International law

This three-volume Manual on International Maritime Law presents a systematic analysis of the history and contemporary development of international maritime law by leading contributors from across the world.

This interdisciplinary book brings together innovative chapters that address the entire spectrum of the African peacebuilding landscape and showcases findings from original studies on peacebuilding.

This book explores the nature and scope of the provision requiring States to 'ensure respect' for international humanitarian law (IHL) contained within Common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies provides a new forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in European Union Law,the law of the Council of Europe, and Comparative Law with a 'European' dimension, and particularly those which have come to the fore during the year preceding publication.

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This book brings forth the philosophical, conceptual and practical contours of the trade regionalism provisions under the GATT/WTO.

Maoism and Grassroots Religion explores grassroots religious life under and after Mao in Rui'an County, Wenzhou of southeast China, a region widely known for its religious vitality.

This book presents the first critical review of the less frequently addressed stakeholders in international investment law.

Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation - improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials - since the earliest plant domestications.

This book provides a nuanced picture of how diverse legal debates on the pursuit of economic development and modernization have played out in Latin America since independence.

Is the "e;private"e; experience of religion counterproductive to engagement in public life?

This book provides a normative analysis of the justifications and limits of asset confiscation as a crime control measure in a comparative perspective.

A novel framework for understanding the role and relevance of coherence in international dispute settlement and judicial reasoning.

For centuries, denuded landscapes, fouled streams, and dirty air were accepted by society as part of the price that had to be paid for mineral production.

By definition, international law, once agreed upon and consented to, applies to all parties equally.

This book is the first of its kind to explore the problems inherent in the unification of maritime law.

The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagan's presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs.

An examination of the origins of international investment law and their continued resonance in the twenty-first century.

The UN Human Rights Treaty System: Law and Procedure examines the core UN human rights treaties that form the framework of international human rights law.

La obra busca comprender la configuración de las ciudadanías y de la participación política en las siguientes iglesias: Iglesia Carismática Internacional, Iglesia de Dios Ministerial de Jesucristo Internacional, Comunidad Cristiana Pantokrator y Movimiento Político Colombia Justa Libres.

The Irish Yearbook of International Law (IYIL) supports research into Ireland's practice in international affairs and foreign policy, filling a gap in existing legal scholarship and assisting in the dissemination of Irish thinking and practice on matters of international law.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe.

Concise introduction to the dynamic field of international investment law which sets out the key legal concepts and engages with current debates.

This book analyzes the transformation of ethnic and religious political parties in Turkey with special focus on their role in the country's democratization and regime changes.

This volume is the first in a new Springer series to examine one of humanity's most pressing concerns: global migration and its implications for development.

Conventionally, international legal scholarship concerned with norm conflicts focuses on identifying how international law can or should resolve them.

This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about "e;the heavens"e; shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return.

Analyses how atmospheres and sentiments shape the workings of international criminal law in (post-)colonial Africa and beyond.

Dieses Praktikerhandbuch enthält Hinweise zur praktischen Umsetzung der EU-Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) sowie eine systematische Analyse der neuen Vorschriften.

Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world.

This book establishes legisprudence, in contrast to jurisprudence, as a legal theory of rational law-making.

This book critically assesses legal frameworks involving the bulk processing of personal data, initially collected by the private sector, to predict and prevent crime through advanced profiling technologies.

"e;The Lisbon Treaty states that national Parliaments shall contribute to a better functioning of the EU.

This book reviews the challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at the regional and national levels in Africa.

Provides empirical evidence that power-sharing measures used to end civil wars can help facilitate a transition to minimalist democracy.

The threat of climate displacement looms large over a growing number of countries.

Legal frameworks to ''reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation'' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on protections and benefits for indigenous peoples and forest communities.

Taking as a starting point the widely accepted view that states confronted with terrorism must find a proper equilibrium between their respective obligations of preserving fundamental rights and fighting terrorism effectively, this book seeks to demonstrate how the design and enforcement of a human rights instrument may influence the result of that exercise.

This book considers how legal reforms and awareness raising associated with building the rule of law have engaged the popular legal consciousness, producing contradictions that have in turn shaped the nature of the resultant legality.

This book presents the very first, interdisciplinarily grounded, comprehensive appraisal of a future "e;Common European Law on Investment Screening"e;.

The Insurance Act 2015 represents the first major reform of English commercial insurance law for many years.

This ground-breaking volume examines enduring and emerging discourses around communication rights in Africa, arguing that they should be considered an integral component of the human rights discourse in Africa.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2019.

Governments are rightly discussing reform of investment treaties, and of the incredibly powerful system of 'investor-state dispute settlement' (ISDS) upon which they rest.

This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the multifaceted and evolving experiences of human rights in Sierra Leone between the years 1787 and 2016.