Author: Jean Allai
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic
Keywords: convention, nations, preparatoires, travaux, treaties, multilateral, united, league, conventions, slavery
Number of Pages: 821
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $296.00
ISBN-10: 9004158618
ISBN-13: 9789004158610

Slavery has taken on added significance in the twenty-first century as a result of its inclusion in the Statute of the International Criminal Court and it being a component part of the 2001 UN and 2005 Council of Europe conventions against trafficking. With limited and conflicting case-law on the issue, the compiling of the Travaux Preparatoires of the 1926 League of Nations and the 1956 United Nations conventions become essential in seeking to holding States or individuals responsible for violations of international law touching on slavery. "The Travaux Preparatoires" of the slavery conventio

Author: Jianfu Che
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic
Keywords: law, yearbook, international, baltic, transformation, context, chinese
Number of Pages: 770
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $237.00
ISBN-10: 9004165045
ISBN-13: 9789004165045

This book examines the historical and politico-economic context in which Chinese law has developed and transformed, focusing on the underlying factors and justifications for changes.

Author: Cecilia M. Bailliet
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic
Keywords: humanitarian, law, international, approach, multidisciplinary, normative, security
Number of Pages: 383
Published: 2009-08
List price: $148.00
ISBN-10: 9004172963
ISBN-13: 9789004172968

Author: International Tribunal for the Law of th
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic
Keywords: documents, pleadings, sittings, public, minutes, publiques, mimoire, audiences, memoires, proces, verbaux, des
Number of Pages: 625
Published: 2005-01-30
List price: $291.00
ISBN-10: 9004141243
ISBN-13: 9789004141247

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is an international court with competence to settle disputes concerning the law of the sea. It is a central forum for the settlement of disputes relating to the interpretation and application of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. This volume contains the texts of written pleadings, minutes of public sittings and other documents from the proceedings in the "Southern Bluefin Tuna Cases (New Zealand "v. Japan; Australia "v Japan), Provisional Measures. The documents are reproduced in their original language. The Tribunal delivere

Author: Maria Gavouneli
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic
Keywords: ocean, development, publications, sea, jurisdiction, law, functional
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-02-28
List price: $178.00
ISBN-10: 900416345X
ISBN-13: 9789004163454

The Law of the Sea Convention has now reached 25 years of presence in the international scene as a constitution for the oceans. It was the product of a long and arduous negotiation with a final product of delicate balance. The purpose of this book is to examine whether the basic premises and essential compromises of the Convention still hold true or whether the Convention, as a living instrument, has evolved into accommodating new needs and challenges to its regulatory scheme. The vehicle chosen is the jurisdictional interplay between the States, as flag States, coastal States and port States,

Author: Joakim Nergelius
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic
Keywords: institute, wallenberg, human, rights, library, raoul, perspective, challenges, new, european, law, nordic, constitutionalism
Number of Pages: 161
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 9004163484
ISBN-13: 9789004163485

This book has its roots in a conference on recent developments in Nordic and German constitutional law that took place in Berlin in 2002 at the Nordic Cultural Centre. That conference was organised within the project Konstitutionalism.

Author: Monica Feria Tinta
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers / Brill Academic
Keywords: rights, human, vulnerable, edge, international, studies, protecting, landmark, inter, american, court, rulings, child
Number of Pages: 671
Published: 2008-03-15
List price: $289.00
ISBN-10: 9004165134
ISBN-13: 9789004165137

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the topic of the Rights of the Child as reflected in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It reviews all decisions of the Inter-American Court relating to the Rights of the Child and analyses the principles held therein making them available to practitioners, academics and students of this area of the law.