Dispute Settlement in Public International Law

In recent years, instruments and institutions for dispute settlement have multiplied. They now cover almost all areas of international law ranging from international economic law and international criminal law to more traditional fields such as arbitration procedures. Given this development, it became necessary, if not mandatory, to envisage a revised, updated and considerably enlarged second edition of the standard compilation of texts and materials on dispute settlement in public international law, which was first published in 1984 under the auspices of the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Continuing that tradition, the second edition has largely retained the purpose and concept of the publication, namely to make available to researchers, scholars and practitioners a comprehensive collection of more than 150 different instruments which are otherwise sometimes rather difficult to find elsewhere.

• Law
• arbitration
• compromissory clauses
• dispute settlement
• dispute settlement procedures
• settlement

From the reviews of the second edition:

"The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law ... made available a tool assisting those who are working in this field to keep that overview and at the same time to provide the relevant texts. … The current second edition of the Text and Materials … has been completely revised and considerably enlarged … . the second edition … is a must for any academic or practitioner, given the pace of the development in this field." (Norbert Wühler, Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Vol. 62 (1-2), 2002)

"The book appears in its second edition. The increasing awareness for the pacific settlement of disputes, and the before-mentioned impressing multiplication of instruments and institutions for dispute settlement, made it necessary to bring out a second revised and considerably enlarged second edition … . The book is a uniform resource for whoever is engaged in the settlement of public international disputes: negotiators, diplomats, academics, teachers and students." (Björn Gehle, Vindobona Journal, Vol. 6 (1), 2002)

• MPI für Ausländisches Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg, Germany

  Karin Oellers-Frahm

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