Recentering the World recovers a richly contextual, detailed history of Western-imposed legal structures in China, as well as engagements with international law by Chinese officials, jurists, and citizens. Beginning in the Late Qing era, it shows how international law functioned as a channel for power relations, techniques of economic domination, as well as novel forms of resistance. The book also radically diversifies traditionally Eurocentric accounts of modern international law's origins, demonstrating how, by the mid-twentieth century, Chinese jurists had made major contributions to international organizations and the UN system, the international judiciary, the laws of armed conflict, and more. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book is a valuable guide to China's often conflicted role in international law, its reception and contention of concepts of sovereignty, property, obligation, and autonomy, and its gradual move from the 'periphery' to a shared spot at the 'center' of global legal order.

This collection addresses the central question of how the current international framework for the regulation of fisheries may be strengthened in order to meet the challenges posed by changing fisheries and ocean conditions, in particular climate change. International fisheries law has developed significantly since the 1990s, through the adoption and establishment of international instruments and bodies at the global and regional levels. Global fish stocks nevertheless remain in a troubling state, and fisheries management authorities face a wide array of internal and external challenges, including operational constraints, providing effective management advice in the face of scientific uncertainty and non-compliance by States with their international obligations. This book examines these challenges and identifies options and pathways to strengthen international fisheries law. While it has a primarily legal focus, it also features significant contributions from specialists drawn from other disciplines, notably fisheries science, economics, policy and international relations, in order to provide a fuller context to the legal, policy and management issues raised. Rigorous and comprehensive in scope, this will be essential reading for lawyers and non-lawyers interested in international fisheries regulation in the context of profoundly changing ocean conditions.

Thema des Buches ist das Verhaltnis von Volkerrecht und Landesrecht in der Rechtsprechung. Die Autorin untersucht die Praxis des Supreme Court der Vereinigten Staaten, des EuGH und des schweizerischen Bundesgerichts in Hinblick auf die Rezeption des internationalen Handelsrechts, der Menschenrechte und des internationalen Auslieferungsrechts. Im Zentrum der Analyse steht dabei nicht das theoretische Verhaltnis von Landes- und Volkerrecht, sondern der konkrete Umgang mit den volkerrechtlichen Vorgaben in den Entscheidungen der genannten Gerichte. Dabei werden die Entscheidungen des Supreme Court, des EuGH und des Bundesgerichts in ihrem politisch-historischen Kontext analysiert. Als theoretische Grundlage fur die Rezeptionsanalyse dient ein Modell, in dem die landesrechtliche und volkerrechtliche Rechtsmasse systemisch ineinandergreifen.

The monograph aims to verify the thesis that the language rights of European Union citizens are an important element of the EU’s respect for the national identities of its Member States guaranteed in the Treaties. The protection of these rights has been consistently strengthened in EU law, with citizenship of the Union playing an important role in this process. The formulated thesis is verified mainly through the use of the dogmatic and legal methods, and the comparative legal method. The specific nature of the subject matter discussed requires an interdisciplinary approach, and the methods used in the field of linguistics are also applied mainly with reference to the conceptual apparatus adopted within the EU legal order.

The extent of available pre-judgment asset preservation relief is widely regarded as a unique characteristic of English law and one of the key factors attracting international commercial litigation to the English courts. By taking a novel view of the theoretical foundations of a freezing injunction, this book challenges the long-established view that such an injunction is an in personam form of relief whose sole purpose is to prevent unscrupulous defendants from making themselves judgment-proof. Dr Saranovic combines historical and comparative perspectives to identify several theoretical flaws in the court's jurisdiction to grant this popular form of interim relief. The book demonstrates that the current application of private international law rules in this field leads to inequality among litigants and illegitimate encroachment upon the sovereignty of foreign states. It proposes a range of possible solutions to alleviate concerns about the scope of freezing injunctions both in the domestic and international arena.

