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Retour à Lemberg, d'après le livre de Philippe Sands

Autor: Jean-christophe Camus , Philippe Sands , Christophe Picaud

Número de Páginas: 311

C'est à Lemberg que le grand-père de Philippe Sands passe son enfance avant d'échapper à l'Holocauste qui décima sa famille. C'est là que deux juristes juifs, Lauterpacht et Lemkin, étudient le droit et jouent un rôle déterminant au procès de Nuremberg. C'est là que Hans Frank, haut dignitaire nazi, annonce, en 1942, la mise en place de la « Solution finale » qui condamna des millions de Juifs.

Retour à Lemberg

Autor: Philippe Sands

Número de Páginas: 541

Palmarès 2017 Le Point - 25 meilleurs livres de l'année Invité à donner une conférence en Ukraine dans la ville de Lviv, autrefois Lemberg, Philippe Sands, avocat international réputé, découvre une série de coïncidences historiques qui le conduiront de Lemberg à Nuremberg, des secrets de sa famille à l'histoire universelle. C'est à Lemberg que Leon Buchholz, son grand-père, passe son enfance avant de fuir, échappant ainsi à l'Holocauste qui décima sa famille ; c'est là que Hersch Lauterpacht et Raphael Lemkin, deux juristes juifs qui jouèrent un rôle déterminant lors du procès de Nuremberg et auxquels nous devons les concepts de « crime contre l'humanité » et de « génocide », étudient le droit dans l'entre-deux guerres. C'est là enfi n que Hans Frank, haut dignitaire nazi, annonce, en 1942, alors qu'il est Gouverneur général de Pologne, la mise en place de la « Solution finale » qui condamna à la mort des millions de Juifs. Parmi eux, les familles Lauterpacht, Lemkin et Buchholz. Philippe Sands transcende les genres dans cet extraordinaire témoignage où s'entrecroisent enquête palpitante et méditation profonde sur le pouvoir de la mémoire.

The Global Environment

Autor: Norman J. Vig , Regina S. Axelrod

Número de Páginas: 372

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Way Forward

Autor: Felix Dodds

Número de Páginas: 308

In the years since the Rio Earth Summit, what has been achieved? "The Way Forward" is the essential guide to the progress made at the intergovernmental level and also by national governments, NGOs and grassroots agencies; considers the successes and failures of the last five years; and identifies the main developments that need to be addressed in the future. The contributors come from a variety of disciplines, and all are leading experts in their fields. The essays represent all the interest groups involved - NGOs, governments, international agencies, the business community and community action groups

Derecho ambiental internacional

Autor: Nelson Geigel Lope-bello

Número de Páginas: 292

El Libro Negro de Los Illuminati

Autor: Robert Goodman

Número de Páginas: 276

This book reveals how this secret society plans to control people physically, emotionally, and mentally in the future. Este libro desvela cómo esta sociedad secreta intenta controlar físicamente, emocionalmente y mentalmente a la gente en los años venideros.

Angler

Autor: Barton Gellman

Número de Páginas: 508

The landmark exposé of the most powerful and secretive vice president in American history Barton Gellman shared the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for a keen-edged reckoning with Dick Cheney's domestic agenda in The Washington Post. In Angler, Gellman goes far beyond that series to take on the full scope of Cheney's work and its consequences, including his hidden role in the Bush administration's most fateful choices in war: shifting focus from al Qaeda to Iraq, unleashing the National Security Agency to spy at home, and promoting cruel and inhumane methods of interrogation. Packed with fresh insights and untold stories, Gellman parts the curtains of secrecy to show how the vice president operated and what he wrought. An inspiration for the film Vice, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Steve Carrell.

Social License and Dispute Resolution in the Extractive Industries

Autor: Cory H. Kent , Shaheeza Lalani , Georgios Petrochilos , Andreas R. Ziegler

Número de Páginas: 235

Social License and Dispute Resolution in the Extractive Industries is a broad collection offering insights from both renowned academics and practitioners on the intersection of international dispute resolution and the social license to operate in the extractive industries. With its combined academic and practical perspective, the book focuses on mining disputes and addresses a broad array of issues, such as third party funding, grievance and redress, as well as the protection of human rights and the environment. In addition, it is the first work in the market that discusses the proposed rules of the world's first and only Global Natural Resources Dispute Resolution Center (GNDC).

