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Cambridge University Press International Law Reports Volume 192
Book SynopsisVolume 192 is devoted to Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America, Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965, SRFC, PSPP Case, Civil and Criminal Code of Russian Federation, R (RF) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, A local authority v. AGTable of Contents1. Alleged Violations of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America); 2. Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 (Advisory Opinion); 3. Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC); 4. Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) Case; 5. Re Review of Constitutionality of Article 1244(3) of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation; 6. Re Review of Constitutionality of Article 212(1) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation; 7. Re Review of Constitutionality of the Provisions of Article 31.7 and Article 31.9 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation; 8. R (RF) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Mind and Equality & Human Rights Commission intervening); 9. R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No 3); A local authority v. AG
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Cambridge University Press International Law Reports Volume 189
Book SynopsisDecisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgments of national courts, are fundamental elements of modern public international law. The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of such decisions. It is therefore an absolutely essential work of reference. Volume 189 is devoted to the 2016 judgment on Jurisdiction and Admissibility in Obligations concerning Negotiations relating to Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and to Nuclear Disarmament (Marshall Islands v. India), the 2016 judgment on Jurisdiction and Admissibility in Obligations concerning Negotiations relating to Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and to Nuclear Disarmament (Marshall Islands v. Pakistan) and the 2016 judgment on Preliminary Objections in Obligations concerning Negotiations relating to Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and to Nuclear Disarmament (Marshall Islands v. United Kingdom).Table of Contents1. Obligations concerning Negotiations relating to Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and to Nuclear Disarmament (Marshall Islands v. India); 2. Obligations concerning Negotiations relating to Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and to Nuclear Disarmament (Marshall Islands v. Pakistan); 3. Obligations concerning Negotiations relating to Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race and to Nuclear Disarmament (Marshall Islands v. United Kingdom).
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Cambridge University Press Reagan Congress and Human Rights
Book SynopsisThis book traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the Reagan administration and members of Congress. It demonstrates how congressional pressure led the administration to reconsider its approach to human rights and craft a conservative human rights policy centered on democracy promotion and anti-communism - a decision which would have profound implications for American attention to human rights. Based on extensive archival research and interviews, Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard combines a comprehensive overview of human rights in American foreign relations with in-depth case studies of how human rights shaped US foreign policy toward Soviet Jewry, South African apartheid, and Nicaragua. Tracing the motivations behind human rights activism, this book demonstrates how liberals, moderates, and conservatives selectively invoked human rights to further their agendas, ultimately contributing to the establishment of human rightTrade Review'In explaining how idealists in Congress forced the Reagan administration to embrace and recast human rights, Søndergaard reveals how profoundly the trajectory of US human rights policy was determined by contestation between the executive and the legislature. This richly researched book illuminates a poorly understood decade in the development of international human rights and recovers the role of overlooked actors, both in Congress and outside government.' Barbara Keys, Durham University'An engaging and original contribution to our understanding of the place of human rights in US foreign policy in the 1980s. Rasmus Søndergaard is particularly effective in highlighting the significance of the newly-formed Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) and articulating what a 'conservative' human rights policy meant during the Reagan years.' Sarah B. Snyder, American University, Washington DC'Søndergaard makes an important contribution to our understanding of human rights in US Cold War foreign relations. Drawing on deep archival research, Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights convincingly illuminates how legislators on both sides of the political aisle influenced the Reagan administration's approach to the defining human rights issues of the 1980s.' William Michael Schmidli, Universiteit Leiden'This excellent study examines how Congress asserted a role in incorporating human rights into the [Reagan] administration's foreign policy, especially through the bipartisan Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC).' A. J. Dunar, Choice'The argument that it was the Congressional assertion of the importance of human rights that forced the Administration to make it a significant part of its foreign policy agenda is compelling. That this assertion was bipartisan and only contested in terms of the location of its application, rather than the principle itself, makes this argument all the more intriguing.' Mark Hurst, Diplomacy & Statecraft'The book will make a lasting contribution to our understanding of the foreign policy continuity across the final decades of the Cold War. Søndergaard has written a sequel to Barbara Keys' Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s (2014). Like her, he has obliged us to rethink easy caricatures of US power.' Timothy J. Lynch, Journal of Contemporary HistoryThe persistence in contemporary debates of many of the political patterns highlighted by Søndergaard further underscores the importance of this book, which should be required reading for anyone interested in the domestic politics of human rights or legislative-executive relations on foreign policy. Jordan Tama, Diplomatica'… an excellent study that challenges many previous understandings of Reagan's foreign policy and the role of Congress in the 1980s. As Søndergaard demonstrates, while the administration's use of human rights was selective and only genuinely pursued when connected to its anti-communist efforts, it nonetheless 'helped secure human rights as the key moral language in American foreign relations'.' Kristina Spohr, Diplomatic History'The book will make a lasting contribution to our understanding of the foreign policy continuity across the final decades of the Cold War … Søndergaard reminds us that American politics is sometimes compromised but often advantaged by its endemic contestation over moral questions.' Timothy J. Lynch, Journal of Contemporary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. After the breakthrough: human rights in American foreign relations in the 1980s; 2. The Reagan turnaround on human rights; 3. The Congressional human rights caucus and the limits of bipartisanship; 4. The right to leave: Soviet Jewish emigration; 5. 'A universal human rights issue': South African apartheid; 6. Two tales of human rights: US policy toward Nicaragua; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Stateness and Democracy in East Asia
Book SynopsisDemocratization and state building are fundamental political processes, yet scholars cannot agree on which process should be prioritized in order to put countries on a positive path of institutional development. Where much of the existing literature on the state-democracy nexus focuses on quantitative cross-national data, this volume offers a theoretically grounded regional analysis built around in-depth qualitative case studies. The chapters examine cases of successful democratic consolidation (South Korea, Taiwan), defective democracy (Philippines, Indonesia, East Timor), and autocratic reversal (Cambodia, Thailand). The book''s evidence challenges the dominant ''state first, democracy later'' argument, demonstrating instead that stateness is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for democratic consolidation. The authors not only show that democratization can become trapped in path-dependent processes, but also that the system-level organization of informal networks plays a key role in shaping the outcome of democratic transitions.Trade Review'Croissant and Hellmann have assembled an impressive volume around a theme of immense scholarly and practical importance - namely, the relationship between state capacity and democracy. Together, the chapters in this volume offer a nuanced view of the way in which state capacity and democracy interact and co-evolve in a variety of country contexts.' Allen Hicken, University of Michigan'By focusing on the state-democracy nexus, this volume unpacks the various theoretical and conceptual relationships between stateness and democratic consolidation. Drawing on a collection of empirically rich case studies of democratic transitions in Asia, the authors inductively generate new insights into the complicated and varied pathways to and from democracy. Hellmann and Croissant have put together a refreshing take on democracy in a region where political reform is tenuous and a moment in the world when democracy's prospects are fraught.' Joseph Wong, University of Toronto'This study contributes to the existing research by recognizing the effects of informal institutions and networks on shaping state capacity … This book will be relevant to scholars of state-democracy relations and Asian studies in general … Recommended.' X. Li, Choice MagazineTable of Contents1. Introduction: Rethinking Stateness and Democracy in Asia Aurel Croissant and Olli Hellmann; 2. State Building and Democratization: The Sequencing Debate and Evidence from East Asia Tuong Vu; 3. South Korea's Democracy and the Legacies of the Developmental State Olli Hellmann; 4. After Hegemony: State Capacity, the Quality of Democracy, and the Legacies of the Party-State in Democratic Taiwan Kharis Templeman; 5. Democratization Interrupted: The Parallel State and the Demise of Democracy in Thailand Paul Chambers; 6. Weak State and the Limits of Democratization in Cambodia, 1993–2017 Kheang Un; 7. The Institutional Roots of Defective Democracy in The Philippines Erik Martinez Kuhonta and Nhu Truong; 8. Stateness and State Capacity in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: Securing Democracy's Survival, Entrenching its Low Quality Marcus Mietzner; 9. As Good as it Gets? Stateness and Democracy in East Timor Aurel Croissant and Rebecca Abu Sharkh; 10. Stateness and Democracy: Evidence From East Asia and Cross-Regional Comparisons Aurel Croissant and Olli Hellmann; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Rights of Refugees Under International Law
Book SynopsisDo states have a duty to assimilate refugees to their own citizens? Are refugees entitled to freedom of movement, to be allowed to work, to have access to public welfare programs, or to be reunited with family members? Indeed, is there even a duty to admit refugees at all? This fundamentally rewritten second edition of the award-winning treatise presents the only comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees set by the UN Refugee Convention and international human rights law. It follows the refugee''s journey from flight to solution, examining every rights issue both historically and by reference to the decisions of senior courts from around the world. Nor is this a purely doctrinal book: Hathaway''s incisive legal analysis is tested against and applied to hundreds of protection challenges around the world, ensuring the relevance of this book''s analysis to responding to the hard facts of refugee life on the ground.Trade ReviewPraise for the First Edition: '… painstakingly researched, cogently argued, and beautifully written … An instant classic on the topic of refugee rights.' Penelope Mathew, American Journal of International LawPraise for the First Edition: '… the authoritative comprehensive commentary of the Convention. As usual, the strength of Hathaway's approach lies in the precision of his legal analysis.' Catherine Phuong, Human Rights Law ReviewPraise for the First Edition: 'If there is one book in the area of international refugee law of which it can be properly said that it is indispensable for everybody, working either in practice or academically with international refugee law, it is this new book by Hathaway … It will remain for a long time the fundamental opus of international refugee law.' Kay Hailbronner, International Journal of Refugee Law'… impressive and well-researched … For those interested in the rights of refugees under international law, it would be surprising if there were any authors who had given this topic more detailed consideration than Professor Hathaway.' Paul Keeley, Law Society GazetteTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The evolution of the refugee rights regime; 2. An interactive approach to interpreting refugee rights; 3. The structure of entitlement under the refugee convention; 4. Rights of refugees physically present; 5. Rights of refugees lawfully or habitually present; 6. Rights of refugees lawfully staying; 7. Rights of solution; Appendices; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Dispute Settlement Reports 2018 Volume 2 Pages 603 to 1164
Book SynopsisThese are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide studying international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2018: IITable of ContentsEuropean Union – Anti-Dumping Measures on Biodiesel from Indonesia (WT/DS480); China – Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Measures on Broiler Products from the United States – Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by the United States (WT/DS427); Cumulative List of Published Disputes
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Cambridge University Press Dispute Settlement Reports 2018 Volume 1 Pages 1 to 602
Book SynopsisThese are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide studying international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2018: ITable of ContentsUnited States – Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from Korea (WT/DS488); United States – Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Measures on Certain Coated Paper from Indonesia (WT/DS491); Cumulative List of Published Disputes
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Cambridge University Press International Law Reports Volume 183
Book SynopsisDecisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgments of national courts, are fundamental elements of modern public international law. The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of such decisions. It is therefore an absolutely essential work of reference. Volume 183 is devoted to the 2018 judgment of Court of Justice of the European Union on whether the United Kingdom can unilaterally revoke the notification of its intention to withdraw from the European Union Treaties, together with the judgment of the Inner House of the Scottish Court of Session that had referred that question to the Court (Wightman v. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union), the landmark judgment of the African Court on Human and Peoples'' Rights concerning the rights of the Ogiek people (African Commission on Human and Peoples'' Rights v. Kenya) and the judgment of the English Court of Appeal conceTable of Contents1. African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights v. Republic of Kenya; 2. Wightman and Others v. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union; 3. Wightman and Others v. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union; 4. Santo Domingo Massacre v. Colombia; 5. Secretary, Department of Family and Community Services v. Padwa; 6. Tech Mahindra Ltd v. Commissioner of Taxation; 7. Commissioner of Taxation v. Jayasinghe; 8. Sanum Investments Ltd v. Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic; 9. R (Sandiford) v. Foreign Secretary; 10. Al-Saadoon and Others v. Secretary of State for Defence and Rahmatullah v. Secretary of State for Defence.
