Current marine environmental ussues and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

The Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of Law, annually hosts a conference on a topical subject of interest to the global law of the sea community. The twenty-fifth meeting of the Center was co-sponsored by the International Tribunal for the ...

Ensayo sobre el Derecho de Gentes

En esta obra se distinguen tres partes. La primera es un resumen del Derecho de gentes positivo. La segunda, una crítica delicada e independiente de las reglas que lo constituyen —en las observaciones al final de cada capítulo—. Y la última, una investigación de las ...

On law, politics and judicialization

Across the globe, the domain of the litigator and the judge has radically expanded, making it increasingly difficult for those who study comparative and international politics, public policy and regulation, or the evolution of new modes of governance to avoid encountering a great deal of ...

International Citizens Tribunals

mobilizing Public Opinion to Advance Human Rights

When faced with injustice what can a concerned citizen do? In 1933, when Hitler tried to blame Communists for setting the German parliament on fire, a group of European and American lawyers responded by staging a countertrial, which proved them innocent and eventually led to ...

La representation institutionnelle dans l'ordre international

une contribution à la théorie de la personnalité morale des organisations internationales

The Eorld Court reference guide

Judgments, advisory opinions and orders of the Permanent Court of International Justice and the International Court of Justice (1922-2000)

Cosmopolitan justice

Increasing global economic integration and recent military interventions in the name of human rights have forced questions of global justice into political discussions. In presenting a systematic account of global duties of justice, Cosmopolitan Justice departs from many contemporary accounts that take the scope of ...

Internation tax competition

Globalisation and Fiscal Sovereignty

International tax competition has como to the forefront of global economic policy debate at the outset of the 21st Century. The importance of taxation regimes as an essential factor in driving economic growth, investment inflows and national development has increasingly been recognised. However, there also ...

The claims of culture

Equality and Diversity in the Global Era.

Contents: Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction On the Use and Abuse of Culture 2. "Nous" et les "Autres" (We and the Others) Is Universalism Ethnocentric? 3. From Redistribution to Recognition? The Paradigm Change of Contemporary Politics 4. Multiculturalism and Gendered Citizenship 5. Deliberative Democracy and Multicultural ...

Studies in International Mediation

Studies in International Mediation brings together a number of prominent scholars in the field of international relations. The central concern of the contributors is mediation effectiveness and how best to achieve it. Within these parameters, three major themes are highlighted - the determinants of mediation success ...

The best democracy money can buy

An investigative Reporter Exponses the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters.

Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, Karachi to Santiago, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases ...

Transnational Democracy

Political spaces and border crossings.

Contemporary globalisation both challenges conventional forms of democracy and is opening up new needs and possibilities for democratisation beyond the territoriality of national states. These issues are explored by an international and multidisciplinary array of experts who focus on federalism, multi-cultural societies, the European Union ...

Globalizaciones múltiples

la diversidad cultural en el mundo contemporáneo.

Muchas veces invocada, pero escasamente comprendida, la globalización es aplaudida como respuesta a todos los problemas del mundo a la vez que se la culpa de ellos, desde la contaminación hasta la pobreza. En Globalizaciones múltiples, Peter L. Berger y Samuel P. Huntington reúnen a ...

Vallas y ventanas

Despachos desde las trincheras del debate sobre la globalización.

No Logo, el anterior bestseller de Naomi Klein traducido a veintitrés idiomas, daba forma a las preocupaciones de toda una generación y constituía la crónica de un nuevo movimiento. Tras el éxito de este libro, Klein ha seguido contribuyendo incansablemente al actual debate sobre la ...

El Derecho internacional humanitario ante los nuevos conflictos armados

Con el título El Derecho Internacional Humanitario ante los nuevos conflictos armados, se presenta este libro que recoge las contribuciones a las VI Jornadas de Derecho Internacional Humanitario, centradas en los desafíos que plantean los nuevos conflictos armados. Después del 11 de septiembre de 2001 ...

Derecho de los conflictos internacionales

instrumentos jurídicos y textos básicos de la práctica internacional

El objeto de esta obra es triple: Establecer, por un lado, los conceptos fundamentales de la Teoría jurídica de la prevención y solución de conflictos internacionales. Un segundo objetivo es el de recopilar y presentar de modo integrado los principales instrumentos internacionales de ámbito universal ...

The English Judges

Their Role in the Changing Constitution.

In this book Robert Stevens looks at the English Judiciary from an historical perspective with special reference to its changing role in the 20th Century. He examines current debates about the position of the judges in the light of the possible future role of the ...

Launching into cyberspace

Internet development and politics in five world regions.

Launching into Cyberspace explores the Internet as an increasingly important variable in the study of comparative politics and international relations in diverse national settings. Focusing on Africa, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, China, and India, Franda examines the extent to which Internet ...

The origins os islamic law

If the Qur´an is the first written formulation of Islam in general, Malik´s Mawatta´ is arguably the first written formulation of the ´Islam-in-practice´ that becomes Islamic Law. This book considers the methods used to derive the judgements of the law from the Qur ...

Etnicity and Nationalims

Anthropological Perspectives.

This is a delightful book. The volume is well structured and written in clear and accessible language; it will not be at all surprising if it becomes a major teaching aid and textbook in the field.' Ephraim Nimni, School of Political Science, University of New ...