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Taylor & Francis Internet Memes and Copyright Law
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Cambridge University Press Publicity in International Lawmaking
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Cambridge University Press State Responsibility in the International Legal Order
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Cambridge University Press The European Parliament as an Accountability Forum
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Taylor & Francis Commonwealth Caribbean Civil Procedure
Book SynopsisThis new fourth edition of a well-established book is a timely response to the continuing development of the new rules of civil procedure in force in most of the jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean. The new edition has been substantially revised to cover amendments to, and recent case law interpreting and applying, the Civil Procedure Rules of the various territories. It is essential reading for law students and legal practitioners in the region.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Commencement of proceedings 3. Responding to a claim 4. Service out of the jurisdiction 5. Parties and joinder 6. Ancillary claims 7. Default judgments 8. Summary judgment 9. Case management 10. Amendments to statements of case 11. Applications for court orders 12. Interlocutary injunctions 13. Freezing 'Mareva' injunctions and orders 14. Dosclosure and inspection of documents 15. Requests for further information 16. Security for costs 17. Offers to settle and payments into court 18. Interim payments 19. Striking out and discontinuance 20. Expert witnesses 21. Affidavits 22. Witness statements 23. Pre-trial review 24. Trial, judgments and orders 25. Costs 26. Enforcement of judgments 27. Appeals
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Taylor & Francis The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention
Book SynopsisFew topics generate as much controversy and debate as armed humanitarian intervention. Military force involves death and destruction, as well as interfering in other countriesâ domestic affairs. But, crucially, non-intervention is also controversial. When confronted with humanitarian crises abroad, many feel that outsiders are not only justified in using force to halt the abuses, but that they must do so. The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction offers a guide to these ethical debates.In clear and informative style Jonathan Parry explores the following topics: The morality of defending others, including the âresponsibility to protectâ (R2P). State sovereignty and self-determination as barriers to intervention. The possibility of consensual intervention. Just causes for intervention: what kinds of human rights abuses warrant intervention? The effectiveness of intervention: does it work in practice? Alternatives to intervention, including aiding rebels, economic sanctions, and providing aid. Whether there is a duty to intervene. Examples of intervention â including the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Liberia, and Libya â are used to illustrate the ethical dilemmas in question. The arguments of important theorists of intervention, such as John Stuart Mill, Michael Walzer and Jeff McMahan, are also explained clearly and critically. Each chapter concludes with questions for discussion and reflection. The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention: An Introduction is ideal reading for students and researchers in philosophy, applied ethics, politics and international relations.Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Homeland Security Law
Book SynopsisSince 2001 the U.S. government has been engaged in the delicate balancing act of seeking to protect the country against terrorism, both foreign-connected and wholly domestic, while taking into account a number of constitutional protections that can all too easily be trammelled in the effort to assure domestic security. At the same time the development of these policies has created significant constitutional tension among the three branches of the federal government, especially when the President vigorously asserts claims of sweeping power as commander-in-chief in such a way as to raise warnings about the emergence of an imperial presidency. Simultaneously, the rule of law has been placed under stress as the technological prowess of the government has grown.This book addresses these topics in an accessible manner, covering the key developments of domestic security law related to terrorism. Tyll van Geel covers the essential elements of homeland security law including: bTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 – The Counterterrorism Enterprise; Chapter 2 – President Bush and Mass Surveillance; Chapter 3 – Mass Surveillance Today; Chapter 4 – Securing the Borders; Chapter 5 – Airline Security and the No Fly List; Chapter 6 – Investigating Individual Suspects; Chapter 7 – The Trial; Chapter 8 – Military Detention and Interrogation; Chapter 9 – Military Commissions: Trials; Chapter 10 – Protection Against Being 'Disappeared'; Select Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd International Trade Law
Book SynopsisInternational Trade Law offers a clear overview of the complexities of an international sale transaction through informed analysis of case law, legislation, and international conventions and rules. Fully updated with changes to the law and new directions in legal debate, this new edition considers: Standard trade terms including INCOTERMS 2010, the Convention on International Sales of Goods 1980 and the UNIDROIT Principles for International Commercial Contracts E-Commerce issues, including electronic bills of lading Insurance and payment mechanisms, such as letters of credit and the UCP 600 International transportation of cargo, including the Rotterdam Rules Dispute resolution (including jurisdiction, applicable law, arbitration and mediation), with particular reference to the relevant EU regulations and the developing case-law thereon Corruption and anti-corruption conventions, including the UK Bribery Act 2010 and develoTrade ReviewReviews for the fifth edition: ‘Many of my students have commented on how useful Indira Carr’s book had been to them… This book is on the top of my list of suggested key textbooks.’ — Dr Simone Lamont-Black, Edinburgh University, UK ‘This is an excellently written, comprehensive and easy to navigate through book. It is an indispensable resource for academics, practitioners and students.’ — Dr Jadranka Petrovic, Monash University, Australia ‘It is an excellent work on the major elements of international trade which accurately reflects the law and is essential for practitioners as well as students.’ — Masood Ahmed, Associate Professor, University of Leicester, UK ‘Carr’s book is fluently written and richly informative on the current state of the law and practice in field […] often bringing out the historical context of the international dynamics of commercial transactions’. — Dr Priscilla Schwartz, University of East London, UK Table of ContentsChapter 1 Standard Trade Terms Chapter 2 The Vienna Convention On The International Sale Of Goods 1980 Chapter 3 Electronic Commerce – Legal Issues And Harmonisation Chapter 4 The Electronic Transaction And Security Issues Chapter 5 Transportation Of Goods By Sea – Charterparties Chapter 6 Bills Of Lading Chapter 7 Bills Of Lading And Common Law Chapter 8 Carriage Of Goods By Sea: Bills Of Lading And The Carriage Of Goods By Sea Act 1971 (Hague-Visby Rules) Chapter 9 The Hamburg Rules And Recent Developments The Rotterdam Rules Chapter 10 International Carriage Of Goods By Air Chapter 11 International Carriage Of Goods By Rail Chapter 12 International Carriage Of Goods By Road Chapter 13 International Multimodal Transport Chapter 14 Marine Insurance Chapter 15 Letters Of Credit Chapter 16 Civil Jurisdiction Chapter 17 Choice Of Law Chapter 18 Foreign Judgments Chapter 19 Arbitration Chapter 20 Mediation (Conciliation): An Alternative Form Of Dispute Resolution Chapter 21 Fighting Corruption In International Business
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fragmentation and the European Patent System
Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth study on current perceptions of, and responses to, fragmentation in the European patent system (EPS). For decades, attempts have been made to address this fragmentation by introducing a unitary patent system. The most recent attempt, the EU unitary patent system, will be the first of its kind. It is expected to significantly change the EPS. However, rather than reducing existing fragmentation, it will likely add to it. Based on an analysis of the current and forthcoming system, the book argues that the inherent nature of fragmentation within the EPS needs to be recognised and suggests that a multifaceted approach is required to respond to it. Uniquely, it draws on work regarding fragmentation outside of the patent and intellectual property regimes, gaining insights from both European law-making and the international legal system. These insights are used to investigate current responses to fragmentation in the EPS. Interpretations of substantive patent law are examined, including claim construction (Actavis v Eli Lily), exceptions to patentability related to uses of human embryos for industrial or commercial purposes (WARF, Brüstle, ISCC), and products resulting from essentially biological processes (Broccoli and Tomatoes II, G3/19). Attempts towards convergence in these areas have had mixed results and in some instances fragmentation may be necessary. However, similar techniques to those applied in the international legal system to respond to fragmentation are being used in the EPS, and, where this is seen, it has been to good effect. It is argued that these methods should be recognised, structured, and promoted to make our response to fragmentation more effective. Fragmentation and the European Patent System will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners looking for a new perspective on the EPS.Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Background II. The European Patent System III. Terminology IV. Perspectives on Fragmentation V. Outline PART I FRAGMENTATION AND THE EUROPEAN PATENT SYSTEM TODAY 1. Existing Routes to Patent Protection in Europe I. National Patent Systems II. The European (EPC) Patent System III. The International Patent Application IV. Existing Fragmentation 2. Forthcoming Route to EU Unitary Patent Protection I. Background to the Unitary Patent Package II. The Unitary Patent Package III. Concerns Related to the Unitary Patent Package IV. Further Fragmentation PART II ALTERNATIVE PERCEPTIONS OF FRAGMENTATION 3. Fragmentation in European Law-Making I. Constructing Europe and the European Patent System II. The Impact of Expansion III. Fragmentation as a Means of Integration 4. Fragmentation in the International Legal System I. Fragmentation in the International Legal System II. Application to the European Patent System III. Fragmentation as an Inherent Aspect of a Legal System PART III FRAGMENTATION AND SUBSTANTIVE PATENT LAW 5. Responding to Fragmentation as an Inherent Aspect of the European Patent System I. Areas of Divergence II. Towards Convergence – Judicial Dialogue and Cooperation III. Fragmentation as an Inherent Aspect of the European Patent System 6. Accepting Fragmentation as a Necessary Aspect of the European Patent System I. The Impact of the Biotech Directive II. Interpretations of the Exceptions to Patentability III. Impact of the Unitary Patent Package IV. Considering Diversity and Value Pluralism when Responding to Fragmentation Conclusion: Fragmentation and the European Patent System
