TY - BOOK AU - Leben, Charles TI - Advancement of international law SN - 9781841132785 U1 - 341 PY - 2010/// CY - U.K. PB - Hart Publishing KW - International Law N1 - Table of contents: Chapter 1. State contracts and their governing law : a reappraisal Chapter 2. The international responsibility of states based on investment promotion and protection treaties Chapter 3. The state's normative freedom and the question of indirect expropriation Chapter 4. Some theoretical reflections on state contracts Chapter 5. Hans Kelsen and the advancement of international law Chapter 6. The notion of Civitas Maxima in Kelsen's work International courts in an interstate society Chapter 7. The state within the meaning of international law and the state within the meaning of municipal law (on the theory of the dual personality of the state) Chapter 8. On the legal nature of the European Communities centralisation/decentralisation of a legal order Chapter 9. A federation of nation states or a federal state? Is there a European approach to human rights ER -