This is the fifth edition of the leading textbook on Public International Law. The material has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of developments since 1990, and a new chapter on international environmental protection has been added. The book retains all its original strengths - clear exposition, rigorous analysis, detailed referencing and comprehensive coverage. This textbook is ideal for the able and enquiring student. It is also a convenient and superbly informativework of reference for practitioners. From the Reviews of the 4th edition: 'This systematic and balanced account of international law, written with great clarity and conciseness, is at once both approachable and authoritative. It is evident that each sentence carries the weight of much learning, and that the language has been crafted to give a precise and nuanced account of Professor Brownlie's views. Well indexed and well structured, the book is a delight to use.' Vaughan Lowe in the Law Quarterly Review and of the 3rd edition: ' . . . a veritable research dream. There is a generous sampling of comparative authority, not easily produced withour exhaustive research efforts. . . . ideal reading for lawyer, professor, law student and anyone contemplating the study of law'. William R. Slomanson in the American Journal of International Law '. . . one of the finest general expositions of the law of peace in the English language . . . the reader has, at his disposal, an enormouswealth of material and reference. Moreover, he has the law expounded in a way which is not only sophisticated . . . but a model of clarity and balance'. D.W. Bowett in the British Year Book of International Law The 2nd edition of this volume won, in 1976, the Certificate of Merit of the American Society of International Law. They described the book as 'a work of great distinction'.