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on EU non-discrimination law and governance. The CRPD places the protection of persons with disabilities at the heart of international human rights law. The Convention is the first human rights treaty open for signatures by regional organisations, and the European Union favourably acceded to it in December 2010. Ten years after this historic event, this book explores whether the theory has been put into practice, and examines the effects of the CRPD on EU non-discrimination law and governance. This book brings together the practices of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) with regard to disability discrimination to show whether the CRPD is living up to its full potential to substantially improve the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in the EU. It examines whether the judicial interpretation of the Directive 2000/78/EC, establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation, does or does not comply with the new legal background delineated by the CRPD. In addition, it investigates whether the governance mechanisms underlying the EU Framework for promoting, protecting and monitoring the CRPD are effectively fostering the implementation of the CRPD and the role of civil society. The prohibition of discrimination on grounds of disability has undergone substantial changes and developments since it was first introduced under international and EU law. This book highlights the main changes to disability discrimination which have occurred in the EU legal order in the last ten years. The book will be of interest to academics, law students and legal practitioners working in the field of EU non-discrimination and equality law.Trade ReviewWith this work, Conte gives a very interesting and thoroughly detailed insight into the CRPD and their impact on Union law. The author's discussion of the issue of equal treatment makes an important contribution to the understanding of the interaction of these systems and encourages the reader to continue working on this exciting topic. -- Helena Auer * Newsletter Menschenrechte (Bloomsbury translation) *[The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the European Union] is clearly written, informative, and meticulously researched. It is undoubtedly a valuable resource for students of EU disability rights law. -- Jeffrey Miller * Common Market Law Review *Table of Contents1. Introducing the CRPD: A New Approach to Equality and Non-Discrimination? I. Introductory Remarks II. Equality and Non-Discrimination: A New Approach for Disability Rights III. The Complex and Intriguing Evolution of the Right to Equality in International Law A. The Controversial ‘Sameness’ Model B. Embracing the Symmetrical Approach at International Level C. Is the Formal Approach Adequate to Combat Discrimination? D. Beyond Differences: Time to Recognise Social Barriers and Positive Duties E. The Prohibition of Discrimination under the CRPD: A New Inclusive Model F. Defining the Concept of Multiple and Intersectional Discrimination IV. The CRPD’s Model of Disability: From a Social Construct Towards a Human Rights Approach V. Reconceptualising the Human Rights Dichotomy A. Disability Rights are Universal and Indivisible: Do Civil and Political Rights also Demand Economic Resources? B. Disability Rights as (Quasi)-Justiciable Rights 2. The New Role for Civil Society under the CRPD I. The Rise of Civil Society in Global Governance A. Participatory Democracy and Global Governance B. Opening Up the Decision-Making Process C. Ensuring Transparent Procedures II. Mainstreaming Disability in the International Agenda A. ‘Nothing about us without us’: A Commitment to Participatory Democracy III. Civil Society’s Role in Implementing the CRPD at National Level A. Institutionalising Civil Society B. Awareness-Raising: A Synergetic Action between States Parties and NGOs IV. Participatory Democracy in the EU: From the White Paper to the Lisbon Treaty A. The Inclusive Process of the EUCFR’s Adoption: The ‘Convention’ Method B. How to Improve EU Participatory Democracy? The Good Practice of the CRPD 3. Ten Years aft er EU Accession to the CRPD: From Theory to Reality I. An Overview of the Prohibition of Discrimination under EU Law A. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights B. The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms II. Disability Rights in the EU III. The EU Anti-Discrimination Framework: Directive 2000/78/EC A. Exploring the Meaning of Direct Discrimination B. Introducing the Concept of Indirect Discrimination C. Reasonable Accommodation: The Paramount Obligation IV. Filling in the Gap: The Evolving Concept of Disability A. The EU Approach to Disability B. An Intriguing Evolution: The Case of Ring and Skouboe Werge C. Obesity and Disability: The Case of Kaltoft v Municipality of Billund D. The Case of Daouidi: Clarifying the Long-Term Nature of the Impairment E. Absence from Work on Grounds of Sickness: The Case of Ruiz Conejero F. Defining Disability beyond the Labour Market: The Case of Glatzel G. Is the CJEU Still a Real Promoter of Disability Rights? 4. The EU Legal Framework: Associative and Intersectional Discrimination I. Discrimination by Association on Grounds of Disability A. The Coleman Case: Factual Background B. The Advocate General’s Opinion C. Analysis of the Judgment: Who Falls under the Protection of Discrimination by Association? D. The Controversial Nature of Reasonable Accommodation E. Concluding Remarks: A Shift Towards Substantive Equality II. Why Does Multiple and Intersectional Discrimination Matter? III. The Odar Case: Disability and Age Discrimination IV. Surjit Singh Bedi v Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Collective Agreement and Intersectional Discrimination V. The Case of Z v A Government Department: Gender and Disability A. The Court’s Findings B. How to Deal with Multiple and Intersectional Discrimination under EU Law C. The Failure to Apply the Human Rights Model of Disability D. The Complex Interplay between International Law and EU Law E. The Incongruous CJEU Reasoning: Time for a Change 5. EU Governance and the Framework for Monitoring the CRPD I. Ratifying and Implementing the UN Convention: Winners and Losers in the EU Institutional Game II. The Negotiations of the CRPD and the EU A. The Commission’s Contribution to the Drafting of the CRPD B. Ensuring Coordination between Various EU Actors C. The Commission and the Union’s External Policy Representation III. Monitoring the CRPD’s Implementation: New Governance Mechanisms A. The Experimentalist Paradigm B. The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) C. The Focal Point D. Coordination Mechanism between the EU and the Member States IV. The EU Framework for Promoting, Protecting and Monitoring the CRPD A. The Commission’s Experimentalist Approach B. The European Parliament and the Protection of Disability Rights C. The European Ombudsman D. The Monitoring Role of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights E. The EDF’s Challenge to Open Up the EU Decision-Making Process F. Focal Point and Coordination Mechanism: Innovative or Inefficient Practices? V. Light and Shadow in the EU Independent Framework A. The Commission’s Withdrawal from the Framework: What Next? B. Is the European Parliament Marginalised? C. Is the OMC Appropriate? 6. Conclusion: Time to Unleash the CRPD’s Full Potential I. The EU Legal Framework: Main Findings A. The Definition of Disability: A Missed Opportunity B. The Legal Gaps in Addressing Multiple and Intersectional Discrimination C. Indirect Discrimination and Reasonable Accommodation: Towards a Better Judicial Interpretation? D. The Inclusive Equality Paradigm under the CRPD E. The Complicated Relationship between the CRPD and the EU Legal System F. Key Recommendations for Improving the Interpretation of EU Equality Norms II. EU Governance: Main Findings A. The Importance of Reforming the EU Independent Framework B. Key Recommendations for Improving EU Governance Mechanisms C. Good Governance and Participatory Democracy: The CPRD’s Positive Practice III. Time to Unleash the CRPD’s Full Potential
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Springer International Publishing AG Practical Pharmaceutics
Book SynopsisPractical Pharmaceutics contains essential knowledge on the preparation, quality control, logistics, dispensing and use of medicines. It features chapters written by experienced pharmacists and scientists working in hospitals, academia and industry throughout Europe, including practical examples as well as information on current GMP and GMP-based guidelines and EU-legislation. In this second edition all chapters have been updated with numerous new as well as didactically revised illustrations and tables. A completely new chapter about therapeutic proteins and Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products was added. From prescription to production, from usage instructions to procurement and the impact of medicines on the environment, the book provides step-by-step coverage that will help a wide range of readers, students as well as professionals. It offers product knowledge for all pharmacists working directly with patients and it will enable them to make the required medicine available, to sto
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Konzessionen in Russland und Kasachstan:
Book SynopsisIn vielen Staaten bezieht die öffentliche Hand zur Erfüllung von Aufgaben der Daseinsvorsorge auch private Unternehmen ein. Azar Aliyev untersucht den Konzessionsvertrag als ein Instrument solcher öffentlich-privater Partnerschaften im russischen und kasachischen Recht. Konzession ist in beiden Staaten gesetzlich als Vertrag über Errichtung, Modernisierung, Betrieb und Rückübereignung von öffentlichen Infrastrukturobjekten durch Private definiert. Ebenso wie in Deutschland spielen dabei Privatrecht und öffentliches Recht zusammen; allerdings liegt der Schwerpunkt der Diskussion in den untersuchten Staaten anders als in Deutschland nicht im Verwaltungs-, sondern im Privatrecht.Die Arbeit diskutiert die Konzession auch als Mittel, im Kontext eher labiler juristischer Infrastruktur "Inseln der Stabilität" für langfristige und komplexe Großprojekte zu schaffen. Dabei werden viele Grundsatzfragen des Zivilrechts sowie des Wirtschaftsprivat- und Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrechts aufgegriffen und analysiert.
