Here is the introductory volume to Kluwer's NAFTA Chapter Eleven Reports, an ongoing, comprehensive, and regularly augmented collection of full-text awards and other important decisions issued under the Agreements investor-state arbitration provisions. The texts in the series are supplemented with expert synopses that offer a unique guide to emerging jurisprudence in the field. This initial volume collects and thoroughly indexes selected primary documents essential to a full understanding of the adjudications contained in subsequent volumes. It is designed to be a convenient, stand-alone...

The United Nations' Decade of Disabled Persons has served as a time for standard setting in the field of human rights and disability, and has created the need to evaluate the relevant human rights instruments for disabled persons. This volume responds to this need by offering a collection of essays on the subject of human rights and disability, and an extensive compilation of international and regional human rights instruments, guidelines and principles which are of special relevance to disabled people. It should serve organizations of disabled people as well as governments throughout the...