I Will Never See the World Again

Autor: Ahmet Altan

Número de Páginas: 225

Best Book of the Year – Bloomberg News A resilient Turkish writer’s inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism. The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware of his. I suffer the pathetic torment of profound helplessness, just as he did. Like a cursed oracle, I foresaw my future years ago not knowing that it was my own. Confined in a cell four meters long, imprisoned on absurd, Kafkaesque charges, novelist Ahmet Altan is one of many writers persecuted by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s oppressive regime. In this extraordinary memoir, written from his prison cell, Altan reflects upon his sentence, on a life whittled down to a courtyard covered by bars, and on the hope and solace a writer’s mind can provide, even in the darkest places.

El saqueo de la imaginación

Autor: Irene Lozano

Número de Páginas: 236

Cómo la manipulación del lenguaje por los medios de comunicación nos aleja de la verdad. Lo primero que falta en una inundación es agua potable. De igual modo, en la era de la comunicación faltan conceptos a los que asirnos. El uso y abuso de las palabras en el lenguaje político y periodístico ha supuesto un auténtico saqueo de la imaginación. Términos como «progreso», «libertad», «conservador«, o «democracia» ya sólo significan lo que sus usuarios quieren que signifiquen. Para el perplejo observador de un debate público cada vez más inteligente. Irene Lozano disecciona en un libro imprescindible las claves y pautas que determinan quién dice qué, por qué lo dice y qué quiere decir.

No os recuerdo

Autor: Laura Alzola Kirschgens

Número de Páginas: 112

Una impactante inmersión en secretos familiares enterrados. En 2018, durante una visita a la casa de su familia en Alemania, Laura Alzola Kirschgens encuentra un archivador con una inscripción en el lomo: Familiengeschichte. «Historia familiar». Sumergida entre documentos, cartas y fotos, la autora reconstruye la historia de sus abuelos, quienes se cartearon durante cinco años, entre 1944 y 1949, cuando ni siquiera se conocían en persona. Él escribía desde el frente en la Segunda Guerra Mundial —y luego desde un campo de prisioneros soviético— y ella desde una región alemana devastada por los bombardeos. Además de preguntarse por la relación de sus antepasados con la guerra y el régimen nazi, este libro de Laura Alzola Kirschgens explora cómo la memoria viaja a través de las generaciones y cómo el amor nos mantiene a flote cuando la realidad se vuelve insoportable. A través de la historia de la familia de Laura Alzola Kirschgens, descubrimos la historia de unos individuos que sufren los acontecimientos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y nos sumergimos en un periodo histórico convulso. SOBRE EL AUTOR Laura Alzola Kirschgens nació en el verano de 1991. Quiso ser...

La guerre transmise

Autor: Collectif , Stéphane Audoin-rouzeau , Emmanuel Saint-fuscien

Número de Páginas: 174

Coordonné par Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau et Emmanuel Saint-Fuscien, ce numéro de la revue Sensibilités explore les particularités de la mémoire traumatique, liée à la guerre ou à la violence extrême. Enquêter sur " la guerre transmise ", c'est explorer un territoire immense. Celui de la guerre elle-même, bien sûr, elle que nous pouvons tenir pour la plus importante épreuve collective que puisse traverser un acteur social – au point d'ailleurs qu'elle imprime parfois sa marque jusqu'aux heures ultimes de sa propre vie. Mais c'est aussi, d'un même élan, interroger sa transmission : par les liens puissants qu'une guerre tisse avec celles qui la précèdent ; à travers la parole des témoins, les œuvres de écrivains, des cinéastes, des artistes ; par l'École, les musées et le politique. Elle descend ainsi les filiations par le jeu des mémoires familiales, d'une génération à l'autre, puis de celle-ci aux suivantes. Elle se transmet également par les historiens, qui font de la guerre récit, et qui oublient parfois que c'est en disant la guerre qu'est née leur discipline. Elle se transmet enfin – et peut-être surtout – par le silence, ce que les...

