Public international law

This book analyses the origins of security dilemmas in the South China Sea (SCS) and the significance of China's actions in asserting its claim from the perspective of defensive realist theory.

This book explores current developments in transnational commercial and consumer law.

This book offers the first definitive English-language resource on Chinese business law.

The European Yearbook of Constitutional Law (EYCL) is an annual publication devoted to the study of constitutional law.

Discourse on fundamentalism has gained much attention in recent years, particularly in a post-9/11 context where extremist or terrorist threats are more prominent, perilous, and pervasive.

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 identifies the most effective water policy tools and innovations, and the circumstances that foster their successful implementation by taking a comparative look at a world-leading 'laboratory' of water law and governance: Australia.

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 discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rashid al-Ghannushi, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world.

This book focuses on understanding the characteristics of the marine environment; overall characteristic of the marine resources (especially the marine new energy) and their current utilization; important routes, channels, and ports; and the Maritime Silk Road from the perspective of international law.

This book focuses on the evolving relationship between China and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

This book analyzes the rise of evangelical Christians in Latin American electoral politics, comparing six Latin American countries.

A hard look at the challenges to the authority and roles of international legal institutions since the 1990s.

This book is devoted to an idea of a second round of codification of certain new rules for treaty interpretation.

The TPP was negotiated among 12 economically diverse countries, including some most highly developed and rich countries (i.

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 provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society.

This book explores the changing nature of international law and its ability to respond to the contemporary issues related to international environment, trade and information technology.

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

This book focuses on the Asia-Pacific region, delineating the evolving dynamics of foreign investment in the region.

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.

In this book, it is explained that despite a current drop in the number of deaths, terrorism should still be considered a serious and widespread problem.

This book shows how, with the increasing interaction between jurisdictions spearheaded by globalization, it is gradually becoming impossible to confine transactions to a single jurisdiction.

This book centres on Webcam Child Sex Tourism and the Sweetie Project initiated by the children's rights organization Terre des Hommes in 2013 in response to the exponential increase of online child abuse.

This edited collection brings together a series of interdisciplinary contributions in the field of Information Technology Law.

This pivot chronicles the life of Charles McCarthy, a San Francisco native and Jesuit missionary to China, and tells the unique and compelling story of a young man who experienced confinement under the Japanese occupation, followed shortly by imprisonment by the Chinese Communists in the 1950's.

This book offers a compendium of diverse essays on emerging legal issues in outer space, written by experts in the field of Space Law from different parts of the globe.

This book argues that the proliferation of global trade and the increasing power of free trade arrangements leave income taxes as one of the few remaining measures that can potentially be used for protectionist purposes.

This book explores the meaning and implementation of international children's rights law, as laid down in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and related international and regional human rights instruments.

This book provides theoretical and practical guidance to those interested in understanding the dilemmas found at the heart of counter-terror decision-making.

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 shows how, with the increasing interaction between jurisdictions spearheaded by globalization, it is gradually becoming impossible to confine transactions to a single jurisdiction.

Since its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in December 2001, China has been committed to full compliance with the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement.

This book addresses the lack of binding multi-lateral international agreement on cartels, through analysis of trials and failures.

The main focus of this book is to survey the current status of research, development and use of agriculturally important microorganisms in Asian countries and develop a strategy for addressing critical issues various policy constraints due to which bio-pesticides have found limited applications.

This book deals with how the governments of India and Bangladesh manage the Ganges River.

This book addresses concerns with the international trade and investment dispute settlement systems from a statist perspective, at a time when multilateralism is deeply questioned by the forces of mega-regionalism and political and economic contestation.

This book addresses injury and causation issues in the context of antidumping, countervailing duty (CVD) and safeguard investigations that are covered under the WTO.

This book focuses on the interaction and mutual influences between the East and the West in terms of their legal systems and practices.

The book provides a comprehensive and practical overview of arbitration in the People's Republic of China.

This book focuses on India's participation in the WTO dispute settlement system, at a time when India has emerged as one of the most successful and prominent users of WTO dispute settlement among the developing countries.

This book investigates China's demands for the repatriation of Chinese cultural relics 'lost' during the country's modern  history.

This book addresses why, whether and how the existing legal framework on water management in China could make climate change adaptation a mainstream issue.

Thisbook addresses issues concerning the shifting contemporary meaning of legalcertainty.

This book is an attempt to examine the WTO/GATT anti-dumping regulations within the ambit of the peculiar developmental circumstances of developing countries with Nigeria in perspective.

The Evidence Act, 2011, repealed the old Evidence Act.

Volume 24 of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is dedicated to investigating IHL's universalist claims from different perspectives and regarding different areas of IHL.

This book examines how the EU and international law frameworks impact the EU's ability to act normatively in its external action in the area of fisheries.

This book is about the 100 years of World Wars and Regional Collaboration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, investigating and considering how to foster Good Governance and New World Order.

Con el propósito de visibilizar la importancia de la aplicación de los Derechos Humanos en pro de la construcción de alternativas de vida digna y sostenible se ofrece al público, este documento reúne herramientas que le apuestan a la transformación social desde enfoques formativos y pedagógicos, y coherente con elementos específicos del bienestar humano como la economía y ecología sustentable en el marco de la equidad, principios contemplados en la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, como un derecho fundamental para el desarrollo humano.