This volume provides an analysis of insurance in private international law for international business lawyers, including discussion of the jurisdictional and choice of laws issues arising from cross-border contracts of insurance and reinsurance concluded by electronic means.
This volume provides an analysis of insurance in private international law for international business lawyers, including discussion of the jurisdictio...
Francesca Romani Angelica Bonfanti Francesco Seatzu
The growing demand for natural resources has triggered a "race" to their exploitation and possession, especially in developing countries. Most desired are water, land, forests, raw materials (oil, gas, mineral and precious stones), fisheries and genetic resources. Emerging economies, Western states, multinational corporations and international financial institutions have become the biggest "buyers" in a race that on one hand strengthens economies and creates investment opportunities and on the other threatens local communities and environmental protection. Natural Resources Grabbing: An...
The growing demand for natural resources has triggered a "race" to their exploitation and possession, especially in developing countries. Most desired...
Increasingly, trans-national corporations, developed countries and private actors are broadening the boundaries of their investments into new territories, in search of a higher return on capital. However, various exponents of international civil society and NGOs, as well as a growing number of academic researchers, persuasively claim that such growth of financial capitals in the form of foreign investments constitutes a potential and serious hazard both to the environment and the fundamental rights and freedoms of local populations. The relationship between foreign investments, currently...
Increasingly, trans-national corporations, developed countries and private actors are broadening the boundaries of their investments into new terri...
The book concerns the study and analysis of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from an international legal perspective, taking into consideration the adoption of the 2008 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The volume provides a detailed account of the structure and functioning of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the light of its jurisprudence, through a study of the Committee's procedures and practices (periodic reports and general comments), including taking into account the Optional...
The book concerns the study and analysis of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from an international legal perspective, taking i...
This book is one of the few comprehensive works focusing on the sub-regional institutions in the Latin American and Caribbean region. These organisations and institutions enrich the co-operation at sub-regional level, but, in most cases, are neglected in legal literature. They have mainly economic purposes but they also contribute to new forms of institutional co-operation in other areas, including financial, political and social matters.
The volume addresses some of the most representative of these institutions, such as the Mercosur, the Andean Community and sub-regional financial...
This book is one of the few comprehensive works focusing on the sub-regional institutions in the Latin American and Caribbean region. These organis...