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Cambridge University Press International Law Reports Volume 184
Book SynopsisDecisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgments of national courts, are fundamental elements of modern public international law. The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of such decisions. It is therefore an absolutely essential work of reference. Volume 184 is devoted to the 2018 judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Ireland v. United Kingdom (Request for Revision of Judgment of 18 January 1978), the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Al Nashiri v. Poland (concerning the United States'' Central Intelligence Agency rendition programme) and the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland in Re Application by Finucane for Judicial Review (concerning the enforceability under domestic law of the procedural obligation under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights).Table of Contents1. Ireland v. United Kingdom (Request for Revision of Judgment of 18 January 1978); 2. McKerr v. United Kingdom; 3. El-Masri v. Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; 4. Al Nashiri v. Poland; 5. In re McKerr; 6. Re Application by Finucane for Judicial Review Finucane v. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; 7. Re Application by McGuigan for Judicial Review; 8. Re Application by McKenna for Judicial Review.
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Cambridge University Press Child Perpetrators on Trial
Book SynopsisExplores how standards of international juvenile justice were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda. Will appeal to academics, researchers and students of law (in particular child rights and human rights law), socio-legal scholars, international relations scholars and political scientists.Trade Review'Child Perpetrators on Trial: Insights from Post-Genocide Rwanda thoroughly and comprehensively analyzes the various actors working in the juvenile justice system in post-genocide Rwanda and how child perpetrators of genocidal acts progressed through this justice system … With these intriguing speculations, Barrett leaves readers eager to hear more.' Elizabeth D. Wiseman, New York University Journal of International Law and PoliticsTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. International standards on child perpetrators of atrocities; 3. Putting international standards into practice; 4. Rwanda: setting the context; 5. Rwanda's responses, in law, policy and practice, to child génocidaires; 6. International actors and the Rwandan child génocidaire; 7. UNICEF Rwanda's policy and advocacy: a strategic approach; 8. Evaluating UNICEF Rwanda's approach: a case of principled pragmatism?; 9. Child perpetrators and child rights: Rwanda and beyond.
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Cambridge University Press Reforming Family Law
Book SynopsisAs the only area of law that is still commonly termed ''Islamic law'', family law is one of the most sensitive and controversial legal areas in all Muslim-majority countries. Morocco and Jordan both issued new family codes in the 2000s, but there are a number of differences in the ways these two states engaged in reform. These include how the reform was carried out, the content of the new family codes, and the way the new laws are applied. Based on extensive fieldwork and rich in sources, this book examines why these two ostensibly similar semi-authoritarian regimes varied so significantly in their engagement with family law. Dörthe Engelcke demonstrates that the structure of the legal systems, shaped by colonial policies, had an effect on how reform processes were carried out as well as the content and the application of family law.Trade Review'With a highly engaging writing style, Dörthe Engelcke takes us into the heart of family law reform in Jordan and Morocco. She shows how these two seemingly similar monarchies faced similar problems at the same time and yet ended with very different results. The book blends the best of political science, law, and anthropology with incisive analysis and insights from extensive fieldwork.' Kristen Stilt, Harvard University, Massachusetts and author of Islamic Law in Action'Engelcke's comprehensive approach … shows that a different history marked by a distinct break with past foreign dominations - the Ottomans, French or British colonial rule - has shaped the current legal and judicial system … Engelcke's book is an important and most welcome contribution to the understanding of law making and reform processes in Arab monarchies as well as republics in the Middle East and North Africa.' Irene Schneider, University of Göttingen'Based on an award winning doctoral thesis, Reforming Family Law provides a remarkable insight into the mechanics and reasons for the relative successes and failures of the efforts to reform family law in Morocco and Jordan. Based on meticulous fieldwork in both countries, it sets out clearly and persuasively how and why Morocco was able to liberalise successfully its family code in 2004 when efforts to achieve the same in Jordan over the same period fell short despite the two countries having so much in common. Engelcke deftly explores and explains the various factors that influenced the process in the two states producing a study that makes not only a major contribution to the study of legal reform in the Arab world but also offers valuable perspectives on gender, society, governance and politics in the region.' Michael Willis, University of Oxford'Even a casual reader will be impressed by the depth of the research and the breadth of the expertise on display in this book. But a careful reader will be even more profoundly rewarded. Engelcke provides a model of how to study family law, carefully examining the text without ever losing sight of the political and historical context. In understanding the diverse ways laws work - and how they might be changed - she shows how we need to integrate our understanding of what the law says with the surprising complexities of how it developed over time and who is deploying it today.' Nathan Brown, George Washington University'Reforming Family Law will be a great resource to Middle East studies scholars. It is clear that the book is the result of meticulous research … And one of the strengths of the book comes from the semi-structured interviews with judges, clerks, and members of religious and civil government units, women's groups, and Islamist organizations that animate and challenge state narratives about family law reform. The book will prove generative in both undergraduate and graduate seminars on the Middle East and North Africa.' Eda Pepi, International Journal of Middle East StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Colonial legal legacies and state-building; 3. The contemporary legal systems; 4. The impact of international law; 5. The process of family law reform in Jordan; 6. The process of family law reform in Morocco; 7. Contested issues of Jordanian family law; 8. Contested issues of Moroccan family law; 9. The implementation of the 2004 law: the prevalence of multiple normativities; 10. Conclusion; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Sovereignty in the South
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of the evolution of state sovereignty in the Global South, as regional organizations in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia increasingly interfere in domestic affairs. It will appeal to scholars and students of international relations, international organisations, human rights and the politics of the Global South.Trade ReviewCoe's Sovereignty in the South is an important contribution to the study of international and regional orders and the changing practices of sovereignty. For too long scholars of international relations have merely assumed that foundational norms such as sovereignty, smoothly diffused from the West to the rest. Coe shows how such conventional wisdoms must be overturned. By pointing to the historical topography that existed prior to the establishment of regional organizations, economic development, and democratization, Coe captures the critical change in and between regions regarding the practice of sovereignty.' Michael Barnett, George Washington University'Brooke Coe provides fresh insights on the development of regionalism in the global South, offering a compelling explanation for variation in the willingness of regional organizations to interfere in the affairs of sovereign states. In showing how differing histories and political and economic realities across Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia have generated varying degrees of 'intrusive regionalism' on issues of human rights, democracy, and security, Sovereignty in the South makes a valuable contribution to International Relations scholarship.' Luke Glanville, Australian National University'In this path-breaking macro-historical study, Brooke N. Coe establishes against the conventional wisdom that sovereignty-intruding regional institutions are not confined to the West, let alone Europe, but permeate the global South, too, particularly Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Moreover, she explains the variation in intrusive regionalism by emphasizing especially the role of historically embedded identities and community norms. A superb example of the newest comparative regionalism!' Thomas Risse, Freie Universität Berlin'Sovereignty in the South is an expansive and innovative book that examines change in the practice of the norm of non-interference across three regions of the Global South … The book is impressive in its reach and sheds light on important and underexamined issues in comparative regionalism.' Aarie Glas, H-DiploTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The uneven rise of intrusive regionalism; 2. Macronationalism and the discursive foundations of regionalism in the Global South; 3. Contested sovereignty norms and the erosion of non-interference; 4. The role of regime type; 5. The role of economic performance; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press International Law Reports Volume 182
Book SynopsisDecisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgments of national courts, are fundamental elements of modern public international law. The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of such decisions. It is therefore an absolutely essential work of reference. Volume 182 is devoted to the 2018 decision of the ICSID arbitration tribunal on the effects of the judgment of the European Court of Justice in Achmea in Vattenfall AB and Others v. Federal Republic of Germany, the 2018 judgment of the English Court of Appeal in R (Freedom and Justice Party) v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and the 2016 decision of the Austrian Supreme Court in the International Atomic Energy Agency Immunity Case.Table of Contents1. Vattenfall AB and Others v. Federal Republic of Germany; 2. Janowiec and Others v. Russia; 3. M/V Virginia G (Panama/Guinea-Bissau); 4. W v. Prince of Liechtenstein (Illegitimate Child of the Prince of Liechtenstein Case); 5. Greek Government Bonds Immunity Case; 6. Holocaust Freedom of Expression Case; 7. International Atomic Energy Agency Immunity Case; 8. HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Mishal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and HRH Prince Mishal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud v. Apex Global Management Limited; 9. R (Keyu) and Others v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Another; 10. R (Freedom and Justice Party and Others) v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Another.
