Public international law

Deconstructing Transhumanism: A Religion Without Religion challenges the widely held view that transhumanism-a movement advocating for the enhancement of human life through technology-is purely secular and scientific.

This collection provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the American federal criminal justice system.

This book offers a reference guide that can be consulted by all users of Third-Party Funding (TPF), lawyers, students, and other interested readers.

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression.

This book offers a reference guide that can be consulted by all users of Third-Party Funding (TPF), lawyers, students, and other interested readers.

Faced with the scale of global challenges such as poverty and inequality, one question is where to start.

While espionage between states is a practice dating back centuries, the emergence of the internet revolutionised the types and scale of intelligence activities, creating drastic new challenges for the traditional legal frameworks governing them.

This book analyses the strategies and narratives of Non-State Armed Actors (NSAAs), principally relying on primary material and interviews conducted by the author.

Challenging nuclearism explores how a deliberate 'normalisation' of nuclear weapons has been constructed, why it has prevailed in international politics for over seventy years and why it is only now being questioned seriously.

Now available as an eBook for the first time, this 2006 book from the Melland Schill series considers the main legal issues concerning the use of force by international organisations and states.

In May 2019, Narendra Modi won the world's largest election.

In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.

This volume explores ethical aspects relating to claims for mitigation arising from culpable state action (or inaction).

This book develops principles of proper sentence justification, presents results of comparative empirical study on sentence justifications in the post-communist countries and provides practical measures to improve the current situation.

This volume presents a thorough analysis of the concept and role of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) within the EU legal framework with a two-fold aim: first, it shows the pitfalls of the current legal scenario, which often limits alternatives rather than promoting them, and second, it provides a new conceptualisation for SFSCs under EU law by delineating and integrating all their distinctive features.

This volume presents a thorough analysis of the concept and role of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) within the EU legal framework with a two-fold aim: first, it shows the pitfalls of the current legal scenario, which often limits alternatives rather than promoting them, and second, it provides a new conceptualisation for SFSCs under EU law by delineating and integrating all their distinctive features.

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.

Providing an intensive and up-to-date analysis of far-right, ethno-purist and nationalistic currents as well as the inclusive visions for social and ecological change, this book explores the complexities of contemporary Slavic and Germanic Paganisms.

Andrew Ashworth expertly examines the key issues in English sentencing policy and practice including the mechanisms for producing sentencing guidelines.

This book comprises an in-depth and highly inclusive ethnographic study of daily life in two local Danish probation offices.

This book argues for an intensely humanist engagement with the company and presents a model of company regulation that is compatible with the protection, respect for and fulfilment of human rights.

This book provides an original and groundbreaking account of the applicability and key contributions of international law to small-scale fisheries, a fisheries subsector that has been historically overlooked by governments and international legal scholarship.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illicit practice of football trafficking, focusing on the exploitation of underage African players being transferred to Europe.

The book is a collection of essays written by scholars/activists who are continuously concerned about the Fukushima catastrophe.

The book is a collection of essays written by scholars/activists who are continuously concerned about the Fukushima catastrophe.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has the most developed jurisprudence on indigenous rights, yet this case law is understudied.

A harrowing and heartbreaking account of survival and legal system failure, this book recounts a personal story of sexual assault and the lifetime impact it made on the victim and her family.

Von den Anfängen des Christentums bis zur Gegenwart war die Rolle der Frau in der katholischen Kirche stets einem Wandel unterworfen.

The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversity that exists cross-culturally in the political, social, and economic context of the correctional system.

This book analyzes the law and politics in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

This book analyzes the law and politics in the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

This book explores the complex relationship between human rights and environmental protection.

Incoherence is a term that is all too often associated with the public international law regime.

The Russian Orthodox Church (1986) concentrates on the recent history of the church, examining the situation of Russian Orthodox believers in the Soviet Union.

This book analyses the strategies and narratives of Non-State Armed Actors (NSAAs), principally relying on primary material and interviews conducted by the author.