Slavery in International Law

of human exploitation and trafficking

With the advent, in the twenty-first century, of the trafficking conventions and the criminalisation of enslavement before the International Criminal Court, the need to establish the black-letter law dealing with human exploitation has become acute. Slavery in International Law sets out the applicable law of ...

Bilingual Higher Education in the Legal Context

Group Rights, State Policies and Globalisation

This book is devoted to complex questions of building and developing legal education in more than one language, through two state languages (French and Dutch in Belgium, German and French in Switzerland, English and French in Canada, Finnish and Swedish in Finland) and/or through ...

The culture of judicial independence

conceptual foundations and practical challenges

The creation of a culture of Judicial Independence is of a central significance both in national domestic legal systems, as well as for the international courts and tribunals. The main aim of this volume is to analyze the development of a culture of Judicial Independence ...

Global constitutionalism in international legal perspective

The question of whether a global constitution exists or is emerging, and if so, what form it takes, is one of the most intriguing and controversial topics of recent international theory. This book examines public international law contributions to the debate, specifically taking a step ...

Member States versus the European Union

the regulation of Gambling

Since the 1990s the European Court of Justice has provided an institutional backdrop from which the requirements of EU law regarding gambling regulation are evolving. Given the total absence of harmonisation, Member States are competent to regulate gambling conditional upon such regulation being compatible with ...

Consular affairs and diplomacy

This volume analyses the multifaceted nature of diplomacy's consular dimension in international relations. It contributes to our understanding of key themes in consular affairs today, the consular challenges that are facing the US, Russia, and China - as well as the historical origins of the ...

The fundamentals of international Human Rights Treaty Law

This book has a simple objective: to present the fundamentals of international human rights treaty law in a way that can be helpful to the national leader, official, or legal adviser whose duty it is to help put a human rights treaty regime into the ...

The draft Civil Code of the people's Republic of China

Since the beginning of the 20th century, various attempts have been made by legal scholars to draft a Civil Code in China. However, only since the 1980s, when the #open-door# policy was implemented, has Chinese Civil law become the basis for the development of a ...

La propriété intellectuelle en droit international privé

En dépit des efforts entrepris au long du siècle dernier en vue de l#harmonisation et de l#unification internationales des législations concernant la propriété intellectuelle, des divergences significatives subsistent entre les systèmes juridiques nationaux dans ce domaine. L#idéal d#une protection universelle de ...

Lis Pendens in international litigation

What legal principles apply when courts in different jurisdictions are simultaneously seised with the same dispute ? This question # of international lis pendens # has long been controversial. But it has taken on new and urgent importance in our age. Globalization has driven an unprecedented rise in ...

The relationship between State and individual responsibility for international crimes

This book offers a unique comparison between state and individual responsibility for international crimes and examines the theories that can explain the relationship between these two regimes. The study provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the relevant international practice from the standpoint of both ...

International Law on peacekeeping

a study of article 40 of the UN charter

This book explores the potential of the UN peacekeeping power, placing Article 40 of the UN Charter at the centre of the legal regime governing peacekeeping measures. It traces the origins of peacekeeping measures primarily in the experience of the League of Nations and identifies ...

Fair balance

proportionality, subsidiarity and primarity in the European Convention on Human Rights

CONTENTS: Table of Figures Ch. 1 Introduction 1 Ch. 2 The principle of proportionality Ch. 3 The principle of subsidiarity Ch. 4 The principle of primarity (formal aspect) Ch. 5 The principle of primarity (substantive aspect) Bibliography Index of cases Index

Russian commercial Law

This is a new and substantially expanded edition of the author's 'Russian Commercial Law' (2001) which has become the standard resource in this area. Compared to the rather chaotic situation in the 1990s, the system of commercial law in Russia has stabilised in the ...

The fundamental Rules of the International Legal Order

Jus cogens and obligations Erga Omnes

The Laws of armed conflicts

a collection of conventions, resolutions and other documents

Universalising International Law

Current marine environmental ussues and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

The Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of Law, annually hosts a conference on a topical subject of interest to the global law of the sea community. The twenty-fifth meeting of the Center was co-sponsored by the International Tribunal for the ...

The european community at the crossroads.

Major issues and ppriorities for the EC presidency..