"The global landscape has changed profoundly over the past decades. As a result, the making of international law and the way we think about it has become more and more diversified. This [handbook] offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of international lawmaking…
This book is based on the findings of a comparative study examining the role played by traditional justice mechanisms in dealing with the legacy of violent conflict in Africa. It focuses on five countries: Burundi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Uganda, that are used as th…
"This text explores how the public purpose doctrine reconciles the often conflicting, but equally binding, obligations that states have to engage in regulatory sovereignty while honoring host-state obligations to protect foreign investment. The work examines the multiple permuta…
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratifi…