Principles of the Institutional Law of International Organizations (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Series Number 1) - Tapa dura

'... this book should be an eminently valuable teaching tool. Its deliberate and untechnical style makes it easily accessible to the uninitiated reader ... An extensive list of abbreviations, a table of cases, a select bibliography and an index further add to the book's usefulness as a source of reference.' Christopher H. Schreuer, The American Journal of International Law

'This book is written with precision and in a linguistic style that practicing lawyers, law school professors and students of the law should find satisfying. It should prove very useful to those professionals for advising client groups. It also should find a place as a reference for policy makers in administrations of international organizations and in bureaus of national governments charged with dealing with them. The book also will be relevant to the study of international law and organizations in political science.' The Law and Politics Book Review

'This is an authoritative and informative book which deserves to become one of the standard works on this increasingly important subject.' The Cambridge Law Journal

'... provides an impressive factual and analytical examination of the internal and comparative law of international organization ... This book is as comprehensive and useful as any casebook on the law of international organizations and would serve effectively as the primary reading material in any course on the topic ... Amerasinghe has made a real contribution to the field of the law of international organizations with this comprehensive study.' International Law and Politics

'Amerasinghe provides a useful foundation for further study of international law and institutions.' Stanford Journal of International Law

This first book in the relaunch of Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law addresses the institutional aspect of the law of international organisations. Dr Amerasinghe starts with a brief history of international organisations. In 14 substantive chapters he then deals with subjects such as interpretation, membership and representation, the doctrine of ultra vires, responsibility, liability of members to third parties, Internal Law and Employment relations, Privileges and Immunities, Finances, dispute settlement, and dissolution and succession. There is a full and detailed examination of the problems connected with each of these subjects. The primary object of the book is to discuss principles, but Dr Amerasinghe also studies the law and practice of different organisations, using a rigorous analysis of the material alongside his functional examination of the law.