What can be done if the United Nations Security Council fails to protect people from mass atrocities? At a time of inaction and political paralysis at the United Nations, this book explains the legality of alternative action beyond the Security Council. This book takes a fresh look at the responsibility to protect and offers new and compelling insights into the powers and limits of the UN Security Council. It argues that the Security Council's responsibility to maintain international peace and security, and its responsibility to protect, do not die with its own failures. Other actors can and must take up responsibility to save those in need. In a persuasive and detailed examination of the legal framework, this research identifies options for coercive measures to be taken beyond the Council that could be used to break the deadlock, including through the General Assembly and regional organisations. It provides a must-have resource for students, academics, and researchers on key principles of international law. It also offers insight for governments, policy-makers, and other international actors on how they can uphold their legal responsibilities, maintain peace and security, and prevent their failures from undermining the very existence of the UN itself.

Riots, insurrections, guerrilla movements, civil wars--all forms of internal conflict are increasing throughout the world. The conditions that breed domestic violence in the Third World persist, and events in Ulster and Quebec have shown that more advanced industrial countries are not immune from civil disorder. The subject of James E. Bond's book--how can we regulate civil guerrilla warfare?--is therefore one of the most critical questions of our time. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

How should judges of the European Court of Justice be selected, who should participate in the Court's proceedings and how should judgments be drafted? These questions have remained blind spots in the normative literature on the Court. This book aims to address them. It describes a vast, yet incomplete transformation: Originally, the Court was based on a classic international law model of court organisation and decision-making. Gradually, the concern for the effectiveness of EU law led to the reinvention of its procedural and organisational design. The role of the judge was reconceived as that of a neutral expert, an inner circle of participants emerged and the Court became more hierarchical. While these developments have enabled the Court to make EU law uniquely effective, they have also created problems from a democratic perspective. The book argues that it is time to democratise the Court and shows ways to do this.

Nach dem Ende der Dekolonisierung schien es uber lange Zeit hinweg so, als habe das Recht der Staatennachfolge in volkerrechtliche Vertrage zumindest weitgehend seine praktische Bedeutung verloren. Die deutsche Wiedervereinigung, der Zerfall der UdSSR und der Sozialistischen Foderativen Republik Jugoslawien sowie die Teilung der CSFR belegen jedoch die erneute Aktualitat der Fragestellung.
Vor diesem Hintergrund legt der Autor nunmehr die bislang einzige umfassende Analyse der neueren Staatenpraxis vor, die anhand der Wiener Konvention uber das Recht der Staatennachfolge in volkerrechtliche Vertrage zugleich untersucht, unter welchen Vorgaben sich eine volkerrechtliche Kodifikation auch praktisch durchzusetzen vermag."

Gegenstand der Arbeit ist zum einen die Frage, inwieweit der bereits aus der Antike bekannte Grundsatz ne bis in idem heute uber volkerrechtliche Regelungen zwischenstaatliche Wirkung entfaltet. Zum anderen wird untersucht, welche Auswirkungen die Entwicklung dieses Grundsatzes auf die Auslegung der nationalen deutschen Regelung des Doppelstrafverbots in Artikel 103 Abs. 3 GG hat. Die Autorin setzt sich mit Art und Umfang der Geltung des Doppelstrafverbotes im internationalen, europaischen und deutschen Rechtsbereich auseinander. Fur Praktiker ist das Werk von besonderem Interesse, weil es die neuen Regelungen der Artikel 54 ff. des Schengener Durchfuhrungsubereinkommens interpretiert und kommentiert. Diese Artikel sind im deutschen Recht unmittelbar anwendbar. Gegenuber den bisherigen nationalen Regelungen stellen sie Erweiterungen dar, die sich im Strafverfolgungsrecht auswirken.
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1.1 Cash Flow, Risk, Agency, Information, Investments The first volume dealt with the management of: cash flow (and the exchange of goods and services); risk; agency relationships; and information. The firm m- ages these aspects by legal tools and practices in the context of all commercial transactions. The second volume discussed investments. As voluntary contracts belong to the most important legal tools available to the firm, the second volume provided an - troduction to the general legal aspects of generic investment contracts and p- ment obligations. This volume discusses funding transactions, exit, and a particular category of decisions raising existential questions (business acquisitions). Transactions which can be regarded as funding transactions from the perspective of a firm raising the funding can be regarded as investment transactions from the perspective of an - vestor that provides the funding. Although the perspective chosen in this volume is that of a firm raising funding, this volume will simultaneously provide infor- tion about the legal aspects of many investment transactions. 1.2 Funding, Exit, Acquisitions Funding transactions are obviously an important way to manage cash flow. All - vestments will have to be funded in some way or another. The firm's funding mix will also influence risk in many ways. Funding. The most important way to raise funding is through retained profits and by using existing assets more efficiently. The firm can also borrow money from a bank, or issue debt, equity, or mezzanine securities to a small group of - vestors.

