Public international law

This book explores fundamental topics concerning the functioning of the judiciary.

This book investigates the use of duress as a defence in international criminal law, specifically in cases of child soldiers.

On 22 to 28 July 2018 the International Academy of Comparative Law organized its 20th General Congress in Fukuoka Japan.

This book demonstrates how human rights obligations of the EU foreign constitution can be operationalized in the realm of international economic regulation.

The Arctic has, for some forty years, been among the most innovative policy environments in the world.

This book introduces political science of religion - a coherent approach to the study of the political role of religion grounded in political science.

This book contains fresh insights into ecumenism and, notwithstanding claims of an "e;ecumenical winter,"e; affirms the view that we are actually moving into a "e;new ecumenical spring.

This book describes and compares the circumstances and lived experiences of religious minorities in Tunisia, Morocco, and Israel in the 1970s, countries where the identity and mission of the state are strongly and explicitly tied to the religion of the majority.

This book provides an essential overview of trade between Brazil and China, analyzes the regulatory framework for Brazil's foodstuff exportation and China's foodstuff importation, and identifies the main products, market shares, barriers to market access, and e-commerce strategies.

This book explores the extent to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) has influenced peace processes in Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya and Uganda.

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the analogy between the self and political society in the thought of St.

This book critically addresses the still prevalent assumption of the individual's procedural disability in international judicial fora.

The book deals with confidentiality as one of the most controversial issues in international commercial arbitration.

This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics.

This book analyses the ability of existing international law to address common vulnerabilities in connection with the recent emergence of small satellites, and how finding consensus in this context can pave the way to the sustainable development of space.

Against the backdrop of enormous technological strides, this book argues that the air transport industry must be constantly vigilant in its efforts to employ a legal regime that is applicable to the aeronautical and human aspects of the carriage by air of persons and goods.

Planetary defense from near-Earth objects such as asteroids is a far more nuanced and challenging topic than it might seem.

All of the topics discussed in this book - from sovereignty to cybercrime, and from drones to the identification of passengers & privacy - are profoundly affected by algorithms; so are air traffic services and aeronautical communications.

This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order.

This book gathers international and national reports from across the globe on key questions in the field of antitrust and intellectual property.

This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how.

The book examines how and according to which principles the enactment of European criminal legislation is legitimate.

This second volume on the constitutional dimension of contract law explores this increasingly relevant subject in jurisdictions that are usually overlooked by mainstream scholarship in the English-speaking world.

This book proposes a framework for assessing countries' levels of compliance with international space law and norms.

This book provides an in-depth investigation of the concept of space power and devises a novel conceptual framework for empirically measuring and comparing different typologies of space actors on the basis of clearly defined criteria.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current space exploration in terms of geopolitical and commercial aspects.

This book investigates the forgotten years of Kurdish nationalism in Iran, from the fall of the Kurdish republic to the advent of the Iranian revolution.

This book explains a perspective on the system of justice that emerges in Islam if rules are followed and how the Islamic system is differentiated from the conventional thinking on justice.

This book examines religious activism-Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism-in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism.

This book examines the UK approach to investigating international crimes and serious human rights violations.

This book is the first in the field to explore the use of music in negotiation, conflict resolution and leadership development.

This volume examines the possibility - or need - of a revitalization of pacifism as a world-political practice.

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss's recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment.

Written with passion for anyone interested in seeing an end to the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, this book shows how, by working together, people all over the world who care about these animals are gradually bringing about change for the better.

This book provides a unique analysis of prisons and the violence at work inside them.

This book describes militias as significant and prevalent actors in today's international security environment.

This book focuses on the tactics and strategies used in business-to-business contract negotiations.

This book introduces readers to the topical area of CSI: critical space infrastructure, which is defined as an emerging domain of systems-of-systems encompassing hardware, workforce, environment, facilities, business and organizational entities.

This book provides a current analysis of the legal and ethical challenges in preparing for and responding to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) crises.

This book provides an analysis and comparison of international insolvency rules, maritime laws and their inevitable intersection in maritime cross-border insolvencies.

Western political theory has many great strengths but also a few weaknesses.

The book addresses a topic at the intersection of two heavily regulated sectors: insurance and investment services.

This book further develops both the traditional and the behavioural approach to competition law, and applies these approaches to a variety of timely issues.

This is the first book to outline a basic philosophy of ecology using the standard categories of academic philosophy: metaphysics, axiology, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy.

This book investigates how various scientific communities - e.

This book addresses key challenges and conflicts arising in extractive industries (mining, oil drilling) concerning the human rights of workers, their families, local communities and other stakeholders.

This textbook offers valuable insights into the nexus between geography, geopolitics, and humanitarian action.

This book investigates under which circumstances vertical unbundling can lead to a more efficient market result.

This book explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the formulation of a global code of conduct for transnational corporations.

This book addresses current developments concerning the interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the part of international courts and tribunals.