Public international law

This work deals with the exclusion of illicitly obtained evidence at the International Criminal Court.

This book studies the new economic and financial reforms China is adopting to advance its economy, and the policies behind the Chinese Outbound Direct Investment (ODI).

This book examines the impact of EU trade and investment agreements on public services, a topic that continues to be the subject of heated political debate.

The focus of this book is the legal analysis of the evolution of federal relationships from an asymmetric treaty-constitutional federation to a de facto unitary state.

This book introduces readers to the major human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals and critically assesses their legacy as well as the promise they hold for realizing human rights globally, and the challenges they face in doing so.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the broad spectrum of human rights issues and violations as they are experienced by women and sexual minorities across civil, political, social, economic, and/or cultural domains, in different regions, countries, and contexts.

This book proposes that fundamental concepts of institutional law need to be rethought and revised.

This book provides a key analysis of the development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, and considers the challenges it faces in contemporary times.

This book pursues a critical perspective on the phenomenon of state violence and its legal unaccountability.

This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism.

International law holds a paradoxical position with territory.

This book discusses selected frontier and hot theoretical and practical issues of international law in the 21st century and in the process of China's peaceful development strategy, such as interactions between harmonious world, international law and China s peaceful development; close connections of China rule of law with international rule of law; issues of international law resulted from the war of Former Yugoslavia, establishment of ICC, DPRK nuclear test, Iraq War,  Independence of Crimea; features of WTO rule of law and its challenges as well as legal and practical disputes between China and other members in the WTO; recent tendency of regional trade agreements and  characteristics of Chinese practices in this aspect; legal issues in relations between China and the European Union with a view of the framework of China-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

Through a detailed historical and empirical account of post-independence years, this book offers a new assessment of the role of the judiciary in Pakistani politics.

This book is the first effort to develop a broad and deep perspective on the emerging space occupied by "e;non-state actors"e; in China in the context of global environmental governance.

This book explores state-religion relations under a populist authoritarian ruling party in Turkey.

In light of the third-generation concept of 'inclusive sustainability', the volume explores the architecture of global disability governance and its degree of harmonisation.

This book analyzes and discusses the sovereignty of the Nansha Islands, combining legal and historical perspectives, traditional international law theories, and empirical studies based on an extensive body of historical maps from around the globe to do so.

The book reviews globalisation by identifying causes behind the discontent it has produced in recent years.

The advent of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 transformed international economic law for states, enterprises, and nongovernmental organizations.

This book presents thirteen chapters which probe the "e;tales less told"e; and "e;pathways less traveled"e; in refugee camp living.

This book addresses fundamental aspects of the concept of public international law in both theory and practice.

This book provides an overview of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) to assist readers in developing a more complete understanding of P/CVE and the issues of radicalisation, disengagement and rehabilitation.

This book analyzes China's attitude to international law based on historical experiences and documents, and provides an explanation of China's approaches to international legal issues.

This book brings together international perspectives on free trade issues that affect civil society from the general populace to the governments of nations, and is relevant not only for lawyers, but also policymakers, international actors and businesses, as well as those with a general interest in free trade agreements.

This book explores the dilemmas posed by globalisation in various aspects of law.

This book describes the Islamisation process that has unfolded in Malaysia over the last fifty years and provides feedback from in-depth interviews with 100 individuals from Malaysia's "e;educated classes"e;, or the "e;elite"e;, regarding their reactions to the changes that have accompanied Islamisation and how they feel it has impacted them.

This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and Southeast Asia.

This book presents an in-depth analysis of the environmental issues raised in the South China Sea Arbitration Awards, which have not attracted as much attention in the Philippines as the "e;nine-dash line"e;.

This book contributes to the development of literature on cooperative law while paying tribute to Hagen Henry's significant impact on this field at a global scale.

This book provides fair and acceptable solutions to hardship issues in long-term relational supply contracts.

This book discusses human rights law, focusing on Chinese contributions to international human rights viewed from a perspective of global governance.

This seven-chapter book examines the background to and consequences of the disputed occupation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands group of the South China Sea (SCS) by the People's Republic of China (PRC), from the mid-1990s to the present day.

This book analyzes how today's system of international trade law and international economic relations has evolved over the last six decades.

This book examines the timely issue of artificial intelligence (AI) and law.

Written by Chinese Jurist Mei Ju-ao, this significant book considers both the process and the impact of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, otherwise known as the Tokyo Trial, which was convened in 1946 to try political military leaders accused of involvement in war crimes.

This book examines interactions and discusses intersectionality between public international law and private international law.

This collection considers the future of climate innovation after the Paris Agreement.

This book is the first book to comprehensively and deeply explain and construct the legal system of Chinese art auctions.

This book engages the diverse meanings and interpretations of Islamic and Western law which have affected people and societies across the globe, past and present, in correlation to the epistemological groundings of those meanings and interpretations.

This book focuses on the most serious social and economic challenges faced by China from a public international law perspective.

This book explains the causes, process, and results of group disputes in urban communities (the empirical experiences from Shanghai) in China.

This book focuses on the PRC's cross-border data transfer legislation in recent years, as well as the implications for international trade law.

This book sheds light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia, a phenomenon which ostensibly poses critical and unique challenges to the peace, security and governance not only of the region, but also of the world at large.

Two of the most important developments of this new century are the emergence of cloud computing and big data.

The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules.

This book addresses sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women from an international law point of view.

This book brings forth the philosophical, conceptual and practical contours of the trade regionalism provisions under the GATT/WTO.

This book analyzes the implementation of CSR reporting and codes of business conduct and ethics in the legal systems of the USA, Austria and China and their enforcement in international supply chain arbitrations.

This book provides an insight into the issue of health inequity brought about by the violent conflict in Northeast India.

This book puts the trade war between the United States and China in historical context.