Dinah Shelton is the emeritus Manatt/Ahn professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. She joined the faculty in 2004 after serving as professor of international law and director of the doctoral program in international human rights law at the University of Notre Dame Law School from 1996-2004.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Origins and Sources of Jus Cogens


• 3: The Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties


• 4: Recent work of the International Law Commission


• 5: State Practice


• 6: Jus Cogens in Modern Legal Scholarship


• 7: Functions of Jus Cogens

In this volume Dinah Shelton considers Jus Cogens, its place in legal scholarship from Grotius to the present day, and its use in various domestic courts.