Author: Ruys, Tom Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines to what extent the right of self-defence, as laid down in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, permits States to launch military operations against other States. In part...
Author: World Trade Organization, Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Handbook provides the first detailed explanation and analysis of the process whereby governments become Members of the WTO. The WTO Agreement, which came into force on 1 January, 1995, provides fe...
Author: WTO Secretariat, Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a detailed guide on how to read WTO Schedules of Commitments for Goods and Services. The Schedules are part of the Legal Texts of the WTO Uruguay Round Agreements. They comprise about 27,000 p...
Author: Rosenow, Sheri / O'Shea, Brian J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This guide to the WTO Customs Valuation Agreement is based on the authors' experiences of teaching its finer points to customs officials and policy-makers around the world. Covering the methods of val...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ideas of collective responsibility challenge the doctrine of individual responsibility that is the dominant paradigm in law and liberal political theory. But little attention is given to the consequen...
Author: Zegveld, Liesbeth Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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 politica...
Author: N/A Publisher: Academic Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Volume 40 contains state-of-the-art, comprehensive reviews about applied microbiology, biotechnology, and microbial ecology, including a two-part review on "Challenges in Commercial Biotechnology" by ...
Author: Gathii, James Thuo Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: African regional trade integration has grown exponentially in the last decade. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the legal framework within which it is being pursued. It will fill a hug...
Author: May,Larry Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this volume, the third in his trilogy on the philosophical and legal aspects of war and conflict, Larry May locates a normative grounding for the crime of aggression - the only one of the three cri...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Doha Round is the first major trade negotiation round under the WTO since the failure of the Seattle Ministerial in 1999. The Doha discussions and results will have a large impact on the future of...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Do the World Trade Organization's rules on 'green box' farm subsidies allow both rich and poor countries to achieve important goals such as food security, or do they worsen poverty, distort trade and ...
Author: Kim, Keechang Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This original reinterpretation of the legal status of foreigners in medieval England boldly rejects the canonical view which has for centuries dominated the imagination of historians and laymen alike....
Author: Schabas, William A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The International Criminal Court has ushered in a new era in the protection of human rights. Protecting against genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, the Court acts when national justice s...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book deals with the questions of how global governance can and ought to effectively address serious global problems, such as financial instability, military conflicts, distributive injustice and ...
Author: Davison, Mark / Monotti, Ann / Wiseman, Leanne Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Intellectual property law in Australia has changed dramatically in the last decade and continues to change. Developments in technology, the rise of the internet, the globalisation of trade and the inc...
Author: Hannum, Hurst Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Demands for "autonomy" or minority rights have given rise to conflicts, often violent, in every region of the world and under every political system. Through an analysis of contemporary international ...
Author: Gowland, David / Turner, Arthur / Wright, Alex Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides both a comprehensive introduction and a perceptive examination of Britain's relations with the European Community and the European Union since 1945, combining an historical account ...
Author: Turpin,Colin / Tomkins,Adam Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first five editions of this well established book were written by Colin Turpin. This new edition has been prepared jointly by Colin Turpin and Adam Tomkins. This edition sees a major restructuring...
Author: Stromseth, Jane / Wippman, David / Brooks, Rosa Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book looks at why it's so difficult to create 'the rule of law' in post-conflict societies such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and offers critical insights into how policy-makers and field-workers can ...
Author: Wang, Jiangyu Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With contributions by a variety of internationally distinguished scholars on international law, world trade, business law and development, this unique examination of the roles of China and India in th...
Author: Zedalis, Rex J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume presents the first and only comprehensive examination of the legal issues surrounding international debt recovery on claims against Iraqi oil and gas. In addition to presenting a snapshot ...
Author: Markova, Olga Publisher: Lawcis Research and Consultancy Limited Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book features translations of the two key consolidated Russian Statutes governing Russian companies: . Federal Law of the Russian Federation No 208-FZ of 26 December 1995 "On Companies Limited b...
