliography
By Patrick S. O’Donnell
Department of Philosophy
Santa Barbara City College (2006)
Edited by Amy Burchfield, January 2008, last updated January 2009
So as to keep this list manageable, the emphasis here is largely on public international law, as well
as international law in the contemporary period (i.e., it lacks a strong historical orientation).
Abiew, Francis Kofi. The Evolution of the Doctrine and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention.
The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1999.
Akehurst, Michael (Peter Malanczuk, ed.). A Modern Introduction to International Law. London:
Routledge, 7th ed., 1997.
Alebeek, Rosanne van. The Immunity of States and Their Officials in International Criminal Law and
International Human Rights Law, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Alvarez, José E. International Organizations as Law-Makers. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press,
2005.
Amerasinghe, Chittharanjan Felix. Evidence in International Litigation. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff,
2005.
Andreas, Peter and Ethan Nadelmann. Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in
International Relations. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Anghie, Antony. Imperialism, Sovereignty, and the Making of International Law. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Arend, Anthony Clark and Robert J. Beck. International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond the
UN Charter Paradigm. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Askar, Yusuf. Implementing International Humanitarian Law: From the Ad Hoc Tribunals to
a Permanent International Criminal Court. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Aust, Anthony. Handbook of International Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Bailey, Sydney D. and Sam Daws. The Procedure of the Security Council. Oxford, UK:
Clarendon Press, 3rd ed., 1998.
Bankas, Ernest K. The State Immunity Controversy in International Law: Private Suits Against
Sovereign States in Domestic Courts. Berlin: Springer, 2005.
Bantekas, Ilias and Susan Nash. International Criminal Law, 3rd ed. London; New York: RoutledgeCavendish, 2007.
Bartels, Lorand. Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s International Agreements. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2005.
Bartelson, Jens. A Genealogy of Sovereignty. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Bass, Gary Jonathan. Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002 ed.
Bassiouni, M. Cherif. Crimes Against Humanity in International Criminal Law. The Hague:
Kluwer Law International, 1999.
Bassiouni, M. Cherif. A Manual on International Humanitarian Law and Arms Control Agreements.
Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2000.
Bassiouni, M. Cherif. International Criminal Law. 3rd ed. Leiden, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff,
2008.
Bedjaoui, Mohammed. The New World Order and the Security Council: Testing the Legality of Its Acts.
Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1994.
Beigbeder, Yves. International Justice against Impunity. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2005.
Beitz, Charles R. Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1979.
Bekou, Olympia and Robert Cryer, eds. The International Criminal Court. Aldershot: Ashgate,
2004.
Bernhardt, Rudolf. Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1995.
Bohlander, Michael, Roman Boed and Richard J. Wilson, eds. Defense in International Criminal
Proceedings. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2006.
Bloed, Arie and Pieter van Dijk, eds. Protection of Minority Rights through Bilateral Treaties.
The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1999.
Boczek, Boleslaw Adam. International Law: A Dictionary. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Bothe, Michael, Peter Macalister-Smith and Thomas Kurzidem, eds. National Implementation of
International Humanitarian Law. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1990.
Bowett, Derek W. Self-Defence in International Law. Manchester: Manchester University Press,
1958.
Brierly, James L. The Basis of Obligation in International Law. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1958.
Broomhall, Bruce. International Justice and the International Criminal Court: Between
Sovereignty and the Rule of Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Brouwer, Anne-Marie de. Supranational Criminal Prosecution of Sexual Violence. The ICC and the
Practice of the ICTY and the ICTR. Antwerpen: Intersentia, 2005.
Brownlie, Ian. International Law and the Use of Force by States. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Brownlie, Ian. Principles of Public International Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 5th ed.,
1998.
Brownlie, Ian, ed. Basic Documents in International Law. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 6th
ed., 2009.
Buchanan, Allen. Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Burgstaller, Markus. Theories of Compliance with International Law. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff,
2005.
