The Law of International Organisations - 2nd Edition

Price: $90.00 240 pages. Index. Published October 2005. Hardcover $90.00 (ISBN: 1-929446-78-0) Softcover $60.00 (ISBN: 1-929446-77-2)

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About the Book:
This new edition considers the unifying legal attributes that span vastly differing inter-governmental organisations from the UN to the EU. A law of international organisations has become established in certain areas such as legal personality, powers, membership, finance – and decision-making. In other, newer, areas – accountability, responsibility and democracy – politics is still much rawer, and has not yet been fully converted into legal concepts and principles. As with the first edition, there are plenty of examples of organisations given in the text. Individual organisations dealing with issues such as security, health, civil aviation, finance and trade are examined by way of example to illustrate how different they can be, but also to show how it is possible to debate a set of legal principles that transcend each institution.

This new edition of an established text will appeal to students and academics as well as individuals seeking a legal and political insight into international organisations.

About the Author:
Nigel D. White is Professor of International Organisations in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham Nigel White was appointed Professor of International Law at the University of Sheffield in September 2005. Previously he was at Nottingham University where he started as a lecturer in 1987, having obtained his Ph.D there. He obtained his first degree in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford in 1982. He was appointed Professor of International Organisations at the University of Nottingham in 2000 and served as Head of School from 2000-2003.

He has a leading role in the recently established research cluster in the Department focusing on Law in its International Context (LIC). He is co-editor of the Journal of Conflict and Security Law (Oxford University Press), and has been involved in Foreign Office, EU and Ford Foundation projects, as well as being an active member of the International Law Association and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law and the International Organizations Law Review.

He teaches and supervises in the area of International Law, with particular focus on the law of international organisations, the law of armed conflict, collective security law, the law regulating peacekeeping and post-conflict rebuilding. He undertakes training and advisory work for the United Nations and the British Army.