On the Rule of Law

Autor: Brian Z. Tamanaha

Número de Páginas: 196

The rule of law is the most important political ideal today, yet there is much confusion about what it means and how it works. This 2004 book explores the history, politics, and theory surrounding the rule of law ideal, beginning with classical Greek and Roman ideas, elaborating on medieval contributions to the rule of law, and articulating the role played by the rule of law in liberal theory and liberal political systems. The author outlines the concerns of Western conservatives about the decline of the rule of law and suggests reasons why the radical Left have promoted this decline. Two basic theoretical streams of the rule of law are then presented, with an examination of the strengths and weaknesses of each. The book examines the rule of law on a global level, and concludes by answering the question of whether the rule of law is a universal human good.

The Precautionary Principle in the Law of the Sea

Autor: Simon Marr

Número de Páginas: 267

The content and status of the precautionary principle remains highly debated and various questions arise, such as its status as a rule of customary international law, including its scope, addressee, triggering threshold, precautionary action measures, and eventually limits of the principle. Thus, this book examines the present state of affairs regarding the implementation of the principle in the law of the sea in different sectors, e.g. pollution of the marine environment, conservation and management of living marine resources, and transboundary transports of radioactive and hazardous wastes. In addition, it extracts evidence of its acceptance as part of customary international law, and indicates that below this level there is also an emerging practice of international law of applying the precautionary principle in a common way.

Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law

Autor: Morten Bergsmo , Emiliano J. Buis

Número de Páginas: 812

This first edition of Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Correlating Thinkers contains 20 chapters about renowned thinkers from Plato to Foucault. As the first volume in the series "Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law", the book identifies leading philosophers and thinkers in the history of philosophy or ideas whose writings bear on the foundations of the discipline of international criminal law, and then correlates their writings with international criminal law.

Por una política criminal humanista

Autor: Luis Arroyo Zapatero

Número de Páginas: 383

“Luis Arroyo Zapatero es un penalista comprometido con el Estado Social y Democrático de Derecho, que por sus ideas políticas ha conocido de persecuciones y encierros. Este vallisoletano devenido manchego, no sólo por vocación sino debido a la magna obra que llevó a cabo como primer rector democráticamente elegido de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, como buen conocedor de la obra cervantina y discípulo del gran Marino Barbero Santos, hoy nos regala este libro sobre los temas que ha trabajado en sus últimos años. La lucha contra la pena de muerte, la militancia a favor de la dulcificación de las penas, su obsesión por rescatar los nombres mayúsculos de la historia de las ciencias penales y su compromiso docente, son acá muestras de sus dotes para ser catalogado como hombre de las ciencias penales de ambos lados del Atlántico.” Matías Bailone.

The Falklands Saga

Autor: Graham Pascoe

Número de Páginas: 861

The Falklands Saga presents abundant evidence from hundreds of pages of documents in archives and libraries in Buenos Aires, La Plata, Montevideo, London, Cambridge, Stanley, Paris, Munich and Washington DC, some never printed before, many printed here for the first time, in English and, where different, in their original languages, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Latin or Dutch. It provides the facts to correct the fallacies and distortions in accounts by earlier authors. It reveals persuasive evidence that the Falklands were discovered by a Portuguese expedition at the latest around 1518-19, and not by Vespucci or Magellan. It demonstrates conclusively that the Anglo-Spanish agreement of 1771 did not contain a reservation of Spanish rights, that Britain did not make a secret promise to abandon the islands, and that the Nootka Sound Convention of 1790 did not restrict Britain's rights in the Falklands, but greatly extended them at the expense of Spain. For the first time ever, the despairing letters from the Falklands written in German in 1824 to Louis Vernet by his brother Emilio are printed here in full, in both the original German and in English translation, revealing the...

International Judicial Institutions

Autor: Richard J. Goldstone , Adam M. Smith

Número de Páginas: 213

This fully-updated and much expanded second edition provides a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the current debates in international humanitarian law. Written by a former UN Chief Prosecutor and a leading international law expert, this book analyses the legal and political underpinnings of international judicial institutions, it provides the reader with an understanding of both the historical development of institutions directed towards international justice, as well as an overview of the differences and similarities between such organizations. New to this edition: New updates on recently found records of the United Nations War Crimes Commission. Updates on the recent judicial decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Updates on the Special Tribunal For Lebanon A re-evaluation of the future of the International Criminal Court International Judicial Institutions: Second Edition will be of great interest to students of International Politics, Criminology and Law.

