Elgar encyclopedia of international economic law

When reviewing the Handbook of International Law (Aust, 2010) for this journal (RR 2011/065), I noted that, when I originally studied international relations, considerably more than half a century ago, our recommended textbook for international law was the fourth edition of Schwarzenberger’s Manual of International Law (1960). I went to the trouble of digging out a copy of that edition, and was disappointed to find that, though the international political situation had changed out of all recognition since the early 1960s, remarkably little had changed in the nuts and bolts of international law. The books have got...