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Cambridge University Press Proportionality in Action
Book SynopsisProportionality in Action presents an empirical and comparative exploration of the proportionality doctrine, based on detailed accounts of the application of the framework by apex courts in six jurisdictions: Germany, Canada, South Africa, Israel, Poland and India. The analysis of each country is written and contextualized by a constitutional scholar from the relevant jurisdiction. Each country analysis draws upon a large sample of case law and employs a mixed methodological approach: an expansive coding scheme allows for quantitative analysis providing comparable and quantifiable measurements, which is enriched by qualitative analysis that engages with the substance of the decisions and captures nuance, contextualizing the data and providing it with meaning. The book concludes with a comparative chapter that synthesizes some of the most interesting findings. Focusing on deviations of the practice of proportionality from theory, the authors conclude their argument in support of an inteTrade Review'It lifts the discussion on proportionality out of the theoretical plane and places in squarely in the realm of the empirical. Their contribution is in other words exceptionally important, in steering the normative debate from a spiral of theoretical debates lifting ever further from the ground, to one shaped by the reality of practice. It is in short a considerable feat of comparative empirical constitutional scholarship.' Liora Lazarus, Associate Professor in Law, University of Oxford'Originally developed by the German Constitutional Court, proportionality as a tool to examine limitations or infringements of fundamental rights is today discussed worldwide and practiced in more and more countries, albeit in different ways. The comparison of six leading jurisdictions makes this book a foremost source of information on the proportionality principle and a valuable guide for its practical use.' Dieter Grimm, Professor of Law, Humboldt University Berlin and Former Justice of the German Constitutional CourtTable of ContentsIntroduction. Analyzing proportionality comparatively and empirically Talya Steiner, Andrej Lang and Mordechai Kremnitzer; 1. Proportionality analysis by the German Federal Constitutional Court Andrej Lang; 2. Proportionality analysis by the Canadian Supreme Court Lorian Hardcastle; 3. Proportionality analysis by the South African Constitutional Court Richard Stacey; 4. Proportionality analysis by the Israeli Supreme Court Talya Steiner; 5. Proportionality analysis by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal Anna Śledzińska-Simon; 6. Proportionality analysis by the Indian Supreme Court Aparna Chandra; 7. Comparative and empirical insights into judicial practice: towards an integrative model of proportionality Talya Steiner, Andrej Lang and Mordechai Kremnitzer; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Failure of Popular Constitution Making in Turkey
Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth account of the failure of popular constitution making in Turkey from 2011 to 2013, which was an anomaly in the otherwise authoritarian history of Turkish constitutional politics. The authors demonstrate that, even in unfavorable conditions, constitution making that brings together different stakeholders can potentially lead to significant improvement of constitutional regimes. Long-standing societal divides regarding cultural and religious diversity, which were evident in political parties'' negotiations, played a significant role in the failure of the process in Turkey. Most notably, the ruling AKP''s insistence on establishing a presidential system - supported by neither other political parties nor the public - destabilized the process and exacerbated distrust among the drafters. Unfavorable procedures, particularly an unrealistic deadline and the unanimity principle, prevented consensus and allowed the AKP to hijack the process. The process was a missed Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: Introduction Felix Petersen and Zeynep Yanasmayan; 1. Explaining the failure of popular constitution making in Turkey (2011–13) Felix Petersen and Zeynep Yanaşmayan; Part II. Contextualizing Constitution Making in Turkey: 2. The people and its embodiment: authoritarian foundations of constitutions in Turkey Ertuğ Tombuş; 3. Regime cycles, constitution making, and the political system question in Ottoman and Turkish constitutional developments Şule Özsoy Boyunsuz; 4. Illiberal media and popular constitution making in Turkey Burcu Baykurt; Part III. Debating and Drafting the Constitution in 2011–13; 5. Debating state organization principles in the constitutional Conciliation Commission Gözde Böcü and Felix Petersen; 6. Glass half full: drafting fundamental rights in the Turkish constitution-making process (2011–13) Oya Yegen and Zeynep Yanaşmayan; 7. Countermajoritarian institutions in Turkish constitution making Maria Abad Andrade; 8. Debating the amendment-making rule: the rigidity vs. flexibility debate in the Turkish constitution-making process Oya Yegen.
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Cambridge University Press International Law Reports Volume 187
Book SynopsisVolume 187 is devoted to the Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) and the Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica), and Opinion 1/17 (EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement [CETA Opinion]).Table of Contents1. Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) and the Construction of a Road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v. Costa Rica), 2. Opinion 1/17 (EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement [CETA Opinion]).
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Cambridge University Press Mobilising International Law for Global Justice
Book SynopsisThis book aims to reach scholars and undergraduate students interested in the theme of global justice and the dynamics of international law-making and enforcement. Practicing lawyers and public officials will also appreciate its grounded studies on the challenges of applying international law in response to complex social and political problems.Trade Review'… very well researched, tightly argued, and refreshingly coherent … This volume is clearly intended for scholars and more advanced students of international law and relations and will be of most use to those who are well versed in critical legal studies …' Eric A. Heinze, H-Diplo'The chapters showcase a diverse range of topics and methodologies. Through a series of case studies, the book aims to provide a number of strategies for these actors to realise the goal of preventing impunity for breaches of international law. In doing so, the book illustrates that it is possible for civil society and international lawyers to effect positive change in State-centric international legal institutions … The question of whether human rights change within a State is 'top-down' from international institutions or 'bottom up' from a mobilized society is one that international lawyers often contemplate. This book shows that under certain circumstances, it is possible for civil society to re-describe the issue to achieve some form of international justice, and that in order to do so, international law must couple with other areas, including international politics. Ultimately, this edited collection reminds international lawyers and civil society that instead of calling for reform of international institutions, there are other more effective means of achieving global justice.' Amina Adanan, Journal of Conflict & Security Law (2022)Table of Contents1. Mobilising international law as an instrument of global justice Jeff Handmaker and Karin Arts; 2. Speaking the language of international law and politics: or, of ducks, rabbits, and then some Martti Koskenniemi; 3. The globalisation of justice: amplifying and silencing voices at the ICC Sarah Nouwen and Warner ten Kate; 4. Justice through direct action: the case of the Gaza 'Freedom Flotilla' Claudia Saba; 5. The Hague Conventions: giving effect to human rights through instruments of private international law Maja Groff; 6. Current developments in the fight against corruption Abiola Makinwa; 7. A fatal attraction? The UN Security Council and the relationship between R2P and the International Criminal Court Mark Kersten; 8. A return to stability? Hegemonic and counter-hegemonic positions in the debate on universal jurisdiction in absentia Aisling O'Sullivan; 9. The domestic politics of international children's rights: a Dutch perspective Jasper Krommendijk; 10. Human rights cities: the politics of bringing human rights home to the local level Barbara Oomen; 11. Taking seriously the politics of international law Jeff Handmaker and Karin Arts.
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Cambridge University Press Divorce and Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book captures the Indian state''s difficult dialogue with divorce, mediated largely through religion. By mapping the trajectories of marriage and divorce laws of Hindu, Muslim, and Christian communities in post-colonial India, it explores the dynamic interplay between law, religion, family, minority rights and gender in Indian politics. It demonstrates that the binary frameworks of the private-public divide, individuals versus group rights, and universal rights versus legal pluralism collapse before the peculiarities of religious personal law. Historicizing the legislative and judicial response to decades of public debates and activism on the question of personal law, it suggests that the sustained negotiations over family life within and across the legal landscape provoked a unique and deeply contextual evolution of both, secularism and religion in India''s constitutional order. Personal law, therefore, played a key role in defining the place of religion and determining the conteTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction: law as a dialogue; 1. Personal law and the making of modern religion 1946–1956; 2. Committees, codes and customs: renegotiating personal law 1957–1969; 3. Social movements, national emergency, and the custody of the Constitution 1967–1979; 4. Muslim law, Hindu nationalism: secularism of community and gender 1980–1992; 5. The court in context 1992-2000s; 6. From the court room to the courtyard: the public life of personal law 2000–present; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Kants Tribunal of Reason
