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Cyber Operations and International Law
Inbunden, 2020
2322 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the international law applicable to cyber operations, including a systematic examination of attribution, lawfulness and remedies. It demonstrates the importance of countermeasures as a form of remedies and also shows the limits of international law, …
Cyber Operations and International Law
Häftad, 2021
703 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the international law applicable to cyber operations, including a systematic examination of attribution, lawfulness and remedies. It demonstrates the importance of countermeasures as a form of remedies and also shows the limits of international law, …
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Av René Provost, James Crawford m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
688 kr
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How do international human rights and humanitarian law protect vulnerable individuals in times of peace and war? Provost analyses systemic similarities and differences between the two to explore how they are each built to achieve their similar goal. He details the dynamics of human rights and …
International Law in Antiquity
Av David J. Bederman, James Crawford m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
523 kr
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This study of the origins of international law combines techniques of intellectual history and historiography to investigate the earliest developments of the law of nations. The book examines the sources, processes and doctrines of international legal obligation in antiquity to re-evaluate the …
Ethics and Authority in International Law
Häftad, 2007
703 kr
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The specialized vocabularies of lawyers, ethicists, and political scientists obscure the roots of many real disagreements. In this book, the distinguished American international lawyer Alfred Rubin provides a penetrating account of where these roots lie, and argues powerfully that disagreements …
The Law of Internal Armed Conflict
Av Lindsay Moir
Häftad, 2007
793 kr
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Laws regulating armed conflict have existed for centuries, but the bulk of these provisions have been concerned with wars between states. Relatively little attention has been paid to the enormously important area of internal armed conflict. At a time when international armed conflicts are vastly …
Remedies against International Organisations
Häftad, 2007
523 kr
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International organizations have become major players on the international scene, whose acts and activities affect individuals, companies and states. Damage to interests or violation of rights sometimes occur (such as during peacekeeping operations, for example). Karel Wellens considers what …
Accountability of Armed Opposition Groups in International Law
Häftad, 2007
838 kr
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Who is accountable under international law for the acts committed by armed opposition groups? In today's world the majority of political conflicts involve non-state actors attempting to exert political influence (such as overthrowing a government or bringing about secession). Notwithstanding their …
Sovereignty over Natural Resources
Balancing Rights and Duties
Häftad, 2008
703 kr
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In modern international law, permanent sovereignty over natural resources has come to entail duties as well as rights. This study analyses the evolution of permanent sovereignty from a political claim to a principle of international law, and examines its significance for a number of controversial …
Religious Liberty and International Law in Europe
Häftad, 2008
838 kr
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The freedom of religion is one of the oldest and most controversial of the claims that are recognized as forming part of the corpus of human rights. In this important and fascinating book Malcolm Evans provides a detailed account of the ways in which the freedom of religious belief came to be …
Reading Humanitarian Intervention
Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law
Av Anne Orford
Häftad, 2007
748 kr
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During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which democracy, self-determination and human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions. Orford provides critical readings of the narratives that accompanied such interventions and shaped legal …
Money Laundering
A New International Law Enforcement Model
Av Guy Stessens
Häftad, 2008
853 kr
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This book gives a broad analysis of the legal issues raised by the international fight against money laundering. It offers an extensive comparative research of the criminal and preventive law aspects from an international perspective. Stessens portrays money laundering as a new criminal trend …
International Organizations before National Courts
Häftad, 2008
688 kr
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A radical, empirical investigation of how national courts 'react' to disputes involving international organizations. Through comprehensive analysis of the attitudes and techniques of national courts and underlying political motives, Professor Reinisch first describes various legal approaches that …
Trade and the Environment
A Comparative Study of EC and US Law
Häftad, 2008
508 kr
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Trade and the Environment is a penetrating analysis of the relation between trade and environmental protection policies in the EC and the US. It argues that the international tensions arising from policies designed to protect trade and the environment can be resolved by the free trade provisions of …
Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law
Av Karen Knop
Häftad, 2008
703 kr
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The emergence of new states and independence movements after the Cold War has intensified the long-standing disagreement among international lawyers over the right of self-determination, especially the right of secession. Knop shifts the discussion from the articulation of the right to its …
