"The situation in Palestine has influenced the deployment of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The impact of longterm Israeli occupation and the rule of the Palestinian Authority in the Occupied Territory is multifaceted. Despite the various research on Palestine, human rights, and the rule of law, few studies have been conducted on the enforcement mechanisms of…
New technological innovations offer significant opportunities to promote and protect human rights. At the same time, they also pose undeniable risks. In some areas, they may even be changing what we mean by human rights. The fact that new technologies are often privately controlled raises further questions about accountability and transparency and the role of human rights in regulating these ac…
Armed conflict, today, has diverged from war as it was known in generations past, and from this, has tested the means by which conflicts and violence are regulated. Written with an eye to a region plagued by such conflicts, War and Law in the Islamic World examines the origins and roles that two distinct systems of governance – Islamic law and international humanitarian law – have played in…
This book provides a valuable restatement of the current law of armed conflict regarding hostilities in a diverse range of contexts: outer space, cyber operations, remote and autonomous weapons, undersea systems and devices, submarine cables, civilians participating in unmanned operations, military objectives by nature, civilian airliners, destruction of property, surrender, search and rescue, …
Sangat disayangkan bahwa gagasan bahwa Afrika berkontribusi pada hukum internasional, dan selalu demikian, tetap (pada tahun 2022) sebagian besar merupakan catatan tambahan, pendekatan tambahan, daripada sesuatu yang diterima secara luas dan mengakar kuat. Hal ini menyebabkan jeda bahwa ini juga berlaku di Afrika sendiri. Menjelajahi pendekatan Afrika terhadap hukum internasional: Esai untuk me…
Apakah Hukum Internasional benar-benar hukum adalah salah satu pertanyaan menjengkelkan yang masih ada. Pendekatan tiga pilar Prof. Mwenda untuk melihat Hukum Internasional adalah kerangka kerja konseptual yang sangat berguna, pada saat yang sama, melambangkan sifat disiplin yang dapat ditempa. Analisis tersebut menunjukkan ketika Negara memperhatikan hukum internasional, mengapa mereka merasa …
This book seeks to identify the ethical spirit of European Union (EU) law, a context in which we can observe a trend towards increasing references to the terms ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’. This aspect is all the more important because EU law is now affecting more and more areas of national law, including such sensitive ones as the patentability of human life. Especially when unethical behav…
In Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law, Odile Ammann examines the methodology and reasoning which domestic courts, including Swiss courts, use to interpret international law. She argues that interpretative methods must be taken more seriously in international law. Readership: Domestic judges, academics working on international law, legal theory, and judicial reasoning, a…
This open access book presents global perspectives and developments within the information and communication technology (ICT) sector, and discusses the bearing they have on policy initiatives that are relevant to the larger digital technology and communications industry. Drawing on key developments in India, the USA, UK, EU, and China, it explores whether key jurisdictions need to adopt a diffe…
The theme of the conference, “Language, Law and the Multilingual State”, was determined to investigate the state-juridical challenges facing multilingual societies. Several related issues were addressed, such as minority and indigenous languages, globalisation and diversity, language rights, language ideology and language legislation.