This collection takes its title from Brownlie's personal contribution to the development of the subject. His commitment to international law as a system for the regulation of affairs between states has long been characterized by a strong sense of ideals, political and human, but also by an awareness of what law is in practice, what is achievable, and what remains to be done.
1. The Effective Enforcement of High Sea Fishing: The Case of the `Convention for the Regulation of the Police of the North Sea Fisheries of 6 May 1882',KAARE BANGERT 2. The Legality of Restrictions on Freedom of Movements within States,CHALOKA BEYANI 3. A Taste of Armageddon: The Law of Armed Conflict as Applied to Cyberwar,JAMES JOSEPH BUSUTTIL 4. Rethinking Panama: International Law and the US Invasion of Panama, 1989,SIMON CHESTERMAN 5. Israel (1948-9) and Palestine (1998-9): Two Studies in the Creation of States,JAMES CRAWFORD 6. International Law,OMER YOUSIF ELAGAB 7. Maritime Delimitation After Denmark v, Norway: Back to the Future,MALCOLM D. EVANS 8. The Utilization of International Groundwater in General International Law,XIMENA FUENTES 9. Expulsion, Removal, and the Non-Derogable Obligation,GUY S. GOODWIN-GILL 10. Adjudicatory Jurisdiction Over Multilateral Enterprises: `Lifting the Veil' in the EU and the USA,JOSEPH P. GRIFFIN 11. The Differing Concepts of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in International Criminal Law,BING BING JIA 12. State Responsibility and the 1948 Genocide Convention,NINA H. B. JORGENSEN 13. The Quality of Justice: `Exces de Pouvoir' in the Adjudication and Arbitration of Territorial and Boundary Disputes,KAIYAN H. KAIKOBAD 14. Operational Policies of International Relations as part of the Law-Making Process: The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples,BENEDICT KINGSBURY 15. From Reform to RlS'