Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-504) and index.

Introduction / Eyal Benvenisti and Georg Nolte -- Identifying community interests in international law : common spaces and beyond / R�udiger Wolfrum -- Community interests in international law : whose interests are they and how should we best identify them? / Samantha Besson -- Community interests in the identification of international law : with a special emphasis on treaty interpretation and customary law identification / Samantha Besson -- Community interests in international adjudication / Eyal Benvenisti -- What role for international organizations in the promotion of community interests? : reflections on the ideology of functionalism / Jan Klabbers -- The International Law Commission and community interests / Georg Nolte -- The law of the sea and natural resources / Surabhi Ranganathan -- Law on natural disasters : from cooperation to solidarity? / Ki-Gab Park -- International environmental law and community interests : procedural aspects / Jutta Brunn�ee -- Cultural sites between nationhood and mankind / Lorenzo Casini -- Community interests in world trade law / Christian Tietje and Andrej Lang -- International investment law and community interests / Stephan W. Schill and Vladislav Djanic -- Community interests and the right to health in trade and investment law / Tania Voon and Andrew Mitchell -- "Community interests" and the role of international law in the creation of a global market for agricultural land / Jochen von Bernstorff -- Community interest obligations in international energy law / Danae Azaria -- Community interests in international taxation / Tsily Dagan -- Community interests in international migration and refugee law / Tally Kritzman-Amir -- Human rights extraterritoriality : the right to privacy and national security surveillance / Francesca Bignami and Giorgio Resta -- Socioeconomic rights, extraterritorially / Ralph Wilde -- Human rights extraterritoriality : controlling companies abroad / August Reinisch -- Common interests of humankind and the international regulation of the use of force / Enzo Cannizzaro -- "The rights and obligations of parties to international armed conflicts" : from bilateralism but not toward community interest? / Janina Dill -- Rights and obligations of third parties in armed conflicts / Heike Krieger.

This book explores the extent to which contemporary international law expects states to take into account the interests of others - namely third states or their citizens - when they form and implement their policies, negotiate agreements, and generally conduct their relations with other states. It systematically considers the various manifestations of what has been described as 'community interests' in many areas regulated by international law and observes how the law has evolved from a legal system based on more or less specific consent and aimed at promoting particular interests of states, to one that is more generally oriented towards collectively protecting common interests and values. Through essays by experts in the field, this book explores topics such as the sources of international law and the institutional aspects of developing the law and covers a range of areas within the law.