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The Judicial Application of Human Rights Law
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The Judge in a Democracy
Whether examining election outcomes, the legal status of terrorism suspects, or if (or how) people can be sentenced to death, a judge in a modern democracy assumes a role that raises some of the most contentious political issues of our day. But do judges even have a role beyond deciding the disputes before them under law? What are the criteria for judging the justices who write opinions for the United States Supreme Court or constitutional courts in other democracies? These are the questions that one of the world's foremost judges and legal theorists, Aharon Barak, poses in this book. In fluent prose, Barak sets forth a powerful vision of the role of the judge. He argues that this role compr...
A Guide to International Environmental Law
"Guide to International Environmental Law" addresses why and how the international system elaborates environmental obligations and monitors compliance with them. The book discusses the relationship between international obligations and national and local law, with particular reference to federal systems. It points out the influence national law has on the emergence of international law and the growing role international norms play in the development and enforcement of national and local environmental policies. It also examines the extent to which environmental protection should be and is taken into account in other regulatory frameworks, from trade law and human rights to disarmament and refugee policy.
Environmental Law and Governance in India
This book provides an insightful and holistic up-to-date perspective of the constitutional governance and legal framework in India with regard to environmental protection. Covering the foundational principles of environmental law, the book details the current status of international environmental law in the face of complex environmental challenges including climate change. The topics covered include water resource governance, and coastal regulation, with a particular focus on the growing significance of the National Green Tribunal. It also covers the wide range of policies that have been introduced over the past 50 years and the impact these have had. The book will be of interest to researchers, legal practitioners, and scholars in the field of environmental law and governance as well as international law.
Recueil Des Cours
The Academy is an institution for the study and teaching of Public and Private International Law and related subjects. Its purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arising from international relations in the field of law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. All courses at the Academy are, in principle, published in the language in which they were delivered in the Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. This volume contains: - Le droit international à la recherche de ses valeurs: paix, développement, deémocratisation (conférence inaugurale), par B. BOUTROS-GHALI, membre du Curatorium de l'Académie; secrétaire général de la Francophonie, Paris. - The Evolution of International Law of the Sea: New Issues, New Challenges by T. SCOVAZZI, Professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca. - Capital Markets and Conflict of Laws by H. KRONKE, Professor at the Institute of Foreign and International Private and Economic Law, Heidelberg.To access the abstract texts for this volume please click here"
Media and Modernity
This wide-ranging and innovative book develops an original theory of the media and their impact on the modern world, from the emergence of printing to the most recent developments in the media industries.
Environmental Rights
A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.
A Bridge over Troubled Waters
A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Dispute Resolution in the Law of International Watercourses and the Law of the Sea offers novel comparative analysis from leading experts on the resolution of disputes concerning international watercourses and the oceans.
Multilateral Treaty-Making
This book focuses on the impact of social change on the rules relating to the forms and procedures of treaty-making, but inevitably also comes to focus on the content of the norms themselves, where, as in human rights and the environment, they have had an impact on the form and procedure of the treaty. It is of great value to all practitioners, academics, and policy-makers involved with, or interested in, the treaty-making process.
