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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This concise collection of the most important international law instruments is an essential resource for all students of international law. In addition to standard instruments such as the UN Charter, human rights documents and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the volume also features topics...
Domestic Law Goes Global
Legal Traditions and International Courts
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
International courts have proliferated in the international system, with over one hundred judicial or quasi-judicial bodies in existence today. This book develops a rational legal design theory of international adjudication in order to explain the variation in state support for international courts....
by Institute for Strategic Studies, National Defense University of People's Liberation Army
China
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In 2016, economic globalization suffered a severe crisis after over half a century of smooth development, and deglobalization was running mountains high. Not only did it trigger domestic political discord in major countries like the United States, Britain, France and Germany, but also led to international...
The Changing Nature of Customary International Law
Methods of Interpreting the Concept of Custom in International Criminal Tribunals
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book examines the evolution of customary international law (CIL) as a source of international law. Using the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as a key case study, the book explores the importance of CIL in the development of international criminal law and focuses...
International Migration and International Security
Why Prejudice Is a Global Security Threat
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Through an interdisciplinary analytic lens that combines debates emerged in the fields of international relations, political science and sociology, Valeria Bello reveals how transnational dynamics have increased extremism, prejudiced attitudes towards others and international xenophobia.
Bello...
by Joe Majerus
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - International Politics - General and Theories, grade: 80/100, University of Leicester, language: English, abstract: Peace and international cooperation may not be sustained on a permanent basis simply by virtue of the illusory belief that states will...
Self-Determination and Humanitarian Secession in International Law of a Globalized World
Kosovo v. Crimea
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
This book addresses questions in connection with the international legal regime on demands for secession, which have arisen in various States. More specifically, it examines the unilateral declarations of independence by Kosovo in 2008, and by Crimea and its subsequent annexation by the Russian Federation...
Nicaragua Before the International Court of Justice
Impacts on International Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book analyses Nicaragua's role in the development of international law, through its participation in cases that have come before the International Court of Justice. Nicaragua has appeared before the ICJ in fourteen cases, either as an applicant, respondent or intervening State, thus setting an...
Asian Approaches to International Law and the Legacy of Colonialism
The Law of the Sea, Territorial Disputes and International Dispute Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The chapters in this volume address international legal issues impacted by the legacy of the Asian region’s historical experience with colonialism and its current standing in the international system. This volume provides a perspective on these issues from Asian legal scholars who have embarked...
by W. Charles Sawyer, Richard L. Sprinkle
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Applied International Economics, 4th Edition offers a modern and accessible treatment of international economics, shifting the emphasis from pure theory to the application of theory by using some of the key tools of economic analysis. This new edition of the text formerly known as International Economics...
Understanding International Law through Moot Courts
Genocide, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Chemical Weapons, and the Responsibility to Protect
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Understanding International Law through Moot Courts: Genocide, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Chemical Weapons, and the Responsibility to Protect consists of five sets of opposing legal briefs and judge’s decisions for five moot court cases held before the International Court of Justice and the International...
Seeking Justice in International Law
The Significance and Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Today human rights represent a primary concern of the international legal system. The international community’s commitment to the protection and promotion of human rights, however, does not always produce the results hoped for by the advocates of a more justice-oriented system of international law....
International Law
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This textbook offers for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the classic doctrines and main areas of international law from a European perspective, meeting the needs of the many European law schools teaching public international law in English. Special attention is devoted to the practice of...
by Joanna Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The act of fighting or being a fighter has certain consequences in international law. The most obvious example can be found in international humanitarian law, where a distinction is drawn between fighters and civilians, with fighters being military objectives and civilians being protected from attack....