A Principled Approach to State Failure

Autor: Chiara Giorgetti

Número de Páginas: 217

This book is the first legal study of state failure in international law. Dr. Giorgetti specifically analyses health, environmental and human rights emergencies and suggests concrete instruments for international actors facing emergencies in failing states. Her Principles for Action are an important contribution to the development of international law.

Law on the Battlefield

Autor: A. P. V. Rogers

Número de Páginas: 196

Keeping the Peace

Autor: Nigel D. White

Número de Páginas: 314

This new edition considers the unifying legal attributes that span vastly differing inter-governmental organisations, from the UN to the EU. A law of international organisations has become established in certain areas, such as legal personality, powers, membership, finance, and decision-making. In other, newer, areas - accountability, responsibility and democracy - politics is still much rawer, and has not yet been fully converted into legal concepts and principles. As with the first edition, there are plenty of examples of organisations given in the text. Individual organisations dealing with issues such as security, health, civil aviation, finance and trade are scrutinised by way of example, to illustrate how different they can be, but also to show how it is possible to debate a set of legal principles that transcend each institution. This new edition of an established text will appeal to students and academics as well as individuals seeking a legal and political insight into international organisations.

Simplex Society

Autor: Koen Stroeken

Número de Páginas: 321

This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the prospects for a humane future. The experience of complexity characterizing a globalized information society triggers simplexes. These unidimensional responses instrumental in bringing about a predictable effect are altering our ways of communicating and the technologies we design. In Part I, a ‘speciated’ history, injected with the anthropology of Bateson and Gluckman, describes the semantic and experiential impoverishment of the lifeworld. After going through the affects of distrust (the neolithic lifeway), of futility (industrial lifeway) and disconnection (post-knowledge), the human species today depends for its survival on installing a new lifeway, which manages to wed (eco-social) inclusion to the already difficult first pair of the French Revolution. The species needs to rehumanize. Part II illustrates the remedies currently developed: to reframe, re-sphere and re-source. What do critical street art, international football matches, presidential elections, hip-hop dissing...

The Judicialization of International Law

Autor: Andreas Føllesdal , Geir Ulfstein

Número de Páginas: 289

The arms of international courts are long. Follesdal and Ulftsein bring together renowned experts to ask whether the benefits of global governance, the rule of law, and protection of the rights of individuals outweigh the compromising of national sovereignty and the lack of democratic accountability.

China's Influence on Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law

Autor: Paolo Farah , Elena Cima

Número de Páginas: 585

This volume examines the range of Non-Trade Concerns (NTCs) that may conflict with international economic rules and proposes ways to protect them within international law and international economic law. Globalization without local concerns can endanger relevant issues such as good governance, human rights, right to water, right to food, social, economic, cultural and environmental rights, labor rights, access to knowledge, public health, social welfare, consumer interests and animal welfare, climate change, energy, environmental protection and sustainable development, product safety, food safety and security. Focusing on China, the book shows the current trends of Chinese law and policy towards international standards. The authors argue that China can play a leading role in this context: not only has China adopted several reforms and new regulations to address NTCs; but it has started to play a very relevant role in international negotiations on NTCs such as climate change, energy, and culture, among others. While China is still considered a developing country, in particular from the NTCs’ point of view, it promises to be a key actor in international law in general and, more...

A ‘Stepped Approach’ to Disputes on International Watercourses

Autor: Riley T. Denoon

Número de Páginas: 310

With increasing global pressure on scarce international water resources, the importance of dispute avoidance and resolution at the international level cannot be understated. A 'Stepped Approach' to Disputes on International Watercourses explores a conceptual and practical framework for addressing these complex challenges, presenting a structured, multi-faceted approach that integrates technical expertise, diplomatic negotiations, and, when necessary, binding adjudication. Drawing on a broad analysis of 225 international watercourse agreements, it puts forward a ‘stepped approach’ as an important tool that can foster cooperation, prevent conflicts, and ensure the equitable and sustainable use of our shared water resources.

