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Should states intervene in situations outside of their own territory in order to safeguard or promote the common good? In this book, Cedric Ryngaert addresses this key question, looking at how the international law of state jurisdiction can be harnessed to serve interests common to the international community. The author inquires how the purpose of the law of jurisdiction may shift from protecting national interests to furthering international concerns, such as those relating to the global environment and human rights. Such a shift is enabled by the instability of the notion of jurisdiction, as well as the interpretative ambiguity of the related notions of sovereignty and territoriality. There is no denying that, in the real world, 'selfless intervention' by states tends to combine with more insular considerations. This book argues, however, that such considerations do not necessarily detract from the legitimacy of unilateralism, but may precisely serve to trigger the exercise of jurisdiction in the common interest

"By engaging with ongoing discussions surrounding the scope of cross-border regulation, this expansive Research Handbook provides the reader with key insights into the concept of extraterritoriality. It offers an incisive overview and analysis of one of the most critical components of global governance. Authored by central voices in the global extraterritoriality debate, the Research Handbook on Extraterritoriality in International Law offers legal, interdisciplinary, and regional perspectives on this evolving field. It covers a variety of issues, such as the economics of extraterritorial crime, judicial extraterritoriality, and extraterritorial human rights obligations. This comprehensive Research Handbook will be a valuable research resource for scholars and students of international law and politics, as well as international and domestically oriented legal practitioners who seek to grasp the difficult legal questions surrounding extraterritoriality"--

The present article discusses the international legal context of the EU's emissions trading scheme in the light of the judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU in Air Transport Association of America. After ascertaining the effect in the EU legal order of the relevant international norms invoked in that case, the focus of the present article lies on the discussion of the substantive issues that arise when reviewing the scope of Directive 2008/101 in light of the applicable norms. The article assesses the legality under customary international law of the jurisdictional assertions of the EU as upheld by the Court of Justice, reviews the EU measures in light of the law of the World Trade Organization, and compares those measures with similar EU environmental measures in the field of fisheries regulation and maritime transport. Adapted from the source document.