About The Book:

This book is a judicious blend of specialised international jurisprudential knowledge and perceptive understanding of the political and social forces that shape International Law. It is aimed to serve as a textbook and reference book for law students, teachers, researchers, diplomats, officials in foreign affairs and students appearing for competitive examinations.

The much appreciated and admired book, International Law by the learned author Dr. Gurdip Singh has now been thoroughly revised, updated and enlarged with the latest case law. It takes into account all the important changes that have taken place in international law since the publication of the last edition in 2011.

The work analyses the recent trends in International Law and provides the laws that govern the relations between the individuals, States and the international institutions and the rules that regulate the working of the international institutions.

Table of Contents: 

Part 1: Peace

1. Development of International Law
2. Nature of International Law
3. Sources of International Law
4. Relation between International Law and Municipal Law
5. Position of Individual in International Law
6. Recognition
7. State Responsibility
8. Modes of Acquisition and Loss of Territorial Sovereignty
9. Individual and the State - Nationality, Extradition and Asylum
10. Law of Treaties
11. Jurisdictional Immunities of States
12. Diplomatic and Consular Relations
13. Law of the Sea 

Part 2: Conflict Resolution, War, Neutrality and Human Rights

1. Diplomatic Modes of Conflict Resolution
2. Arbitration
3. International Court of Justice
4. United Nations
5. Peace-Keeping Operations
6. Compulsive Methods: Short of War
7. War
8. Economic Warfare
9. Nuclear Warfare
10. Star Wars
11. International and National Measures of Implementation of Human Rights
12. International Criminal Court.

About the Author: 

Gurdip Singh - Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Delhi University, Delhi. 

About the publisher:

Eastern Book Company, Lucknow (UP) India