International Law E-Books Online, Collection 2009

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• Admission to the United Nations

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  • Author: Th omas D. Grant
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  • Relating the transformation of the UN from wartime alliance to universal organization, this book tells how a presumption came to be entrenched in the UN Charter that any State seeking admission will be admitted and then considers the implications.

• The Application of Islamic Criminal Law in Pakistan

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  • Author: S T H Z Wasti
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  • This book provides an original and comprehensive account of the resurgence of traditional Islamic criminal law in the early twenty-first century, offering a detailed study of the application of Islamic law of murder and homicide in contemporary Pakistan.

• Boundaries of Discourse in the International Court of Justice

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  • Author: Leanne Burgis

• British Diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the present

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  • Author: G.R. Berridge
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  • This book describes the evolution of the component elements of the British Embassy in Turkey up to the First World War. It then explains why, without changing radically except in its communications, it remained indispensable to British diplomacy in Turkey afterwards.

• Commentary on the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

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  • Author: M.E. Villiger
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  • The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, regulating treaties between States, lies at the heart of international law. This commentary interprets the Convention’s 85 articles clearly and precisely. It also provides up-to-date information on ratifications and reservations.

• Competition and Regulation in Shipping and Shipping Related Industries

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  • Editors Antonis Antapassis; Lia Athanassiou; Erik Rosaeg
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  • Focusing on competition as an economic phenomenon, this book comparatively and comprehensively examines private arrangements in the liner and the bulk sector, the liberalization of sabotage and port services, indirect competition-distorting factors and the latest developments on international regulation of carriage of goods by sea.

• Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers (2008)

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  • Editor Arthur W. Rovine
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  • The 2008 volume of Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation - The Fordham Papers is a collection of important works in the field written by the speakers at the 2010 Fordham Law School Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation.

• Corporate Responsibility under the Alien Tort Statute

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  • Author: Michael Koebele
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  • In his book, Michael Koebele examines the potential liability of transnational corporations under the Alien Tort Statute (also known as Alien Tort Claims Act) for violations of international law in connection with their operations and investments worldwide.

• The EU and Cyprus

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  • Author: Laulhe Shaelou
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  • At the crossroads between EU enlargement and European integration, this book provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of the integration of Cyprus into the EU and discusses the various socio-legal parameters of its differentiated path on the way towards 'full' integration.

• The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court

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  • Editors Carsten Stahn; Göran Sluiter
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  • The International Criminal Court is at a crossroads. In 1998, the Court was still a fiction. A decade later, it has become operational and faces its first challenges as a judicial institution. This volume examines this transition.

• The European Union at the United Nations

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  • Author: M.B. Rasch
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  • rawing on qualitative and quantitative analysis, this book examines the functioning, effectiveness, coherence and quality of the cooperation, coordination and representation of European Union Member States’ national interests and EU policy aims at the United Nations in New York.

• The Exploitation of Natural Resources of the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies

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  • Author: F. Tronchetti
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  • The purpose of this book is to propose a legal regime to govern the exploitation of natural resources of the moon and other celestial bodies. Considering, on the one side, the interest shown by states and private operators to extract and use extraterrestrial natural resources and, on the other, the absence of specific rules dealing with such an option, the establishment of a legal framework to regulate the exploitation of natural resources of the moon and other celestial bodies is needed so as to ensure its peaceful, safe and orderly development.

• Facets and Practices of State-Building

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  • Editors Julia Raue; Patrick Sutter
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  • Drawing on a unique mix of international academic and field expert work, this book presents and analyses contemporary state-building efforts. It offers lessons for the future of state-building relevant to both practitioners and the academic community.

• Foreign Ministries and the Information Revolution: Going Virtual?

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  • Author: J. Bátora
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  • Anchored in new institutionalist approaches in political science, the book provides a comparative in-depth analysis of information technology effects in the foreign ministries of Canada, Norway and Slovakia.

• Freedom of Seas, Passage Rights and the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention

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  • Editors Myron H. Nordquist; Tommy Koh; John Norton Moore
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  • Freedom of the seas and passage rights is a highly topical subject for the international community that cuts across a broad spectrum of scholarly disciplines and maritime operations. The contents of the book include in-depth analysis of current international and regional approaches to freedom of navigation, transit passage through straits used for international navigation, archipelagic sea lanes passage, scientific research and hydrographic surveys in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), military surveys in the EEZ, as well as vessel source pollution and protection of the marine environment.

• The Future of Ocean Regime-Building

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  • Editors Aldo Chircop; Theodore McDorman; Susan Rolston

• The Impact of Legislation

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  • Editor Jonathan Verschuuren
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  • The growing attention for evidence-based lawmaking and reduction of administrative burdens caused methods of ex ante evaluation to be introduced in legislative processes around the globe. This book discusses the opportunities, limitations and challenges of ex ante assessment of legislation.

• The International Law Foundations of Palestinian Nationality

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  • Author: M. Qafisheh

• The International Law on Ballast Water

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  • Author: M.H. Fonseca De Souza Rolim
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  • "In providing a broad overview of the legal aspects related to marine pollution caused by ballast water and tank sediments, this book offers a pragmatic analysis of the current international legal system, and includes principles of international customary law and also references to a comprehensive environmental treaty law framework which relates the Ballast Water Convention to other treaties, such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), MARPOL and the Convention on Biological Diversity." From the Foreword by Efthimios E. Mitropoulos.

• International Law on Peacekeeping

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: Hitoshi Nasu