The first monograph to offer a comprehensive study of the relationship between international legal personality as a theoretical construct and the way in which individuals have been taken into account in the practice of international law
Identifies and explains the four main theoretical conceptions of international legal personality and relates each of them to the question of the distinction between international and domestic legal norms
Provides a comprehensive and easily accessible overview of how individuals have been taken into account in international law as a matter of positive norms.
Challenges the existing narrative concerning the development of the role of the individual in the international legal system