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This book explores how capital and consumer markets could provide an additional or alternative form of enforcement to promote responsible business conduct. By examining existing and emerging strategies to better align business policies and practices with respect for human rights, it explains the power activists, investors, and consumers possess to impact corporate human rights communications and conduct.
Explores the manifold relationship between black women and international law, highlighting the historic and contemporary ways they have influenced and been influenced.
Analysis of when, where, and how American law recognizes and responds to claims made in the name of human rights.
The author has previously published three historical novels. By contrast, this volume is a collection of short stories, reflections and a poem, all inspired to some extent by personal experience.
It's the summer of 1983. Ronald Reagan is in the White House, Princess Leia is on magazine covers, and Thea Knox is on the road. Fresh out of college, Thea is driving solo from California to New York. Her plan is to house-sit for her parents for the summer, but they sell her childhood home on a whim, leaving Thea (once again) to her own devices. She takes a detour to visit her Aunt Wendy in Merdale, a college town nestled in the Kansas prairie. Unlike Dorothy, Thea's adventure begins when she arrives in Kansas. Thea is immediately surrounded by her aunt's group of friends, including Julie, a bookstore owner; Nick, Julie's carpenter boyfriend; Bob, a stoner wildlife rehabilitator; and Amira, ...
This book examines how national, regional and international patent law can better respond to the interests of a diverse set of non-profit and public interest entities, and be of more benefit to developing countries. The book sets out a "tool-box" of participatory mechanisms which would foster third party participation in the patent process.
Contents: Progress Since Jomtein, Improving the Quality and Equity of Education for All, Making Effective Use of Resources for Education, Co-operating with Civil Society to Achieve Social Goals Through Education, Promoting Education for Democracy and Citizenship, Beyond Dakar.
The Award in International Investment Arbitration is a comprehensive study of the international investment award, which serves as a unique reference work and an authoritative one-stop resource on the topic for both practitioners and academics. The book reviews the award in a holistic manner: from award drafting to the procedural principles that govern it; from arbitral deliberations and tribunal dynamics to post-award challenges; from the role of gender in decision-making to the impact of tribunal secretaries. It puts emphasis on the practitioners needs with a careful selection of hands-on topics, such as fact-finding in complex disputes, the role of experts, and legal reasoning and persuasi...
This is a collection of articles covering a wide range of topics in the area of bioethics and end-of-life issues, centering on issues of withdrawing or withholding treatment, physician assisted suicides and euthanasia.