International Law
These international law dissertation examples are student-contributed and explore how states (and increasingly companies, courts, and international bodies) argue over rules, responsibility, and enforcement across borders. International law dissertations often work best when they take one concrete legal problem and follow it through the sources of law: treaties, customary international law, case law, and state practice.
Common directions include state responsibility (attribution, remedies, countermeasures), jurisdiction and extraterritorial conduct, and the tension between sovereignty and international obligations. Many dissertations examine conflict and security topics such as the use of force, self-defence, international humanitarian law, accountability for war crimes, and the practical limits of enforcement through international courts and tribunals. Trade and economic themes can cover WTO disputes, sanctions regimes, export controls, and investor–state arbitration, especially where regulation and business risk collide. Environmental and emerging-technology topics also feature heavily, including climate obligations, cross-border pollution, the law of the sea, cyber operations, and space governance.
You’ll see students grounding arguments in primary materials (treaty text, UN documents, ICJ/ICC decisions, domestic cases engaging with international law) and debating how legal principles apply when facts are disputed and enforcement is political.
Autonomous Weapons Systems in the Arms Race
Introduction:
Research and development companies are continuously working towards discovering the next best invention. The goal is genuinely to introduce something new, functional, and efficient that
Code of Ethics for Counsel in International Arbitration
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The increasing demand for Code of Ethics for counsel in International Arbitration has stirred a lot of debate. Following IBA Guidelines, LCIA Rules 2014 has officially incorporated Code of Eth
Protection of Victims of Sexual Violence During International Criminal Trials: A Comparative Perspective
Originally stowaways of the international procedure and courtroom, victims have finally been recognized as an indispensable player in international criminal trials.
Fair Trial or Show Trial? Examining The Trial of Saddam Hussein
Was the trial of Saddam Hussein a fair trial? Was it a show trial? This dissertation aims to bring this substantive question into the contentious debate surrounding the Dujail trial.
Economic Corruption in Central and Eastern European (CEE) Countries
While corruption is a phenomenon that transcends borders, political systems, and time, its manifestation differs from one country to another, and one regime to another. Western consolidated democraci
Protection of Migrating Whales in International Law
To understand the current whaling regulation, it is crucial to be familiar with the long history of whaling and overexploitation which led to the current scenario of governance.
The Real and Substantial Connection Test in Canadian Class Action
Introduction
This paper will discuss how Canadian court dealt with jurisdictional issues in class proceedings, how the conflicts of law rule interacts with class proceeding rules in Canada. Conflicts
Role and Place of Terrorism in International Law
Introduction
Terrorism, which is by no means new to the global society, shares a very intimate yet disconnected relationship with the existing body of international criminal law.[1] The intimacy aris
Legal Framework Regulating Gas Flaring in Nigeria and Canada
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCING THE RESEARCH
Over the years the discovery of oil a
Patient Autonomy in the Legal Regulation of Euthanasia
Consider whether the principle of patient autonomy as endorsed by the UKSC in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11 should be applied to the legal regulation of euthanasia?
This essay
Understanding Arbitration
The objectives for this study are to understand the meaning of the term ‘arbitration’ and the concepts and laws of arbitration.