Book SynopsisKant''s Critique of Pure Reason, his main work of theoretical philosophy, frequently uses metaphors from law. In this first book-length study in English of Kant''s legal metaphors and their role in the first Critique, Sofie Møller shows that they are central to Kant''s account of reason. Through an analysis of the legal metaphors in their entirety, she demonstrates that Kant conceives of reason as having a structure mirroring that of a legal system in a natural right framework. Her study shows that Kant''s aim is to make cognisers become similar to authorized judges within such a system, by proving the legitimacy of the laws and the conditions under which valid judgments can be pronounced. These elements consolidate her conclusion that reason''s systematicity is legal systematicity.Trade Review'The simplest objection to Kant's Critical project – the claim that reason cannot critique itself – is one that Kant himself not only anticipated but largely answered. Moller shows how Kant's extensive legal metaphors throughout the Critique of Pure Reason form a coherent whole intended to explain the basis of reason's self-critique. She provides the best explanation yet of how Kant defended his critical project, one that also reveals Kant's deep understanding of natural law theory.' Frederick Rauscher, Michigan State University'… offers the reader a detailed and historically rich account of the legal terminology that Kant adopts or references. Møller's book is a wonderful antidote to the sense one sometimes has, even when one reads Kant in the original, that one is still reading a slightly different and distant language.' Kantian Review'Møller's book delivers on many of its central claims and should have considerable influence on those interested in Kant's legal metaphors.' Jessica Tizzard, Journal of the History of PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction; I.1 The cognitive function of metaphors; I.2 Methodological considerations; I.3 The primacy of practical reason and epistemic normativity; I.4 Outline of the book; 1. The critique as the establishment of reason's lawful condition; 1.1 The critique as a review of laws; 1.2 The natural right tradition and the Naturrecht Feyerabend; 1.3 The critique as a lawful solution to conflicts; 1.4 Establishing a rightful condition; 2. The normativity of law; 2.1 Natural right and positive law; 2.2 Laws of nature in the natural sciences; 2.3 A priori laws as objectively valid rules; 2.4 Laws and principles; 2.5 The understanding as prescribing laws to nature; 3. The transcendental deduction and the tradition of legal deductions; 3.1 Quid juris and the transcendental deduction; 3.2 The analogy between concepts and property; 3.3 The transcendental deduction as a legal deduction tracing an origin; 3.4 The tradition of legal deductions; 4. The question of fact and the question of law in judicial imputation and in the transcendental deduction; 4.1 Quid facti and the tracing of an origin; 4.2 Quid facti and the metaphysical deduction; 4.3 The question of fact and the question of law in judicial imputation; 4.4 The transcendental deduction as judicial imputation; 5. The tribunal of reason; 5.1 The critique as tribunal; 5.2 The Antinomies as a legal trial; 5.3 Empirical experience as testimony; 5.4 The reader as judge of the critique; 5.5 The outcome of the critique as verdict; 6. Moral conscience as the practical inner tribunal; 6.1 Conscience as an inner tribunal; 6.2 Self-deception in moral conscience; 6.3 The problem of an erring conscience; 6.4 Parallels between moral conscience and the critique of pure reason; 7. Distinguishing between rightful claims and groundless pretensions; 7.1 Historical background on judicial authority; 7.2 Kant on judicial authority; 7.3 The judicial office in the legal metaphors; 7.4 Authority and validity of judgments and inferences; 8. Epistemic authority as both individual and collectively shared; 8.1 Decrees as the opposite of verdicts; 8.2 Cognitive attitudes; 8.3 Epistemic authority and the thinking self; 8.4 Political aspects of the critique of pure reason; 8.5 The community of cognisers; 9. Systematicity and philosophy as the legislation of reason; 9.1 Other images of systematicity: the organism and the building; 9.2 The legal metaphors as illustrations of systematicity; 9.3 Philosophy as the legislation of human reason; 9.4 Systematicity in the Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic; 9.5 The critique as the science of the laws of pure reason; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Book SynopsisA new and an essential reference work for any international human rights law academic, student or practitioner, A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights spans all substantive rights of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), approached from the perspective of the ICCPR as an integrated, coherent scheme of rights protection. In detailed coverage of the Human Rights Committee''s output when monitoring ICCPR compliance, Paul M. Taylor offers extraordinary access to forty years of its Concluding Observations, Views and General Comments organised thematically. This Commentary is a solid and practical introduction to any and all of the civil and political rights in the ICCPR, and a rare resource explaining the requirements for domestic implementation of ICCPR standards. An indispensable research tool for any serious enquirer into the subject, the Commentary speaks to the accomplishments of the ICCPR in striving for universal human rigTrade Review'Paul Taylor's Commentary is a monumental achievement. It will take its place as an indispensable guide for human rights lawyers everywhere.' Ian Leigh, Professor of Law, Durham University'Commentaries on international treaties have become an indispensable tool for academics and practitioners alike. Paul Taylor's Commentary with its up to date analysis of the Human Rights Committee's interpretation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political is one of those. Based on an impressive wealth of documents this reference work will be an indispensable resource for all those seeking guidance for domestic implementation.' Anja Seibert-Fohr, former Vice Chair of the Human Rights Committee'When I have a tricky problem involving the ICCPR come across my desk, whether as an academic or a practising barrister, Paul Taylor's Commentary will be the first book I will turn to for guidance. It is fresh, exhaustive (in the best sense), and authoritative.' Conor Gearty, LSE and Matrix Chambers'Paul Taylor has composed an excellent commentary covering all the substantive articles of the ICCPR, including over 40 years of interpretive work by the UN Human Rights Committee. The author examines pertinent drafting history, the contours of various elements in each article, the interplay and interdependence of different rights, the Committee's jurisprudence, general comments and concluding observations and, where relevant, he situates his findings within the broader scheme of international human rights law, as well as academic commentary. The result is a comprehensive and compelling analysis of civil and political rights that will not only facilitate a deep and nuanced understanding of the range and scope of these rights and freedoms, but, crucially, will also make an outstanding contribution to advancing the implementation of human rights. Written in very accessible language, the book represents an essential and insightful guide for scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners.' Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or BeliefTable of Contents1. Self determination; 2. To 'respect and to ensure' covenant rights; 3. The equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of Covenant rights; 4. Derogation in times of officially proclaimed public emergency threatening the life of the nation; 5. Bar on interpreting the Covenant in abuse of rights; 6. The right to life; 7. Torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; 8. Slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour; 9. Liberty and security; 10. Treatment of those deprived of their liberty; 11. Imprisonment for inability to fulfil a contractual obligation; 12. Freedom of movement of the person; 13. Procedural safeguards in the expulsion of aliens; 14. Fair trial rights; 15. Retroactive criminal law; 16. Recognition as a person before the law; 17. Privacy, home, correspondence; 18. Honour and reputation; 19. Freedom of thought, conscience and religion; 20. Freedom of expression; 21. Propaganda for war and hate speech; 22. Freedom of assembly; 23. Freedom of association; 24. Protection for the family; 25. Protection required for children; 26. Right to participate in public affairs, electoral rights and access to public service; 27. Equality before the law, equal protection of the law; 28. Ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities.
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Cambridge University Press Legal Scholarship for the Urban Core
Book SynopsisThe problems of entrenched poverty and economic underdevelopment in American urban cores involve multiple overlapping challenges that have stymied consistent and long-term progress. Good laws, and good lawyering, can contribute enormously to overcoming these challenges. This book is for anyone concerned about the current state of American urban cores.Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Change on the Ground: Case Studies of Law Reform in Action: 2. The drive for economic justice at America's Port Scott Cummings; 3. Making good on the 'primacy of labor': a case study of democratic participation in a pioneering American cooperative Rashmi Dyal-Chand; Part II. Reimagining Law for the Urban Core: 4. Community development finance and economic justice Peter Pitegoff; 5. How to increase our affordable housing stock Robert Solomon; Part III. The Legal Academy and the Urban Core: 6. Focused ethnography: a methodological approach for engaged legal scholarship Tonya L. Brito, Daanika Gordon and David J. Pate, Jr; 7. Legal education, democracy, and the urban core Kathleen S. Morris; 8. Education and social justice: urban schools and law schools Peter Enrich; 9. Conclusion: legal scholarship from the ground up.
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Cambridge University Press International Law and the Cold War
Book SynopsisInternational Law and the Cold War is the first book dedicated to examining the relationship between the Cold War and International Law. The authors adopt a variety of creative approaches - in relation to events and fields such as nuclear war, environmental protection, the Suez crisis and the Lumumba assassination - in order to demonstrate the many ways in which international law acted upon the Cold War and in turn show how contemporary international law is an inheritance of the Cold War. Their innovative research traces the connections between the Cold War and contemporary legal constructions of the nation-state, the environment, the third world, and the refugee; and between law, technology, science, history, literature, art, and politics.Trade Review'... a volume that definitely refutes the biased view of the Cold War as a terra incognita for international lawyers and summons historians to take up the gauntlet of writing Cold War histories that account for the multiple dimensions in which international law was made and performed during a period we have not entirely moved out to this day.' Etienne Peyrat, Journal of the history of International LawTable of ContentsDedication; About the editors; About the authors; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Reading and unreading a historiography of hiatus Matthew Craven, Sundhya Pahuja and Gerry Simpson; Part I. The Anti-Linear Cold War: 2. International law and the Cold War: reflections on the concept of history Richard Joyce; 3. The elusive peace of Panmunjom Dino Kritsiotis; Part II. The Generative/Productive Cold War: 4. Accounting for the ENMOD convention: Cold War influences on the origins and development of the 1976 Convention on Environmental Modification techniques Emily Crawford; 5. Nuclear weapons law and the Cold War and post-Cold War worlds: a story of co-production Anna Hood; 6. Parallel worlds: Cold War division space Scott Newton; 7. Shadowboxing: the data shadows of Cold War international law Fleur Johns; 8. Contesting the right to leave in international law: The Berlin Wall, the third world brain drain and the politics of emigration in the 1960s Sara Dehm; 9. Bridging ideologies: Julian Huxley, Détente, and the emergence of international environmental law Aaron Wu; 10. More than a 'parlour game': international law in Australian public debate, 1965–1966 Madelaine Chiam; 11. Environmental justice, the Cold War and US human rights exceptionalism Carmen G. Gonzalez; 12. The Cold War and its impact on Soviet legal doctrine Anna Isaeva; 13. Forced labour Anne-Charlotte Martineau; 14. Rupture and continuity: North–South struggles over debt and economic co-operation at the end of the Cold War Julia Dehm; 15. The Cold War history of the landmines convention Treasa Dunworth; Part III. The Parochial/Plural Cold War: 16. The Cold War in Soviet international legal discourse Boris N. Mamlyuk; 17. The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric socialism and the politics of international legal theory Teemu Ruskola; 18. 'The dust of Empire': the dialectic of self-determination and re-colonisation in the first phase of the Cold War Upendra Baxi; 19. The 'Bihar Famine' and the authorisation of the green revolution in India: developmental futures and disaster imaginaries Adil Hasan Khan; 20. Pakistan's Cold War(s) and international law Vanja Hamzić; 21. International law, Cold War juridical theatre, and the making of the Suez Crisis Charlie Peevers; 22. To seek with beauty to set the world right: Cold War international law and the radical 'imaginative geography' of Pan-Africanism Christopher Gevers; 23. John Le Carré, international law and the Cold War Tony Carty; 24. Postcolonial hauntings and Cold War continuities: Congolese sovereignty and the murder of Patrice Lumumba Sara Kendall; 25. End times in the Antipodes: propaganda and critique in On the Beach Ruth Buchanan.