7 quista und die Vernichtungen indigener Volker beschrankt/ denn es ist nicht allein fraglich, inwieweit eine Sammlung von Einzelbeschaftigungen uber Genozidfalle die Diskussion uber Entwicklungsstrukturen von Vol kermord uberhaupt weiterfuhren kann. Zu drohend ist daruber hinaus die Gefahr, sich in Differenzierungskategorien, in Rangstufen des Schreckens oder Zivilisierungsgraden der ausgeubten Verbrechen zu verlieren. Trotz dem werden gerade die hier versammelten Beitrage auch die Unterschied lichkeit von Formen kollektiver Gewalt verdeutlichen wie ebenso auf diffe rente Anwendungen und Anwendungsmoglichkeiten des Genozidkonzepts verwelsen. Aufmerksamkeit verlangt jedoch, daB sich Kategorien uber unterschied liche Formen von Verfolgung und Volkermord in englischen, franzosischen oder US-amerikanischen Forschungsdiskursen trotz, genauer eigentlich mit der moralisch wertenden Begleitdiskussion als analytische Kategorien spatestens seit Mitte der 70er Jahre allgemein durchgesetzt haben. Die Un moglichkeit, solche Kategorien in der deutschen Diskussion zu verfolgen, scheint dabei aber doch weniger von unserer Sensibilitat gegenuber Rela tivierungstendenzen bestimmt. Auch mag die Tatsache, daB es aus unter schiedlichen Grunden in deutschen Geschichtsbuchern nur einen Volker mord gibt - und beispielsweise der Genozid an den Armeniern kaum dem BewuBtsein prasent ist -, der Offenheit gegenuber anderen Verfolgungen zwar im Wege zu stehen, dies aber moglicherweise eher aufgrund einer unterschwelligen Furcht, daB jenes Deutschland auch fur andere Verfol gungen und kollektive Gewalt in der Geschichte verantwortlich oder mit 4 verantwortlich gemacht werden konne. 3 Leider bleibt die Literaturanalyse sehr schnell vor der Erkenntnis stehen, daB sich Be schaftigungen beispielsweise uber die Verfolgung indigener Volker haufig kaum aus einem ethnologischen oder kulturanthropologischen Rahmen gelost haben."