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LAP Lambert Academic Publishing The Plights of Internally Displaced Persons(idps)
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T.M.C. Asser Press The Sporting Exception in European Union Law
Book SynopsisThe Sporting Exception in European Union Law is the definitive account of EU sports law. It provides a modern legal framework based on an analysis of major European Court of Justice judgments including Walrave (1974), Don... (1976), Bosman (1995), Deliège (2000), Lehtonen (2000), Kolpak (2003), Piau (2005) and Meca-Medina (2006). It also provides advanced commentary on the major sports-related competition decisions of the European Commission. Broadcasting issues, rules affecting player mobility and issues of sports governance are analysed, as are current issues in EU sports law including the Oulmers case, home-grown players, players' agents, the Services Directive, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, the 2006 Independent European Sports Review, the 2007 Commission White Paper on Sport, the Reform Treaty and prospects for social dialogue. The work is a resource for academics, lawyers and sports administrators and students of sports law and EU law programmes.Table of ContentsIs Sport Special?.- EU Sports Policy.- EC Free Movement Law.- The Sporting Exception: Form and Substance.- EC Competition Law and Sport.- Sports Broadcasting in Community Law.- The European Labour Market for Professional Players.- Legal Issues in the Governance of Sport.- Conclusions.
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United Nations Statistical yearbook 2020: sixty-third issue
Book SynopsisThe Statistical Yearbook is an annual compilation of a wide range of international economic, social and environmental statistics on over 200 countries and areas, compiled from sources including UN agencies and other international, national and specialized organizations. The 2020 edition contains data available to the Statistics Division as of 31 July 2020 and presents them in 32 tables on topics such as: communication; crime; development assistance; education; energy; environment; finance; gender; international merchandise trade; international tourism; labour force; national accounts; population and migration; price and production indices; and science and technology. Most tables covering the period up to 2020. Accompanying the tables are technical notes providing brief descriptions of major statistical concepts, definitions and classifications.
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BPB Publications Artificial Intelligence Ethics and International
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Fagbokforlaget Comparing Legal Cultures: Revised and Extended
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McGill-Queen's University Press Autonomous Weapons Systems and International
Book SynopsisIn Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms Ingvild Bode and Hendrik Huelss present an innovative analysis of how testing, developing, and using weapons systems with autonomous features shapes ethical and legal norms, arguing that they have already established standards for what counts as meaningful human control.Trade Review"This timely book offers a novel and important contribution to the emerging debate on autonomous weapons systems. Ingvild Bode and Hendrik Huelss’s study presents a fresh and original perspective. The authors skilfully analyse and depict the political, legal, and ethical challenges generated by human-machine interaction and the weaponisation of artificial intelligence." Birgit Schippers, St Mary’s University College Belfast and editor of The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking Ethics in International Relations“Ainsi que le soulignent Ingvild Bode et Hendrik Huelss, l’autonomisation des systèmes d’armes n’est pasune préoccupation futuriste mais unphénomène déjà à l’œuvre. Certaines fonctions autonomes sont déjà utilisées depuis des décennies, par exemple dansles systèmes de défense aérienne. Leur déploiement a progressivement transformé les normes d’usage de la force et de contrôle humain. Cet ouvrage est donc très pertinent pour saisir les enjeux liés à la militarisation de l’Intelligence artificielle et ses implicationspour les relations internationales engénéral.” Politique étrangère“The authors present a comprehensive analytical study of AWS and its context in an innovative, pathbreaking academic work of exemplary quality that displays outstanding knowledge of military operations and their political implications.” H-War, H-Net“Using the concept of procedural norms, the authors demonstrate that standards of appropriateness relating to the use of AWS have already emerged, despite the relative novelty of AI-powered weapons.” International Journal
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Harvard University Press Boundaries of the International
Book SynopsisIt is commonly believed that international law originated in respectful relations among free and equal European states. But as Jennifer Pitts shows, international law was forged as much through Europeans’ domineering relations with non-European states and empires, leaving a legacy visible in the unequal structures of today’s international order.Trade ReviewIlluminat[es] the ways in which international law was an artifact of empire, a system for organizing the world so as to perpetuate Western dominance. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Boundaries of the International adds much nuance to existing literature, and challenges some of the past analytics through which the history of international legal thought has been written. A first-class book by a recognized leader in the field of history of international political and legal thought. -- Martti Koskenniemi, University of HelsinkiAn outstanding history of international law and its entanglement with empire from one of the leading historians of political thought in the world today. -- Andrew Fitzmaurice, University of SydneyIn this masterful study, Jennifer Pitts examines universalist claims about the law of nations alongside rising European global power, uncovering a set of linked contradictions within eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political thought. A tour de force of interpretation and historical analysis, this subtle and persuasive book places the problem of empire at the very center of the history of international law—where it will now surely stay. -- Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University
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Cornell University Press The Despots Guide to Wealth Management
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented new international moral and legal rule forbids one state from hosting money stolen by the leaders of another state. The aim is to counter grand corruption or kleptocracy (rule by thieves), when leaders of poorer countriessuch as Marcos in the Philippines, Mobutu in the Congo, and more recently those overthrown in revolutions in the Arab world and Ukraineloot billions of dollars at the expense of their own citizens. This money tends to end up hosted in rich countries. These host states now have a duty to block, trace, freeze, and seize these illicit funds and hand them back to the countries from which they were stolen. In The Despot''s Guide to Wealth Management, J. C. Sharman asks how this anti-kleptocracy regime came about, how well it is working, and how it could work better. Although there have been some real achievements, the international campaign against grand corruption has run into major obstacles. The vested interests of banks, lawyers, and even law Trade ReviewThis book deals capably with government efforts to combat local scams, such as the massive Petrobras "car wash" affair in Brazil, and their contamination of global finance. It deals sequentially with efforts in the US, Switzerland, the UK, and Australia to combat kleptocracy—sometimes effective and sometimes not—often stymied by middlemen who like things the way they are. The book is well written and concise. -- I. Walter, New York University * Choice *A major and important exercise in scrupulously-researched, brilliantly-documented and eloquently-expressed scholarship.... This is an extremely important book. For those who worry about "globalisation from above," it provides plenty of empirical evidence and analysis to show that the whole global financial structure desperately needs root and branch cleaning. * Australian Institute of International Affairs *Sharman... is particularly interested in 'grand corruption': the theft of national wealth by kleptocratic leaders and their cronies, often in poor (albeit resource-rich) countries. It is a subject he knows well. * The Economist *The book’s strength derives from its avoidance of the common error of reading history backwards; looking for the particular characteristics of the present in the past. [Sharman] shows that, contrary to what many might assume, international corruption was not always a pressing concern. On the contrary, it was only in the 1990s that western leaders started discussing it in earnest. * Financial Times *The book introduces the global anti-corruption regime - which has emerged from new international norms - and specifically focuses on combating kleptocracy.... Sharman's thinking prompts a discussion where 'liberalism' (the belief that economic prosperity promotes the rule of law, democratic values and social justice) is both the architect and victim of corruption. * RUSI Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Power and Money1: The Rise of the Anti-Kleptocracy Regime2: The United States: A Superpower Stirs3: Switzerland: The Unlikely Crusader4: The United Kingdom: Development, or Sleaze and the City?5: Australia: In DenialConclusion: Making Them Pay
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Cornell University Press Hypocrisy and Human Rights
