International law: international disputes and civil procedure

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International organizations have increasingly taken on state or quasi state-like functions in order to exercise control over individuals and societies, most pressingly in contexts of conflict and transition.

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.

In this 2007 book, Farrall surveys the history of UN sanctions.

Defining Issues in International Arbitration: Celebrating 100 Years of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators brings together world-renowned international arbitration specialists - both practitioners and academics - who have never before appeared in the same volume.

This book studies shareholders'' claims for reflective loss and explains why they are justified in international investment law.

A convenient single volume introduction to international arbitration written by experts, including discussion of the latest developments.

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.

Criminal Law: Historical, Ethical, and Moral Foundations, 3rd edition, blends legal and moral reasoning in the examination of crimes and explores the history relating to jurisprudence and roots of criminal law.

This multidisciplinary volume investigates the challenge of attaining legitimacy by international criminal courts and tribunals.

Attorney-client privilege is often invoked as a defence in international arbitration proceedings however the participants often have very different expectations regarding the applicable privilege standard, as national attorney-client privilege laws vary widely between jurisdictions.

Despite the growth in international criminal courts and tribunals, the majority of cases concerning international criminal law are prosecuted at the domestic level.

There are twenty-nine Islamic law states (ILS) in the world today, and their Muslim population is over 900 million.

A Casebook of Mental Capacity in US Legislation: Assessment and Legal Commentary employs an applied and accessible approach to the assessment of mental capacity.

This book argues that it can be useful for the US to negotiate with terrorists and other bad actors by engaging a pragmatic mediator.

Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure.

Nation states have long and successfully claimed to be the proper and sovereign forum for determining a country's international economic policies.

The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) is one of the world's most highly sophisticated arbitration institutions, with a continuously growing annual caseload.

This book assesses stability guarantees through the lens of the legitimate expectations principle to offer a new perspective on the stability concept in international energy investments.

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

The regulation of foreign investment represents one of the most topical and controversial subjects in European Union law and international investment law.

Today, international commercial disputes regularly involve multiple parties, contracts, and issues.

Marc Jacob analyses in depth the most important justificatory and decision-making tool of one of the world''s most powerful courts.

This volume examines the prosecution as an institution and a function in a dozen international and hybrid criminal tribunals, from Nuremberg to the International Criminal Court.

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

Jürgen Kurtz provides a theoretically grounded and doctrinally tractable framework to understand the relationship between international trade and investment law.

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

Fifty feminist law professors come together to rewrite twenty-five major Supreme Court opinions on gender justice and equality.

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.

The book systematically describes the theory and practice of ICSID annulment proceedings by thoroughly analysing this mechanism in light of the annulment decisions rendered so far as well as the publications on the issue.

Questions as to when a state owes obligations under a human rights treaty towards an individual located outside its territory are being brought more and more frequently before both international and domestic courts.

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

What is arbitration?

Examines due process as center stage in international law, especially in connection with legal black holes such as Guantanamo.

This volume is an edited collection of essays on various aspects of the 2010 Kosovo Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice.

Multinational Enterprises and the Law presents the only comprehensive, contemporary, and interdisciplinary account of the various techniques used to regulate multinational enterprises (MNEs) at the national, regional and multilateral levels.

Using CRT, this book demonstrates how law can make Black lives, and the lives of other racially marginalized groups, matter.

This comprehensive, alphabetical encyclopedia of more than 300 easy-to-read entries is the first resource for anyone who wants reliable information or background material on the significant decisions of the Supreme Court, the history of the Court, the justices (every justice is profiled), the powers of the Court, and how the institution has evolved from its origins to the present.

The book systematically describes the theory and practice of ICSID annulment proceedings by thoroughly analysing this mechanism in light of the annulment decisions rendered so far as well as the publications on the issue.

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

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

Jürgen Kurtz provides a theoretically grounded and doctrinally tractable framework to understand the relationship between international trade and investment law.

Ideas are the fuel of industry and the entertainment business.

Describes and explains the protection standards contained in international investment agreements as applied by arbitral tribunals.

Since the mid-1990s the United Nations and other multilateral organizations have been entrusted with exceptional authority for the administration of war-torn and strife-ridden territories.