Author: Markesinis, Basil / Coester, Michael / Alpa, Guido Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cross-border claims for personal injuries are becoming more common. Furthermore, European nationals increasingly join class actions in the USA. These tendencies have created a need to know more about ...
Author: Aust, Helmut Philipp Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This systematic analysis of State complicity in international law focuses on the rules of State responsibility. Combining a theoretical perspective on complicity based on the concept of the internatio...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book analyzes five major bilateral treaty regimes on the South Asian subcontinent: between India and Bangladesh for the Ganges River; between India and Nepal for the Kosi, Gandaki, and Mahakali ri...
Author: Leckie, Scott / Huggins, Chris Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Housing, land and property (HLP) rights, as rights, are widely recognized throughout international human rights and humanitarian law and provide a clear and consistent legal normative framework for de...
Author: Bercovitch, Jacob Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This edited volume examines the sources, manifestations and management of conflict in East Asia, which contains many of the world's conflict flashpoints, such as the Korean Peninsula and the China-Tai...
Author: Gottschalk,Eckart / Michaels,Ralf / Ruhl,Giesela Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a contribution to the evolving transatlantic dialogue on the conflict of laws as well as a tribute to Professor Arthur von Mehren from the Harvard Law School. It contains ten contribution...
Author: Kavanagh, Aileen Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Under the Human Rights Act, British courts are for the first time empowered to review primary legislation for compliance with a codified set of fundamental rights. In this book, Aileen Kavanagh argues...
Author: Kalshoven, Frits / Zegveld, Liesbeth Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This fully revised fourth edition of Constraints on the Waging of War considers the development of the principal rules of international humanitarian law from their origins to the present day. Of parti...
Author: Gowan, Richard Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cooperating for Peace and Security attempts to understand ñ more than fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, seven years after 9/11, and in the aftermath of the failure of the United Nations re...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Is it possible and desirable to translate the basic principles underlying cosmopolitanism as a moral standard into effective global institutions. Will the ideals of inclusiveness and equal moral conce...
Author: Voss, Thierry Cruvellier Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When genocidal violence gripped Rwanda in 1994, the international community recoiled, hastily withdrawing its peacekeepers. Late that year, in an effort to redeem itself, the United Nations Security C...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The 'Europeanisation' of the fight against crime is a broad and much-contested notion. This in-depth analysis of the role of the EU in fighting crime within the area of freedom, security and justice e...
Author: Bassiouni, M. Cherif Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book traces the evolution of crimes against humanity (CAH) and their application from the end of World War I to the present day, in terms of both historic legal analysis and subject-matter conten...
Author: Voon, Tania Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Debate about trade and culture has a long history, but the application of WTO rules to cultural products such as films, radio, and books remains one of the most divisive issues in the organization. Af...
Author: Kelsall, Tim Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The international community created the Special Court for Sierra Leone to prosecute those who bore the greatest responsibility for crimes committed during the countryÃs devastating civil war. Tim Kel...
Author: Byers, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book sets out to explain the most foundational aspect of international law in international relations terms. By doing so it goes straight to the central problem of international law - that althou...
Author: Lepard, Brian D. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Customary international law, although long recognized as a primary source of international law, remains replete with enigmas, both conceptual and practical. These include how to determine the existenc...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The spread of democracy to a majority of the world's states and the legitimization of the use of force by multilateral institutions such as NATO and the UN have been two key developments since World W...
Author: Paulsson, Jan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Denial of justice is one of the oldest bases of liability in international law and the modern understanding of denial of justice is examined by Paulsson in this book. The possibilities for prosecuting...
Author: Goode, Walter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is an accessible guide to the vocabulary used in trade negotiations. It explains about 2,500 terms and concepts in simple language. Its main emphasis is on the multilateral trading system represe...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This examination of the law in action of WTO dispute settlement takes a developing-country perspective. Providing a bottom-up assessment of the challenges, experiences and strategies of individual dev...