Book SynopsisHypocrisy and Human Rights examines what human rights pressure does when it does not work. Repressive states with absolutely no intention of complying with their human rights obligations often change course dramatically in response to international pressure. They create toothless commissions, permit but then obstruct international observers'' visits, and pass showpiece legislation while simultaneously bolstering their repressive capacity. Covering debates over transitional justice in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and other countries, Kate Cronin-Furman investigates the diverse ways in which repressive states respond to calls for justice from human rights advocates, UN officials, and Western governments who add their voices to the victims of mass atrocities to demand accountability. She argues that although international pressure cannot elicit compliance in the absence of domestic motivations to comply, the complexity of tTrade ReviewNonetheless, the book is otherwise a concise yet comprehensive account of how states respond to international pressure when creating justice mechanisms. CroninFurman's analysis is an essential read for anyone wanting to understand both how human rights advocacy works and how civil society organizations should engage on the international stage when they seek to pressure governments to restore and preserve human rights. * International Affairs Book Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Politics of Pressure 2. The Obligation to Seek Justice 3. Victims and Perpetrators 4. What Happens after Mass Atrocities 5. Doing Just Enough? 6. Choosing your Audience Conclusion
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Oxford University Press The Evolution of EU Law
Book SynopsisWith new chapters covering the Rule of Law, Judicial Reform, Brexit, Constitutional and Legal Theory, Refugee and Asylum law, and Data Governance, this third edition of The Evolution of EU Law is a must read for any student or academic of EU law.Trade ReviewThis book has been a must and a classic in EU law scholarship since the first edition 1999. This third edition is not only updated to the latest developments in written law and jurisprudence, it includes new chapters on the Rule of Law, Judicial Reform, Brexit, Constitutional and Legal Theory, Refugee and Asylum law, and the Evolution of Data Law – including Artificial Intelligence. With 27 contributors from different European countries the book gives not only constant food for thought, it offers a very comprehensive knowledge base on institutional and substantive law as well as legal theory issues. A tour de force of breadth, depth and expertise. * Jacques Ziller, Professor of EU law, Universities of Pavia, Italy, and Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France *This book is a logical – and almost necessary – "further reading" for anybody educated in EU law by Paul Craig and Gráinne De Búrca's widely-used textbook. Seasoned practitioners and academics should read it as well, however, as it provides an authoritative guide to the discipline, which has evolved dramatically since the previous edition was published. All crises and challenges to the EU and its legal order are covered, together with more traditional topics concerning the key areas of EU law. Written by a balanced mix of theory- and practice-oriented scholars, of both the younger and older generation, this book will continue to be a standard reference point for anybody who wants to understand EU law. * Jan Komárek, Professor of EU law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark *This important collection of essays on the continuing 'evolution' of EU law reaches us at a time of intensive reflection on the European Union. The ambition of the book reflects both the extraordinary span of EU legal development over the past decade and the challenging wider context within which it has happened, imprinted with the urgency produced by recurring instances of crisis. Each contribution provides, on its own, rich coverage of and insights into specific sectors or themes. Cohering all of these perspectives within one resource is the editors' impressive achievement. * Niamh Nic Shuibhne, Professor of European Union Law, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK *This long-awaited third edition comes at a critical time for the European Union and EU law scholarship: never has a historical and evolutionary perspective been more important in explaining the origins and purposes of the Union as well as where the Union is and ought to be going. The "Evolution of EU Law" here offers an invaluable compass that masterfully guides its readers through the deep and often tumultuous waters of the Union's constitutional and substantive law. * Robert Schütze, Professor of European and Comparative Law, Durham University, UK and Luiss, Rome, Italy *Review from previous edition This is a serious, comprehensive exploration of the understanding of EU law as it has developed. * Edward Kirke, Liverpool John Moores University *This volume, like many books of its kind, poses more questions than it has answers for, but the answers it suggests are crucial, seminal and riveting to anyone interested in why a nation or a corporate body has a constitution. ... the editors have done a masterly job in weaving together crucial research and opinion on such issues as comitology, delegated agencies, tertiary structures in general and the enumeration and control of them. The heavy intellectualism of this book should not obscure the luminosity of its arguments, which, after all, remain easy to understand. * Michael L Nash, Contemporary Review, December 1999 Page 322 *...an excellent collection of strong and thought-provoking contributions...an extremely accessible account of the story of EU law. * T.K. Hervey, University of Nottingham, European Public Law *Table of Contents1: Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca: Introduction 2: Paul Craig: Integration, Democracy and Legitimacy 3: Paul Craig: Institutions, Power and Institutional Balance 4: Neil Walker: Legal and Constitutional Theory of the European Union 5: Edoardo Chiti: The Agencification Process and the Evolution of the EU Administrative System 6: Kieran Bradley: Judicial Reform and the European Court: Not a Numbers Game 7: Bruno de Witte: Direct Effect, Primacy and the Nature of the Legal Order 8: Catherine Donnelly: Preliminary Rulings and EU Legal Integration: Evolution and Continuity 9: Francesca Episcopo: The Vicissitudes of Life at the Coalface: Remedies and Procedures for Enforcing Union Law before the National Courts 10: Laurent Pech: The Rule of Law 11: Joana Mendes and Edoardo Chiti: The Evolution of EU Administrative Law 12: Deirdre Curtin: From a Europe of Bits and Pieces to a Union of Variegated Differentiation 13: Kenneth Armstrong: (Br)Exit from the EU-Control, Autonomy and the Evolution of EU Law 14: Marise Cremona: External Relations of the European Union: The Constitutional Framework for International Action 15: Gráinne de Búrca: The Evolution of EU Human Rights Law 16: Siofra O'Leary and Sara Iglesias Sánchez: Free Movement of Persons, Establishment and Services 17: Stefan Enchelmaier: Free Movement of Goods: Evolution and Intelligent Design in the Foundations of the European Union 18: Jukka Snell: Free Movement of Capital: Evolution as a Non-Linear Process 19: Jo Shaw: Citizenship: Contrasting Dynamics at the Interface of Integration and Constitutionalism 20: Mark Bell: EU Anti-Discrimination Law: Navigating Sameness and Difference 21: Catherine Barnard: EU 'Social' Policy: From Employment Law to Labour Market Reform 22: Alicia Hinarejos: Economic and Monetary Union: Evolution and Conflict 23: Steve Peers: EU Criminal Law and Police Cooperation 24: Eva Storskrubb: Civil Justice Extending its Tentacles 25: Lilian Tsourdi and Cathryn Costello: The Evolution of EU Law on Refugees and Asylum 26: Imelda Maher: Competition Law: Convergence through Law and Networks 27: Liz Fisher: EU Environmental Law and Legal Imagination 28: Stephen Weatherill: Consumer Policy 29: Thomas Streinz: The Evolution of European Data Law
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Oxford University Press International Organization Initiatives
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The University of Chicago Press A Region among States Law and Nonsovereignty in
Book SynopsisBased on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at the Caribbean Court of Justice, A Region among States explores the possibility of constituting a region on a geopolitical and ideological terrain dominated by the nation-state. How is it that a great swath of the independent, English-speaking Caribbean continues to accept the judicial oversight of their former colonizer via the British institution of the Privy Council? And what possibilities might the Caribbean Court of Justicea judicial institution responsive to the region, not to any single nationoffer for untangling sovereignty and regionhood, law and modernity, and postcolonial Caribbean identity? Joining the Court as an intern, Lee Cabatingan studied its work up close: she attended each court hearing and numerous staff meetings, served on committees, assisted with the organization of conferences, and helped prepare speeches and presentations for the judges. She now offers insight into not only how the Court positions itself vis-à-vis the Caribbean region and the world but also whether the Courtand, perhaps, the region itself as an overarching constructmight ever achieve a real measure of popular success. In their quest for an accepting, eager constituency, the Court is undertaking a project of extrajudicial region building that borrows from the toolbox of the nation-state. In each chapter, Cabatingan takes us into an analytical dimension familiar from studies of nation and state buildingmyth, territory, people, language, and brandto help us understand not only the Court and its ambitions but also the regionalist project, beset as it is with false starts and disappointments, as a potential alternative to the sovereign state.Trade Review“This is an empathetic and rigorous anthropology of the CCJ. Sharply constructed and with flowing writing, Cabatingan’s ethnography brings together questions and approaches from postcolonial regionalism, legal anthropology, and Caribbean studies. Through eye-opening conversations with judges and throughout the court, interwoven with a careful study of media and archival material, she shows how the delicate balance between the work of adjudication and of political region making raises dilemmas that otherwise remain right below the surface.” * Naor Ben-Yehoyada, author of The Mediterranean Incarnate *“This fascinating study of the CCJ deftly mines the peripheries of the court’s work to show successfully how the court uses and reimagines the tools of statecraft in its central effort of promoting a region. The book’s rich analysis of the array of activities of and feelings about the CCJ is a great contribution to what we know about the complex work of new apex courts and scholarly debates about region-making projects in the Caribbean.” * Tracy Robinson, coeditor of Transitions in Caribbean Law *Table of ContentsOrientation: The Caribbean Court of Justice 1 Introduction 2 A Myth 3 A Territory 4 A People 5 A Language 6 A Brand 7 A Region Acknowledgments Appendix: Methods and Positionality Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press Law and War
