A Thematic Guide to Documents on the Human Rights of Women is the first volume in a new series: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Guides. As the term guide' implies, the series will facilitate orientation in international human rights standards by presenting the content of substantive standards in a systematic way. The Guides map out the entire range of human rights and fundamental freedoms as they relate to specific categories of beneficiaries. Future volumes will be devoted to children, minorities, indigenous peoples, detainees, migrants, and so on. Volumes...

Fringe Benefits in Context is a study of the income tax treatment of fringe benefits. It is divided into two parts. In the first half, a review is given of the theories underlying different fringe benefit income tax rules and the conceptual rules that arise with respect to particular types of benefits. In the second part, a look is taken at the actual rules governing the tax treatment of fringe benefits in the following selected jurisdictions: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico,...

International commercial arbitration raises issues other than the choice of the law applicable to the principal contract. Autonomy may have a wider meaning, extending beyond the choice of applicable law to the choice of arbitration itself, and of the place or places where it is to be conducted. Nor is it altogether clear what the forum is, if any. This paper raises the fundamental question of what gives the arbitrator his or her competence--the will of the parties or the law of the seat of arbitration which the parties may, or may not, have chosen? The paper also suggests an answer to the...