Byers, Michael. Custom, Power and the Power of Rules: International Relations and Customary
International Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Byers, Michael. War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflicts. New York:
Grove Press, 2006.
Byers, Michael, ed. The Role of Law in International Politics: Essays in International Relations and
International Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Carter, Barry E. and Phillip R. Trimble. International Law: Selected Documents. Boston, MA:
Little, Brown, 1995.
Cassese, Antonio. International Law in a Divided World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Cassese, Antonio. International Criminal Law. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Cassese, Antonio, Paola Gaeta and John R.W.D. Jones, eds. The Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court: A Commentary, Vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Castañeda, Jorge G. (Alba Amoia, tr.). Legal Effects of United Nations Resolutions. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1969.
Chesterman, Simon. Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Clarke, Walter and Jeffrey Herbst, eds. Learning from Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian
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Intervention. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
Coates, A.J. The Ethics of War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997.
Cryer, Robert. Prosecuting International Crimes: Selectivity and the International Criminal Law Regime.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Cryer, Robert. An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2007.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
D’Amato, Anthony A. The Concept of Custom in International Law. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1971.
DʹAmato, Anthony A. International Law Sources. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2004.
Damrosch, Lori Fisler and David J. Scheffer, eds. Law and Force in the New International Order.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
Detter de Lupis, Ingrid. The Law of War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Dinstein, Yoram. War, Aggression and Self-Defense. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
2nd ed., 1992.
Dörmann, Knut (with Louise Doswald-Beck and Robert Kolb). Elements of War Crime under the
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 2003.
Ehrlich, Thomas and Mary Ellen O’Connell. International Law and the Use of Force. Boston, MA:
Little, Brown and Co., 1993.
Falk, Richard A., Irene L. Gendzier and Robert J. Lifton, eds. Crimes of War: Iraq. New York:
Nation Books, 2006.
Fatima, Shaheed. Using International Law in Domestic Courts. Oxford, UK: Hart, 2005.
Ferdinandusse, Ward N. Direct Application of International Criminal Law in National Courts.
The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2006.
Findlay, Mark and Ralph Henham. Transforming International Criminal Justice: Retributive and
Restorative Justice in the Trial Process. Portland, OR: Willan Publ., 2005.
Fleck, Dieter, ed. The Handbook of Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflict. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 1995.
Fox, James R. Dictionary of International and Comparative Law. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publ., 3rd
ed., 2003.
Franck, Thomas M. Fairness in International Law and Institutions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University
Press, 1995.
Franck, Thomas M. Recourse to Force: State Action against Threats and Armed Attacks.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Glennon, Michael J. Limits of Law, Prerogatives and Power: Intervention after Kosovo. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Goldsmith, Jack L. and Eric A. Posner. The Limits of International Law. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2005.
Gray, Christine. International Law and the Use of Force. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Greenwood, Christopher. The Handbook of Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 1999.
Greenwood, Christopher. Humanitarian Intervention: Law and Policy. Oxford, UK: Oxford
University Press, 2001.
Grewe, Wilhelm G., ed. Sources Relating to the History of the Law of Nations. Berlin: Walter de
Gruyter, 1988.
Hannikainen, Lauri. Peremptory Norms (Jus Cogens) in International Law: Historical Development,
Criteria, Present Status. Helsinki: Finnish Lawyers’ Publ. Co., 1988.
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Harriss, John, ed. The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention. London: Pinter, 1995.
Hathaway, James C. The Rights of Refugees Under International Law. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Heere, Wybo P. From Government to Governance: The Growing Impact of Non-State Actors
on the International and European Legal System (2003 Hague Joint Conference on
Contemporary Issues of International Law). The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2004.
Henham, Ralph J. Punishment and Process in International Criminal Trials. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2005.
