Your life or mine

how geoethics can resolve the conflict between public and private interests in xenotransplantation

The issue of xenotransplantation is the subject of this monograph. The author demonstrates that problems regarding the introduction of zoonoses into the human gene pool can be overcome. The book also considers costs, and the perception by some that using animals to keep dying humans ...

Defining civil and political rights

the jurisprudence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

INDEX: Introduction, Scott Davidson; Procedure under the optional protocol, Scott Davidson; Self-determination, Richard Burchill; Democratic and civil rights, Alex Conte; Security of the person, Alex Conte; The judicial process, Alex Conte; Privacy, honour and reputation, Alex Conte; Equality and non-discrimination, Scott Davidson; Minority rights, Richard ...

Protection of Property Rights within the European Convention on Human Rights

This work discusses the concept of property as a human right within the context of the European Convention on Human Rights. Within the last two decades, the Article established by the Convention has become a significant human rights instrument for member states of the Convention ...

Understanding Human Rights violations

new systematic studies

This excellent volume presents a systematic analysis of various human rights violations around the globe, focusing on security and subsistence rights. The book collects important contributions to the theoretical development of the human rights phenomenon, covering a wide range of human rights issues and research ...

Hard choices, soft Law

voluntary standards in global trade, environment and social governance

An important read for academics and policy-makers alike, Hard Choices, Soft Law asserts that voluntary standards, or 'soft' law, are an important supplement to international law in a number of areas. This key work firstly outlines the approach taken to combining soft and hard law ...

Internal conflict and the International Community

wars without end?

Roderic Alley debates whether conflict within states has emerged as the Achilles Heel of the international community. Across numerous dimensions - ethical, legal, humanitarian, analytical and prescriptive - wars within states have tested the international political community and found it wanting. This study investigates the roots of ...

Public governance in the Age of Globalization

Globalization and its relationship to public governance is one of the key issues of our time. In this book, experts from a number of disciplines attempt to define what these two terms mean and, perhaps even more importantly, what they do not. Taking as a ...

European Union Environmental Law

an introduction to key selected issues

This comprehensive book provides analysis and discussion on key selected issues in EU environmental law. It attempts to provide the reader with a clear picture of some of the most important developments in this increasingly significant sphere of European business law. The issues covered include ...

International environmental justice

a North-South dimension

This work satisfies the need for a thorough assessment of environmental justice concerns at the global level. Using three international environmental case studies, it extends the theory of environmental justice, commonly used in domestic settings, to the international arena of environmental law, policy and politics ...

Nuclear waste

Law, policy and pragmatism

This book identifies the current treatment and proposed future of nuclear waste,looking at wider policies, stakeholder perceptions, international pressures and future energy scenarios. The key argument of the book is that, in the future, the regulation of nuclear waste must be treated as a ...

European Insolvency Law

Insolvency is a subject that has gained considerable standing as an object of academic study and professional attention since its incipient origins as an offshoot of company law, or - in the case of the bankruptcy of individuals - the law affecting the estates of individuals. Moreover ...

Free movement of goods and services within the European Community

Lorna Woods examines the framework for commercial activity within the European Community provided by the central provisions on free movement of goods and services. After providing a general introduction to the internal market in the light of revisions to the overall EC Treaty framework, she ...

Trade, aid, and arbitrate

the globalization of Western Law

This text maintains that the philosophies of contemporary international institutional organizations, coupled with the basic tenets of international abitration, hasten legal globalization and abrogate national sovereignty over international trade issues.

The formation of Islamic Law

The 14 studies included in this volume have been chosen to serve several purposes simultaneously. At a basic level, they aim to provide a general - if not wholly systematic - coverage of the emergence and evolution of law during the first three and a half centuries ...

Wittgenstein and Law

The papers collected in this volume reflect a focus on the continuing relevance and importance of Wittgenstein's work for philosophy in general, and legal theory in particular.

The philosophy of history

a re-examination

The philosophy of history is an area of interest not only to philosophers, but to historians and to social scientists. It has been of central importance in continental European philosophy since the late 18th century, and for the past half-century has had a significant place ...

Art and identity in thirteenth-Century Byzantium

Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond

Social and economic life in Byzantium

China's Rural Market Development in the Reform Era

The rural market in China is not only the venue where 60 per cent of the country's 1.3 billion inhabitants buy their daily necessities and sell agricultural products, but also a key area of conflict between government control and liberalization policies. Previous research ...

The power and patronage of Marguerite de Navarre

Although Marguerite de Navarre's unique position in sixteenth-century France has long been acknowledged and she is one of the most studied women of the time, until now no study has focused attention on Marguerite's political life. Barbara Stephenson here fills the gap, delineating ...

Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th centuries

the archaeology of local, regional and international exchange: papers of the thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St John´s College, University of Oxford, March 2004

Edited by Marlia Mundell Mango. The 28 papers examine questions relating to the extent and nature of Byzantine trade from Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages. The Byzantine state was the only political entity of the Mediterranean to survive Antiquity and thus offers a theoretical ...

High-technology development in regional economic growth

policy implications of dynamic externalities

Korea has had considerable success in developing its high-technology industries and these have become significant employers in this region. By analyzing the situation in Korea, this text explores the effects of dynamic externalities on the growth of regional employment in the high- technology industries. It ...