The global spread of transnational mining investment, which has been taking place since the 1990s, has often led to volatile conflicts with local communities. This book examines the regulation of these conflicts through national, transnational, and local legal processes. In doing so, it examines how legal authority is being redistributed among public and private actors, as well as national and transnational actors, as a result of globalizing forces. The book presents a case study concerning the negotiation of land transfer and resettlement between a transnational mining enterprise and...
The global spread of transnational mining investment, which has been taking place since the 1990s, has often led to volatile conflicts with local comm...
This book deals with the nature of international organizations and the tension between their legal nature and the system of classic, state-based, international law. This tension is important in theory and practice, particularly when organizations are brought under the rule of international law and thus have to be designated as legal subjects. The position is complicated by what the author terms 'the institutional veil, ' comparable to the corporate veil found in corporate law. The book focuses on the law of treaties - a pre-eminently 'horizontal' branch of international law - bringing out the...
This book deals with the nature of international organizations and the tension between their legal nature and the system of classic, state-based, inte...
