Public international law

Controversy over the Iranian nuclear policy has been mounting in both legal and political circles since the early 2000s.

Mixed agreements are one of the most significant and complex areas of EU external relations law.

Reflexive governance offers a theoretical framework for understanding modern patterns of governance in the European Union (EU) institutions and elsewhere.

This latest volume in the Penal Theory and Penal Ethics series addresses one of the oldest and most contested questions in the field of criminal sentencing: should an offender's previous convictions affect the sentence?

These collected essays deal with the evolutions and immutabilities of international society and international law during the last 25 years, a period during which these fields of study have undergone many changes.

Academic Freedom and the Law: A Comparative Study provides a critical analysis of the law relating to academic freedom in three major jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.

This volume offers a systematic overview of the different tools through which the human rights accountability of transnational corporations may be improved.

As with any rapid technological development, the biotechnology revolution is putting great strains on the ability of law to adapt to new challenges and threats.

The interpretation and application of the rules of international and regional trade is becoming an increasingly specialised field.

This book - one in the four-volume set, Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - focuses on the international and regional organisations that represent the key players in the evolving global order.

This timely book explores the developing nature of international trade law,with particular emphasis on World Trade Organization law and its effects within the European Union.

The focus of globalisation studies is on how global processes can be better regulated in order to deliver both economic growth and social justice.

The aim of this book is to assess recent developments in international law seeking to bring an end to impunity by bringing to justice those accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

After the completion of the Uruguay Round and the adoption of the 1994 agreement establishing the WTO,the place of international trade in the context of the international legal order has radically changed.

International business transactions are heavily influenced by culture,practice and rule.

The rapid development of the Internet has led to a growing potential for electronic trade in digital content like movies, music and software.

The idea of an International Criminal Court has captured the international legal imagination for over a century.

During the last thirty years the European Court of Human Rights has been developing,at an expanding pace, positive obligations under the European Convention.

The International Corporate Law Series is dedicated to the publication of scholarly writing on issues in the area of international and comparative corporate law.

An invaluable compendium of the Parliamentary debates on one of the most far reaching pieces of legislation this century The Human Rights Act 1998.

The term transnational governance designates untraditional types of international and regional collaboration among both public and private actors.

The International Corporate Law series is dedicated to the publication of scholarly writing on issues in the area of internaional and comparaticve corporate law.

Consulting Editor: Shalom Lerner.

The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, established in 1987, was the third regional instrument, after the European and American systems, for the promotion and protection of human rights.

Recent developments in Northern Ireland have correctly been described as historic.

This book presents a comprehensive survey of Chinese legal and regulatory systems governing international trade following China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the coming into force of the revised PRC Foreign Trade Law.

The perceived impact of WTO law on the domestic regulatory autonomy of WTO Members is increasingly becoming the subject of controversy and debate.

EU investment in China has increased dramatically since the early 1990s and is poised to increase further in light of Chinas recent accession to the World Trade Organisation.

The controversial nature of seeking globalised justice through national courts has become starkly apparent in the wake of the Pinochet case in which the Spanish legal system sought to bring to account under international criminal law the former President of Chile,for violations in Chile of human rights of non-Spaniards.

This book places international trade law within an economic,political and sociological context, contending that globalisation is characterised by both homogeneity and diversity.

The tension between trade liberalisation and environmental protection has received remarkable attention since the establishment of the WTO.

This book is a tale of two towers,two wars and two visions.

By giving further effect to the European Convention on Human Rights,the Human Rights Act 1998 has had a significant effect on property law.

This book examines the development of collective security by regional organisations particularly after the Cold War.

Coherent laws enforced by a central authority are part of the reason why human rights protection works at the national level in Europe.

This new book examines the relationship between culture and respect for human rights.

The scale and horror of recent terror attacks and the panic which ensued throughout the world has forced policy-makers and international lawyers to re-examine international legal tools available to enforce norms against terrorism.

This book - one in the four-volume set, Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - focuses on human rights in the context of 'globalisation' together with the principle of 'respect for human rights and human dignity' viewed as one of the foundational commitments of a legitimate scheme of global governance.

This book examines the intersection of WTO trade liberalisation rules and domestic health protection, a subject that is of considerable interest to those concerned that the WTO impinges on national regulatory autonomy.

The essays in this collection explore the various ways in which a number of key European and International legal institutions attempt to define the boundaries of jurisdictional competence.

Much has been written on the human rights relevance and impacts of the policies and activities of the World Bank and IMF --or International Financial Institutions (IFIs).

The essays in this volume attempt to explore and elucidate some of the legal and constitutional complexities of the relationship between the EU and the WTO,focusing particularly on the impact of the latter and its relevance for the former.

This book,one of the very first monographs on the Hungarian Constitutional Court available in English, is a unique study of the birth of a new legal system after the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe.

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the questions pertaining to the powers of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations.

This book tackles the important topic of the relationship between three parts of the public law regime in a common law jurisdiction: the common law of judicial review or the unwritten constitution, the written constitution and public international law.

This book contains papers presented at a high-level conference that was jointly organized by the Institute of Global Law, University College London and the Institute of International Law, Queen Mary, University of London.

There has been a considerable focus in the last few years on the meaning of the Human Rights Act 1998 and its real and potential impact on judges and lawyers.

How are rights and freedoms best protected?

Since the mid-1980s,beginning with the unsuccessful Union Carbide litigation in the USA, litigants have been exploring ways of holding multinational corporations [MNCs] liable for offshore human rights abuses in the courts of the companies' home States.

As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts.