The fifth edition of this book that appeared in 2003 has been extensively revised. To mark the growing importance of the international prosecution of alleged war criminals and others accused of egregious crimes, a new chapter on Individual Criminal Responsibility in International Law has been introduced. The chapter on Air and Space Law has had to be removed, with the section on Outer Space being moved to the chapter on Territory. The increasing significance of the International Court of Justice is recognised by devoting a separate chapter to it. The section on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has been moved to the chapter on the Law of the Sea. The other chapters in the book have been re-examined, updated and, where necessary, rewritten. I have also been able to correct some errors. I am particularly delighted that the book has been translated into, among other languages, Chinese, Polish, Hungarian and Portuguese and I am very grateful for the work of all those involved. I would especially like to thank Sinead Moloney of Cambridge University Press for her encouragement, assistance and above all patience. Particular gratitude is owed to Merel Alstein for her meticulous research assistance and for updating the web reference section. I am, once again, very grateful to Diane Ilott for her careful and thorough copy-editing and to Maureen MacGlashan for so carefully preparing the index and tables respectively. A debt remains to Sir Elihu Lauterpacht QC for his encouragement in the early development of this work. I also remain grateful to my many colleagues from many countries for their advice and encouragement, while reassuring them that all responsibility for the end product rests squarely with me.

The objective of the study was to determine the factors influencing labour demand in Uganda for the period 1987 through 2020by specifically determining the long run determinants of Labor demand, investigating the short run determinants of Labor demand as well as finding out the causal effect of the determinants on Labor demand in Uganda by using the data from World Bank. Johansen’s Cointegration Procedure was used to test for the existence of a long run relationship among the variables and found out that there exists at most 3 cointegrating relationships. The Vector Error Correction modelwas employed to determine the short run and long run determinants of labor demand and found out that final consumption expenditure, GDP and capital formation have statistically significant and positive relationships with Labor demand in the short-run at 5% level of significance. The VECM results also reveal that final consumption expenditure, GDP and capital formation have statistically significant and negative relationships with Labor demand in the long-run at 5% level of significance. Granger Causality test was used to find out the causal effect of the macroeconomic indicators (Gross Domestic Product, Capital Formation and Final Consumption expenditure) on Labor demand in Uganda and found out that capital formation, GDP and consumption expenditure do not granger cause Labor demand. The study recommended that the government should support agriculturalists to undertake modernization in agriculture, BoU should adopt efficient inflation-adjusting and reducing strategies so as to keep the inflation rate at mild level, aim at investing in the human capital and health and should encourage the establishment of the import substitution industries in Uganda.