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Preventive coercive measures are an increasingly common and controversial feature of the legal landscape in many countries. Examples include the preventive detention of 'dangerous' individuals after the expiration of their sentences, the involuntary commitment of 'dangerous' individuals to mental institutions purely to protect the public and the preventive detention of suspected terrorists not charged with any crimes. The practice raises a range of important and inter-related legal, criminological, moral, sociological and forensic-psychiatric questions. For instance, it is generally based on...

This collection brings together a series of essays which address some of the challenges that globalization poses to the international legal order. The book examines the interaction of globalization and international law through four sub-themes: the adaptation of classical international legal tools to regulate and adjudicate community interests and conflicts in the era of globalization; coordinating dialogues and governance strategies within and between international legal systems and institutions; globalization and the diversification of actors; and the exposure of State sovereignty to...