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"The book puts under the microscope the fascinating relationship between two central organs of the international legal system: the International Court of Justice and the International Law Commission. It uncovers the roots of the relationship and details its development and manifestations, thus revealing both its depth and its unintended impact"--

Contrary to what was predicted by some (and is sometimes still suggested), the International Law Commission's achievements over the past quarter century have been many. To seek to divide its output into successes and failures, or to measure that output against the number of conventions concluded on its basis, is an oversimplification: all of the Commission's work has contributed, to a greater or lesser degree, to the understanding and development of international law. In engaging with areas of considerable practical importance, the Commission has exerted significant influence on international law, served as a guardian of its systemic nature, and strengthened the rule of law in international affairs. If it remains attentive to the views of States, there is good reason to believe that this will continue in the future.

Comparative Regional Integration: Governance and Legal Models is a groundbreaking comparative study on regional or supranational integration through international and regional organizations. It provides the first comprehensive and empirically based analysis of governance systems by drawing on an original sample of 87 regional and international organizations. The authors explain how and why different organizations select specific governance processes and institutional choices, and outline which legal instruments - regulatory, organizational or procedural - are adopted to achieve integration. They reveal how different objectives influence institutional design and the integration model, for example a free trade area could insist on supremacy and refrain from adopting instruments for indirect rule, while a political union would rather engage with all available techniques. This ambitious work merges different backgrounds and disciplines to provide researchers and practitioners with a unique toolbox of institutional processes and legal mechanisms, and a classification of different models of regional and international integration