There are various situations in which multiple states or international organizations are bound to an international obligation in the context of cooperative activities and the pursuit of common goals. This practical phenomenon of sharing international obligations raises questions regarding the performance of obligations (who is bound to do what) and international responsibility in case of a breach (who can be held responsible for what). This book puts forward a concept of shared obligations that captures this practical phenomenon and enables scholars and practitioners to tackle these questions. In doing so, it engages in positive law-based categorization and systematization, building on existing categorizations of obligations and putting forward new typologies of shared obligations. Ultimately, it is contended that the sharing of obligations has relevant legal implications: it can influence the content and performance of obligations as well as the responsibility relations that arise in case of a breach.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues of international law. The first comprehensive Handbook on the history of international law, it is a truly unique contribution to the literature of international law and relations. Pursuing both a global and an interdisciplinary approach, the Handbook brings together some sixty eminent scholars of international law, legal history, and global history from all parts of the world. Covering international legal developments from the 15th century until the end of World War II, the Handbook consists of over sixty individual chapters which are arranged in six parts. The book opens with an analysis of the principal actors in the history of international law, namely states, peoples and nations, international organisations and courts, and civil society actors. Part Two is devoted to a number of key themes of the history of international law, such as peace and war, the sovereignty of states, hegemony, religion, and the protection of the individual person. Part Three addresses the history of international law in the different regions of the world (Africa and Arabia, Asia, the Americas and the Caribbean, Europe), as well as 'encounters' between non-European legal cultures (like those of China, Japan, and India) and Europe which had a lasting impact on the body of international law. Part Four examines certain forms of 'interaction or imposition' in international law, such as diplomacy (as an example of interaction) or colonization and domination (as an example of imposition of law). The classical juxtaposition of the civilized and the uncivilized is also critically studied. Part Five is concerned with problems of the method and theory of history writing in international law, for instance the periodisation of international law, or Eurocentrism in the traditional historiography of international law. The Handbook concludes with a Part Six, entitled "People in Portrait", which explores the life and work of twenty prominent scholars and thinkers of international law, ranging from Muhammad al-Shaybani to Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of international law. It provides historians with new perspectives on international law, and increases the historical and cultural awareness of scholars of international law. It is the standard reference work for the global history of international law.

Der Band spiegelt die Ergebnisse einer wissenschaftlichen Konferenz in Poznan wider. Beginnend mit der Volkerbundara wird die friedenssichernde Potenz des Minderheitenschutzes, aber auch die mogliche destabilisierende Wirkung der missbrauchlichen, unzureichenden Behandlung der Minderheitenproblematik untersucht. Aus juristischer, politologischer und geschichtswissenschaftlicher Sicht werden neben Grundsatzfragen der Themenbereiche Volkerbund, Vereinte Nationen und europaische Institutionen bilaterale Minderheitenschutzregelungen analysiert. Theoretische Erorterungsschwerpunkte, die z.T. kontrovers und offen bleiben, sind u.a. die Abgrenzung von Selbstbestimmungsrecht und Minderheitenschutz sowie die Frage, ob die Staatsangehorigkeit Voraussetzung fur Minderheitenschutz ist bzw. sein soll.

This book brings together the key scholars in the international practice debate to demonstrate its strengths as an innovative research perspective. The contributions show the benefit of practice theories in the study of phenomena in international security, international political economy and international organisation, by directing attention to concrete and observable everyday practices that shape international outcomes. The chapters exemplify the cross-overs and relations to other theoretical approaches, and thereby establish practice theories as a distinct IR perspective. Each chapter investigates a key concept that plays an important role in international relations theory, such as power, norms, knowledge, change or cognition. Taken together, the authors make a strong case that practice theories allow to ask new questions, direct attention to uncommon empirical material, and reach different conclusions about international relations phenomena. The book is a must read for anyone interested in recent international relations theory and the actual practices of doing global politics.

Written under the sign of Beckett, this book addresses comparative law's commitment to the deterritorialization of the legal and its attendant claim for the normative relevance of foreign law locally in the fabrication of statutory determinations, judicial opinions, or academic reflections. Wanting to withstand the law's persistent tendency towards nationalist retrenchment and counter comparative law's institutional marginalization, the fifteen essays at hand impart radical and discerning intellectual equipment in order to foster the valorization of the legally foreign and the comparative motion. In particular, the critique informing this manifesto examines pre-eminent topics like culture and difference, understanding and translatability, objectivity and truth, invention and tracing. Harnessing insights from a range of disciplinary discourses, this book contends that comparatists must boldly desist from their field's dominant epistemology and embrace a practice much better attuned to the study of foreignness.