International Law and the Environment

Autor: Tuomas Kuokkanen

Número de Páginas: 447

This important book makes an original and modern contribution to the study of "international environmental law", addressing its development over three time periods: the traditional period, the modern era, and the post-modern period. Kuokkanen's thesis is this: in the traditional period there was no clear distinction between the protection of the environment and the exploitation of natural resources; during the modern period the subjects became completely separated; and in the post-modern era there has been an effort to reconcile economic interests and environmental concerns. The work challenges the reader to think about international environmental law and its development within a broader framework, and through a lens which differs from that taken elsewhere. The book presents an impressive panorama of the principal international legal developments over the past century in this area, and successfully pinpoints the tensions between environmental and economic objects over the past century. A timely and important contribution.

Shocked and Awed

Autor: Fred Halliday

Número de Páginas: 298

Far more than just a military conflict, the 'War on Terror' has been a struggle over values and meanings, a desperate contest for hearts and minds in which language has become the battlefield. In this highly original book, Fred Halliday takes us on a tour of this new war-zone, its artillery and trenches, minefields and booby-traps. Drawing on years of painstaking collation, Halliday shows how the 'War on Terror' has brought us not just new words, such as 'Gitmo', and new imports, such as 'jihad', but also new ways of using existing language, such as 'extraordinary rendition'. Scanning the pock-marked semantic landscape of the post 9/11 world, he uncovers hidden twists of phrasing and word associations, which in themselves tell a story about the violent clash of ideologies that has marked the opening of the 21st century. Part indispensable reference, part polemic, part entertaining snapshot of our times, "Shocked and Awed" is a bristling arsenal of the 21st century's most potent weapons: words.

The Constitution in Crisis

Autor: House Democratic Judiciary Committee Staff

Número de Páginas: 519

The Republican-led Congress has been notoriously slow to investigate the current Republican administration. For that reason, Representative Conyers of Michigan commissioned his staff to put together the report that became The Constitution in Crisis. It chronicles the deceptions, manipulations, and retributions of President George W. Bush and his administration. Did the President mislead the country in order to invade Iraq? Have suspected “evil-doers” been tortured in violation of U.S. and international laws? Has the National Security Agency eaves-dropped on American citizens in violation of wire tapping laws? This report is a must-read for anyone concerned about the direction of our nation! Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on...

Ethics and Investor-State Dispute Settlement

Número de Páginas: 204

Can a person simultaneously act as counsel and arbitrator? Can an arbitrator have too many appointments? Will artificial intelligence write awards? In this book, we seek to provide an in-depth analysis of key ethics issues that have arisen in the process of reforming investor-state dispute settlement in Working Group III of the United Nations Commission of International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). This comprehensive study of ethical requirements is written by leading experts in the field and discusses key issues, including the UNCITRAL Codes of Conduct, double-hatting, issue conflicts, and many others. The book fills a gap in the literature and offers both practitioners and academics the necessary tools to navigate the complex landscape of ethical considerations in investment dispute settlement.

Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change

Autor: Wei Zhuang

Número de Páginas: 469

As the world confronts global warming, there is a growing consensus that the TRIPS Agreement could be a more effective instrument for mitigating climate change. In this innovative work, Wei Zhuang systematically examines the contextual elements that can be used in the interpretation of the TRIPS Agreement with a view to enhancing innovation and transfer of environmentally sound technologies. Zhuang proposes a balanced and pro-competitive interpretation that could be pursued by policymakers and negotiators. This comprehensive, multidisciplinary study will help academics and policymakers improve their understanding of the contemporary international legal regimes governing intellectual property rights, as well as innovation and transfer of environmentally sound technologies. It also offers practical guidance for further developing a legal system capable of responding to the challenges posed by climate change.

Climate Change Law, Technology Transfer and Sustainable Development

Autor: Md Mahatab Uddin

Número de Páginas: 186

This book explores the possibilities and scope of facilitating innovation and transfer of the environmentally sound technologies in the Post-Paris climate era. The possibilities to be explored by the book will first focus on the roles of the climate finance and technological cooperation mechanisms in innovation and transfer of environmentally sound technologies. Secondly, the book will focus on role of the ‘flexible mechanism’ (i.e. indirect financial mechanisms), which has been re-introduced by the Paris Agreement as ‘voluntary cooperation’ or ‘sustainable development’ mechanism in innovation and transfer of environmentally sound technologies. Thirdly, the book will contain a comparative analysis regarding efficiency of the technology transfer mechanism under global climate regime in comparison with technology transfer mechanism that exists under other multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). In addition to the above, since the issues of trans-boundary technology transfer is also a matter of concern for international trade, the book will discuss to what extent the international trade related laws e.g. intellectual property laws, investment related laws governed...

