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International Humanitarian Law and Terrorism
This book carefully and thoroughly analyses the legal questions raised by the phenomenon of terrorism, and past and recent efforts to fight it, from the perspective of …
Counterterrorism: Democracy’s Challenge
Terrorist violence is no novelty in human history and, while government reactions to it have varied over time, some lessons can be learnt from the past. Indeed, the debate on when …
State Liability in Investment Treaty Arbitration
Today there are more than 2,500 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) around the world. Most of these investment protection treaties offer foreign investors a direct cause of action …
Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law
This work introduces and further develops the feminist strategy of ‘norm transfer’: the proposal that feminist informed standards created at the level of international criminal law …
Truth and Transitional Justice
With a unique transitional justice perspective on the Arab Spring, this book assesses the relocation of transitional justice from the international paradigm to Islamic legal …
Biotechnologies and International Human Rights
This book follows and complements the previous volume Biotechnology and International Law (Hart 2006) bringing a specific focus on human rights. It is the result of a collaborative …
Private Actors as Participants in International Law
This book examines the status of private actors as subjects of law under the rules of the international law of the sea. Providing a methodology for the notion of a single legal …
Economic Sanctions and International Law
In recent years sanctions have become an increasingly popular tool of foreign policy, not only at the multilateral level (at the UN), but also regionally (the EU in particular) and …
The Rule of Law at the National and International Levels
This book aims to enhance understanding of the interactions between the international and national rule of law. It demonstrates that the international rule of law is not merely …
The Development of Human Rights Law by the Judges of the International Court of Justice
The jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice generally demonstrates that no rule of international law can be interpreted and applied without regard to its innate values …
The Democratic Legitimacy of International Law
The objective of this work is to restate the requirements of democratic legitimacy in terms of the deliberative ideal developed by Jurgen Habermas, and apply the understanding to …
Islamic State Practices, International Law and the Threat from Terrorism
In the post '9/11' legal and political environment, Islam and Muslims have been associated with terrorism. Islamic civilization has increasingly been characterized as backward, …