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Liber Amicorum Professor Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern
This Liber Amicorum is dedicated to one of the most outstanding international lawyers, Professor Seidl-Hohenveldern, in celebration of his eightieth birthday. Professor Seidl-Hohenveldern is known throughout the academic world for his profound contributions to the theory and practice of international law. He has also acted as arbitrator in a number of international cases and was President of the UN Conference on State Succession in respect of State Property, Archives and Debts. The contents of this Liber Amicorum reflect the broad activities of Professor Seidl-Hohenveldern, both in his academic and practical work. The fields covered include: - international public law; - international private law; - international economic law; - international human rights law; - international environmental law; and - European law. The contributions, from well-known authors worldwide, display an interesting and valuable spectrum of the current state of the law. Thus, the work covers a wide range of different topics of international law and different positions on developments in recent years.
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Freedom of Expression and the Media
Freedom of expression – particularly freedom of speech – is, in most Western liberal democracies, a well accepted and long established, though contested constitutional right or principle. Whilst based in ethical, rights-based and political theories, such as those of justice, the good life, personal autonomy, self determination, and welfare, as well as arrangements over legitimate government, pluralism and its limits, democracy and the extent and role of the state, there is always a lack of agreement over what precisely freedom of expression entails and how it should be applied. For the purposes of this book we are concerned with freedom of expression and the media with regard to the curr...
The Role of International Financial Institutions in International Humanitarian Law
SCOTT (copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.
Multinational Enterprises and the Law
Multinational Enterprises and the Law presents the only comprehensive, contemporary, and interdisciplinary account of the various techniques used to regulate multinational enterprises (MNEs) at the national, regional and multilateral levels. In addition it considers the effects of corporate self-regulation upon the development of the legal order in this area. Split into four parts the book firstly deals with the conceptual basis for MNE regulation, explaining the growth of MNEs, their business and legal forms, the relationship between them and the effects of a globalising economy and society upon the evolution of regulatory agendas in the field. Part II covers the main areas of economic regu...
Minority and Group Rights in the New Millennium
In the 1990s inter-ethnic conflicts threaten the stability of many states. As a result the issue of minority rights has become an urgent concern for international lawyers. Minority and Group Rights in the New Millennium examines the way in which existing international law and human rights instruments protect the rights of minorities. In addition the essays in this volume address current debates on the fundamental issue of defining a minority, the complex arguments for expanding existing definitions and the legitimacy of claims by specific groups to qualify for minority status.
