Introduction

During a long and varied professional life, Eli Lauterpacht was involved with remarkably many different aspects of public international law. The matters that he dealt with included both inter-State relations and relations between States and non-State actors of many kinds. In particular, he was much involved with the settlement of disputes of all kinds, turning on questions of public international law or transnational law. He was not only a teacher at Cambridge, but also an author, a publisher, an editor, a legal adviser to the Australian Government 1995-1977, ...