International law: international disputes and civil procedure

In Brexit and the Future of Private International Law in English Courts, Mukarrum Ahmed discusses the impact of Brexit upon jurisdiction, foreign judgments, and the applicable law in civil and commercial matters.

Based on the author's Hague Lectures on ICSID, this book on ICSID and the ICSID Convention provides a detailed introduction to the worlds leading institution devoted to international investment dispute settlement.

This book outlines the principles behind the international law of foreign investment.

Leading authorities present the latest cutting edge research on state judicial elections.

This book provides an in depth-examination of the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the implications of that principle for the suppression of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes on the domestic level.

Now in its third edition, International Project Finance is the definitive guide to legal and practical issues relating to international projects.

The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.

Over the past twenty years, the volume of international litigation and arbitration has increased exponentially.

Written opinions are the primary means by which judges communicate with external actors.

Foreign investors have a privileged position under investment treaties.

The European system of human rights protection faces institutional and political pressures which threaten its very survival.

The book outlines legal limits to the veto power of UN Security Council permanent members while atrocity crimes are occurring.

Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society.

At a time when human rights are coming under increasing pressure, in-depth knowledge and understanding of their foundations, conceptual underpinnings and current practice remain crucial.

A guide to the techniques and institutions used to solve international disputes, how they work and when they are used.

Criminal Evidence is a well-respected and trusted introduction to the rules of criminal evidence for criminal justice students and professionals.

Despite a temporary decline in energy usage and emissions resulting from the confinement policies adopted by many states in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is not on track to meet the Paris Agreement climate change goals.

In recent years States have made more and more extensive use of the International Court of Justice for the judicial settlement of disputes.

Litigating War offers an in-depth examination of the law and procedure of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, which was tasked with deciding, through binding arbitration, claims for losses, damages, and injuries resulting from the 1998-2000 Eritrean-Ethiopian war.

There is growing enthusiasm for the use of mediation to seek to resolve cases arising under the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the Convention).

As a result of globalization, cross-border transactions and litigation, and multilingual legislation, outsourcing legal translation has become common practice.

This is a much-needed reference work providing practitioners and academics with a detailed commentary on and thorough analysis of German arbitration law and practice.

This book explores contemporary civil-military relations in the United States.

This in-depth commentary analyses the new UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-State Arbitration.

La Unión Europea («UE») es una Unión de Derecho en la que tanto las instituciones de la UE y los Estados miembros como los particulares deben respetar «las reglas del juego», contenidas en los Tratados fundacionales, en la Carta de los Derechos Fundamentales de la UE (la «Carta») y en el Derecho derivado.

Until now, the resolution of international commercial and investment disputes has been dominated almost exclusively by international arbitration.

Ideas are the fuel of industry and the entertainment business.

The Political Economy of Plea Bargaining provides the political, economic, and cultural context for understanding the evolution of plea bargaining as a juridical technology implemented to ensure the efficient administration of violations of criminal law.

Offers the most comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date analysis of international investment law and arbitration compared to its competitors.

An authoritative, in-depth examination of remedies in international sales of manufactured goods, this book provides a detailed analysis of the remedies available to a commercial buyer.

This is a much-needed reference work providing practitioners and academics with a detailed commentary on and thorough analysis of German arbitration law and practice.

The European Court of Human Rights, by Angelika Nussberger is the first title in a new series, The Elements of International Law.

Although the 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is one of the most successful international conventions to date, it remains the case that those involved in the international sale of goods must refer to a multitude of laws.

The idea of multi-culturalism has had a significant impact across many areas of law.

Although domestic law plays an important role in investment treaty arbitration, this issue is little discussed or analysed.

Evaluates the fundamental legitimacy of judicial practice in the growing number of environmental cases heard before international courts.

Opportunities to see expert cross-examinations are often infrequent in international arbitration and the occasions to sharpen these skills for many are rare.

Many international norms that have emerged in recent years are not set out in formal treaties.

The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of its legitimacy is embedded in apparently 'axiomatic' historical truths.

An eyewitness account of the first major international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials, Twilight of Impunity is a gripping guide to the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Illuminating US constitutional concepts in plain language and clarifying nuances in the law, this third edition of Constitutional Law and Criminal Justice simplifies understanding of the United States judicial system for those without advanced legal training.

Courts and Terrorism examines the response of judiciaries in nine separate nations to terror tactics and the common themes experienced.

Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump's populist support in 2016, and his failed efforts to nullify the result of the 2020 election.

Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender.

International courts and tribunals hold the power to decide on questions involving sovereignty over territory, grave human rights violations, international crimes, or millions of euros' worth of economic interests.