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Trade Competition and Domestic Regulatory Policy
Book SynopsisTrade, Competition and Domestic Regulatory Policy presents a unique combination of analysis of both international trade and investment policies, and competition and regulatory policies. Increasingly, policymakers, businesses and the law and economics professions need to better understand how changes and policy developments in international trade and competition developed and how their interaction impacts on global business. In addition to providing a comprehensive analysis of the attempts of international trade theory and practice to deal with tariffs, non-tariff barriers, market distortions and failures to protect various kinds of property rights, this book contains a detailed treatment of how property rights protection, including intangible property rights are a critical element of ensuring open trade and competitive markets. It examines how these rights have developed over time, and how they have been integrated into trade and competition policy. This book Table of ContentsTable of Contents:Chapter 1: Purposes of Trade Liberalisation and Competitive MarketsChapter 2: Introduction to Institutions Underpinning Global Trade and RegulationsChapter 3: The Role of Consumer Welfare in Competition Implementation and EnforcementChapter 4: A Brief Introduction to the Theory of Anti-Competitive Market DistortionsChapter 5: Trade Policies and Trade Remedies through the Lens of Competition and Consumer WelfareChapter 6: The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: A Temporary Fix but a Constitutional FoundationChapter 7: Trade and Competition in Agriculture: A Trade Negotiation and Sugar Case StudyChapter 8: State-Trading Enterprises and State-Supported Monopolies: Beginnings of Consumer Welfare TestChapter 9: Domestic Regulatory ReformChapter 10: The Role of Property Rights in Building a Competitive MarketChapter 11: Protecting Property Rights: The Triple Interface between Intellectual Property, Competition and TradeChapter 12: Trade in Services: General IntroductionChapter 13: Financial ServicesChapter 14: Impact of the New Media EconomyChapter 15: Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towards an Ecological Intellectual Property
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on analysing how legal systems set the terms for interactions between human beings and plants. The story that the book recounts is one of experimental lawmaking in Ecuador, a country where over the past decade, governmental officials and civil society advocates have attempted to reconfigure how human individuals and institutions relate to nature, by following an eco-centric approach to lawmaking. In doing so, Ecuadorian legislators, administrators, and judges have taken seriously the ontologies of non-human entities, including plants, through a process that has required the continuous navigation of tensions with certain logics that pervade conventional legal regimes. The book endeavours to disrupt these conventional assumptions and approaches to lawmaking by taking seriously alternative strategies to reconstitute interactions between people and plants. In doing so, the book argues in favour of an ecological turn in laws that govern vegetal life. The aTable of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction A Note on Methodology Structure of the Book and Chapter Summaries Part 1: Conventional Approaches to the Governance of Human-Plant InteractionsChapter 1. Taking Plants Seriously in Law 1.1. Challenging the Epistemology of Plants 1.2. Recognising Nature as a Subject with Rights 1.3. Eco-centric Ecuador: Constitutional Protections for Pachamama 1.4. Towards an "Ecological Turn" in Law Chapter 2. Turning Plants into Intellectual Property 2.1. Plants as Inventions 2.2. The Emergence of Systems for Plant Breeders’ Rights 2.3. Alternatives to the Plant Breeders’ Rights Model of Intellectual Property for Plants Chapter 3. Universalising an Instrumental Approach to Plants in Law 3.1. The Contraction of Policy Space for Intellectual Property Lawmaking 3.2. The Expansion of UPOV as Explained by Free Trade Agreements Chapter 4. The Logic of Plant Genetic Resources 4.1. The End of the Common Heritage Approach 4.2. The Emergence of the Global Biodiversity Treaties 4.3. The Instrumental, Economic, and Proprietary Logics of Plant Genetic Resources Part 2: Experimenting with an Eco-Centric Approach: An Ecuadorian StoryChapter 5. Reconfiguring Intellectual Property in Ecuador 5.1. The Ingenios Act: Intellectual Property Meets Sumak Kawsay 5.2. The Making of the Ingenios Act 5.3. The Aspirations of the Ingenios Act 5.4. The New Institutionalism of the Ingenios Act 5.5. The Ingenios Act: Reimagination or Recapitulation? Chapter 6. The Ecuadorian Approach to Intellectual Property for Plants 6.1. The Reconstitution of the Plant Variety in the Ingenios Act 6.2. The Limits of Intellectual Property for Plants in the Ingenios Act Chapter 7. Alternatives to Conventional Legal Imaginaries for Human-Plant Interactions 7.1. Seed Law as an Alternative to Intellectual Property 7.2. Traditional Knowledge Protection as an Alternative to Intellectual Property 7.3. Food Sovereignty as an Alternative to Intellectual Property Chapter 8. Lessons from the Ecuadorian Experiment with an Ecological Turn in Lawmaking 8.1. Pachamama Goes to Court: Adjudicating the Rights of Nature 8.2. What the Rights of Nature Jurisprudence Means for Plants 8.3. Lessons from Eco-Centric Experiments in Lawmaking BibliographyAppendix I: Tables Appendix II: Figures
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indigenous Land Rights in Israel
Book SynopsisIntroducing the NegevBedouin land issue from the international indigenous land rights perspective, this comparative study suggests options for the recognition of their land. The book demonstrates that the Bedouin land dispossession, like many indigenous peoples', progressed through several phases that included eviction and displacement, legislation, and judicial decisions that support acts of dispossession and deny the Bedouin's traditional land rights. Examining the Mawat legal doctrine on which the State and the Court rely on to deny Bedouin land rights, this volume introduces the relevant international law protecting indigenous land rights and shows how the limitations of this law prevent any meaningful protection of Bedouin land rights. In the second part of the work, the Aborigines' land in Australia is introduced as an example of indigenous peoples'' successful struggle for their traditional land rights. The final chapter analyzes the basic elements of judicial rTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Background 3. Dispossession of Bedouin land 4. Protection of indigenous peoples’ land rights under international and regional systems 5. Recognition of indigenous peoples’ land rights 6. Land recognition: application of the customary land rights model in the Bedouin case
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Taylor & Francis Ltd International Law on the Aims of Education
Book SynopsisInternational Law on the Aims of Education is a practical and tangible guide to the international legal standards on the aim and content of education. Using Article 29 of The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as a reference point, the book provides a detailed legal analysis of international minimum standards on how a child should be educated. The book adopts a traditional legal positivist approach to explore the scope and nature of international law on the aims of education. It is divided into three main questions: 1) What is international law and are the aims of education valid legal obligations? 2) What is the content and scope of these laws on the aims of education? 