Quotas in International Environmental Agreements

Autor: Amanda Wolf

Número de Páginas: 253

Quotas have been used in international environmental agreements for at least a century and, in tandem with incentive approaches, should continue to be crucial to realizing a sustainable environment. This text is a critical examination of quotas both as regulatory tools and as products of negotiation. It reviews the main features of environmental problems, the regulatory options and criteria used to judge them, and the various ways of explaining negotiated outcomes. Quotas in the management of fisheries, other resources, freshwater and marine pollution, and air pollution are also described. Selected examples are considered in detail to provide an understanding of how quotas were developed in scientific, political, economic and social context. An assessment of the key features of quotas in practice leads to the identification of an emerging approach, the negotiation of constrained local quotas. The approach is a practical way to balance efficiency and fairness in complex negotiations, without sacrificing environmental effectiveness.

Future Generations and International Law

Autor: Emmanuel Agius , Salvino Busuttil

Número de Páginas: 227

Sustainable development requires consideration of the quality of life that future generations will be able to enjoy, and as the adjustment to sustainable lifestyles gathers momentum, the rights of future generations and our responsibility for their wellbeing is becoming a central issue. In this, the first book to address this emerging area of international law, leading experts examine the legal and theoretical frameworks for representing and safeguarding the interests of future generations in current international treaties. This unique volume will be required reading for academics and students of international environmental law and policy. Emmanuel Agius is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Theology and Coordinator of the Future Generations Programme at the Foundation for International Studies, University of Malta. Salvino Busuttil is former Director General of the Foundation for International Studies. Future Generations and International Law is the seventh volume in the International Law and Sustainable Development series, co-developed with FIELD. The series aims to address and define the major legal issues associated with sustainable development and to contribute to the...

The Interpretation of Investment Treaties

Autor: Trinh Hai Yen

Número de Páginas: 408

Within the context of an exponential proliferation of investment treaties with virtually uniform language and structure, The Interpretation of Investment Treaties by Trinh Hai Yen reveals the neglect or misapplication of international rules on treaty interpretation by tribunals in arbitral cases. Such practice has raised the question of the legitimacy of the interpretative process and the engendered inconsistent interpretations of investment treaties. The book proposes three interpretative approaches aimed at ensuring that adjudicators find legitimate meaning in the challenging generality and vagueness of investment treaty language. It also provides a comprehensive analysis of legislative solutions for states through a case study of the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement, as well as a comparative analysis of modern and traditional investment treaties.

Greening International Institutions

Autor: Jacob Werksmann

Número de Páginas: 405

Environmentally sustainable development has become one of the world's most urgent priorities. But countries cannot achieve it alone: it depends on international coordination and action. Greening International Institutions, the latest in a series of highly-acclaimed publications devoted to environmental and developmental law, assesses how far and how successfully intergovernmental organizations have responded to the challenge. The organizations analyzed include: the UN General Assembly, the new Commission for Sustainable Development, UNEP, UNDP and UNCTAD, WTO, GATT, NAFTA, the Bretton Woods institutions and several regional bodies, as well as treaty bodies and the mechanisms for avoiding and settling disputes. For each, the contributors provide an accessible overview of the organization's mandate and structure, examine substantive policy initiatives and assess the need and scope for procedural and institutional reform. Drawing together a collection of essays by lawyers and researchers from various backgrounds, Greening International Institutions is stimulating reading for students and policy-makers, as well as anyone concerned with the development of international institutions....

