This is the third volume of a projected five-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials the documentary history of international law, largely in the form of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them.
This is the third volume of a projected five-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials the documentary history of international law, largely in the form of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them.
This book analyses the way in which international human rights law (IHRL) and international investment law (IIL) are deployed or fail to be deployed in conflict countries within the context of natural resources extraction.
This book analyses the way in which international human rights law (IHRL) and international investment law (IIL) are deployed or fail to be deployed in conflict countries within the context of natural resources extraction.
This timely volume seeks to examine two of the most pertinent current challenges faced by asylum seekers in gaining access to international refugee protection: first, the obstacles to physical access to territory and, second, the barriers to accessing a quality asylum procedure which the editors have termed 'access to justice'.
This timely volume seeks to examine two of the most pertinent current challenges faced by asylum seekers in gaining access to international refugee protection: first, the obstacles to physical access to territory and, second, the barriers to accessing a quality asylum procedure which the editors have termed 'access to justice'.
In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN s Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle.
In contrast to the views current only a few years ago, when federalism as a system of government was regarded, in academic circles in North America at least, as passe and even reactionary, there is today throughout the world, and especially in Western Europe, a tremendous interest in the federal idea.
This is the second volume in a series which has been founded by the Faculty of Law in the University of Western Ontario as a forum for presentation of research in law and related social sciences.
Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations trying to bring relief in an ever more violent and dangerous world are often betrayed and misused, and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose.
Now in a comprehensively updated edition, this indispensable handbook analyzes how international humanitarian law has evolved in the face of these many new challenges.
This comprehensive reference work serves as an important resource for anyone interested in the international prosecution of war crimes and how it has evolved.
Now in a comprehensively updated edition, this indispensable handbook analyzes how international humanitarian law has evolved in the face of these many new challenges.
With particular emphasis on Norway, the papers in this volume discuss the significance of the Antarctic treaty system as it pertains to world politics.
This book delves into the complexities of genocide as a legal concept, offering a fresh perspective by exploring the rights of groups to exist under international criminal law.
Explores how the first treaty-based UN international tribunal''s judges innovatively applied the law to perpetrators of international crimes in one of the worst conflicts in recent history.
An analysis of the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in international norm creation and the progressive development of international humanitarian law.
An analysis of the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in international norm creation and the progressive development of international humanitarian law.
