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The United Nations and other organisations have helped codify the international law under which commanders may be held responsible. This book explores the factors that have moved civilization closer to a standard approach to rule of law and the accountability of leaders for the actions of those they command.

Identifies and explores relevant considerations in the work of the United Nations International Commission and offers an overview of the status of international law as defined by the United Nations authority responsible for its codification and development.

In this highly original new book, Cameroonian legal scholar Moye Godwin Bongyu explores the intersection of public administration and the state, colonization and administrative systems, public and private laws, rule of law, and comparative administrative law.

Concentrates on issues of friction between member states of the UN. Dimitris Liakopoulos hypothesizes that "practical guides" based on custom often catalyze the positions taken by states, courts, scholars, and other actors, constituting an "orthodox" position against which formulaic legal opposition will become predictably more difficult.

Examines the relationship between governments and international organizations under international law. After surveying the policing powers of international organizations under international law, the book illustrates some normative aspects of law that distinguish regulation from enforcement via study of recent legal cases.

Explores the content of powers attributed by the Statute of Rome to the UN Security Council. The book begins by investigating the power to activate the investigations of the prosecutor before examining the power to suspend judicial activity. It then defines the characteristics of Security Council intervention.

Analyses questions arising from a state's complicity in conflict with another state or an international organisation. On the basis of international legal provisions, a state that assists the illicit fact of another state or an international organisation in turn commits an offense if it is aware of the main fact and is bound by the same obligation.

Explores the legal consequences of complicity in international relations. Consequences of Complicity examines the profiles inherent to damages due to the injured party. In this regard it will move from the observation that the conduct of an accomplice gives rise to a crime distinct from the main one.

In the first part of this book, noted legal scholar Dimtris Liakopoulos deals with reconstructing the legal regulatory framework governing human rights violations in the activities of organizations. Liakopoulos then moves on to how this works in practice, examining the reparations obtainable by an individual in disputes.