Foreign relations law / Campbell McLachlan, QC, LL.B. (Well.), Ph. D. (London) Dip. (c.l.) (Hag. Acad. Int'l. Law) New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellow, Professor of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, Quondam Visiting Fellow, All Souls College Oxford Barrister (NZ), Bankside Chambers (Auckland & Singapore), Essex Court Chambers (London).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-571) and index.

[Part] I. Sources -- Function -- Development -- The interaction of international and municipal law -- [Part] II. The foreign relations power -- The executive -- Parliament -- The judiciary -- [Part] III. Foreign relations and the individual -- Civil claims against the state -- Human rights claims -- Diplomatic protection -- [Part] IV. The foreign state -- Personality and representation -- The claimant state -- The defendant state.

"[E]very international dispute is of a political character, if by that is meant that it is of importance to the State in question. Thus viewed, the proposition that some legal questions are political is an understatement of what is believed to be the true position. The State is a political institution, and all questions which affect it as a whole, in particular in its relations with other States, are therefore political"--