PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW: A New Zealand Perspective.

• Date: 01 July 2022
• Author: Keith, Kenneth

PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW: A New Zealand Perspective

Editor: Alberto Costi

Published by: LexisNexis, Wellington, 2020, 1075pp, $220.

INTERNATIONAL LAW IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

Editors: An Hertogen and Anna Hood

Published by: Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2021, 727pp, $182.75.

These two volumes are the first attempts to give an overall account of New Zealand's role in and contributions to the statement and development of international law. They are very much to be welcomed. They appear fully 55 years after the first volume on International Law in Australia, edited, as it happens, by a New Zealander, Daniel Patrick O'Connell, and published, as were the following two editions, by the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Both New Zealand books will be of value, not just to practicing lawyers, academic lawyers and law students but also to the many in this country and abroad who are involved or have an interest in international affairs.

Both have chapters on matters of major importance to New Zealand, notably statehood, the law of the sea, New Zealand and the Pacific, Antarctica, international trade, international criminal law, human rights, international dispute settlement, international organisations and the place...