Hensel, Howard M., ed. The Law of Armed Conflict: Constraints on the Contemporary Use of Military
Force. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
Higgins, Rosalyn. The Development of International Law Through the Political Organs of the United
Nations. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
Higgins, Rosalyn. Conflict of Interests in a Divided World. London: Bodley Head, 1965.
Higgins, Rosalyn. Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1994.
Hoffman, Marci. International and Foreign Legal Research: A Coursebook, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff,
2008.
Hoffman, Marci and Robert C. Berring. International Legal Research in a Nutshell, St. Paul, MN:
Thomson/West, 2008.
Hoffman, Stanley. The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention. Notre Dame, IN: University
of Notre Dame Press, 1996.
Holsti, Kalevi J. Peace and War: Armed Conflicts and International Order, 1648-1989. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Holzgrefe, J.L. and Robert O. Keohane, eds. Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal, and Political
Dilemmas. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Hoof, G.J.H. van. Rethinking the Sources of International Law. Boston, MA Kluwer Law, 1983.
Hoogh, André de. Obligations Erga Omnes and International Crimes: A Theoretical Inquiry into the
Implementation and Enforcement of the International Responsibility of States. The Hague:
Kluwer Law International, 1996.
Horn, Frank. Reservations and Interpretative Declarations to Multilateral Treaties. Amsterdam: NorthHolland, 1988.
Janis, Mark W. An Introduction to International Law. New York: Aspen, 3rd ed., 1999.
Jokic, Aleksander, ed. Humanitarian Intervention: Moral and Philosophical Issues. Orchard Park,
NY: Broadview Press, 2003.
Kelsen, Hans. Principles of International Law. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2nd ed., 1966.
Kittichaisaree, Kriangsak. International Criminal Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Klintworth, Gary. Vietnam’s Intervention in Cambodia in International Law. Canberra: Australian
Government Publishing Service, 1989.
Knoops, Geert-Jan Alexander. Theory and Practice of International and Internationalized Criminal
Proceedings. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2005.
Knoops, Geert-Jan Alexander. Defenses in Contemporary International Criminal Law. Leiden:
Martinus Nijhoff, 2008.
Knop, Karen. Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Kontou, Nancy. The Termination and Revision of Treaties in the Light of New Customary International
Law. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Korhonen, Outi. International Law Situated: Culture, History and Ethics. The Hague: Kluwer Law
International, 2000.
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Ku, Charlotte, and Harold C. Jacobson, eds. Democratic Accountability and the Use of Force in
International Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Kwakwa, Edward K. The International Law of Armed Conflict: Personal and Material Field of
Application. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1992.
Lauterpacht, Hersch, Sir. The Development of International Law by the International Court. New York:
Praeger, 1958.
Lauterpacht, Hersch, Sir. The Function of Law in the International Community. Hamden, CT: Archon
Books, 1966 [1933].
Lauterpacht, Hersch, Sir. International Law and Human Rights. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1968
[1950].
Lee, Roy S., et al., eds. The International Criminal Court: Elements of Crime and Rules of Procedure and
Evidence. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2001.
Leonard, Eric K. The Onset of Global Governance: International Relations Theory and the International
Criminal Court. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
Lindblom, Anna-Karin. Non-governmental Organisations in International Law. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Macedo, Stephen. Universal Jurisdiction: National Courts and the Prosecution of Serious Crimes Under
International Law. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Maogato, Jackson Nyamuya. Battling Terrorism: Legal Perspectives on the Use of Force and the War on
Terror. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
May, Richard and Marieka Wierda. International Criminal Evidence. Ardsley, NY: Transnational,
2002.
McGoldrick, Dominic, Peter Rowe and Eric Donnelly, eds. The Permanent International Criminal
Court: Legal and Policy Issues. Oxford, UK: Hart, 2004.
Meron, Theodor. Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law. Oxford, UK:
Clarendon Press, 1989.
Moir, Lindsay. The Law of Internal Armed Conflict. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
2002.
Murphy, Sean D. Principles of International Law. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2006.
