International law 208 results

This volume consists of three books, which will be sold together as a set. They contain the most important decisions taken by the STL from 1 January 2019 - 31 December 2023 and also provide the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version, including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions.

This book reveals how rape myths – incorrect beliefs about rape (survivors/perpetrators) – permeate asylum decision making.

This book traces the trajectory of SOGI refugees throughout the Belgian asylum system, from their accommodation to the preparation of their asylum interview and eventual examination of their asylum claim. The book’s broad perspective brings into focus the various actors who are a part of this process, working within, alongside, or against the asylum apparatus. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the findings show how SOGI refugees’ trajectories are impacted by the places and people they encounter along the way, just as these exceptional encounters leave an impact on their interlocutors.

How should crypto-assets be regulated? Against the backdrop of the recent adoption by the European Union of the MiCA Regulation, it seems crucial to compare the regulatory choices made in the European Union and the United Arab Emirates.  

This book deals with the questions arising from domestic restrictions on the ability and authority of State parties to submit to international arbitration and the invocability of these restrictions in foreign investment disputes from the perspective of the International Rule of Law. 

This book will examine whether the insights gained on due diligence to regulate transnational business conduct in various areas of international law can be transposed mutatis mutandis to the context of the customary duty of non-assistance, due to their significant similarities with the book’s central research issue.

The seventy-sixth volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the ICC from 8 June 2018 - 13 November 2019. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented on these decisions.

This book offers a first step towards a remedy by zooming in on policy instruments within international wildlife law. More specifically, it makes an in-depth study of policy instruments for large carnivore conservation in southern Africa.

Angelo Goethals' doctoral thesis on The Legal Framework for (Inter)connecting the Belgian Offshore Wind Farms examines legal challenges and frameworks governing Belgium's offshore wind farm transmissions and interconnections. Through the PhairywinD project, funded by the Energy Transition Fund, the study explores grid development, market issues, and licensing processes, addressing concepts like offshore bidding zones, energy islands, hybrid interconnectors, and the interplay between European and international law. Defended in 2025 at Ghent University, the research provides valuable insights for the future of offshore wind energy in the North Sea and beyond.

In banking and finance, transnationality permeates the day-to-day professional life and makes the dedicated lawyer an internationalist by necessity. There are good reasons for this: the intangible nature of services, the desire of operators even regulated to conquer foreign markets; sometimes because of the extraterritorial spread of local policies relating to the person of the operators or the products marketed. Although it does not always have a good reputation, private international law, with its promise of a widely understood conflict of law discipline, is making inroads into the legal practice of this specialised and globalised sector.

The seventy-fourth volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the STL from 1 January 2014 – 31 December 2018. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented on these decisions.

Explore how NATO has evolved over 75 years, expanding membership and capabilities while facing complex security challenges. The author provides valuable insights into the organization's legal landscape. An invaluable resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to navigate the intersection of international law and security.

The seventy-fifth volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the KSC from 26 April 2017 – 24 December 2020. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented on these decisions.

Negotiation manages a balance of power between states and governments with divergent aims. Let's enter the diplomatic arena and see if we can use concrete examples to illustrate the various aspects of a diplomatic negotiation. We can draw on conceptual analyses and confront them with empirical verification.

A unique approach of this book is to use comparative case studies of political transitions in Uruguay, Lebanon, Spain, Kenya and Colombia to illustrate the historical development of transitional justice which gradually extended the reach of international human rights law to manage political transitions, thereby limiting impunity. Through these case studies, the book shows how transitional justice intervention has been shaped by distinct histories of conflict, elite pactism and transitional jurisprudence.

The International Survey of Family Law is the annual review of the International Society of Family Law. It brings together reliable and clearly structured insights into the latest and most notable developments in family law from all around the globe.

Discover essential insights into the international legal framework for protecting civilians in peace operations with 'Forcible Protection of Civilians.' This analysis explores legal bases, UN mandates, and the interplay between mandates and human rights/international humanitarian law. Ideal for scholars and practitioners, this resource tackles complex legal nuances surrounding the use of force to ensure civilian safety in peace operations.

This book engages with the use of sanctions by and against international organizations from the perspective of international and European Union law. It explores the rationale, legal status and implications of sanctions, untangling the complex relationship between international organizations, member States and non-member States.

The rule of law is one of the most important topics discussed both in the legal community and in wider society. This book presents dozens of reports on the situation in various European and non-European legal systems. It answers questions about the conditions for ensuring the rule of law and about the risks and challenges faced by the democratic state of law today.

On 7 December 2022, the European Commission published a Proposal for a private international law Regulation on parenthood. In the book, the Marburg Group—a group of German private international law scholars—undertakes the first extensive and in-depth assessment of the Parenthood Proposal. While the Group welcomes the initiative of the Commission and embraces the overall structure of the Parenthood Proposal, it suggests several fundamental changes.