International law: international disputes and civil procedure

International arbitration is a remarkably resilient institution, but many unresolved and largely unacknowledged ethical quandaries lurk below the surface.

Transnational commercial law represents the outcome of work undertaken to harmonize national laws affecting domestic and cross-border transactions and is upheld by a diverse spectrum of instruments.

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

Dementia: The Basics provides the reader with a clear and compassionate introduction to dementia and an accessible guide to dealing with different parts of the dementia journey, from pre-diagnosis and diagnosis to post-diagnostic support, increasing care needs and end of life care.

By investigating how the International Criminal Court (ICC) is portrayed in Africa, this book highlights how perceptions of justice are multilayered.

With its often vague legal concepts and institutions that operate according to unfamiliar procedures, judicial decision-making is, in many respects, a highly enigmatic process.

Transforming Residential Interventions: Practical Strategies and Future Directions captures the emerging changes, exciting innovations, and creative policies and practices informing ground-breaking residential programs.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Children and Adolescents provides counselors and other professionals with clinical cases and accurate, up-to-date information on both ethical standards and case law.

Evidence in International Investment Arbitration is a guide for practitioners representing a party in investment arbitration disputes, whilst also offering academics a perspective on the practical elements affecting the treatment of evidence in the area.

The second edition of International Investment, Political Risk and Dispute Resolution explores the multi-layered legal framework for the protection of foreign investment against political risk.

This interdisciplinary collection presents a scholarly treatment of how the constitutional politics of federalism affect governments and citizens, offering an accessible yet comprehensive analysis of the U.

In Sexual Aggression Against Children: Pedophiles' and Abusers' Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law, Drs.

The fully revised and updated Third Edition of Remedies in International Human Rights Law provides a comprehensive analysis of the law governing international and domestic remedies for human rights violations.

The post-Cold War proliferation of international adjudicatory bodies and increase in litigation has greatly affected international law and politics.

The fully revised and updated Third Edition of Remedies in International Human Rights Law provides a comprehensive analysis of the law governing international and domestic remedies for human rights violations.

The treatment of foreign investors and of their investments on the territory of a host State is often subject to a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) signed by the national State of the investors and the host State.

In the United States today criminal justice can vary from state to state, as various states alter the Modern Penal Code to suit their own local preferences and concerns.

This is the third revised edition of what was described by the English Court of Appeal in C v D as the standard work on Bermuda Form excess insurance policies.

When a loved one with mental illness comes into contact with the law, trying to advocate for them can be an overwhelming and frustrating endeavor.

In recent decades the world has experienced the rise of so-called 'low intensity conflicts'.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda.

The financial crisis of 2007-08 saw a marked increase in global shipping disputes that is still being felt today.

This book expounds the theory of international arbitration law.

In recent decades there has been a considerable growth in the activities of international tribunals and the establishment of new tribunals.

This book is about changing the terms of American Arbitration Law.

This third edition of Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings.

This first-of-a-kind analysis will focus exclusively on unavoidable and mandated multiple relationships between clients and psychotherapists.

Written by a leading legal researcher, this book offers a comprehensive study of the principle, a frequently invoked but rarely analysed aspect of investment arbitration.

The seventh edition of this successful textbook on the techniques and institutions used to solve international disputes.

In Defense of Politicization of Human Rights: The UN Special Procedures constitutes the first comprehensive study of the United Nations Special Procedures, covering their history, methods of work, institutional status, relationship with other politically driven organs, and processes affecting their development.

While international investment law is one of the most dynamic and thriving fields of international law, it is increasingly criticized for failing to strike a fair balance between private property rights and the public interest.

A timely assessment of cross-fertilization among international courts and tribunals as a complex multi-dimensional process, involving procedural and substantive elements.

Explores the ICC''s regime of victim redress, including both its reparations regime and the work of the ICC Trust Fund.

The development of international arbitration as an autonomous legal order comprises one of the most remarkable stories of institution building at the global level over the past century.

This book critiques the connection between Western society and madness, scrutinizing if and how societal insanity affects the cause, construction, and consequence of madness.

The first comprehensive study of the distinction between justification and excuse under the international law of state responsibility.

International courts and tribunals are often asked to review decisions originally made by domestic decision-makers.

Offers a new understanding of traditional rules on jurisdiction and admissibility of cases before international courts and tribunals.

There is a considerable mismatch between theories on the influence of the EU outside its borders and concrete knowledge on whether and to what extent the suggested impact is of any practical relevance.

This is the first text to provide a comprehensive rule-by-rule commentary of the inception, interpretation, and application of the SIAC Rules, written by practitioners with extensive experience in South East Asia arbitrations .

After successive waves of EU enlargement, and pursuant to the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Court of Justice finds itself on the brink of a new era.

Focuses on the four individuals who created the world''s first international tribunals and how they sought justice for millions of victims.

The persistent objector rule is said to provide states with an 'escape hatch' from the otherwise universal binding force of customary international law.

This book investigates how international adjudicators defer to State decision-making authority, and what that reveals about the domestic-international interface.

This edited collection evaluates international and regional approaches to global governance problems, exploring solutions offered by the EU.

Written by leading experts in the field, this collection offers a critical and comparative analysis of the existing case law on international investment law.

The word 'legitimacy' is seldom far from the lips of practitioners of international affairs.

Alcohol, opiates, cocaine and marijuana, among other drugs, have been used and abused for millennia.