TY  - BOOK
AU  - Loja,Melissa
TI  - International agreements between non-state actors as a source of international law
T2  - Studies in International Law
SN  - 9781509951130
AV  - KZ1285 .L65 2022eb
U1  - 341.1 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London [England]
PB  - Hart Publishing
KW  - International law
KW  - Interpretation and construction
KW  - Treaties
KW  - Conflict of laws
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 1. International Agreements between Non-state Actors -- 2. Deformalization in the Identification of International Law -- 3. Identification of International Agreements between Non-state Actors as a Source of International Law -- 4. The Philipine-China Negotiation on Oil and Gas Cooperation in the South China Sea -- 5. Conclusion; Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers
N2  - "This book examines whether international agreements between non-state actors can be identified as a source of international law using objective criteria. It asks whether, beyond Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, there is a system of rules, processes, beliefs or semantics by which these agreements can be objectively identified as a source of international law. Departing from the more usual state-centric analysis, it adopts postmodern legal positivism as its analytical tool. This allows for the reality that international law-making takes place in subjective social landscapes. To test the effectiveness of this approach, it is applied to agreements between petroleum agencies and corporations which allow two or more states to exploit disputed resources across boundaries looking in particular at arrangements involving China, Vietnam and the Philippines. By so doing it illustrates an alternative way that states can manage disputes, without having to resort to conflict. It will appeal to both scholars and practitioners of public international law, as well as civil servants."--
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509951130?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ER  -