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Cambridge University Press Human Germline Genome Modification and the Right to Science
Book SynopsisThe advent of the CRISPR/Cas9 class of genome editing tools is transforming not just science and medicine, but also law. When the genome of germline cells is modified, the modifications could be inherited, with far-reaching effects in time and scale. Legal systems are struggling with keeping up with the CRISPR revolution and both lawyers and scientists are often confused about existing regulations. This book contains an analysis of the national regulatory framework in eighteen selected countries. Written by national legal experts, it includes all major players in bioengineering, plus an analysis of the emerging international standards and a discussion of how international human rights standards should inform national and international regulatory frameworks. The authors propose a set of principles for the regulation of germline engineering, based on international human rights law, that can be the foundation for regulating heritable gene editing both at the level of countries as well as Table of Contents1. Introduction Andrea Boggio,Cesare P. R. Romano and Jessica Almqvist; 2. The governance of human (germline) genome modification at the international and transnational level; Part I. North America: 3. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Canada Erika Kleiderman; 4. The regulation of human germline genome modification in the United States Kerry Lynn Macintosh; 5. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Mexico María de Jesús Medina Arellano; Part II. Europe: 6. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Europe Jessica Almqvist and Cesare P. R. Romano; 7. The regulation of human germline genome modification in the United Kingdom James Lawford Davies; 8. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Germany Timo Faltus; 9. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Belgium Guido Pennings; 10. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Sweden Santa Slokenberga and Heidi Carmen Howard; 11. The regulation of human germline genome modification in the Netherlands Britta van Beers, Charlotte de Kluiver and Rick Maas; 12. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Italy Ludovica Poli; 13. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Spain Iñigo de Miguel Beriain and Carlos María Romeo Casabona; 14. The regulation of human germline genome modification in France Alessandro Blasimme, Dorothée Caminiti and Effy Vayena; 15. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Switzerland Alessandro Blasimme, Dorothée Caminiti and Effy Vayena; Part III. Asia: 16. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Japan Tetsuya Ishii; 17. The regulation of human germline genome modification in The People's Republic of China Lingqiao Song and Rosario Isasi; 18. The regulation of human germline genome modification in The Republic of Korea Hannah Kim and Yann Joly; 19. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Singapore Calvin W. L. Ho; Part IV. Other OECD Countries: 20. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Australia Dianne Nicol; 21. The regulation of human germline genome modification in Israel Vardit Ravitsky and Gali Ben-Or; 22. Towards a human rights framework for the regulation of human germline genome modification Andrea Boggio, Cesare P. R. Romano and Jessica Almqvist.
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Cambridge University Press Global Environment Outlook Geo6 Technical Summary
Book SynopsisThe sixth Global Environment Outlook was launched in 2019 at the fourth UN Environment Assembly. It highlighted the ongoing damage to life and health from pollution and land degradation, and warned that zoonosis was already accounting for more than 60% of human infectious diseases.Since then the spread of COVID-19 has demonstrated the enormous challenges a global pandemic can cause for health care systems and the economy, as well as revealing potential environmental benefits of an altered lifestyle. This Technical Summary synthesizes the science and data in the GEO-6 report to make it accessible to a broad audience of policymakers, students and scientists. It demonstrates that more urgent and sustained action is required to address the degradation caused by our energy, food and waste systems and identifies a variety of transformational pathways for those seeking far-reaching policies for environmental and economic recovery. Also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Trade Review'The sixth Global Environment Outlook is an essential check-up for our planet. Like any good medical examination, there is a clear prognosis of what will happen if we continue with business as usual and a set of recommended actions to put things right. GEO-6 details both the perils of delaying action and the opportunities that exist to make sustainable development a reality.' António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations'The global pandemic COVID-19 has demonstrated the interconnected nature of the planet's life support systems and that we cannot return to business as usual. And the good news is that in building back better, we can ensure both a healthy environment and healthy people.' Inger Andersen, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Environment ProgrammeTable of Contents1. A healthy planet supports healthy people; 2. Five drivers affect the health of the planet; 3. An Increasingly unhealthy planet affects everyone's health; 4. Despite some success stories, policy measures lag behind; 5. A healthy planet and healthy people are synergetic: Achieving transformative change; 6. Data and knowledge for a healthy planet; Annex 1. Examples of other global environmental assessments and their links to GEO-6; 6. Acronyms and abbreviations; 8. Glossary.
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Cambridge University Press Global Environment Outlook GEO6 Summary for Policymakers
Book SynopsisPublished to coincide with the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, the Summary for Policymakers of the sixth Global Environment Outlook provides an evidence-based source of environmental information to help policymakers in government, local authorities and businesses achieve the UN''s Sustainable Development Goals. Since the first edition in 1997, there have been many examples of environmental improvement, especially where problems have been well identified, manageable, and where regulatory and technological solutions have been readily available. Nevertheless, the overall condition of the global environment has deteriorated and urgent action, involving ambitious and effective policies, is necessary to arrest and reverse this situation. This Summary for Policymakers answers key policy questions by assessing the drivers of environmental change, the scale and effectiveness of policy responses, potential pathways for achieving sustainability goals in an increasingly complex worldTrade Review'The sixth Global Environment Outlook is an essential check-up for our planet. Like any good medical examination, there is a clear prognosis of what will happen if we continue with business as usual and a set of recommended actions to put things right. GEO-6 details both the perils of delaying action and the opportunities that exist to make sustainable development a reality.' António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United NationsTable of Contents1. What is the global environmental outlook?; 2. What is happening to our environment and how have we responded?; 3. Effectiveness of environmental policies; 4. Changing the path we are on; 5. Knowledge for action; References.
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Cambridge University Press Biological Extinction
Book SynopsisThe rapidly increasing human pressure on the biosphere is pushing biodiversity into the sixth mass extinction event in the history of life on Earth. The organisms being exterminated are integral working parts of our planet''s life support system,and their loss is permanent. Like climate change, this irreversible loss has potentially devastating consequences for humanity. As we come to recognise the many ways in which we depend on nature, this can pave the way for a new ethic that acknowledges the importance of co-existence between humans and other species. Biological Extinction features chapters contributed by leading thinkers in diverse fields of knowledge and practice, including biology, economics, geology, archaeology, demography, architecture and intermediate technology. Drawing on examples from various socio-ecological systems, the book offers new perspectives on the urgent issue of biological extinction, proposing novel solutions to the problems that we face.Trade Review'Many policy makers, especially those trained in economics, can describe the management of environmental systems as if we (humans) are best suited to be in the 'driver's seat', making all the decisions to assure our wellbeing is the sole consideration. They should all read the chapters in this volume! Extinction is an irreversible externality whose full impact is uncertain. By combining the insights of social and natural scientists, Dasgupta, Raven, and McIvor have assembled essays that will change this view. They are accessible, engaging, and important.' V. Kerry Smith, Emeritus Regents Professor, Arizona State University'Partha Dasgupta, unexcelled among economists for his contributions to ecological economics, and Peter Raven, revered for his leadership in biodiversity science, have combined to assemble a collection of papers by a virtual who's who of experts on the subject of biodiversity loss and sustainability. This volume, the product of an obviously remarkable meeting at the Vatican, will be a touchstone for all those concerned with our declining biodiversity, and the implications for the future welfare of humanity.' Simon A. Levin, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University'This volume provides an informative reference for policy makers and practitioners, offering new perspectives on biological extinction that adopt principles of social justice and sustainability.' R. A. Delgado, Jr, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Partha Dasgupta and Peter Raven; Prologue. Extinction: what it means to us Martin Rees; 1. Extinction in deep time: lessons from the past? Neil Shubin; 2. Biodiversity and global change: from creator to victim Timothy Lenton; 3. The state of the world's biodiversity Stuart Pimm and Peter Raven; 4. Extinction threats to life in the ocean and opportunities for their amelioration Jenna Sullivan, Vanessa Constant and Jane Lubchenco; 5. Out of the soil: soil (dark matter biodiversity) and societal 'collapses' from Mesoamerica to the Mesopotamia and beyond Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach and Nicholas Dunning; 6. The Green Revolution and crop biodiversity Prabhu Pingali; 7. Population: the current state and future prospects John Bongaarts; 8. Game over? Drivers of biological extinction in Africa Calestous Juma; 9. Why we're in the sixth great extinction and what it means to humanity Partha Dasgupta and Paul Ehrlich; 10. The consequences of biodiversity loss for human well-being Charles Perrings and Ann Kinzig; 11. Terra incognita: in search of the disconnect Mathis Wackernagel; 12. How do we stem biodiversity loss? Gretchen Daily and Stephen Polasky; 13. Can smart villages help to stem biodiversity loss? Brian Heap, John Holmes and Bernie Jones; 14. The new design condition: planetary urbanism + resource scarcity + climate change John Hoal.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Divorce
Book SynopsisThis is the first history of Irish divorce. Spanning the island of Ireland over three centuries, it places the human experience of marriage breakdown centre stage to explore the impact of a highly restrictive and gendered law and its reform. It considers the accessibility of Irish divorce as it moved from a parliamentary process in Westminster, the Irish parliament and the Northern Ireland parliament to a court-based process. This socio-legal approach allows changing definitions of gendered marital roles and marital cruelty to be assessed. In charting the exceptionalism of Ireland''s divorce provision in a European and imperial framework, the study uncovers governmental reluctance to reform Irish divorce law which spans jurisdictions and centuries. This was therefore not only a law dictated by religious strictures but also by a long-lived moral conservatism.Trade Review'Covering the past four hundred years, this is a major contribution to legal, social and gender history. Urquhart's work is highly revealing about the double-standards towards sexual behaviour, Irish exceptionalism, Catholic and Protestant attitudes towards moral questions, and absence of legal uniformity under the Union.' Mary E. Daly, University College Dublin'This is a superb book - ambitious in scope, yet securely anchored in a formidable array of sources: it is characterised both by judiciousness and by an unflagging empathy. Diane Urquhart has rescued a centrally important theme from neglect and over-simplification - and has thereby consolidated her position within the front rank of modern Irish historians.' Alvin Jackson, University of Edinburgh'Based on extensive archival research, including parliamentary and court evidence, memoirs, letters, and diaries, Irish Divorce provides a nuanced understanding of a practice that concerned itself with both property and gendered propriety. Urquhart makes a significant contribution to understanding the complicated relationship between church, state, and Irish society since 1700.' Karen Steele, Texas Christian University'Urquhart's book represents an insightful and compassionate foray into a very new field. The first all-Ireland history of divorce, it demonstrates how marriage breakdown reflected society's need to regulate succession, sexuality, and legitimacy. This exceptional work charts divorce's role in shaping, and reflecting, modern Ireland's attitude to gender and citizenship.' Oonagh Walsh, Glasgow Caledonian University'(A) balanced and masterful treatment of complex issues.' Brian Maye, Irish Times'As lucid as it is thorough, Irish Divorce: A History contributes a comprehensive look at a fraught social issue through exhaustive research and careful contextualisation. It offers a profoundly humane and empathetic analysis of what, for many, proved an elusive necessity that was cordoned off—for centuries—by ideological, nationalistic, imperial, and/or political boundaries and further inflected by class and gender. As a result, this study has much to teach us not only about divorce, but also about the ways the self-fashionings and political maneuverings of a nation-state can subvert the very citizens they are purportedly meant to serve …' Kate Costello-Sullivan, Estudios IrlandesesIrish Divorce: A History contributes a comprehensive look at a fraught social issue through exhaustive research and careful contextualisation.' Kate Costello-Sullivan, Electronic Journal of the Spanish Association for Irish StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. The 'anatomy of a divorce'; 1. Divorce in two legislatures: Irish divorce, 1701–1857; 2. The failings of the law: the cases of Talbot and Westmeath; 3. A non-inclusive reform: Ireland and the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857; 4. Divorce in the post-reform era of 1857–1922: 'Like diamonds, gambling, and picture-fancying, a luxury of the rich'?; 5. The widening definition of marital cruelty; 6. Divorce in court, 1857–1922; 7. 'An exotic in very ungenial soil': divorce in the Northern Ireland parliament, 1921–1939; 8. With as 'little provocative as possible': the Northern Ireland move to court; 9. An 'unhappy affair': divorce in independent Ireland, 1922–1950; 10. Marriage law 'in this country is an absolute shambles': the reform agenda; 11. A 'curiosity [and]…an oddity': referenda in 1986 and 1995; 12. The 'last stretch of a long road': the Family (Divorce) Law Act of 1996; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Legal Right to Housing in India