A Private Spy

Autor: John Le Carré

Número de Páginas: 557

John le Carré was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully intelligent and unfailingly eloquent man behind the penname. _____ 'The symbiosis of author and editor, father and son, has resulted in a brilliant book, le Carré's final masterpiece' 5*, Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph _____ A Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carré's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness. Beginning with his 1940s childhood, it includes accounts of his National Service and his time at Oxford, and his days teaching the 'chinless, pointy-nosed gooseberry-eyed British lords' at Eton. It describes his entry into MI5 and the rise of the Iron Curtain, and the flowering of his career as a novelist in reaction to the building of the Berlin Wall. Through his letters we travel with him from the Second World War period to the immediate moment in which we live. We find le Carré writing to Sir Alec Guinness to persuade him to take on the role of George Smiley, and later arguing the immorality of the War on Terror with the chief of the ...

Sustainable Development Law

Autor: Marie-claire Cordonier Segger , Damilola S. Olawuyi

Número de Páginas: 785

Hundreds of new bilateral, regional, and global treaties have been negotiated in relation to the world's most pressing sustainability, development, and justice challenges over the past two decades. The majority of these face significant implementation challenges. At the same time, disputes over human rights, environmental protection, and economic development are increasingly common. Sustainable Development Law analyses these advances and challenges in the international law on sustainable development at the intersection between international social, environmental, and economic law. It opens by examining the origins of the concept of sustainable development, identifying and discussing the foundations of its legal aspects. The principles of international law related to sustainable development are considered, based on international instruments and disputes across international courts and tribunals. Later chapters provide illustrative examples of legal instruments and regimes that address the 169 targets in relation to the 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals. Finally, the authors propose cutting-edge research agendas and conclude by exploring the limits of sustainable development....

Bill Moyers Journal

Autor: Bill Moyers

Número de Páginas: 604

A companion volume to the Emmy Award–winning PBS® series—interviews with “an essential voice in our national conversation” (Brian Williams, MSNBC anchor). This “provocative” and “absorbing” (Star Tribune) companion book to Bill Moyer’s acclaimed PBS series invites readers into conversations with some of the most captivating voices on the scene today, in what Kirkus Reviews calls “a glittering array of discussions.” From Jon Stewart on politics and media to Michael Pollan on food, The Wire creator David Simon on the mean streets of our cities, James Cone and Shelby Steele on race in the age of Obama, Robert Bly and Nikki Giovanni on the power of poetry, Barbara Ehrenreich on the hard times of working Americans, and Karen Armstrong on faith and compassion, Moyer’s own intelligence and insight match that of his guests and their discussions animate many of the most salient issues of our time. With extensive commentary from Moyers, marked by his customary “respect, intelligence, curiosity, humor, and graciousness,” here are the debates; cultural currents; and, above all, lively minds that shape the conversation of democracy (Booklist). “In an era of much...

The Limits of Human Rights

Autor: Bardo Fassbender , Knut Traisbach

Número de Páginas: 417

What are the limits of human rights, and what do these limits mean? This volume engages critically and constructively with this question to provide a distinct contribution to the contemporary discussion on human rights. Fassbender and Traisbach, along with a group of leading experts in the field, examine the issue from multiple disciplinary perspectives, analysing the limits of our current discourse of human rights. It does so in an original way, and without attempting to deconstruct, or deny, human rights. Each contribution is supplemented by an engaging comment which furthers this important discussion. This combination of perspectives paves the way for further thought for scholars, practitioners, students, and the wider public. Ultimately, this volume provides an exceptionally rich spectrum of viewpoints and arguments across disciplines to offer fresh insights into human rights and its limitations.

The Disputed Białowieża Forest

Autor: Maciej Perkowski , Wojciech Zoń , Przemysław Saganek

Número de Páginas: 264

The Polish dispute on an adequate approach towards the Białowieża Forest has been significantly internationalised, primarily by UNESCO and the European Union. The judgment of the CJEU has not settled the substance of the dispute, although it points to a violation of EU legal standards. The authors of The Disputed Białowieża Forest: Legal Remedies for the Protection of Cross-border Properties address the dispute in a constructive and interdisciplinary manner, rather than merely expressing concern towards in situ conservation, and derive universal legal remedies from it. They conclude that in the case of unique invaluable goods, adequate individual solutions should be applied in the form of a localised agreement, open to many entities (interested states, international organisations and even socially responsible private corporations), on the condition that organisational and financial co-responsibility are accepted.