O’Connell, Mary Ellen. International Law and the Use of Force: Cases and Materials. New York:
Foundation Press, 2005.
Olásolo, Héctor. The Triggering Procedure of the International Criminal Court. Leiden: Martinus
Nijhoff, 2005.
Orakhelashvili, Alexander. Peremptory Norms in International Law. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2006.
Orford, Anne. Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International
Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
O’Shea, Andreas. Amnesty for Crime in International Law and Practice. The Hague: Kluwer Law
International, 2002.
Othman, Mohamed C. Accountability for International Humanitarian Law Violations: The Case
of Rwanda and East Timor. Berlin: Springer, 2005.
Paust, Jordan J., Jon M. Van Dyke and Linda A. Malone. International Law and Litigation in the U.S.
St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2005.
Polito, Mauro and Giuseppe Nesi. The International Criminal Court and the Crime of Aggression.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
Polito, Mauro and Giuseppe Nesi, eds. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court:
A Challenge to Impunity. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.
Provost, René. International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
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University Press, 2002.
Ratner, Steven R. and Jason S. Abrams. Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International
Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2 nd ed., 2001.
Reydams, Luc. Universal Jurisdiction: International and Municipal Legal Perspectives. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 2003.
Robertson, Geoffrey. Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice. London:
Allen Lane, 1999.
Ronzitti, Natolino. Rescuing Nationals Abroad Through Military Coercion and Intervention on Grounds
of Humanity. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985.
Rosenne, Shabtai (with Yaël Ronin). The Law and Practice of the International Court, 1920-2005.
Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 4th ed., 2006.
Rubin, Alfred P. Ethics and Authority in International Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 1997.
Safferling, Christoph J.M. Towards an International Criminal Procedure. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001.
Sands, Phillipe. From Nuremberg to the Hague: The Future of International Criminal Justice.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Schabas, William A. Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Schabas, William A. An Introduction to the International Criminal Court. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Schabas, William A. The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 3rd ed., 2002.
Schabas, William A. The UN International Criminal Tribunals: The Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and
Sierra Leone. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Schabas, William A. and Shane Darcy, eds. Truth Commissions and Courts: The Tension Between
Criminal Justice and the Search for Truth. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2005.
Shaw, Malcolm N. International Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 4 th ed., 1997.
Shelton, Dinah. Remedies In International Human Rights Law. New York: Oxford University Press,
1999.
Sinclair, Sir Ian. The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 2nd ed., 1984.
Spiermann, Ole. International Legal Argument in the Court of International Justice: The Rise of the
International Judiciary. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Sunga, Lyal S. Individual Responsibility in International Law for Serious Human Rights
Violations. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1992.
Treves, Tullio, et al, eds. Civil Society, International Courts and Compliance Bodies. The Hague:
T.M.C. Asser Press, 2005.
Tunkin, G.I. (William E. Butler, tr.). Theory of International Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1974.
Villiger, Mark E. Customary International Law and Treaties. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985.
Vohrah, Lal Chand, ed. Man’s Inhumanity to Man: Essays on International Law in Honour of
Antonio Cassese. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2003.
Watkins, John C., Jr. and John Paul Weber. War Crimes and War Crime Trials: From Leipzig to the
ICC and Beyond—Cases, Materials and Comments. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press,
2006.
Welsh, Jennifer M., ed. Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Werle, Gerhard. Principles of International Criminal Law. The Hague: T.M.C. Hasser Press, 2005.
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Wheeler, Nicholas J. Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society. Oxford,
UK: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Wippman, David, ed. International Law and Ethnic Conflict. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
1998.
Wolfke, Karol. Custom in Present International Law. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 2nd ed., 1993.
Wolfrum, Rüdiger and Volker Röben, eds. Developments of International Law in Treaty Making.
Berlin: Springer, 2005.
Zappalà, Salvatore. Human Rights in International Criminal Proceedings. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 2003.
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