Book SynopsisThis book on constructing a legal right to housing in India seeks to achieve three ends: first, examine the costs incurred in translating a moral right into the language of the law; second, unpack the ways in which existing law and policy impact the realisation of the right to housing and situate any attempt to legally guarantee the right within this context; and finally, begin thinking through the many complexities that will arise should the right be articulated within the law. A comprehensive chronology of central housing law and policy provides the descriptive background for this analytical text, while also acting as a rich introductory resource on the subject. Asserting a need as a right and then seeking legislative recognition for the right is a formula often used in rights struggles. This book takes a critical look at this process, in order to facilitate informed engagement with the law.Table of ContentsForeword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Cases; List of Statutes; Introduction; 1. The act of definition; 2. The Indian State in response to housing claims; 3. Mapping the legal environment; Conclusion; Annexure 1. Central housing law and policy; Annexure 2. National campaign for housing rights; Annexure 3. The national right to homestead bill, 2013; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Law and Ethics for Australian Teachers
Book SynopsisGetting to grips with law and policy can be daunting for beginning and established teachers alike. Law and Ethics for Australian Teachers provides an overview of the professional, legal and ethical issues teachers may encounter in the classroom and the broader school environment. This book breaks down the relevant case law, as well as state and territory legislation and policy, in an accessible way to help readers navigate these complex issues. It covers topics including duty of care and mandatory reporting, work health and safety issues, family court orders and parenting plans, suspensions and exclusions, and criminal law issues. Each chapter features case studies, definitions of key terms, detailed scenarios and end-of-chapter questions to help readers understand a wide range of professional issues. Written by a team of authors with both teaching and legal expertise, Law and Ethics for Australian Teachers is an essential resource for pre- and in-service teachers.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Overview of the Australian Legal System; 1. Duty of Care Inside and Outside of the School; 2. Privacy Issues; 3. Anti-Discrimination Within the School Context; 4. Work Health Safety Issues; 5. Orders and Parenting Plans Under Family Law; 6. Child Protection and Mandatory Reporting; 7. Suspensions and Exclusions; 8. Criminal Matters in the School; 9. Cyberbullying and Other Online Problems; 10. General Ethical Responsibilities of Teachers; 11. Professional Regulation and Teacher Registration; 12. Disciplinary Proceedings Against Teachers; 13. Protections Afforded to Teachers.
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Cambridge University Press ASEAN Consumer Law Harmonisation and Cooperation
Book SynopsisThis is the first Western-language research monograph detailing significant developments in consumer law and policy across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), underpinned by a growing middle class and implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community from 2016. Eight chapters examine consumer law topics within ASEAN member states (such as product safety and consumer contracts) and across them (financial and health services), as well as the interface with competition law and the nature of ASEAN as a unique and evolving international organisation. The authors include insights from extensive fieldwork, partly through consultancies for the ASEAN Secretariat, to provide a reliable, contextual and up-to-date analysis of consumer law and policy development across the region. The volume also draws on and contributes to theories of law and development in multiple fields, including comparative law, political economy and regional studies.Trade Review'Four leading Australian consumer law scholars have produced a book that provides valuable insights into the development of consumer law in the ASEAN region. They throw light on consumer law in under-researched jurisdictions and their reflections will help develop consumer policy in the region and deepen our understanding of consumer policy globally. Hopefully it will provide an impetus for further ASEAN initiatives.' Geraint Howells, Dean and Chair Professor of Commercial Law, City University of Hong Kong'[an excellent example of how comparative law] scholarship can incisively deconstruct unfamiliar legal systems and make them more accessible to a wider audience ... [that] clearly exposes and explains the challenges which each system faces on its own terms ... an admirable achievement.' The Hon T. F. Bathurst AC, Chief Justice Of New South Wales, reproduced with permission at: https://japaneselaw.sydney.edu.au/2019/11/guest-blog-launch-by-bathurst-cj-of-asian-law-books/Table of Contents1. Introduction: backdrop and overarching perspectives; 2. Theoretical perspectives on ASEAN and consumer law developments; 3. Product safety law: fragmented regulation and emergent product liability regimes; 4. Regulating consumer contracts in ASEAN: variation and change; 5. Consumer financial services: what role for ASEAN?; 6. Professional health services: ASEAN's trade liberalisation agenda; 7. Integration with competition policies, laws and institutions: opportunities for ASEAN consumer protection; 8. Key reflections and future directions.
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Cambridge University Press Australian Commercial Law
Book SynopsisFully revised and updated, Australian Commercial Law offers a comprehensive, accessible introduction to key aspects of Australian commercial law. Part 1 introduces the fundamentals of contract law and business structures before examining the sale of goods, agency, bailment and personal property. Part 2 covers the Australian Consumer Law, focusing on areas important to commercial entities that interact with consumers. Part 3 examines international commercial law, providing a detailed introduction to the World Trade Organization and to agreements central to trade between countries. The second edition includes: detailed discussion of key concepts in commercial law; four new chapters on contract law basics, business structures, bankruptcy and international commercial law; thorough integration of digital and e-commerce transactions; and end-of-chapter discussion questions designed to test reader knowledge of key points and themes. Written in a clear and concise style by an expert author teaTable of ContentsPreface; Table of cases; Table of statutes; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Author biographies; Part I. Australian Commercial Law: 1. Contract law and commercial regulators; 2. Business structures; 3. Personal property; 4. Sale of goods; 5. Transfer of property; 6. Price and delivery; 7. Agency law; 8. Bailment; 9. Personal Properties Security Act; 10. Contracts of guarantee; 11. Insurance; 12. Bankruptcy; Part II. Australian Consumer Law: 13. Unfair contract terms; 14. Product liability; 15. Consumer guarantees; 16. Unconscionable conduct; 17. Misleading and deceptive conduct; Part III. International Commercial Law: 18. International commercial law.
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Cambridge University Press History and the Law
Book SynopsisFocusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives in their coverture, History and the Law reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Supported by clear, engaging examples taken from the historical record, and from the writing of historians including Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and E. P. Thompson, who each had troubled love affairs with the law, Carolyn Steedman puts the emphasis on English poor laws, copyright law, and laws regarding women. Evocatively written and highly original, History and the Law accounts for historians'' strange ambivalent love affair with the law and with legal records that appear to promise access to so many lives in the past.Trade Review'Steedman writes the sort of book we have come to expect - stunningly original, steeped in local archives and literature, distinctive in its methods and voice. History and the Law concerns the everyday legal encounters of ordinary people, and the attraction of the law for historians keen to understand hearts and minds in the past.' James Epstein, Vanderbilt University, Nashville'The always engaging and reflective Carolyn Steedman here chronicles her own and others' struggles to understand and make use of eighteenth-century law - others from that time and others from our time. Taken together, these essays sketch an important agenda for historical enquiry, as well as providing insights into the historian's craft.' Joanna Innes, University of Oxford'Steedman cleverly recounts the history of everyday experiences of the law in modern Britain. Beautifully written and drawing on a wealth of sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it will appeal to historians as well as literary and legal scholars alike.' Julia Moses, University of Sheffield'A distinctively approachable, eclectic and stimulating series of reflections on law and history's interactions, both in theory and practice, over the past four centuries, from a leading exponent of modern British cultural and social history.' Wilfrid Prest, Professor Emeritus of History and of Law, The University of Adelaide'Steedman provides a fascinating account of the interactions between the law and the English people in the decades around 1800, touching not only upon such well known figures as Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin but also a host of 'ordinary' men and women whose stories enter the historical record so infrequently. Readers of this book will come away with a novel, and perhaps surprising, understanding of the interactions between the law and society in the past.' James Sharpe, Professor Emeritus of Early Modern History, University of York'History and the Law is an intriguing volume that navigates fields and disciplines as distinct as plebeian culture, literary theory, and historiography … the reader's reward is watching a consummate historian at work.' J. A. Jaffe, Choice'… based on an abundance of printed and archival sources as well as extensive secondary literature, [this book] is an impressive monument of this fondness.' Mia Korpiola, Comparative Legal History'… based on an abundance of printed and archival sources as well as extensive secondary literature, [this book] is an impressive monument of this fondness.' Mia Korpiola, Comparative Legal History'… a stimulating and a thought provoking read.' Anne Logan, Cultural and Social HistoryTable of ContentsA beginning: 'history' Stephen Dunn; 1. Its ziggy shape; 2. Law troubles: two historians and some threatening letters; 3. Letters of the law: everyday uses of the law at the turn of the English nineteenth-century; 4. The worst of it: Blackstone and women; 5. Who owns Maria; 6. Sisters in laws; 7. Hating the law: Caleb Williams; 8. The kind of law a historian loved; An ending: not a story; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press From Parchment to Practice
Book SynopsisFrom Parchment to Practice explores the set of problems that arise when a new constitution has been adopted. All new constitutions must manage a balance or tension between two forces: aspirations for social and political transformation on the one hand and demands for preservation of old interests and institutions on the other. The period following the initial adoption of a new constitution, is the conceptual, temporal, and institutional bridge between the past and future. It is the moment when the transformative and the preservative forces in constitutional design can come into the sharpest conflict. Through a series of case studies, this volume analyzes the variable nature of these type of conflicts - and the diverse means through which they are mediated, whether successfully or not.Trade Review'Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.' E. C. Sands, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction. The first-period problem of constitutional implementation Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq; Part I. The Problem of Transformation in Constitutional Design: 2. Looking 'backward' or 'forward' to American constitutional development: reflections on constitutional 'endurance' and 'adaptation' in the 'First Republic' Sanford Levinson; 3. Marking constitutional transitions: the law and politics of constitutional implementation in South Africa Rosalind Dixon and Theunis Roux; 4. India's first period: constitutional doctrine and constitutional stability Madhav Khosla; 5. Two steps 'forward', one step 'back'? Transformation and correction in the implementation of Ecuador's 2008 constitution Eric Alston; Part II. The Issue of Gender: 6. The long road ahead: the first period of a gender-responsive constitution in Zimbabwe Claudia Flores; 7. Constitutional reform and women's political participation: electoral gender quotas in post-Arab Spring Egypt, Tunisia, and Jordan Susan H. Williams; Part III. Institutional Development and the Role of Courts: 8. Explaining the institutional role of the Colombian Constitutional Court Diego González; 9. Implementing a new constitution in a competitive authoritarian context: the case of Kenya James Thuo Gathii; Part IV. Authoritarian Transitions: 10. Transformational authoritarian constitutions: the case of Chile Tom Ginsburg; 11. Authoritarian straitjacket or vehicle for democratic transition?: the risky struggle to change Myanmar's constitution Melissa Crouch; 12. The Ethiopian constitution and ethnic federalism Daniel Abebe.
