International law

This book addresses the increasing overlap between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and law with a particular focus on company law and corporate governance.

This book focuses on the tension between the protection of human rights recognised as jus cogens (peremptory) norms, on the one hand, and the bestowal of immunity on the state and its representatives, on the other, to ascertain how these immunities can be eroded, if not fully abolished, to maintain full protection of jus cogens human rights under international law.

This book sheds new light on the potential application of EU law to situations arising outside EU territory, and its consequences.

This book explores the profound transformation that has taken place in European insurance legislation since January 2016.

This book sheds light on various ethical challenges military and humanitarian health care personnel (HCP) face while working in adverse conditions.

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 addresses the technological evolution of modern warfare due to unmanned systems and the growing capacity for cyberwarfare.

The book rethinks the means of harmonization of prima facie norm conflicts in light of the multitude of international agreements across regimes.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

Is academic freedom threatened?

This edited volume explores recent research and developments in the study of organized crime.

This book invites readers to critically rethink the interrelations between geography and the law.

This edited book examines the role of interpreting in conflict situations, bringing together studies from different international and intercultural contexts, with contributions from military personnel, humanitarian interpreters and activists as well as academics.

This book offers a unique and powerful critique of the quest for international criminal justice.

This book explores the thirty-year border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, specifically around the former autonomous republic of Nagorno Karabakh, and shows how Russia is the only winner in this conflict: fighting on both sides, supplying arms to both sides, and acting as the arbiter between the two sides.

This book discusses how much other countries reflect the EU chemical regulation REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, Restriction of Chemicals), in the context of Europeanization theory.

The European Union, as a regulatory polity based on integration through law, arguably relies more on legal compliance with its policies than any other political system.

This book addresses the environmental, legal, social, and economic aspects of corporate social responsibility in the maritime industry.

This book analyses the doctrinal structure and content of secondary liability rules that hold internet service providers liable for the conduct of others, including the safe harbours (or immunities) of which they may take advantage, and the range of remedies that can be secured against such providers.

This book offers the first benchmarking study of China's response to the problems of security in cyber space.

This book highlights the importance of Turkey in diversifying supplies in future European energy security, focusing in particular on the rapidly emerging southern energy corridor.

The book analyzes the various legal and political concepts to resolve the problem of the existing space debris in outer space and which measures have been taken to avoid space debris or to reduce potential space debris in the course of future space missions.

The book sheds new lights on the evolution of Russian space activities with a focus on their strategy of international cooperation.

In the debate over the treatment of China in trade remedy investigations, this book focuses exclusively on anti-subsidy law.

This book focuses on American political discourse connected to war, dissent, and empathy.

This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

This book describes and examines three EU legal frameworks (EU competition law, EU consumer law, and EU fundamental rights law) that may affect the extent to which consumers purchase more sustainably.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

Volume 12 of the EYIEL focuses on "e;The Future of Dispute Settlement in International Economic Law"e;.

How the WTO deals with regional trade agreements (RTAs) is conceptually and practically one of the most important questions in international trade law.

This book presents a creative synthesis of two ostensibly disparate fields of law - arbitration and human rights.

This book evaluates the evolution of regulatory policy in advanced countries and discusses how, due to globalization, policy changes in one country have a knock-on effect in others.

This revised second edition takes account of developments in the field of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of unbundling and, in particular, ownership unbundling policies from the perspective of international economic law.

With regard to family law, this volume examines claims based on cultural tradition, ethnic background, custom, religious affiliation and sexual orientation, as well as various other "e;claims"e; that are not officially recognized in state law, in 15 jurisdictions around the world.

This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.

This book provides a concise and up-to-date overview of environmental noise control issues, utilizing specific case studies from India to help explore noise mapping and monitoring, impact analysis, and policy, among other relevant topics.

This book evaluates the protection of traditional cultural expressions in Africa using South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana as case study examples in the light of regional and international approaches in this respect.

This book provides an analysis of the institutional and constitutional effects of EU international agreements, with a particular focus on their potential effects on private parties.

This book provides a unique in-depth comparative and evaluative analysis based upon primary sources.

The book offers a comprehensive perspective on the highly topical issue of protecting and promoting labour standards in international economic law and the globalized economy.

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market.

War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals.

This volume explores from a legal perspective, how blockchain works.

This volume analyses criminal procedural issues from a European perspective, particularly in connection with EU law and ECHR law.

This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts.

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship - not only theologically, but also politically.

This book analyzes the issue of European fiscal State aid in order to provide insights into the related evolution prospects and legal problems.

This book presents a thorough and critical evaluation of the monetary and financial system prevalent in Western economies.

This book investigates stakeholders' interests, market players, and governance models for the takeover market in the changing global economic orders.