International Law and Infectious Diseases is the first comprehensive a nalysis of the intersection between international law and infectious d iseases. Infectious diseases pose a global threat and international la w plays an important but under-explored role in infectious disease con trol. This book analyses the globalization of public health and examin es the history of international law in this area.
International Law and Infectious Diseases is the first comprehensive a nalysis of the intersection between international law and infectious d iseases....
This book examines one of the most important challenges facing the United Nations today: the effective and lawful use of force by or under the authority of the UN to maintain or restore peace. It makes a significant contribution to the content of the law pertaining to the use of force by the UN and provides guidance as to the likely future developments in the legal framework governing collective action to maintain peace under the auspices of the United Nations.
This book examines one of the most important challenges facing the United Nations today: the effective and lawful use of force by or under the authori...
Uncontrolled transboundary transfer of hazardous wastes was recognized as a major environmental problem in the mid-1980s. The international community responded by elaborating pertinent international agreements. Treaties are now in place at the global and regional levels, and additional ones are being negotiated. Despite their common aim of protecting the environment against the ill-effects of hazardous wastes, they often differ in stringency as well as scope and membership. The book analyses the key treaties and other international legal rules on the control of transboundary movements of...
Uncontrolled transboundary transfer of hazardous wastes was recognized as a major environmental problem in the mid-1980s. The international community ...
This is the first monograph on the idea of obligations erga omnes, an increasingly important concept in contemporary international law. Maurizio Ragazzi employs a pragmatic approach that identifies five common elements among the examples of obligations erga omnes given by the International Court. These five properties are then discussed comparatively.
This is the first monograph on the idea of obligations erga omnes, an increasingly important concept in contemporary international law. Maurizio Ragaz...
This book examines one of the most important challenges facing the United Nations today: the effective and lawful use of force by or under the authority of the UN to maintain or restore peace. It makes a significant contribution to the content of the law pertaining to the use of force by the UN and provides guidance as to the likely future developments in the legal framework governing collective action to maintain peace under the auspices of the United Nations.
This book examines one of the most important challenges facing the United Nations today: the effective and lawful use of force by or under the authori...
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of complementary protection, from its historical development through to its contemporary application. By examining the human rights foundations of the Convention, the architecture of Convention rights, regional examples of complementary protection, and principles of non-discrimination, the book argues that the Convention acts as a type of lex specialis for persons in need of international protection, providing a specialized blueprint for legal status, irrespective of the legal source of the protection obligation.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of complementary protection, from its historical development through to its contemporary application. By e...
The recent explosion of investment treaty arbitration marks a major transformation of both international and public law, above all because of the manner in which states have delegated core powers of the courts to private arbitrators. This book outlines investment treaty arbitration as a public law system and demonstrates how it goes beyond all other forms of international adjudication in giving arbitrators a comprehensive jurisdiction to determine the legality of sovereign acts, and to award public funds to businesses that sustain loss as a result of government regulation. The analysis...
The recent explosion of investment treaty arbitration marks a major transformation of both international and public law, above all because of the mann...
This book provides a conceptual and legal analysis of one of the most important challenges facing international organizations today: their exercise of sovereign powers. The book examines the exercise of sovereign powers by organizations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and the European Union. It makes a significant contribution to the content of the law that governs both the exercise of sovereign powers by international organizations and the relationships between organizations and their Member States. The book also tackles the fundamental question of what values...
This book provides a conceptual and legal analysis of one of the most important challenges facing international organizations today: their exercise of...
This book asks whether states have the right to intervene in foreign civil conflicts for humanitarian reasons. The UN Charter prohibits state aggression, but many argue that such a right exists as an exception to this rule. Offering a thorough analysis of this issue, the book puts NATO's action in Kosovo in its proper legal perspective.
This book asks whether states have the right to intervene in foreign civil conflicts for humanitarian reasons. The UN Charter prohibits state aggressi...
This book seeks to develop an international criminal procedural order that reconciles Continental and Anglo-American approaches. It compares German criminal procedure and English and U.S. procedure and traces their historical and philosophical development. The criminal process is covered from the first steps of the investigation up to the imprisonment of the convicted.
This book seeks to develop an international criminal procedural order that reconciles Continental and Anglo-American approaches. It compares German cr...