The Environment, Risk and Liability in International Law explains the important role liability plays in risk management and environmental protection in the realm of International Law.
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Whether the workings of financial markets do, or should, support sustainable development is the primary question of this study. Other questions examined may become increasingly important as populations grow and developing countries enter financial markets.
When multinational corporations cause mass harms to lives, livelihoods, and the environment in developing countries, it is nearly impossible for victims to find a court that can and will issue an enforceable judgment. In this work, Professor Maya Steinitz presents a detailed rat…
"In December 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Law Commission's articles on the responsibility of international organizations, bringing to conclusion not only nearly ten years of reflection by the Commission, governments and organizations on thi…
This study is timely because several investments are planned for container terminals in Sub-Saharan Africa. From a public policy perspective, disentangling the reasons behind cargo delays in ports is crucial to understanding:a) whether projects by the World Bank and other donors…
"The scale, effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance lag far behind the world's needs. This path-breaking book examines how far civil society involvement provides an answer to these problems. Does civil society make global governance more democratic? Have citizen action…
"Act and Crime for the first time provides a unified account of the theory of action presupposed by both Anglo-American criminal law and the morality that underlies it. The book defends the view that human actions are always volitionally caused bodily movements and nothing else.…
Border Management Modernization
by McLinden, Gerard, Doyle, Tom, Fanta, Enrique, Widdowson, David
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This book provides border management policymakers and reformers with a broad survey of key developments in and principles for improving trade facilitation through better border management, including practical advice on particular issues. In contrast to the traditional border man…
"Focusing on the problem of indigenous spoliation in developing countries, this work explores the controversial issue of spoliation by national officials of the wealth of the states of which they are custodians. Due to constraints of the state system and the lack of appropriate …
"Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, prize-winning US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien Tort Statute. Beginning with an h…
The business judgment rule originated from the United States of America and was codified in the Companies Act 2008 under section 76(4). This rule relates directly to the duty to act in the best interest of the company and the duty to act with care, skill and diligence. The rule …
Although there was a simple way to practice credit reporting in the past, in its organized and developed form credit reporting is considered new to international society in general. The first act to regulate credit reporting was established in the last quarter of the twentieth c…
Essay on the historical development, legal aspects, and philosophy of the welfare state, with partic. Reference to France in the 19th and 20th centuries - considers relationships between law and ethics; examines the evolution of the concept of State liability and employers liabi…
Com o presente estudo pretendemos contribuir para a compreensão da responsabilidade civil dos administradores não-executivos nesta era tecnológica mais exigente. Especificamente, pretendemos analisar as possíveis implicações da aplicação da tecnologia descentralizada de registo …