Conflict of Norms in Public International Law
How WTO Law Relates to other Rules of International Law
Häftad, 2009
778 kr
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One of the most prominent and urgent problems in international governance is how the different branches and norms of international law interact and what to do in the event of conflict. With no single 'international legislator' and a multitude of states, international organisations and tribunals …
Transboundary Damage in International Law
Av Hanqin Xue
Häftad, 2009
733 kr
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The Chernobyl disaster, the Amoco Cadiz oil spill and the Colorado River dispute are examples of an activity conducted by one state which has serious adverse effects in the territory of another, or in global common areas. This book details the international rules and compensation procedures and is …
Dispute Settlement in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
Häftad, 2009
764 kr
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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is one of the most important constitutive instruments in international law. Not only does this treaty regulate the uses of the world's largest resource, but it also contains a mandatory dispute settlement system - an unusual phenomenon in …
Enforcing Obligations Erga Omnes in International Law
Häftad, 2010
673 kr
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The concept of obligations erga omnes - obligations to the international community as a whole - has fascinated international lawyers for decades, yet its precise implications remain unclear. This book assesses how this concept affects the enforcement of international law. It shows that all States …
War Crimes in Internal Armed Conflicts
Av Eve La Haye
Häftad, 2010
673 kr
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Does international law make individuals responsible for perpetrating war crimes during internal armed conflicts? Eve La Haye explores the content of international criminal law applicable in such conflicts and questions the 1995 finding of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal …
International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights
Refuge from Deprivation
Häftad, 2009
659 kr
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A range of emerging refugee claims is beginning to challenge the boundaries of the Refugee Convention regime and question traditional distinctions between 'economic migrants' and 'political refugees'. This book, first published in 2007, identifies the conceptual and analytical challenges presented …
The Threat of Force in International Law
Häftad, 2009
673 kr
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Threats of force are a common feature of international politics, advocated by some as an economical guarantee against the outbreak of war and condemned by others as a recipe for war. Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter forbids states to use threats of force, yet the meaning of the …
United Nations Sanctions and the Rule of Law
Häftad, 2009
846 kr
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The United Nations Security Council has increasingly resorted to sanctions as part of its efforts to prevent and resolve conflict. In this 2007 book, Farrall traces the evolution of the Security Council's sanctions powers and charts the contours of the UN sanctions system. He also evaluates the …
International Legal Argument in the Permanent Court of International Justice
The Rise of the International Judiciary
Häftad, 2010
688 kr
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The International Court of Justice at The Hague is the principal judicial organ of the UN, and the successor of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1923-1946), which was the first real permanent court of justice at the international level. This 2005 book analyses the groundbreaking …
Judiciaries within Europe
A Comparative Review
Av John Bell
Häftad, 2010
748 kr
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An in-depth study, originally published in 2006, of the careers and roles of judges in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and England, this book is based on original language materials and investigations of judges and judicial institutions in each country. On the basis of these detailed case studies, …
The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict
Häftad, 2011
853 kr
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Charting in detail the evolution of the international rules on the protection of historic and artistic sites and objects from destruction and plunder in war, this 2006 book analyses in depth their many often-overlapping provisions. It serves as a comprehensive and balanced guide to a subject of …
Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards
Self-Determination, Culture and Land
Häftad, 2010
732 kr
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The debate on indigenous rights has revealed some serious difficulties for current international law, posed mainly by different understandings of important concepts. This book explores the extent to which indigenous claims, as recorded in the United Nations forums, can be accommodated by …
Necessity, Proportionality and the Use of Force by States
Häftad, 2011
835 kr
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There has been considerable debate in the international community as to the legality of the forceful actions in Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2002 and Iraq in 2003 under the United Nations Charter. There has been consensus, however, that the use of force in all these situations had to be both …
The International Protection of Internally Displaced Persons
Häftad, 2010
853 kr
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Despite the fact that there are up to 25 million internally displaced persons around the world, their plight is still little known. Like refugees, internally displaced persons have been forced to leave their homes because of war and human rights abuses, but they have not left their country. This …