3) What are the obligations of authorities and teachers to respect and fulfil the law? The book is unique as the first book on international law dedicated separately to the aims of primary and secondary school education, not only focusing on human rights education. This book will Table of ContentsAbbreviations Preface Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 The Concept "International Law on the Aims of Education" 1.2 The Concept of "Education" 1.3 The first international provision 1.4 The most important human right of them all 1.5 CESCR article 13 (1) 1.6 The Convention on the Rights of the Child 1.6.1 CRC article 29 (1) 1.6.2 Overall objective of education 1.7 Rights and duties 1.8 Summary Chapter 2: International Law and its Jurisprudence 2.1 Natural law v. legal positivism 2.2 What is international law 2.3 Good faith and ordinary meaning 2.3.1 Good faith 2.3.2 Ordinary meaning 2.4 Context 2.5 The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CtRC) 2.5.1 General Comments 2.5.2 Concluding Observations 2.5.3 Individual Complaint Jurisprudence 2.6 Other conventions and their treaty bodies 2.7 Object and Purpose 2.8 Legal validity 2.8.1 Effectiveness and legal validity 2.9 Summary and conclusions Chapter 3: Individual Aims of Education 3.1 Personality 3.1.1 Will and duty 3.1.2 Human personality and sense of dignity 3.2 Talents 3.3 Mental abilities 3.3.1 Literacy 3.3.2 Numeracy 3.3.3 Critical thinking 3.4 Physical abilities 3.5 Individual v. Collective education aims 3.6 Summary and conclusions Chapter 4: Human Rights Education 4.1 Respect for human rights 4.2 Human Rights Education as a concept of its own 4.3 Education ‘about’ human rights 4.4 Education ‘through’ human rights 4.5 Education ‘for’ human rights 4.6 Fundamental freedoms 4.7 The UN Charter 4.7.1 Peace Education 4.7.2 HRE based on the UN Charter 4.8 Warning 4.9 Geographical Relevance 4.10 Means in the fight against prejudice 4.11 Not Just a School Subject 4.12 Santa Claus human rights 4.13 Enforcement of human rights 4.14 Summary and conclusions Chapter 5: Respect for Culture, Values and Civilisations 5.1 The concept of respect 5.2 "Parents" 5.3 Their own cultural identity 5.4 The right to language and mother tongue 5.5 The child’s own values 5.6 "national values" 5.7 Civilisations 5.8 Summary and conclusions Chapter 6: Tolerance and Understanding 6.1 "responsible life in a free society" 6.2 "in the spirit of" 6.3 Understanding 6.4 Peace 6.5 Tolerance 6.6 Equality of sexes 6.7 Friendship 6.8 Peoples 6.9 Ethnic and national groups 6.10 Religious groups 6.11 Persons of indigenous origin 6.12 Cultural relativism 6.13 The balance between the letters "c" and "d" 6.14 Hate speech and freedom of expression 6.15 Summary and conclusions Chapter 7: Respect for Nature 7.1 Climate change education 7.1.1 The rights of future generations 7.2 Biological diversity 7.3 Indigenous rights and protection of the environment 7.4 Summary and conclusions Chapter 8: History Education 8.1 History education as an end in itself 8.2 History education as a means to eliminate prejudice and promote HRE 8.3 How history education should be taught 8.4 Denial of genocide 8.5 Summary and conclusions Chapter 9: State Obligations of Conduct and Results 9.1 "States Parties agree […]" 9.2 Progressive realisation 9.3 Obligation of conduct v. result 9.3.1 Obligation of conduct 9.4 Minimum core result 9.4.1 How to measure the results 9.4.2 Priorities between aims 9.5 National Plan 9.6 Teachers 9.6.1 The duties of teachers 9.7 Curriculum Reform and textbooks 9.7.1 Textbooks 9.8 The mass media 9.8.1 The right to Internet 9.9 Summary and conclusions Chapter 10: Concluding visionary last words References Books and articles UN Documents Case law Other reports Websites
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Taylor & Francis Ltd IndigenousIndustry Agreements Natural Resources
Book SynopsisThis edited collection is an interdisciplinary and international collaborative book that critically investigates the growing phenomenon of Indigenous-industry agreements â agreements that are formed between Indigenous peoples and companies involved in the extractive natural resource industry. These agreements are growing in number and relevance, but there has yet to be a systematic study of their formation and implementation. This groundbreaking collection is situated within frameworks that critically analyze and navigate relationships between Indigenous peoples and the extraction of natural resources. These relationships generate important questions in the context of Indigenous-industry agreements in diverse resource-rich countries including Australia and Canada, and regions such as Africa and Latin America. Beyond domestic legal and political contexts, the collection also interprets, navigates, and deploys international instruments such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in order to fully comprehend the diverse expressions of Indigenous-industry agreements.Indigenous-Industry Agreements, Natural Resources and the Law presents chapters that comprehensively review agreements between Indigenous peoples and extractive companies. It situates these agreements within the broader framework of domestic and international law and politics, which define and are defined by the relationships between Indigenous peoples, extractive companies, governments, and other actors. The book presents the latest state of knowledge and insights on the subject and will be of value to researchers, academics, practitioners, Indigenous communities, policymakers, and students interested in extractive industries, public international law, Indigenous rights, contracts, natural resources law, and environmental law.Table of ContentsPart I: Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks 1. Indigenous-Industry Agreements, Natural Resources and the Law: An Introduction 2. The (Legal) Nature of Indigenous Peoples’ Agreements with Extractive Companies 3. Essential Preconditions for an Indigenous-Industry Agreement with Community Legitimacy 4. Indigenous-Industry Agreements, Legal Uncertainty, and Risk Allocations Part II: Analytical and Critical Perspectives 5. Negotiated Agreements, Indigenous FPIC and the Mine Life Cycle 6. Gender Impact Analysis of Impact Benefit Agreements: Representation Clauses and UNDRIP 7. Who are the Métis? The Role of Free, Prior and Informed Consent in Identifying a Métis Rights-Holder Part III: Politics, Environment and Sustainability 8. The Contentious Politics of Impact and Benefit Agreements: A ‘Sons of the Soil’ Conflict Perspective 9. Impact Benefit Agreements, Transparency, and Sustainability 10. The Relationship between Indigenous-Industry Agreements and Environmental Assessment: Enhanced Credibility and Collaboration, or Undermining the Project Review Process? Part IV: Jurisdictional Case Studies 11. Contesting Indigenous-Industry Agreements in Latin America 12. Is this Really Benefit Sharing? Understanding Current Practices Around Community-Investor Agreements Tied to Land Investments 13. Enhancing the Benefits of Local Content in Extractive Industry Agreements: Legal Approaches and Trends in Frontier Extractive Jurisdictions 14. Indigenous Land Use Agreements in Australia: A Vehicle for Economic Prosperity or an Empty Gesture 15. Canadian Law and Realpolitik Regarding Indigenous-Industry Agreements 16. Towards Comprehensive Engagement: Indigenous-Industry Collaboration in the Resource Sector in Canada
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Emerging Pathogens at the Poles
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Use of Biodiversity in International Law
Book SynopsisThis book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993.This history of genetic gold' details how, with the aid of international law, the idea of biodiversity has been instrumentalized towards political and economic aims. A study of the strategic utility of biodiversity, rather than the utility of its protection under international law, the book's focus is not, therefore, on the sustainable or non-sustainable use of biodiversity as a natural resource, but rather on its historical use as an intellectual resource. Although biodiversity is still not being effectively conserved, nor sustainably used, the Convention on Biological Diversity and its parent regime persists, now after several decades of operation. This book provides the comprehensive answer to the question of the convention's continued existence.Drawing from environmental history, the philosophy of science, politicaTable of Contents1. The ‘Undead’ Convention and Environmental Reason 2. Lambswool into Synthetic: Early Programmes 3. The Glare of International Law and the Grand Bargain 4. The Genetic Gold Rush 5. The Regulation of Genetic Gold 6.Conclusion - Still Here
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Land Law and Disputes in Asia
Book SynopsisThrough an in-depth legal analysis by leading scholars, this book searches for the exact legal causes of land-related disputes in Asia within the histories, legal systems and social realities of the respective countries. It consists of four main parts: examining the relationship between law and development; land-taking in developmental stages; common ownership; and proposals for new approaches to land law and dispute resolution. With a combination of orthodox legal interpretations and the empirical approach of legal sociology, the contributors undertake an extensive comparative legal analysis across common and civil law traditions. Most importantly, they propose pathways forward for legal transformations in the pursuit of sustainable development in Asia. This book is vital contribution to the study of comparative law, and especially property law, in East and Southeast Asia. Table of ContentsPart I: Model Conflict in Land Law and Civil Code Drafting 1. "Origin of Land Disputes: Reviving Colonial Apparatus in Land Law Reforms" 2. "Land Ownership in Cambodia: Inter-Donor Debates for the Protection of Private Rights in Development" 3. "Lao Civil Code and Land Law Debates" 4. "Land Law Reform and Civil Code Drafting in Vietnam: How to Balance the Conflicting Needs for Land" Part II: Land Taking for "Development" and Beyond 5. "Takings for Private Use/Private Interest and Livelihood Compensation in Japan" 6. "What enables a private party to expropriate an individual from an estate in Korea?" 7. "Public-Interest Requirements of Zone Expropriation in Taiwan" 8. "Land Expropriation and Compensation in China" Part III: Securing Commons in the Old and New Property Regime 9. "Vacant Properties in Japan: A New Challenge for the Study of the Commons and Land Laws in Asia" 10. "Land Disputes in Indonesia: Consistency of Supreme Court and Constitutional Court Judgments" 11. "Right of Commons under Japan’s Civil Code" 12. "The Concept of Juridical Personality and the Autonomy of Villagers’ Committees in China "Part IV: Land Law toward Alternative "Development" 13. "Land Law Reforms in Asian Emerging Economies: Toward Balanced Development" 14. "The Role of Administrative Courts in Vietnam in Solving Land Disputes: Legal and Political Boundaries" 15. "Land Law and Disputes in Myanmar: A Historical Struggle for Redefining the Property Rights" 16. "Asian Land Conflicts and the Great Transformation: Fallacy of the Law and Development Long-Term View".
