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Anghie, Antony. Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Barsch, Russel Lawrence. “Indigenous Peoples: An Emerging Object of International Law.” American Journal of International Law 80, no. 2 (April 1986): 369-85.
Boisson, P. Safety at Sea: Policies, Regulations and International Law. Paris: Bureau Veritas, 1999.
Bridgman, Raymond L. The First Book of World Law: A Compilation of International Conventions of which the Principal Nations Are Signatory with a Survey of Their Significance. Introduction by Warren F. Kuehl. Garland Library of War and Peace. New York: Garland Publishing, 1972. [The book originally appeared in 1911 from this Boston journalist who was a world federalist.]
Broches, A. “Development of International Law by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.” Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 59 (April 1965): 33-38.
Chesterman, Simon. Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Codding, George A., Jr. “Contributions of the World Health Organization and the International Civil Aviation Organization to the Development of International Law.” American Journal of International Law Proceedings 59 (April 1965): 147-53.
Feller, Erika, Volker Tûrk, and Frances Nicholson, eds. Refugee Protection in International Law: UNHCR’s Global Consultations on International Protection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for UNHCR, 2003.
Frank, Veronica. The European Community and Marine Environmental Protection in the International Law of the Sea: Implementing Global Obligations at the Regional Level. Boston: Brill, 2007.
Goodwin-Gill, Guy S., and Jane McAdams. The Refugee in International Law. Online Resource Centre. [http://global.oup.com/booksites/content/9780199207633/resources/annexe1]
Jessup, Philip C. The United States and the World Court. New York: Garland Publishing, 1972. [Jessup was a Professor of International Law at Columbia University Law School before advising the U.S. delegations at the war-time conferences establishing UNRRA, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. He served on as the U.S. delegate to the U.N. on an interim basis in 1951 after being villified by McCarthyites in the U.S. Congress. He served on the International Court of Justice from 1960 until 1969. This volume also includes essays by Wolfgang Friedmann—“What’s Wrong with International Law?”—and Hans Kelsen—“The Legal Process and International Law.”]
Koskenniemi, Martti. Gentle Civiliser of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Lauterpacht, Hersch. International Law and Human Rights. New York: F. A. Praeger, 1950. [This work focuses on international law.]
League of Nations Society of Ireland. The League Idea: A Short Summary of the Movement towards International Law and Order. Dublin: League of Nations Society of Ireland, 1936.
Leive, David M. International Telecommunications and International Law: The Regulation of the Radio Spectrum. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1970.
Ralston, Jackson H. International Arbitration from Athens to Locarno. Introduction by Warren F. Kuehl. Garland Library of War and Peace. New York: Garland Publishing, 1972. [The book was originally published in 1927, this book was written by a Washington DC lawyer who was an authority on international arbitration.]
Robertson, Geoffrey. Crimes against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice. New York: New Press, 2000. [This work is from the international law perspective.]
Schiffer, Walter. The Legal Community of Mankind: A Critical Analysis of the Modern Concept of World Organization. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. [The first three parts of this book deal with the evolution of international legal concepts before moving, in the last part dealing with how these internal legal concepts played out in the League of Nations. The conclusion tries to draw some historical lessons from this study that could be applied to the United Nations.]
Shaw, Malcolm N. International Law. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Simpson, Gerry J. Law, War and Crime: War Crimes, Trials and the Reinvention of International Law. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007.
Van Bueren, Geraldine. The International Law on the Rights of the Child. Dordrecht, Neth.: Martinus Nijhoff, 1995.
Yakemtchouk, Romain. “The OAU and International Law.” In The Organization of African Unity after Ten Years: Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Yassin El-Ayouty, 79-102. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975.