Federalism and the Law of Diversity

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. The volume offers new and unexplored perspectives on federalism and its relationships with diversity accommodation. It represents the first structured attempt to use federal theory and practice to frame several phenomena of governance in the area of diversity management. Fed…

Faith in Law, Law in Faith

Across four decades, John Witte, Jr. has advanced the study of law and religion by retrieving religious sources of law, renewing timeless teachings of religion for today, and reengaging with the difficult issues confronting society. Interdisciplinary, international, and interfaith in scope, Witte’s work has generated an enormous body of scholarship. This collection of essays by leading schola…

Who Benefits from the Sanitized Language of Violence?

Language is not neutral; it determines, and is determined, by perspective. This volume explores the role of an influential vocabulary of war, sanitised language, the language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events through euphemism, abstract words and opaque phrases. Critical discourse analysis of the language of recent military campaigns shows that the public authorities do not explai…

Liability of Multinational Corporations under International Law

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ISBN/ISSN

978-90-04-48267-8

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432 pp.

Series Title

Studies and Materials on the Settlement of International Disputes, Volume: 7

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Sustainability Objectives in Competition and Intellectual Property Law

While recent years have been dominated by Covid-19 and now the war in Ukraine, we are witnessing numerous ongoing tragedies. The last few decades have seen a dramatic increase in freak weather events caused by climate change.

Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the Saudi judiciary in the 21st century. Drawing on interviews with leading members of the Saudi judiciary, seldom-seen legal literature and court judgments, the author addresses two main questions: First, what is the Saudi jurists’ understanding of an Islamic judiciary? And second, how is this understanding reflected in the Saudi legal system, it…

Islam in a Post-Secular Society : Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of …

Islam in the Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith critically examines the unique challenges facing Muslims in Europe and North America. From the philosophical perspective of the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory, this book attempts not only to diagnose the current problems stemming from a marginalization of Islam in the secular West, but also to…

International Organizations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution…

This second volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law examines the role of international organizations in promoting effective dispute resolution. It is divided into five parts to reflect a series of overarching themes and relationships. Firstly, international arbitration’s effectiveness and affinity with multilateral institutions. Second, international organizations as proponents of th…

International Submarine Cables and Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Juri…

If one uses Facebook, Facetime, Skype, Netflix, or any application of the internet internationally, a submarine cable is involved. Fibre optic cables bind the world together and computer server farms, maintained by major telecom and content companies, allow vast amounts of data to be stored and retrieved from the cloud. Not often appreciated is the fact that these server locations worldwide are…

Interpretation of Customary International Law : Of Methods and Limits

In international law interpretation is ubiquitous. However, whereas in the case of treaty interpretation, this process has been codified in Articles 31-33 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the interpretation of rules of customary international law has remained largely unexplored. This monograph demonstrates not only that rules of customary international law can be interpreted but…