International law

Examines how international law perpetuates global environmental injustice and how the system can be fundamentally reworked to address ecological crises.

'This book re-addresses the concepts of neighbourhood and community in a refreshing and challenging way.

A unique interreligious dialogue provides needed context for deeper understanding of interfaith relations, from ancient to modern timesFreedom is far from straightforward as a topic of comparative theology.

Das Buch zeigt die unionsrechtlichen Grundlagen des Vergaberechts auf und behandelt EU- und nationales Recht gemeinsam mit Schwerpunkt auf den vielfältigen Verflechtungen.

This book examines one of the most emblematic cases of lawfare today: the criminal prosecution of former Brazilian President Lula.

The book is the most comprehensive in its area and analyses many jurisdictions that have received little attention.

This book presents the findings of the first ever survey of the religious preferences of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

'Essential reading.

Since a reform in 2010, foreign investors can establish a Foreign-Invested Limited Partnership Enterprise (FILPE) in China together with Chinese or foreign investors.

Cultural heritage law and its response to human rights principles and practice has gained renewed prominence on the international agenda.

The end of the Cold War has been characterized by a wave of violent civil wars that have produced unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and suffering.

A detailed critical evaluation of the Ruggie Framework and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

In this volume, contributors from academia, industry, and policy explore the inter-connections among economic development, socio-political democracy and defense and security in the context of a profound transformation, spurred by globalization and supported by the rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT).

Latin America has been a place of radical political inspiration providing an alternative to the neoliberal model.

Based on Catholic and Confucian social ethics, this book develops an ethic of solidarity and reciprocity with the migrants in Asia who are marginalized.

In 2004, a judgment from the highest court in the UK gave birth to a new era of privacy law.

Provides a comprehensive, step-by-step explanation of the rules and procedures of the WTO dispute settlement process.

Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation.

Das Konzept der menschlichen Sicherheit hat in nur kurzer Zeit eine hohe internationale Resonanz erfahren und Eingang in die Politik gefunden.

The Tail Wags the Dog is an intensely controversial book about Middle Eastern politics.

This book assesses the extent to which two specialized UN agencies - the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal - have been able to regulate environmental pollution in the global commons.

This book addresses the issue of Christianity in public life in China through methodological and constructive approaches.

This innovative handbook provides a comprehensive, and truly global, overview of the main approaches and themes within law and society scholarship or social-legal studies.

Anthropocene is the proposed name for the new geological epoch in which humans have overwhelming impact on planetary processes.

The Hebrew Bible is hardly what might be called a "e;unified"e; account of the national history of Israel.

Law and the Politics of Memory: Confronting the Past examines law's role as a tool of memory politics in the efforts of contemporary societies to work through the traumas of their past.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the study of the rule of law across law, the humanities, and social sciences, as well as insights into the practice of building the rule of law within and among states.

Volume two of a comparative study of the concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law and justice.

Population genomics research drawing on genetic databases has expanded rapidly, with some of this information being combined in 'biobanks'.

The increasing emergence, re-emergence, and spread of deadly infectious diseases which pose health, economic, security and ethical challenges for states and people around the world, has given rise to an important global debate.

Few nations rely upon the ocean as much as Japan for livelihood, culture and transport.

Nation states have long and successfully claimed to be the proper and sovereign forum for determining a country's international economic policies.

This study analyzes the methods used by international criminal tribunals when determining customary international criminal law and to consider the compatibility of these approaches with the nullum crimen sine lege principle.

A 2003 collection of lectures examining the evolution of international criminal justice from World War II to date.

Strategic human rights litigation (SHRL) is a growing area of international practice yet one that remains relatively under-explored.

It is the condition of modernity that an institution cannot depend on a god, tradition, or any other transcendental source to secure its foundations, which thereby come to rest upon - or rather in, and through - its subjects.

The environment suffers enormously during armed conflicts and, despite the increasing awareness of the pressing need to protect the planet, devastating environmental damage can occur legally at times of war.

While liberal-democratic states like America, Britain and Australia claim to value freedom of expression and the right to dissent, they have always actually criminalized dissent.

The relationship between criminal syndicates and politicians has a long history, including episodes even from the earliest years of America's colonies.

How does globalization work?

The second half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of international economic law as a major force in the international legal system.

This book contributes to contemporary debates on the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating or prohibiting inhumane weapons, such as landmines.

This select volume of historical documents is organized chronologically, spanning from 1914 to the present.

This book investigates how international adjudicators defer to State decision-making authority, and what that reveals about the domestic-international interface.

In addressing the politics of the international regulation of public procurement, this book fills a major gap in the literature.

This book explores how Europe is seeking to enlarge its launching capacities by building additional spaceports on the European continent.