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Sentencing in International Criminal Law
The UN ad hoc Tribunals and Future Perspectives for the ICC
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This book deals with sentencing in international criminal law, focusing on the approach of the UN ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR). In contrast to sentencing in domestic jurisdictions, and in spite of its growing importance, sentencing law is a part of international...
To Kill Another
Homicide and Natural Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Basing his argument on natural law, Graham J. McAleer asserts that only public authority has the right to intentionally kill. He draws upon the work of Thomas Aquinas and Francisco de Vitoria, defending the claim that these natural law theorists have developed the best available theory of homicide....
The Land is the Source of the Law
A Dialogic Encounter with Indigenous Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The Land is the Source of Law brings an inter-jurisdictional dimension to the field of indigenous jurisprudence: comparing Indigenous legal regimes in New Zealand, the USA and Australia, it offers a ‘dialogical encounter with an Indigenous jurisprudence’ in which individuals are characterised...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
First published in 1999, this is the first of two books based on papers given at the conference organised by the Centre for Property Law at Reading in March 1998 under the title ‘Contemporary Issues in Property Law’. Speakers represented jurisdictions from around the world. Their subjects ranged...
Peacebuilding and Rule of Law in Africa
Just Peace?
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The promotion of the rule of law has become an increasingly important element of peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, particularly in Africa, where there have been numerous internal armed conflicts and missions over the last decade.
This book explores the expanding international efforts...
The law of international carriage by air
Major legal instruments governing private international air law and their liability regimes
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Law, grade: 1,3, University of Applied Sciences Wildau (WIT Wildau), course: Aviation Law, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Abstract: The developments of more than hundred years of aviation history have...
by Elizabeth A. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
This best-selling dictionary is an authoritative and comprehensive source of jargon-free legal information. It contains over 4,200 entries that clearly define the major terms, concepts, processes, and the organization of the English legal system. This is a reissue with new covers and essential updates...
by Catherine Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
This new edition of EU Employment Law provides a complete revision and update of the leading English language text in the field. The coverage in the new edition has been expanded with material on all the latest developments, incorporating the changes made by the Lisbon Treaty; the EU2020 strategy;...
The Law and Economics of Enforcing European Consumer Law
A Comparative Analysis of Package Travel and Misleading Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In the internet age, the need for effective consumer law enforcement has arguably never been greater. This timely book is a comparative law and economic analysis of the changing landscape of EU consumer law enforcement policy. EU member states are moving away from purely public or private law enforcement...
The Common European Sales Law in Context
Interactions with English and German Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
European Contract Law unification projects have recently advanced from the Draft Common Frame of Reference (2009) to a European Commission proposal for an optional Common European Sales Law (2011) which is to facilitate cross-border marketing. This book investigates for the first time how CESL and...
The Future of Law and Economics
Essays in Reform and Recollection
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite, strain, “economic analysis of law,” examines the...
by Ester Herlin-Karnell
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Criminal law is one of the most rapidly changing areas of contemporary EU law and integration. The Treaty of Lisbon has elevated it to a central place in the constitution of the EU, within the dynamic area of freedom, security and justice. The phenomenon of EU criminal law as such is however far from...
by Angelos Dimopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
The regulation of foreign investment represents one of the most topical and controversial subjects in European Union law and international investment law. EU foreign investment law is emerging as a critically important issue, particularly since the introduction of EU competence over foreign direct...
Applicable Law in Investor-State Arbitration
The Interplay Between National and International Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book examines the law, national and/or international, that arbitral...