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Cambridge University Press New Technologies and the Law in War and Peace
Book SynopsisPolicymakers, legislators, scientists, thinkers, military strategists, academics, and all those interested in understanding the future want to know how twenty-first century scientific advance should be regulated in war and peace. This book tries to provide some of the answers. Part I summarises some important elements of the relevant law. In Part II, individual chapters are devoted to cyber capabilities, highly automated and autonomous systems, human enhancement technologies, human degradation techniques, the regulation of nanomaterials, novel naval technologies, outer space, synthetic brain technologies beyond artificial intelligence, and biometrics. The final part of the book notes important synergies that emerge between the different technologies and legal provisions, existing and proposed, assesses notions of convergence and of composition in international law, and provides some concluding remarks. The new technologies, their uses, and their regulation in war and peace are presenteTable of ContentsPart I: 1. Introduction William H. Boothby; 2. Regulating new weapon technologies William H. Boothby; 3. The law on the conduct of hostilities William H. Boothby; 4. Non-LOAC governed deployment of military technologies: some regulatory touchstones Rob McLaughlin; Part II: 5. Cyber capabilities William H. Boothby; 6. Highly automated and autonomous technologies William H. Boothby; 7. Military human enhancement Ioana Maria Puscas; 8. Legal aspects of human enhancement technologies Heather A. Harrison Dinniss; 9. Human degradation technologies and international law Harry Aitken and Hitoshi Nasu; 10. Nanomaterials: a tale of two applications Kobi Leins and Diana M. Bowman; 11. Naval technologies Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg; 12. Outer space Melissa de Zwart; 13. Synthetic brain technologies: beyond artificial intelligence David P. Fidler; 14. Biometrics William H. Boothby; 15. So, what do we make of all this? William H. Boothby.
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Cambridge University Press Anthropocene Encounters New Directions in Green Political Thinking
Book SynopsisCoined barely two decades ago, the Anthropocene has become one of the most influential and controversial terms in environmental policy. Yet it remains an ambivalent and contested formulation, giving rise to a multitude of unexpected, and often uncomfortable, conversations. This book traces in detail a broad variety of such ''Anthropocene encounters'': in science, philosophy and literary fiction. It asks what it means to ''think green'' in a time when nature no longer offers a stable backdrop to political analysis. Do familiar political categories and concepts, such as democracy, justice, power and time, hold when confronted with a world radically transformed by humans? The book responds by inviting more radical political thought, plural forms of engagement, and extended ethical commitments, making it a fascinating and timely volume for graduate students and researchers working in earth system governance, environmental politics and studies of the Anthropocene. This is one of a series ofTrade Review'… by discussing how the Anthropocene relates to contemporary political concepts such as democracy, power, and time, this collection opens up to multifaceted trajectories taking into consideration pluralist and critical perspectives.' L. A. Reisch and F. C. Doebbe, Journal of Consumer PolicyTable of ContentsList of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Encountering the 'Anthropocene': setting the scene Frank Biermann and Eva Lövbrand; Part I. The Conceptual Politics of the Anthropocene: Science, Philosophy, and Culture: 2. The 'Anthropocene' in global change science: expertise, the Earth, and the future of humanity Noel Castree; 3. The 'Anthropocene' in philosophy: the neo-material Turn and the question of nature Manuel Arias-Maldonado; 4. The 'Anthropocene' in popular culture: narrating human agency, force and our place on Earth Alexandra Nikoleris, Johannes Stripple and Paul Tenngart; Part II. Key Concepts and the Anthropocene: A Reconsideration: 5. Power, world politics and thing-systems in the Anthropocene Anthony Burke and Stefanie Fishel; 6. Time and politics in the Anthropocene: to fast, too slow? Victor Galaz; 7. Democracy in the Anthropocene Ayşem Mert; 8. Global justice and the Anthropocene: reproducing a development story Jeremy Baskin; Part III. The Practices of Political Study in the Anthropocene: 9. The 'Good Anthropocene' and green political theory: rethinking environmentalism, resisting ecomodernism Anne Fremaux and John Barry; 10. Co-producing knowledge and politics of the Anthropocene: the case of the future Earth program Silke Beck; 11. The ethics of political research in the Anthropocene Paul Wapner; 12. Epilogue: continuity and change in the Anthropocene James Meadowcroft; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Development of Environmental Laws in India
Book SynopsisDevelopment of Environmental Laws in India highlights the dynamic nature of environmental law-making in India between the judiciary, the executive and the parliament. This has led to the creation of a wide range of environmental institutions and bodies with varied roles and responsibilities. The book contains a large volume of materials from the late 1990s, which show a marked shift in the nature of environmental governance in India. These materials offer an understanding of the contemporary debates in environment law in the context of India''s economic liberalisation. The materials are thematically organized and presented in an accessible manner. The chapters contain definitions and specific clauses from the legal instruments and refer to court orders and judgements on these themes.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Environmental Laws and Development; 1. Fundamentals of Environmental Law; 2. Institutions Regulating India's Environment; 3. Forest Reservation and Conservation; 4. Pollution Control and Prevention; 5. Environment Protection; 6. Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation; 7. Ground and Surface Water Extraction; 8. Land Acquisition; 9. Climate Change; 10. Contemporary Environmental Law Reforms; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Fundamental Perspectives on International Law
Book SynopsisHow does international law impact the behavior of states? This book designed for students in multiple disciplines offers a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the ''law of nations,'' detailing the evolution of state practice in response to an ever-changing, diverse world. In this new edition of William Slomanson''s foundational text, the new authors, Professors Slagter and Van Doorn, trace how states manage their sovereignty in myriad ways, working through treaties, international organizations, and international courts to secure their own as well as global interests. With special emphasis on five key areas-human rights, the use of force, human security and humanitarian intervention, environmental protection, and economic relations-the authors illustrate both the power and limits of international law to provide structure and predictability on a globalized planet. Real-world problem sets, annotated bibliographies, and a practical guide to studying international law make this a text that students and instructors alike will appreciate.Trade Review'The authors have produced a superb book on the fundamental topics, issue areas, and perspectives on international law, appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students. The book is unmatched in its readability, organization, depth, and breadth and provides online support. The 7th edition builds and improves upon the long-enduring Bill Slomanson's book.' Ali Abootalebi, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire'Having taught international law for the past two decades, I have been on a long quest for a book that would present an engaging introduction to the subject matter for a diverse range of students, while striking the right balance between rigor and accessibility. Now, that quest has concluded with the 7th edition of Fundamental Perspectives on International Law.' Jack R. Mangala, Grand Valley State University'Slagter and Van Doorn have done an exceptional job updating Slomanson's Fundamental Perspectives on International Law for anyone interested in what international law can tell us about many contemporary global issues. The book draws on timely examples to provide an accessible overview of the promise and the limits of international law from traditional sources and emerging perspectives.' Adam Van Liere, University of Wisconsin La CrosseTable of Contents1. What Is International Law?; 2. States and Individuals in International Law; 3. Treaties and Diplomacy; 4. Range of Sovereignty; 5. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction; 6. International Organizations; 7. Human Rights; 8. The Use of Force by States; 9. Intervention and Human Security; 10. International Environmental Law; 11. International Economic Relations.
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Cambridge University Press Making Comparisons in Equality Law
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to rebalance the relationship between comparison and justification to achieve more effective equality and non-discrimination law. As one of the most distinguished equality lawyers of his generation, having appeared in over 40 cases in the House of Lords and the Supreme Court and many leading cases in the Court of Justice, Robin Allen QC is well placed to explore this critical issue. He shows how the principle of equality is nothing if not founded on apt comparisons. By examining the changing way men and women''s work has been compared over the last 100 years he shows the importance of understanding the framework for comparison. With these insights, he addresses contemporary problems of age discrimination and conflict of equality rights.Table of Contents1. Why comparisons matter?; 2. Establishing an effective right to equal pay for equal work; 3. Comparing across the ages; 4. Comparisons when equality rights are in conflict.
