Policy-makers, national administrations, and regulators engage in making laws without the formalities associated with treaties or customary law. This book analy

International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is in a state of some turbulence, as a result of, among other things, non-international armed conflicts, terrorist threats

Lawmaking by international organizations has enormous influence over world trade and national economies. This book explores who makes that law and how.

Explores how expert bodies and non-state empowered professionals come together to shape human rights law.

The book explores the various means of making non-conventional/non-treaty law and the cross-cutting issues that they raise. Law-making by technical/informal exp