International law

This textbook explains the protection by the ECHR, EU law and international instruments of various civil/political and social/economic fundamental rights.

In Memory Eternal, Sergei Kan combines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years.

Das Buch untersucht die völkerrechtshistorische, -theoretische und -praktische Debatte um die Bindung der Dritten Welt an die etablierte Völkerrechtsordung nach der Dekolonialisierung unter besonderer Beachtung herausragender Völkerrechtler in den neuen Staaten wie Ram Prakash Anand, Taslim Olawale Elias, Mohammed Bedjaoui, Abdul Hakim Tabibi und Mustafa Kamil Yasseen.

The notion of sovereignty plays an important part in various areas of law, such as constitutional law and international public law.

Foreign investors have a privileged position under investment treaties.

Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this book explores the key challenges associated with the proliferation of cyber capabilities.

In trying to establish a presence in China, foreign investors have found it imperative to understand the regulatory environment of this potentially huge market.

The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge and future research priorities is warranted.

Since China adopted its 'open door' policy in 1978, which altered its development strategy from self-sufficiency to active participation in the world market, its goal has remained unchanged: to assist the readjustment of China's economy, to coordinate its modernization programs, and to improve its quality of life.

The book provides in-depth analysis of the new perspectives on codifications, and of the related reforms, that give recognition to new ideas, new needs, and new techniques.

This book is the first attempt to analyse the relevant international conventions governing the liability of airlines to passengers and third parties on the ground from a risk perspective.

This evaluation of doctrines of US security policy examines to what degree they are consistent with international law.

This book analyses the accountability of European home States for their failure to secure the human rights of victims from host States against transnational enterprises.

This book presents the hitherto unstudied variety of ways that human rights socialisation is attempted in the context of regional organisations, arguing that existing conceptual accounts of this phenomenon need to be expanded to best explain this diversity.

Compiled by leading international trade law practitioners and academics from across the globe, this volume provides legal and business communities with information, knowledge and an understanding of recent developments in international trade, business and international commercial arbitration.

This revolutionary new book on using AI to process human emotion data seeks to raise awareness for the topic, thoroughly discuss it from a multidisciplinary perspective and, by doing so, disseminate research findings that elaborate on the current and future regulatory needs for the responsible and ethical development and application of emotional AI.

This book provides an analysis of the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Pringle case.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.

This book addresses questions in connection with the international legal regime on demands for secession, which have arisen in various States.

Innovative history of how volunteers helped build a global consensus that Western development intervention across the Global South was desirable.

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution pursues a rigorous examination of the various ways in which the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement.

A critical, intercultural and interdisciplinary review of our relationship with the environment, and its reflection in law and governance.

Many articles in the Reader were originally published in RFF's quarterly magazine, Resources.

An introductory text to the philosophy of human rights, this book provides an innovative, systematic study of the concepts, ideas, and theories of human rights.

This book considers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' contribution to international refugee law since the establishment of UNHCR by the United Nations General Assembly in 1951.

Is academic freedom threatened?

This book examines the position of 'contextual elements' as a constitutive element of the legal definition of the crime of genocide, and determines the extent to which an individual genocidaire is required to act within a particular genocidal context.

First published in 1994.

The European system of human rights protection faces institutional and political pressures which threaten its very survival.

Rossteuschers Geschichte des Ursprungs der Irvingianerkirche behält trotz des apologetischen Tons ihren Wert.

La presente monografía aborda, con un enfoque eminentemente práctico, una herramienta esencial para la preparación del proceso civil: las diligencias preliminares.

This book provides the first sustained and detailed account of the UPOV Convention and its key concepts and principles.

This book is a rarity in that it opens a genuinely creative new vista for understanding global politics as distinguished from international politics, enhancing the vision for understanding global subjects such as multilateral treaties and the Covid-19 virus.

The word "e;jihad"e; is everywhere in the global media.

This comparative appraisal of competition law and policy draws on examples from both the developed and the developing worlds.

This book discusses global mobile satellite communications (GMSC) for maritime, land (road and rail), and aeronautical applications.

This monograph offers a longitudinal analysis of the developments in the European fundamental rights arena during the last decade.

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

This analysis of international law using social movement theory provides a fundamental critique of international law.

Administrative litigation systems are a rapidly developing legal field in many countries.

The Punta del Este Declaration, and this book dedicated to elaborating upon it, is devoted to exploring the ways that human dignity for everyone everywhere can be a useful tool in helping to address the challenges and strains facing human rights in the world today.

This book critically examines the colonial dimensions of restorative justice through the lens of justice policy reform in Jamaica.

It is commonly asserted that bills of rights have had a 'righting' effect on the principles of judicial review of administrative action and have been a key driver of the modern expansion in judicial oversight of the executive arm of government.

Before military action, and even before mobilization, the decision on whether to go to war is debated by politicians, pundits, and the public.

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat.

The public debate over civilian use of drones is intensifying.

Indigenous peoples are increasingly making requests for the return of their ancestors' human remains and ancient indigenous deoxyribonucleic acid.

This volume examines the role of international law in shaping and regulating transitional contexts, including the institutions, policies, and procedures that have been developed to steer constitutional regime changes in countries affected by catalytic events.