Travaux, Commentaries and Encyclopedias - how we write them and how we use them

Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II) by Oxford University

Dec 5, 201845:37Education

The presentation will discuss the approaches to writing such reference works (based on the speaker's experience with the Update of the ICRC Commentaries to the 1949 Conventions, and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Interna...

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