The scale and horror of recent terror attacks and the panic which ensued throughout the world has forced policymakers and international lawyers to re-examine international legal tools available to enforce norms against terrorism. The magnitude of the attacks, the modalities of the operations, the profiles of the terrorists and the transnational structure of some terrorist organizations all cast doubt on the adequacy of the existing political and legal framework to fight terrorism. Due to this perception, governments have increased the intensity of measures to combat terrorist activities such...

The scale and horror of recent terror attacks and the panic which ensued throughout the world has forced policy-makers and international lawyers to re-examine international legal tools available to enforce norms against terrorism. The magnitude of the attacks, the modalities of the operations, the profiles of the terrorists and the transnational structure of some terrorist organizations all cast doubt on the adequacy of the existing political and legal framework to fight terrorism. This book comprehensively analyzes the suitability of existing international legal tools to enforce rules...

Das zunehmende Aufarbeiten ökologischer§Problematiken, bedingt durch ein immer stärker§werdendes Bewusstsein für die begrenzten Ressourcen§und Möglichkeiten der Welt, in der wir leben, kann,§wie nie zuvor, philosophische Erhellung erfordern.§Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt die aktuelle§philosophische ökologische Debatte als Ausgangspunkt§und stellt zunächst einige relevante Ansätze dieser§dar. Auf diese Weise kommen Denkströmungen wie u.a.§die Ökozentrik, die deep ecology oder die§feministische Ökologie zur Sprache. Weiters wird in§diesem Buch versucht, einen Einblick in...

This book carefully and thoroughly analyzes the legal questions raised by the phenomenon of terrorism - and past and recent efforts to fight it - from the perspective of international humanitarian law (IHL). The objective is to substantially contribute to a better understanding of the issues surrounding the content and applicability of IHL as it applies to terrorism, as well as to analyze and contextualize the current debates on these controversial and critically important questions. While due heed is paid to doctrinal debates, particular emphasis is placed on the practice of social actors,...

Most of the times we open our mouth to communicate, we talk about things. This can happen because (some of) the linguistic expressions we use have semantic properties that connect them to extra-linguistic entities. Thanks to these properties, they may be used by us to refer to things. Or, as we may also say, they themselves refer to things, though in certain cases they do so only relative to a context of use. But how can we characterize the semantic properties in question? What exactly is reference? Philosophers have been trying to answer these questions at least since Plato's Cratylus, but...

The relevance of interpretation to the academic study and professional practice of international law is self-evident. As new insights on the practice and process of interpretation abound in other disciplines, international law and international lawyers have largely remained wedded to a rule-based approach, focusing almost exclusively on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Such an approach neglects interpretation as a distinct and admittedly broader field of theoretical inquiry.

Interpretation in International Law brings together established and emerging international...

Two fish are swimming in a pond. 'Do you know what?' the fish asks his friend. 'No, tell me.' 'I was talking to a frog the other day. And he told me that we are surrounded by water ' His friend looks at him with great scepticism: 'Water? What's that? Show me some water '
International lawyers often find themselves focused on the practice of the law rather than the underlying theories. This book is an attempt to stir up 'the water' that international lawyers swim in. It analyses a range of theoretical approaches to international law and invites readers to engage with different ways of...