Customary international law is based on State practice. This book presents the international law practice of Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy and a powerhouse of the European Union. That practice makes an important contribution to the creation and development of customary international law. It is the first and only presentation in English of German practice in the field of international law. The 2019 volume also provides comprehensive coverage of Germany's membership of the United Nations Security Council. The book combines a case study approach, providing analysis and commentary on Germany's practice, with a classic digest of primary materials, including diplomatic correspondence, statements and court decisions. The book is an ideal complement to other compilations of international law practice and is an essential resource for scholars and practitioners of international law. It will also be of interest to scholars of international relations, politics and diplomatic studies.

The book takes stock of the on-going 'methodological turn' in the field of EU law scholarship. Introducing a new generation of scholars of the European Court of Justice from law, history, sociology, political science and linguistics, it provides a set of novel interdisciplinary research strategies and empirical materials for the study of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The twelve case studies included challenge the usual top-down approach to EU law and the CJEU and instead suggest a more localized and fine-grained observation of the socio-legal actors and practices involved in the making of CJEU case-law. Moving beyond mainstream legal scholarship and the established 'grand narratives' of legal integration, the volume provides a more historically-informed and sociologically-grounded account of the EU law's uneven embeddedness in Europe's economies and societies.

Although customary international law (CIL) has been central to international law from its inception, it is often misunderstood. This edited volume remedies that problem by tracing the history of CIL and provides an in-depth study of its theory, practice, and interpretation. Its chapters tackle the big questions which surround this source of international law such as: what are the rules that regulate the functioning of CIL as a source of international law? Can CIL be interpreted? Where do lines between identification, interpretation, application, and modification of a rule of CIL lie? Using recent developments, this volume revisits old debates and resolves them by proffering new and innovative solutions. With detailed examples from international and national courts, it places CIL in a range of settings to explain, explore and reflect upon this developing and highly significant field. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

This series contains summaries of judgments, advisory opinions and orders of a substantive nature issued by the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. The present volume includes summaries of all the judgments, advisory opinions and orders issued by the Permanent Court of International Justice, the predecessor of the International Court of Justice. From 1922 to 1946, the Permanent Court dealt with 29 contentious cases and delivered 27 advisory opinions, thus participating in the settlement of numerous international disputes and contributing to the development of international law. The decisions summarized in the present volume have played and continue to play an important role in understanding the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice.

Wir stehen an einem Datum von groesster Bedeutung fur uns, fur unsere Kinder: Am 1. Januar 1993 begann der Europaische Binnenmarkt. Er umfasst "einen Raum ohne Binnengrenzen, in dem der freie Verkehr von Waren, Per sonen, Dienstleistungen und Kapital gemass den Bestimmungen dieses Ver trages gewahrleistet ist. " (Art. 8 a Abs. 2 EWGV) Dennoch wird die Europaische Integration kritisiert. Seit dem Vertrag von Maastricht uber die Europaische Union und die Europaische Wahrungsunion wachsen Zweifel an einer europaischen Zukunft. Es geht nicht nur um die Sta bilitat der Wahrung, sondern darum, dass der Europaischen Gemeinschaft das rechte Verhaltnis zum Burger fehle, dass ihr zuviel Macht zuwachse, dass ihre Be ziehung zu den europaischen Staaten und Regionen dem Subsidiaritatsprinzip ent gleite. Dazu wird demnachst das Bundesverfassungsgericht entscheiden. I Mit diesen grossen Fragen der europaischen Politik moechte ich mich nicht befas sen. Der Jurist lernt je langer je mehr, dass er fur die eher kleinen Angelegenheiten zustandig ist und sich die politischen Stroeme seinem Einfluss entziehen; in ihnen schafft sich das Leben eine Ordnung ohne den Juristen. Aber sein "kleines" Arbeitsfeld ist doch wiederum so gross, dass es ernst zu nehmen ist. Wir werden sehen, dass auch die handwerklich-kunstlerische juristische Technik die europai sche Integration vorantreibt. Der Laie erlebt das Recht in der umfassenden Wirkung von der Wiege bis zur Bahre kaum.