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The international dispute settlement system is currently facing many challenges regarding the authority, effectiveness, and legitimacy of its methods and mechanisms and their coordination. These challenges cut across different fields of international law and relations such as investment, trade, human rights, water resources, the law of the sea, the environment, international peace and security, disaster law, space, and cyberspace. New technologies also impact on the scope of existing disputes and their settlement, which lead to the emergence of new disputes and ways of settling them. This book offers insightful reflections by academics and practitioners on such challenges and how they can be addressed as well as on how the international dispute settlement system should adapt to attain its aim of maintaining peace and international legality. It deals with many contemporary issues and is wide-ranging in scope. It is suitable for students, scholars, and practitioners of international dispute settlement, international law, and international relations.

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'This collection of essays, dedicated to the memory of Prof. Merrills – the late grand master of international dispute settlement – is an impressive new contribution to the literature in this dynamic field of international law. It brings together some of the biggest and most promising scholars and practitioners active in this area of international law to take stock of progress and remaining challenges, and to address systemic questions of fragmentation, coordination, legitimacy and effectiveness in international dispute settlement. The high calibre of the scholarship offered, the breadth of the book's scope of coverage and the well thought-out analytical framework used make this an essential piece of reading for students, researchers, practitioners and other aficionados of international dispute settlement and international law.' Yuval Shany, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Russell Buchan is Professor of International Law, University of Reading. Russell has published widely in the field of public international law, including three monographs: International Law and the Construction of the Liberal Peace (Hart, 2013), Cyber Espionage and International Law (Hart, 2018) and (with Nicholas Tsagourias), Regulating the Use of Force in International Law: Stability and Change (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021). He is also a co-editor (with Nicholas Tsagourias) of the Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021) and a co-editor in chief of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies. Daniel Franchini is Lecturer in International Law and Deputy Director of the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law at the University of Sheffield. He is the convenor of 'International Dispute Settlement' and 'International Investment Law and Arbitration' at the School of Law. His research focuses on the role of unilateral measures in the settlement of international disputes. He obtained his DPhil at the University of Oxford (2021) and has published, among others, in the Virginia Journal of International Law. Nicholas Tsagourias is Professor of International Law at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on international law and the use of force, humanitarian law, the law and cyberspace. Among his publications are the books International Humanitarian Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary (CUP, 2023, with Dr Alasdair Morrison); Jurisprudence of international law: The humanitarian dimension (MUP, 2022); Collective Security: Theory, Law and Practice (CUP, 2013, with Nigel White) and co-edited (with Russell Buchan) the Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace.

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