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The University of Michigan Press Peace Preference and Property
Book SynopsisUsing case studies and first-person accounts from interviews and fieldwork in post-conflict settings, Peace, Preference, and Property suggests policies that would provide greater choice for displaced people in terms of property restitution and solutions to displacement.Trade ReviewSo far, few books have paid attention to the historical patterns of displacement, legal solutions, and IDP/refugee attitudes. Joireman successfully breaks the pattern of single-case studies in this area by providing an array of comparative empirical evidence and first-hand policy experience to demonstrate the misalignment of international law and preferences of victims of displacement. An excellent contribution to the field, re-orienting our understandings of durable solutions to displacement." —Neophytos Loizides, University of KentTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface and acknowledgements Chapter 1: Forced Migration and its Troublesome Solutions Chapter 2: International Law on Return Chapter 3: Challenges to Return: Preferences of Displaced People Chapter 4: Children Displaced by Violence Chapter 5: Property and Return Chapter 6: Global Governance and the International Migration Regime Appendix Glossary Bibliography
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Cambridge University Press Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure
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Cambridge University Press Global Legal Pluralism
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Cambridge University Press The Nature of Customary Law
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Cambridge University Press The Law and Practice of International Territorial Administration Versailles to Iraq and Beyond Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law Series Number 57
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Pearson Education General Principles of Property Law
Book SynopsisIntroduces students to the general principles underpinning property law. The development of a common theme in the study of property, offers a new perspective which helps students gain an underestanding of the more specific branches of the subject.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Legal Concept of Property 2. Justificatory Theories for Private Property 3.Classification of Property 4. The Changing Nature of Property 5. Ownership and Possession 6. Title 7. Creation and Transfer of Proprietary Rights 8. Fragmentation of Ownership 9. Personal and Property Rights 10. Interference with Property Rights and Proprietary Remedies
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Princeton University Press The Judge in a Democracy
Book SynopsisWhether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge assumes a role that raises some of the contentious political issues of our day. This title sets forth a vision of the role of the judge.Trade Review"Aharon Barak [states] that it is precisely because judges are not politicians that they are the right people to undertake the constitutional role of ensuring that the legislature and the executive comply with legal requirements... Barak points out that tension between the courts and other branches of government is natural and it is desirable. If the courts' decisions were always welcomed by the executive, judges would not be doing their job properly. Barak's thesis is ... of fundamental importance."--David Pannick, Times of London "Learned and perceptive, this work deserves the attention of any reader interested in the role that judges play, and ought to play, in a democratic republic."--Charles Gardner Geyh, Trial "Barak sets out in a systematic way, the questions, dilemmas and solutions he has adopted as a judge. He notes the principles that should guide judges in a democratic society, when faced with constitutional questions that have implications over and above the specific concerns of the parties to a legal disput... [E]ngaging and intellectually stimulating... The Judge in a Democracy should be a must read in any course or research on judicial and constitutional politics."--Menachem Hofnung, Law and Politics Book Review "Barak argues for striking a balance between the protection of human rights and the preservation of national security interests, but is most adamant in insisting that some degree of security might have to be sacrificed in order to preserve a nation's democratic essence... Barak has done much to humanize the role of the judge. He describes the process of interpreting law as a profoundly human one, in which the adjudicator is constantly balancing, testing, agonizing."--Benjamin Soskis, Forward "The Judge in a Democracy explains that there was nothing in either the US or the Israeli constitutions allowing judges to strike down acts of the legislature. Even so, he says, the courts in both countries have held that judicial review of legislation is implied by interpretation of the constitution."--Joshua Rozenberg, Daily Telegraph "Presenting a remarkably balanced view of the power and limitations of judges, President Barak offers a comprehensive yet humble account of the role of the judiciary within a democratic society."--Harvard Law Review "Barak's writing is not merely clear, it exudes the logical structure that the modern law endeavors, and often claims, to exhibit... For the professional of law ... Barak's book may serve as the beginning of a revealing look at the social role of the law."--Mathieu Deflem, European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction ix PART ONE: THE ROLE OF THE JUDGE 1 Chapter One: Bridging the Gap between Law and Society 3 Law and Society 3 Changes in Legislation and in Its Interpretation 4 Changes in Society Affecting the Constitutionality of Statutes 8 Changes in the Common Law 10 Change and Stability 11 Chapter Two: Protecting the Constitution and Democracy 20 The Struggle for Democracy 20 What Is Democracy? 23 The Separation of Powers 35 Democracy and the Rule of Law 51 Fundamental Principles 57 Independence of the Judiciary 76 Human Rights 81 Criticism and Response 88 PART TWO: THE MEANS OF REALIZING THE JUDICIAL ROLE 99 Chapter Three: Preconditions for Realizing the Judicial Role 101 Judicial Impartiality and Objectivity 101 Social Consensus 107 Public Confidence 109 Chapter Four: The Meaning of Means 113 The Legitimacy of the Means 113 Operative Legal Theory 113 Judicial Philosophy 116 Chapter Five: Interpretation 122 The Essence of Interpretation 122 Purposive Interpretation 125 Purposive Interpretation of a Constitution 127 Purposive Interpretation of Statutes 136 Purposive Interpretation and Judicial Discretion 146 Purposive Interpretation and Intentionalism (or Subjective Purpose) 148 Purposive Interpretation and Old Textualism 149 Purposive Interpretation and New Textualism 152 Chapter Six: The Development of the Common Law 155 The Common Law as Judge-Made Law 155 Judicial Lawmaking 157 Overruling Precedent 158 Chapter Seven: Balancing and Weighing 164 The Centrality of Balancing and Weighing 164 Balancing and Categorization 166 The Nature of Balancing 167 Types of Balancing 170 The Advantages of Balancing 172 Critique of Balancing and Response 174 The Scope of the Balancing 175 Chapter Eight: Non-Justiciability, or "Political Questions" 177 The Role and Limits of Justiciability 177 Types of Justiciability 178 Justiciability and Public Confidence 186 Chapter Nine: Standing 190 Standing and Adjudication 190 Standing and Substantive Democracy 194 Chapter Ten: Comparative Law 197 The Importance of Comparative Law 197 The Influence of Comparative Law 198 Comparative Law and Interpretation of Statutes 199 Comparative Law and Interpretation of the Constitution 200 Use of Comparative Law in Practice 202 Chapter Eleven: The Judgment 205 Formulating the Judgment and Realizing the Judicial Role 205 The Judge as Part of the Panel 208 PART THREE: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COURT AND THE OTHER BRANCHES OF THE STATE 213 Chapter Twelve: Tension among the Branches 215 Constant Tension 215 The Tension Is Natural and Desirable 216 The Attitude toward the State 217 Public Officials as Trustees 220 Duties of the Individual toward the State 222 Chapter Thirteen: The Relationship between the Judiciary and the Legislature 226 The Uniqueness of the Legislature 226 Judicial Review of Legislation 229 Judicial Review of Nonlegislative Decisions of the Legislature 231 The Dialogue between the Judiciary and the Legislature 236 Chapter Fourteen: The Relationship between the Judiciary and the Executive 241 The Scope of Review 241 Judicial Interpretation and Executive Interpretation 246 Executive Reasonableness 248 Proportionality 254 PART FOUR: EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF A JUDGE IN A DEMOCRACY 261 Chapter Fifteen: Activism and Self-Restraint 263 Definition of the Terms 263 Some Definitions and Their Critiques 267 Definition of Activism and Self-Restraint 270 The Desirability of Activism or Self-Restraint 279 Chapter Sixteen: The Judicial Role and the Problem of Terrorism 283 Terrorism and Democracy 283 In Battle, the Laws Are Not Silent 287 The Balance between National Security and Human Rights 291 Scope of Judicial Review 298 Chapter Seventeen: The Role of the Judge: Theory, Practice, and the Future 306 Theory 306 Reality 310 The Future 310 Index 317
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Manchester University Press Child Soldiers in International Law Melland
Book SynopsisCan the use of children as soldiers be effectively regulated at an international level? Child soldiers in international law examines how international law has developed to deal with this problematic and emotive issue.Table of ContentsChild soldiers ininternational law: IntroductionPart I1. Child soldiers in the world today2. Children and children’s rights: Changing perceptionsPart II3. The United Nations and child soldiersPart III4. The legal regulation of the recruitment and use of children in hostilities: International humanitarian law5. The legal regulation of the recruitment and use of children in hostilities: International human rights law6. The legal regulation of the recruitment and use of children in hostilities: Customary internationallaw and non-state actorsPart IV7. The legal treatment of child soldiersPart V8. The recruitment of child soldiers as a war crime9. The responsibility of child soldiers for war crimesPart VI10. Child soldiers as asylum seekers and refugeesPart VII11. Child soldiers in international law: Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Globalization and Intellectual Property The
