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This book explores the challenges that international law faces in curtailing human rights violations arising from mineral exploitation. Beginning with the specific dynamics between mineral exploitation and human rights abuses, the analysis progressively uncovers the layers of regulatory challenges, focusing on the complexities of how economic regimes intersect with, and often undermine, human rights protections. This perspective shows how the fragmentation of international law is not only affecting the capability to protect global interests but also threatening the systemic operation of international law. In this regard, this work presents three expressions of how the fragmentation of intern...
Offers a new perspective on international law and international legal argumentation: to what event is international law a belief system?
Protección Internacional de los Derechos Humanos: Análisis y Desafíos desde la Declaración Universal Esta obra, coordinada por Carol Proner, Héctor Olasolo, Carlos Villán Durán, Gisele Ricobom y Charlotth Back, conmemora el septuagésimo aniversario de la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos, explorando la compleja relación entre la teoría y la práctica en la protección internacional de los derechos humanos. A través de una serie de ensayos aportados por expertos de renombre, el libro aborda temas críticos y actuales relacionados con los derechos humanos, analizando el progreso y los desafíos enfrentados desde la adopción de la Declaración en 1948. El enfoque multidisciplinario del libro ofrece una visión profunda de cómo se perciben y aplican los derechos humanos en diferentes contextos culturales y políticos. Este volumen es esencial para académicos, estudiantes de derecho, activistas de derechos humanos y cualquier persona interesada en la evolución de los derechos humanos y en la lucha continua por garantizar la dignidad y la justicia para todos en el escenario internacional.
Examines the role and impact of human rights norms in international courts other than human rights courts
The right of self-determination affects many areas of international law, from sovereignty over territory and human rights to decisions on the recognition of new States and the succession of States to treaties. It also has an impact on many approaches to understanding the nature of international law and international society. This volume sets out some of the methods by which authors have dealt with the right of self-determination and provides illustrations of the applications of the right to a variety of situations.
Artificial intelligence is no longer solely the preserve of computer scientists and researchers; it is now a part of all our lives, and hardly a day goes by without discussion and debate about the implications of its many applications in the mainstream media. This book presents the proceedings of CCIA 2023, the 25th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, held from 25 - 27 October 2023 in Barcelona, Spain. CCIA serves as an annual forum welcoming participants from around the globe. The theme of the 2023 conference was Supportive AI, the main goals of which are to strengthen collaboration between research and industry by sharing the latest advances in ...
An interdisciplinary volume exploring the concept of legitimacy in relation to international courts and what can drive and weaken it.
This volume brings together essays by world-renowned leaders in the field of international trade examining the operation of the WTO and its dispute settlement system. The experts who have contributed to this book include policymakers, scholars, lawyers and diplomats. Two major areas of inquiry are undertaken. The first half of this volume examines the governance and operation of the WTO and the international trading system. It pays particular attention to issues that affect developing country members of the WTO. The second half of this volume contains a detailed examination of the performance, operation, and challenges of the WTO's dispute settlement system. This book is an outgrowth of a conference held at Columbia University in New York in the spring of 2006. The conference was the last of a series of five regional gatherings held around the world to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the WTO and its dispute settlement system. This volume includes essays that shed further light on some of the themes raised in those discussions, as well as edited transcripts from that conference.
This book contains the final version of the 2018 Report of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise, as well as the related ILA Resolutions 5/2018 and 6/2018, both as adopted by the ILA at its 78th Biennial Conference, held in Sydney, Australia, 19–24 August 2018. In Part I of the Report, key information about the establishment of the Committee, its mandate and its work so far is presented. Part II of the Report addresses key law of the sea issues through a study of possible impacts of sea level rise and their implications under international law regarding maritime limits lawfully determined by the coastal States, and the agreed or adjudicated maritime boundaries. Part III of the Report addresses international law provisions, principles and frameworks for the protection of persons displaced in the context of sea level rise.