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With essays from leading scholars in the field of international human rights law, this festschrift provides compelling analysis of the nature of compliance in the African human rights context, the challenges that affect its place in these legal sy...

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This book has two currents. The first is an analysis of the three concepts of freedom that are called, respectively, negative, positive, and inner. Negative freedom is defined as an absence of coercion, positive freedom as an ability to rule onese...

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Amid a global health crisis, the process for declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) is at a crossroads. As a formal declaration by the World Health Organization, a PHEIC is governed by clear legislation as to what is,...

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Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights provides novel insight into the elements underlying a state's responsibility to fulfil positive obligations. It is essential reading for academics, legal practitioners, and policym...

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Liberal Self-Determination in a World of Migration develops and defends a theory for why some children and some adults have a right to citizenship in a liberal state, and why adult citizens have a moral right to design and implement their own immi...

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The International Law Commission's Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms examines the ILC's Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms of General International Law. It provides a broader understanding of the Draft Conclusions and offers an analysis and...

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This book explores the notions of global public goods, global commons, and fundamental values as conceptual tools for the protection of the general interests of the international community. It explores how states and other actors have used interna...

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This book seeks to identify structures that trap workers in conditions of exploitation. It focuses specifically on 'state mediated structural injustice', where legislative schemes that promote otherwise legitimate aims create inadvertent vulnerabi...

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The 'Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy' is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field.

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This monograph represents the most recent analysis of the use of the expression 'serious violations of human rights' in international practice. It proposes a systematic and structured engagement with the international practice around serious viola...

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This volume explores how famine and mass starvation in our lifetime are the result of man-made policies, and invariably occur during times of armed conflict. It provides expert analysis on defining starvation, early warning systems, gender and mas...

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Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia examines the role the doctrine of sovereignty played in debates over the legal status of the princely states of colonial South Asia, illustrating how different interpre...

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Do humans have a right not to be trafficked? This book examines the legal nature of human trafficking and its relationship with human rights law. Drawing on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, it shows that human trafficking i...

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This volume contains a comprehensive legal analysis of the international frameworks governing the remediation of sea-dumped chemical weapons. It offers legal solutions to remedy sea-dumped chemical weapons and practical recommendations that can be...

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Focused on the relationship between individual and interstate claims under international law, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of the potential for such overlapping claims to arise and explores, through a rigorous analysis of the law of...

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Environmental Law in Arab States offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the guiding principles and rules relating to environmental protection in the Arab region.

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The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field.

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Outsourcing Rulemaking Powers identifies the shared constitutional principles that determine the limits to the outsourcing of rulemaking powers. Through the examination of multiple countries, this book argues that there should be minimal legal saf...

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This book focuses on the concept of state responsibility for international crimes which gained support following the First World War, but was pushed into the background by the development of the principle of individual criminal responsibility unde...

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This book examines the European system for the protection of fundamental rights. The aim is to identify the constitutional dynamics that occur as a result of the interaction between state and transnational human rights standards. Fabbrini compares...

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International cultural heritage law has no set mechanism for dispute settlement. Disputes are settled through negotiation or through existing dispute resolution means: before domestic or international courts. This book offers a solution to the pro...

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International Environmental Law, Policy, and Ethics investigates the ethical and political justifications for the international legal regime protecting the environment, and analyses in detail the myriad challenges these justifications can face.

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In times of armed conflict the protection of human rights often slips down the list of a state's priorities. This is particularly the case for those rights concerned with people's economic, social, and cultural needs. This book studies how those r...

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Examining the legal principles behind UN Security Council sanctions, this book questions whether due process is afforded to sanctioned individuals in the context of the politics and crises that form the heart of Security Council decision-making.

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The protection of cultural heritage is a common interest of humankind. This book comprehensively sets out the relevant legal frameworks, as well as the cultural and policy contexts in which they operate. It's a perfect introduction for students, a...

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Analyzing the nature of complicity in international criminal law, this book provides an account of the growing attention international law pays to complicity. Exploring the responsibilities of individuals, states, and non-state actors in their obl...

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With corruption at the forefront of the international political debate, this timely book analyses the international regulation of corruption, assesses the core international instruments governing anti-corruption efforts, and considers the concept ...

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Through a historical analysis of state dissolution and succession and its impact on cultural heritage from 1815 to present day, this book identifes guiding principles to facilitate the conclusion of agreements on the status of cultural property fo...

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This book explores the question of how international law is applied by domestic courts. Through case studies and analysis the contributors consider how traditions and diversity affect the interpretation of international law, from a mixture of doct...

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The Oxford ILDC online database has provided scholars with a wealth of information on the use of international law in national courts. This Casebook is the perfect companion: key cases that reveal the theories and doctrines underlying the use of i...

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