Book SynopsisIntellectual property laws have become intricately entwined with discussions about globalization. This volume deals with the politics, economics and effects of global intellectual propertization. It provides essays covering key issues including the international relations of global intellectual propertization, the TRIPS Agreement and the tying of intellectual property issues to international trade negotiations, contentions that global intellectual propertization is a form of post-colonial neo-imperialism, globalization''s effects on intellectual property law''s classic doctrines and rationales and the cultural effects of global intellectual propertization.Table of ContentsContents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I The Politics and Economics of Global Intellectual Propertization: The international relations of intellectual property, W.R. Cornish; Why IPRs are a global political issue, Christopher May; The economics of intellectual property rights and the GATT: a view from the South, Carlos Alberto Primo Braga. Part II Trade-Linked Intellectual Property Negotiations: Lateralisms and TRIPs: Battle of lateralisms: intellectual property and trade, Robert P. Merges; Industry strategies for intellectual property and trade: the quest for TRIPS, and post-TRIPS strategies, Susan K. Sell; BITs and BIPs: bilateralism in intellectual property, Peter Drahos. Part III Neo-Imperialism? Global Intellectual Propertization in a Post-Colonial Age: The global intellectual property system and sub-Saharan Africa: a prognostic reflection, Adebambo Adewopo; North-South disputes over the protection of intellectual property, R. Stephen Richardson and James D. Gaisford; TRIPS - natural rights and 'a polite form of economic imperialism', A. Samuel Oddi; Neocolonialism, anticommons property, and biopiracy in the (not-so-brave) new world order, Keith Aoki. Part IV Globalization's Effects on Intellectual Property Law's Classic Doctrines and Rationales: The integration of international and domestic intellectual property lawmaking, Graeme B. Dinwoodie; A long strange TRIPS: the pharmaceutical industry drive to harmonize global intellectual property rules, and the remaining WTO legal alternatives available to third world countries, Robert Weissman; Harmonization and the goals of copyright: property rights or cultural progress?, Kenneth D. Crews; The globalization of private knowledge goods and the privatization of global public goods, Keith E. Maskus and Jerome H. Reichman. Part V Beyond Law: Cultural Effects of Global Intellectual Propertization: The impact of foreign investment on indigenous culture: an intellectual property perspective, Doris Estelle Long; Ha
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Cambridge University Press Theories of International Responsibility Law
Book SynopsisThere is no issue more central to a legal order than responsibility, and yet the dearth of contemporary theorizing on international responsibility law is worrying for the state of international law. The volume brings philosophers of the law of responsibility into dialogue with international responsibility law specialists. Its tripartite structure corresponds to the three main theoretical challenges in the contemporary practice of international responsibility law: the public and private nature of the international responsibility of public institutions; its collective and individual dimensions; and the place of fault therein. In each part, two international lawyers and two philosophers of responsibility law address the most pressing questions in the theory of international responsibility law. The volume closes with a comparative ''world tour'' of the responsibility of public institutions in four different legal cultures and regions, identifying stepping-stones and stumbling blocks on the path towards a common law of international responsibility.Table of ContentsTheorizing international responsibility law, an introduction Samantha Besson; Part I. International Responsibility of Public Institutions: Public and/or Private?: 1. From 'respondere' to 'responsibility': A Roman lawyer's gloss on the international law of state responsibility Dario Mantovani; 2. Change in the law of international responsibility André Nollkaemper; 3. State responsibility: an outsider's view R. A. Duff; 4. Responsibility of states for wrongdoing: who is to decide? Alon Harel and Julian Kulaga; Part II. International Responsibility of Public Institutions: Collective and/or Individual?: 5. Responsibility as opportunism: the responsibility of international organizations Jan Klabbers; 6. Responsibility of members of an international organization: collective and/or individual? Paolo Palchetti; 7. International responsibility for global environmental harm: collective and individual Liam Murphy; 8. Justifying liability for state remedial duties Sandy Steel; Part III. International Responsibility of Public Institutions: Fault-Based or Not?; 9. Responsibility or liability: is it really that simple? Pierre d'Argent; 10. Causation, fault, and function in the rules of attribution Sean Fleming; 11. Time travel in the law of international responsibility Jean d'Aspremont; Part IV. Responsibility of Public Institutions: A World Tour: 12. The responsibility of public authorities in China Frédéric Constant; 13. Liability of public institutions in Middle Eastern law Chibli Mallat; 14. The responsibility of public institutions in Africa: a legal framework in the making Ousmane Oumarou Sidibé; 15. State responsibility from a Central European perspective Krzysztof Wojtyczek; 16. Comparative and prospective comments on the 'world tour' of the concept of public responsibility Mireille Delmas-Marty; Conclusion: responsibility at the crossroad between philosophy and law Pierre-Marie Dupuy.
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Cambridge University Press Becoming International
Book SynopsisWhen and how did the modern world become an international one? Jens Bartelson, a leading scholar of the history of international thought, provides new answers to this question by analyzing how relations between polities have been conceptualized across different historical contexts from the sixteenth century to the present day. A global intellectual history of the international system, this book challenges the widespread assumption that this system emerged as a result of a transition from empires to states, instead proposing that the international realm is but a continuation of imperial relations by other means. Showing how the international system spread through the creative appropriation of European concepts of nation and state by non-Europeans, Bartelson argues that this system has taken on a life of its own, to the point of becoming an empire in its own right.Trade Review'Lucid, learned, and challenging, Becoming International is Jens Bartelson's most ambitious work to date. Its unfailingly critical perspective questions our most fundamental categories - the international and the imperial, the global and the planetary - and will productively reframe myriad pressing contemporary debates.' David Armitage, Author of Foundations of Modern International Thought'With characteristic boldness, erudition, and conceptual sophistication, Jens Bartelson traces the emergence, proliferation, and ideological functions of the idea that we live in an 'international realm' - a world divided into sovereign states - and how this belief system has framed understandings of politics and disguised the continuity of imperial forms of rule. Original, erudite, and ambitious, Becoming International is a major contribution to political theory and the history of international thought.' Duncan Bell, University of CambridgeTable of Contents1. Making sense of the international; 2. Dividing the world; 3. Empire and independence c.1776-–c.1825; 4. Empire and self-determination c. 1820–c.1919; 5. The empire of the international; 6. From the international to the global and beyond?.
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Cambridge University Press The WTO Agreements
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LEGARE STREET PR War and the Breed the Relation of war to the
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Taylor & Francis Purely Formal Legal Theory
Book SynopsisThis book elaborates on deontic logic and network theory to present a reductionist theory of the law, disclosing a simple understanding of legal norms based on minimum necessary and sufficient notions. The analysis explores the concept of a ânormâ as a claim-obligation relation that regulates conduct, that is, action and inaction, among subjects, in space and time. Based on these five minimum notions, the study illustrates legal systems as networks of substantive right-duty relations that are procedurally organised according to time. The research relies on basic Kripke-style semantics as social matrixes to explain fundamental normative concepts and further on network science, social network theory and graph-theoretic notation, based on ties and nodes, to elaborate a formal representation of minimum necessary notions and of legal systems as deontic networks. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of legal philosophy, legal theory and international law.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of European Security Law
Book Synopsis The Handbook of European Security Law and Policy offers a holistic discussion of the contemporary challenges to the security of the European Union and emphasizes the complexity of dealing with these through legislation and policy. Considering security from a human perspective, the book opens with a general introduction to the key issues in European Security Law and Policy before delving into three main areas. Institutions, policies and mechanisms used by Security, Defence Policy and Internal Affairs form the conceptual framework of the book; at the same time, an extensive analysis of the risks and challenges facing the EU, including threats to human rights and sustainability, as well as the European Union's legal and political response to these challenges, is provided. This Handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of European law, security law, EU law and interdisciplinary legal and political studies.Table of ContentsCONTENTPART I. EU Security: Interplay between the Foreign Security Policy and the Internal Security PolicyChapter 1. The European Agenda on SecurityKåre Dahl MARTINSENChapter 2. Police Cooperation in the European Union, Supported by Strengthening the EU Internal Security’s External DimensionGorazd MEŠKO, Rajko KOZMELJ and Branko LOBNIKARChapter 3. The Role of EU Institutions in the Design of the EU Foreign and Security PoliciesAkasemi NEWSOME and Marianne RIDDERVOLDChapter 4. Realism, International Order and Security: Time to Move beyond the 2016 European Union Global StrategyDavid GARCÍA CANTALAPIEDRAChapter 5. Strategic Autonomy of the European Union: A Perspective Rafael GARCÍA PÉREZChapter 6. Budget and EU Security: Current Reasons to Increase the BudgetFernando SERRANO ANTÓNPART II. Risks and Challenges facing the EU.Chapter 7. EU Monetary and Economic Integration: Security Dilemma between Competitiveness and Sustainability Simón Javier SOSVILLA-RIVERO and Marta GÓMEZ PUIGChapter 8. The Economic Consequences of Brexit: A Brief Overview of the LiteratureBruce MORLEYChapter 9. Financing Business in the Digital Economy: Some Challenges.Briseida Sofía JÍMENEZ GÓMEZChapter 10. EU Regulations of CryptocurrencyXésus PÉREZ LÓPEZChapter 11. The Dynamics of Organized Crime in the European Union in the Context of Global InsecurityConcepción ANGUITA OLMEDOChapter 12. The Challenges of Extremism and TerrorismIrene RODRÍGUEZ ORTEGAChapter 13. EU Space Security PolicyMarco PEDRAZZIChapter 14. The EU´S Comprehensive Approach to Fisheries, Global Commons and Security.Carlos TEIJO GARCÍA Chapter 15. Integrating Climate Change Action into EU Security PolicyLara LÁZARO TOUZA and Ángel GÓMEZ DE ÁGREDAChapter 16. Energy Security in the EUMiriam SOLERA UREÑAChapter 17. Cybersecurity in the European Union: Resilience through Regulation?Ramses WESSELPART III. Combatting Threats from the Human Side?Chapter 18. EU Counterterrorism Policy and Human Rights: Are We in the Right Track?Milena COSTAS TRASCASASChapter 19. Migrant and Refugee Children Protection against Trafficking and Exploitation: Assessing EU Response from an International Human Rights Law PerspectiveCarmen PÉREZ GONZÁLEZChapter 20. Maritime Border Control in the MediterraneanAlexander PROELß Chapter 21. Security and Drugs in the European Union: Criminal Justice and Drugs PolicyAraceli MANJÓN-CABEZA OLMEDAChapter 22. Electoral Observation as a Tool to Establish and Implement EU SecurityVíctor Carlos PASCUAL PLANCHUELOChapter 23. The EU Global Strategy: Security, Narratives, Legitimacy, and Identity of an Actor in CrisisJosé Antonio SANAHUJA PERALES
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