The Creation of States in International Law

I THE CONCEPT OF STATEHOOD IN INTERNATIONAL LAW ; 1. Statehood and Recognition ; 2. The Criteria for Statehood: Statehood as Effectiveness ; 3. International Law Conditions for the Creation of States ; 4. Issues of Statehood Before United Nations Organs ; 5. The Criteria for Statehood Applied: Some Special Cases ; II MODES OF THE CREATION OF STATES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW ; 6. Original Acquisition and Problems of Statehood ; 7. Dependent States and Other Dependent Entities ; 8. Devolution ; 9. Secession ; 10. Divided States and Reunification ; 11. Unions and Federations of States ; III THE CREATION OF STATES IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ; 12. International Dispositive Powers ; 13. Mandates and Trust Territories ; 14. Non-Self-Governing Territories: the Law and Practice of Decolonialization ; IV PROBLEMS OF COMMENCEMENT, CONTINUITY, AND EXTINCTION ; 15. The Commencement of States ; 16. Problems of Identity, Continuity and Reversion ; 17. The Extinction of States ; CONCLUSION ; APPENDICES ; APPENDIX 1 ; List of States and Territorial Entities Proximate to States ; APPENDIX 2 ; League Mandates and United Nations Trusteeships ; APPENDIX 3 ; The United Nations and Non-Self-Governing Territories 1946-2005 ; APPENDIX 4 ; Consideration by the International Law Commission of the Topic of Statehood (1996)

James Crawford is the Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge, where he is Chair of the Faculty of Law, 2003-06. He was formerly Director of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, 1995-2003. Before moving to Cambridge in 1992 he was a Member of the Australian Law Reform Commission; from 1992 he was a member of the International Law Commission, and was responsible in that capacity for the ILC's Draft Statute for anInternational Criminal Court (1994) and the ILC's Articles on State Responsibility (2001).

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