Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing the field's development and stressing key principles, processes, and landmark cases.

James Larry Taulbee is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Emory University.

Gerhard von Glahn (late) was Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

PART I THE LAW OF NATIONS

CHAPTER 1 The Nature of International Law

CHAPTER 2 Development of Law Among Nations

CHAPTER 3 Sources of the Law

CHAPTER 4 International Agreements

CHAPTER 5 International Legal Process

CHAPTER 6 The Relationship Between International and Municipal Law

PART II SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

CHAPTER 7 Subjects of International Law: Recognition

CHAPTER 8 Rights and Duties of International Legal Persons

PART III THE ALLOCATION OF COMPETENCE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

CHAPTER 9 Nationality

CHAPTER 10 Principles of Jurisdiction

CHAPTER 11 State Responsibility

CHAPTER 12 The Law of the Sea

CHAPTER 13 Jurisdiction: Air Space, Cyberspace, and Outer Space

CHAPTER 14 Agents of International Intercourse Immunities

PART IV INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE INDIVIDUAL

CHAPTER 15 The Individual and International Law: Human Rights

CHAPTER 16 International Criminal Law

PART V PROCESSS AND ISSUES

CHAPTER 17 Adjudication

CHAPTER 18 International Law and Protection of the Environment

CHAPTER 19 International Economic Law

PART VI LAW AND THE USE OF FORCE

CHAPTER 20 Law and the Use of Force

CHAPTER 21 International Humanitarian Law: War Crimes

CHAPTER 22 War Crime Tribunals

Subject and Name Index

Index of Cases