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Data Protection without Data Protectionism : The Right to Protection of Perso…
This open access book offers a new account on the legal conflict between privacy and trade in the digital sphere. It develops a fundamental rights theory with a new right to continuous protection of personal data and explores the room for the application of this new right in trade law. Replicable legal analysis and practical solutions show the way to deal with cross-border data flows without vi…
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- 978-3-031-19893-9
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- XVI, 431
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR, volume 28)
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- 340 NAE d
Sustainable Commodity Use : Its Governance, Legal Framework, and Future Regul…
This open access book examines the governance and legal landscape of the global commodity sector. For that purpose, the author conceptualises both Global Commodity Governance (GCG) as well as Transnational Commodity Law (TCL). He defines the key terms of Global Commodity Governance, delineates the underlying legal framework of Transnational Commodity Law, and assesses the effectiveness of Trans…
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- 978-3-030-89496-2
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- XVII, 307
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR, volume 21)
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- 340 OEH s
Public Actors in International Investment Law
This open access book focuses on public actors with a role in the settlement of investment disputes. Traditional studies on actors in international investment law have tended to concentrate on arbitrators, claimant investors and respondent states. Yet this focus on the “principal” players in investment dispute settlement has allowed a number of other seminal actors to be neglected. This boo…
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- 978-3-030-58916-5
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- X, 199
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR)
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- 340 PUB
Investor-State Dispute Settlement and National Courts : Current Framework and…
This open access book examines the multiple intersections between national and international courts in the field of investment protection, and suggests possible modes for regulating future jurisdictional interactions between domestic courts and international tribunals. The current system of foreign investment protection consists of more than 3,000 international investment agreements (IIAs), m…
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- 978-3-030-44164-7
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- X, 117
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR)
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- 340 KAU i
From Bilateral Arbitral Tribunals and Investment Courts to a Multilateral Inv…
This open access book considers the potential setup for a future Multilateral Investment Court (MIC). The option of an MIC was first discussed by the EU Commission in 2016 and has since been made an official element of the EU Common Commercial Policy. In 2017, UNCITRAL also decided to discuss the possibility of an MIC, and on 20 March 2018, the Council of the EU gave the EU Commission the manda…
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- 978-3-662-59732-3
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- XIV, 222
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR)
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- 340 BUN b
Values for a Post-Pandemic Future
This open access book shows how value sensitive design (VSD), responsible innovation, and comprehensive engineering can guide the rapid development of technological responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Responding to the ethical challenges of data-driven technologies and other tools requires thinking about values in the context of a pandemic as well as in a post-COVID world. Instilling values must …
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- 978-3-031-08424-9
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- X, 250
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- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 40)
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- 600 VAL
Continental Philosophy of Technoscience
The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today. This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, p…
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- 978-3-030-84570-4
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- VII, 245
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- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 38)
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- 500 ZWA c
Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child…
This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committ…
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- 978-3-030-84647-3
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- XII, 435
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- Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 25)
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- 370 MON
A Decade of Research Activities at the Department of Industrial Engineering (…
This open access book celebrates the decennial of the Department of Industrial Engineering of Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. It covers the main research achievements developed at the department in the fields of aerospace, marine, energy, statistical, mechanical and management engineering. Five pre-existing departments merged in 2013, and the research results are here summarized to ce…
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- 978-3-031-53397-6
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- XI, 161
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- Springer Aerospace Technology (SAT)
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- 620 DEC
Structural Health Monitoring Damage Detection Systems for Aerospace
This open access book presents established methods of structural health monitoring (SHM) and discusses their technological merit in the current aerospace environment. While the aerospace industry aims for weight reduction to improve fuel efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and to decrease maintenance time and operating costs, aircraft structures are often designed and built heavier than re…
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- 978-3-030-72192-3
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- XII, 284
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- Springer Aerospace Technology (SAT)
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- 620 STR
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