International

This volume explores trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) on the African continent, the benefits and challenges that FDI presents for African States, and Africa's participation in the international investment law regime. Featuring contributions from...

From the United Nations to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, the principles of international organizations affect all of our lives. The principles these organizations live by represent, at least in part, the principles all of us live by...

This book discusses the treatment of cultural products within international trade law, focusing on preferential trade agreements.Trade and culture intersect when cultural products are involved. These mainly encompass cinema, broadcasting, music, videos,...

Legal academics.Book InformationISBN 9781529237917Author Katie BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bristol University PressPublisher Bristol University Press

Presenting up-to-date case law and a freshly updated bibliography, this second edition of The Law of Treaties is a valuable addition to contemporary international law scholarship. It offers much-needed clarity on complicated cases and questions whilst...

Since the United Nations finalised its Draft Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts in 2001, most of the attention has been on the codification history of the topic. Alan Nissel widens the historic lens to include the...

The EU prides itself on having created a legal system that puts the individual at its centre. Individuals benefit from a broad range of fundamental rights that protect them against EU power. However, to vindicate their rights against the EU, they have to...

This book explores times, spaces and imaginings relating to international law through the lens of queer theory.For some time now, queer theorists and legal scholars who think with queer theory have asked, what happens when queer theory moves out of its...

Legal personhood is required for voting, marrying, inheriting, contracting, consenting, and other critical social acts that can be predicates to power and privilege. The Right to Legal Personhood of Marginalised Groups addresses personhood and legal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647253974Author Zander FlemingFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint NY Research PressPublisher NY Research PressWeight(grams) 771g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639873265Author Silas KearnsFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Murphy & Moore PublishingPublisher Murphy & Moore PublishingWeight(grams)...

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1945 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At...

This book examines how the International Court of Justice (ICJ) reviews State behaviour through the prism of the standard of review.It develops a novel rationale to support the ICJ's application of deferential standards of review as a judicial avoidance...

This volume contains the report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fifty-sixth session. Volume II (Part I) contains reports of special rapporteurs and other documents considered during the sessionBook InformationISBN...

Concise summary of the key arbitration regulations and arbitration environment in 20 important Asian jurisdictions. The book shows the legal framework conditions for arbitration in each country and gives insights into the practice of arbitration. In the...

Seasoned businesspeople, especially those engaged in international business, are keenly aware of the fact that no matter how pleasant their pre-arrangement business courtship has been post-arrangement disputes may occur. While some disputes may be...

This book takes an unflinching look at the roles and functions played by the idea of universality in international legal discourses, as well as the narratives of progress that often accompany it. In doing so, it provides a critical appraisal of the...

At a time of intense polarisation about the value of human rights, this edited volume brings together leading scholars in international law and international human rights to reflect upon the present, the recent and distant past, and the future of human...

The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave rise to the first permanent Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), with independent powers of investigation and prosecution. Elected in 2003 for a nine-year term as the ICC’s first Prosecutor,...

International Treaties in Islam: Practice in the Light of Islamic International Law is a study that seeks to explain Islamic international legal theory regarding treaties with non-Muslims. The treaties selected in this book cover the full spectrum of...

The revival of interest in comparative constitutional studies, alongside the rise of legal limitations to state action due to investment treaty commitments, calls for a unique analysis of both investment law and comparative constitutional law. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692476499Author MS Diana V Vilmenay-HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Lexnoir FoundationPublisher Lexnoir FoundationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615957487Author Kendal H Tyre JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Lexnoir FoundationPublisher Lexnoir FoundationWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm)...

Compiled by the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, this bibliography covers 20 subject categories based on the major topics of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea. It is intended for the use of those interested in ocean affairs and...

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At...

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At...

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At...

The Index to Proceedings of the Security Council is a bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the Security Council. This issue covers the seventy-sixth year of the Council including its commissions, committees and ad hoc committees...

Compiled by the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, this bibliography covers 20 subject categories based on the major topics of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea. It is intended for the use of those interested in ocean affairs and...

The Yearbook contains documentary materials of a legal character concerning the United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). The present volume covers activities in 2016 and contains: legislative texts and treaties, or provisions...

As the clock struck midnight on December 31, 1992, Czechoslovakia, the only genuine democracy in post-World War I Central-Eastern Europe, broke up into two independent successor states. This book explores the failed search for a postcommunist...

International human rights law and international humanitarian law share the goal of preserving the dignity and humanity of all. Over the years, the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and, more recently, the Human Rights Council have...

Can we achieve justice during war? Should law substitute for realpolitik? Can an international court act against the global community that created it? Justice in a Time of War is a translation from the French of the first complete, behind-the-scenes...

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At...

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At...

As all manner of commerce becomes increasingly global, states must establish laws to protect property rights, human rights, and national security. In many cases, states delegate authority to resolve disputes regarding these laws to an independent court,...

As all manner of commerce becomes increasingly global, states must establish laws to protect property rights, human rights, and national security. In many cases, states delegate authority to resolve disputes regarding these laws to an independent court,...

This book addresses the different mechanisms of enforcement deployed in transnational private regimes vis-a-vis those in the field of public transnational law. Enforcement represents a key dimension in measuring the effectiveness and legitimacy of...

This pioneering Research Handbook with contributions from renowned experts, provides an overview of the general doctrines making up the law of international organizations. The approach of this book is taken from a novel perspective: that of the tension...

How are the deals and decisions of the EU made - in the meeting rooms and at the conference tables, or by informal networks in the back corridors of power?This book addresses an issue of paramount importance concerning the politics of the European Union:...