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Cambridge University Press EU Law
Book SynopsisThe Court of Justice of the European Union is the busiest court in the world. The second edition of this textbook explores why this is. It examines in detail the interactions between European Union and national institutions, instruments, laws and concepts that make up this unique legal order. It explains the core constitutional and substantive principles that underpin the European Union legal order, and introduces EU law in a detailed, comprehensive way which is both enjoyable and clear to read. It offers an up-to-date and accessible analysis of EU law and avoids technical jargon, providing informed insights on an exciting but challenging subject. Combining a historical perspective with up-to-date examples, it aims to help students appreciate how EU law developed and its continued significance in day-to-day life. This updated edition features new coverage on free movement, online resources plus additional chapters on Article 50 and EU law in the UK after Brexit.Trade Review'With this important textbook, Solanke brings a powerful voice and indispensable perspective to the study of EU law.' Daniel Halberstam, Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan'Iyiola Solanke's textbook is an invaluable resource for undergraduate courses of EU law. It is clearly written and accessible, it focuses on the key elements in the operation of the EU institutional system and on the parts of substantive EU law that continue to be relevant for the UK even after Brexit.' Bruno de Witte, Professor of European Law, Maastricht University, and Part-time Professor of Law, European University Institute'Professor Iyiola Solanke has written a wonderful textbook which discusses EU law in a clear and engaging style. In addition to offering a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the Treaties and the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU (as well as Brexit and the Withdrawal Agreement), the book illuminates the social and political context of the relevant laws and institutions. It is an excellent introduction to the European Union as a whole.' Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Professor of Public Law, University of OxfordTable of ContentsPreface; Publisher's acknowledgements; Table of Cases; Table of European Union Treaties; Table of Equivalences; Table of European Union Regulations; Table of European Union Directives; Table of European Union Decisions; International Legislation; UK Legislation; List of abbreviations; 1. The history and development of the European Union; 2. Brexit and the withdrawal agreement; Part I. The EU Institutional Setting; 3. The central institutions of the EU; 4. The legislative processes; 5. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) – direct and indirect access; 6. Addressing infringements of EU law – who enforces EU law?; Part II. EU Law: Principles and Values; 7. The supremacy of EU law; 8. Direct effect, indirect effect and state liability; 9. Fundamental rights in EU law; Part III. Rights of Movement and Residence in the EU; 10. European Union citizenship; 11. Migrant union workers; Part IV. EU Internal Market Law; 12. Free movement of goods; 13. Freedom of establishment and free movement of services; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Dispute Settlement Reports 2018 Volume 4 Pages 1613 to 1982
Book SynopsisThese are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide studying international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2018: IVTable of ContentsEuropean Union – Countervailing Measures on Certain Polyethylene Terephthalate from Pakistan (WT/DS486); Cumulative List of Published Disputes
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Cambridge University Press Dispute Settlement Reports 2018 Volume 5 Pages 1983 to 2516
Book SynopsisThese are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide studying international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2018: VTable of ContentsEuropean Communities and Certain Member States – Measures Affecting Trade in Large Civil Aircraft – Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by the United States (WT/DS316); Cumulative List of Published Disputes
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Cambridge University Press Dispute Settlement Reports 2018 Volume 6 Pages 2517 to 3390
Book SynopsisThese are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide studying international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2018: VITable of ContentsEuropean Communities and Certain Member States – Measures Affecting Trade in Large Civil Aircraft – Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by the United States (WT/DS316)
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Cambridge University Press Dispute Settlement Reports 2018 Volume 7 Pages 3391 and 3922
Book SynopsisThese are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide studying international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2018: VIITable of ContentsEuropean Communities and Certain Member States – Measures Affecting Trade in Large Civil Aircraft – Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by the United States (WT/DS316); Indonesia – Safeguard on Certain Iron or Steel Products (WT/DS490, WT/DS496); Cumulative List of Published Disputes
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Cambridge University Press Dispute Settlement Reports 2018 Volume 9 Pages 4797 to 5246
Book SynopsisThese are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide studying international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2018: IXTable of ContentsAustralia – Certain Measures Concerning Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Other Plain Packaging Requirements Applicable to Tobacco Products and Packaging (WT/DS435, WT/DS441, WT/DS458, WT/DS467)
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Cambridge University Press Dispute Settlement Reports 2018 Volume 10 Pages 5247 to 5864
Book SynopsisThese are the WTO authorized and paginated reports in English. They are an essential addition to the library of all practicing and academic trade lawyers and needed by students worldwide studying international economic or trade law. The form of citation for this volume recommended by the WTO is DSR 2018: XTable of ContentsAustralia – Certain Measures Concerning Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Other Plain Packaging Requirements Applicable to Tobacco Products and Packaging (WT/DS435, WT/DS441, WT/DS458, WT/DS467); United States – Certain Methodologies and their Application to Anti-Dumping Proceedings Involving China – Arbitration under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU (WT/DS471); Cumulative List of Published Disputes
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust
Book SynopsisNathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights protection in the second half of the twentieth century. For nearly a century, Jewish lawyers and advocacy groups in Western Europe and the United States had pioneered forms of international rights protection, tying the defense of Jews to norms and rules that aspired to curb the worst behavior of rapacious nation-states. In the wake of the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel, however, Jewish activists discovered they could no longer promote the same norms, laws and innovations without fear they could soon apply to the Jewish state. Using previously unexamined sources, Nathan Kurz examines the transformation of Jewish internationalism from an effort to constrain the power of nation-states to one focused on cementing Israel''s legitimacy and its status as a haven for refugees from across the Jewish diaspora.Trade Review'In a breathtaking historical passage through the moral and political dilemma evoked by applying universally valid Human Rights on Jewish national existence after the Holocaust in the form of the State of Israel, Nathan A. Kurz skillfully demonstrates an unresolved theoretical aporia: the dramatic conceptual relationship between individual and collective rights.' Dan Diner, author of Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism and the Holocaust'Unpicking complacent assumptions about the place of Jews and Jewish rights in the post-war world order, this terrific book helps us to understand how the ruptures between Jewish internationalism and human rights developed – and how the patterns of the post-war era relate to what came before.' Abigail Green, author of Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero'Casting an exceptionally wide net, Nathan Kurz offers a fresh and surprising account of the complicated relationship between Jewish internationalism and human rights. Like all great work, this brilliantly sparkling book, brimming with revelatory insights about concepts and methods, makes sense of a unique case—especially how Israel from its very founding threw up obstacles to a Jewish embrace of human rights—while also enriching our understanding of global processes.' Barbara Keys, author of Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s'… Kurz's book is a useful contribution to the documentation and understanding of the process by which Jewish liberal internationalists, and particularly the Zionists among them, struggled with the post-Holocaust biases and realpolitik of the human rights establishment.' Gerald M. Steinberg, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs'… meticulously researched and forcefully written … Jewish Internationalism expands our understanding of the key human rights protagonists, deliberations, and debates after World War II and of the evolution of human rights ideas and institutions over four tumultuous Cold War decades.' Carole Fink, H-Net Reviews'… anyone who wants to understand how Jewish human rights work has developed under the difficult conditions of the Cold War and decolonization will in future have to resort to this excellent book first.' Annette Weinke, H-Soz-KultTable of ContentsDramatis Personae; Introduction; 1. “Individual rights were not enough for true freedom”; 2. Who Will Tame the Will to Defy Humanity?; 3. The Consequences of 1948; 4. Exit from North Africa; 5. From Antisemitism to “Zionism is Racism”; 6. The Inadequacy of Madison Avenue Methods; 7.“Good words have become the servants of evil masters”; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Judicial Review Process Powers and Problems Essays in Honour of Upendra Baxi
Book SynopsisThis collection of scholarly essays demonstrate the different facets of judicial review based on the vast area of comparative constitutional law. It honours the body of work of Upendra Baxi, legal scholar and author, whose contributions have shaped our understanding of legal jurisprudence and expanded the scope of social transformation in India.Table of ContentsForeword Justice A. K. Sikri; Editors' note Salman Khurshid, Sidharth Luthra, Lokendra Malik and Shruti Bedi; Introduction M. P. Singh; 1. The inadequacy of judicial enforcement of constitutional rights provisions to rectify economic inequality, and the inevitability of the attempt Mark Tushnet; 2. The interplay of law and politics in India James Manor; 3. Beating the backlog: reforms in administration of justice in India Abhishek Singhvi; 4. Judicial review: perspectives and reflections for the twenty-first century John Mceldowney; 5. When 'creeping jurisdiction' goes awry: the social action litigation to ban surrogacy Sital Kalantry; 6. Judicial review and the democratic judge Joel I. Colón-Ríos; 7. Judicial review: a tool to shape constitutional jurisprudence Balram K. Gupta; 8. The Baxian bioscope on Indian judicial process Amita Dhanda; 9. Judicial activism, courts, and constitutional revolutions: the Israeli case Yaniv Roznai and Gary J. Jacobsohn; 10. Democracy, constitution, and judicial review: a critique Vijender Kumar and V. P. Tiwari; 11. A minor jurisprudence of pathos: Upendra Baxi as teacher and writer Oishik Sircar; 12. The need for reinventing the Supreme Court as a constitutional court Sidharth Luthra and Nivedita Mukhija; 13. Appointment of 'distinguished jurists' as judges in the Supreme Court of India: a critical analysis Lokendra Malik; 14. Judicial dissent and judicial review: a functional analysis Yogesh Pratap Singh; 15. The power of judicial review: judicial chutzpah or judicial desideratum Shruti Bedi; 16. Judicial review of legislations by tribunals in India: law, problems, and perspectives P. Puneeth; 17. Criminalization of membership of terrorist organizations in India and the United States of America: human rights concerns Anurag Deep; 18. Article 142 of the Indian Constitution: on the thin line between judicial activism and restraint R. Hari Krishnan and Anurag Bhaskar; 19. Sketching the limits of Article 142 of the Constitution of India: a constitutional necessity Shailendra Kumar; 20. Constitutional morality and judges of the Supreme Court Salman Khurshid; About the contributors; Index.
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Cambridge University Press NonInternational Armed Conflicts in International Law
Book SynopsisThis dispassionate analysis of the legal implications of non-international armed conflicts explores the rules regulating the conduct of internal hostilities, as well as the consequences of intervention by foreign States, the role of the UN Security Council, the effects of recognition, State responsibility for wrongdoing by both Governments and insurgents, the interface with the law of human rights and the notion of war crimes. The author addresses both conceptual and specific issues, such as the complexities of ''failing'' States or the recruitment and use of child soldiers. He makes use of the extensive case law of international courts and tribunals, in order to identify and set out customary international law. Much attention is also given to the contents of available treaty texts. This new updated edition takes into account the latest events in terms of the practice of States, judicial pronouncements and UN Security Council resolutions.Table of Contents1. The framework; 2. The preconditions of a NIAC; 3. Thresholds and interaction of armed conflicts; 4. Fighters, civilians and ioniac; 5. Foreign intervention in a NIAC; 6. Recognition; 7. State responsibility; 8. The principal ioniac treaty provisions; 9. Additional treaty texts; 10. NIAC war crimes; 11. Loniac customary international law; 12. Loniac and human rights law; Conclusions.
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