Public international law

This volume examines the property transformations in post-communist Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and focuses on the role of restitution and privatisation in such transformations.

This book explains, compares and assesses the legal implications of Dieselgate within a range of selected jurisdictions and at the EU, international and comparative law level.

This book adds to the debate on the effects of covenants on third-party creditors (externalities), which have recently become a focus of discussion in the contexts of bankruptcy law, corporate law and corporate governance.

From early 2020 for a period of two years at the end of which  this book was written, air transport suffered unprecedented setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This volume examines the impact of and interplay between human rights and insurance.

This book focuses specifically on the experience and protection of indigenous, and particularly Sami sacred sites in the Arctic.

One of the most important aspects for a successful police operation is the ability for the police to obtain timely, reliable and actionable intelligence related to the investigation or incident at hand.

This volume is a new chapter in the future history of law.

This publication provides an unparalleled comparative analysis of two "e;hot topics"e; in the field of antitrust and unfair competition law with regard to a number of key countries.

This book investigates the tensions between EU law and international commercial arbitration, i.

In the light of mass migration, the rise of nationalism and the resurgence of global terrorism, this timely volume brings the debate on border protection, security and control to the centre stage of international relations research.

This book analyses how the complementarity regime of the ICC's Rome Statute can be implemented in member states, specifically focusing on African states and Nigeria.

This book offers the analysis of the relationship between the Cape Town Convention and national laws on secured transactions.

This book analyzes the implementation of Law 975 in Colombia, known as the Justice and Peace Law, and proposes a critical view of the transitional scenario in Colombia from 2005 onwards.

This book features eleven contributions on the fundamental principles of EEA law: legislative and judicial homogeneity, reciprocity, prosperity, priority, authority, loyalty, proportionality, equality, liability and sovereignty.

This book analyses the rights of crime victims within a human rights paradigm, and describes the inconsistencies resulting from attempts to introduce the procedural rights of victims within a criminal justice system that views crime as a matter between the state and the offender, and not as one involving the victim.

This book tackles the problem of the insufficient and expensive charging infrastructure in Germany.

This book embarks on a discussion of rulemaking in air transport, its processes and legalities, starting with a deconstruction of work carried out at the time of writing in various fields of air transport by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) which should be at the apex of rulemaking.

This volume scrutinises the main challenges faced by States in their current international economic relations from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book reviews and presents antitrust law compliance programmes from different angles.

This book analyses the instruments and approaches offered by public international law to resolve cultural heritage related disputes and facilitate the return of illicitly transferred objects to their countries of origin.

This book provides a theoretical framework for explaining the choices made by international decision-makers in terms of what constitutes law.

This Commentary provides the first comprehensive legal article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This book critically investigates the conditions of seafarers' rights in China in legislation and in practice, focusing in particular on the restructuring process following the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention.

This book investigates the political context and intentions behind the trialling of Japanese war criminals in the wake of World War Two.

The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a "e;land degradation-neutral world.

This book investigates the modern privatisation of war.

This book considers the effectiveness and fairness of using international cooperation to obtain confession evidence or evidence of a suspect or accused person's silence across borders.

This book offers a valuable guide to one of the most challenging areas of commercial law, now frequently referred to as secured transactions, with a focus on Nigerian, Canadian and United States perspectives.

This book is a unique collection of high quality articles analysing legal issues with particular regard to small states.

This book captures the most exciting advances in the harnessing of space as a global resource.

This book addresses the complex technical challenges presented by remote space mining in terms of robotics, remote power systems, space transport, IT and communications systems, and more.

This book discusses current theory regarding global mobile satellite communications (GMSC) for maritime, land (road and rail), and aeronautical applications.

This timely volume explores the "e;dark side"e; of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping in Africa: when rather than help establish a rule of law in the host country, they become perpetrators of crime.

This book addresses the issue of privacy and confidentiality in the broader context of the Egyptian legal system.

This book aims to find a workable interpretation of the non-appropriation principle that is compatible with both the existing international space law framework and the move of the private space industry towards the mining of asteroids and other celestial bodies.

This first volume of EtYIL focuses on issues concerning the developing world in general and (the Horn of) Africa - and Ethiopia - specifically.

This book is dedicated to the nascent discussion of the legal aspects of human exploration and possible settlement of Mars, and provides fresh insights and new ideas in two key areas.

This book discusses the relation between morality and politics, and morality and law, a field that has been studied for more than two thousand years The law is a part of human culture, and this touches upon a dynamic reality that is connected to the relation between nature and freedom, nature and culture.

This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security.

This volume explores the reasons for Hans Kelsen'slack of influence in the United States and proposes ways in which Kelsen sapproach to law, philosophy, and political, democratic, and internationalrelations theory could be relevant to current debates within the U.

This work offers a timely philosophical analysis of interrelated normative questions concerning immigration and citizenship in relation to the global context of multiple nation states.

This book investigates how human rights law can be applied to corporate entities.

This contributed volume focuses on competition policy enforcement in BRICS and developing counties.

This edited volume looks at supreme courts in China and the West.

This book takes a completely new and innovative approach to analysing the development of EU law.

This work compiles experiences and lessons learned in meeting the unique needs of women and children regarding crime prevention and criminal justice, in particular the treatment and social reintegration of offenders and serves as a cross-disciplinary work for academic and policy-making analyses and follow-up in developing and developed countries.

This book adopts an international perspective to examine how the online sale of insurance challenges the insurance regulation and the insurance contract, with a focus on insurance sales, consumer protection, cyber risks and privacy, as well as dispute resolution.

Volume 7 of the EYIEL focusses on criticalperspectives of international economic law.

This book is a collection of studies of drug policies in several Latin American countries.