Oil Spills and Shoreline Real Estate Markets
A definitive account of America’s worst oil spills, from Santa Barbara to Deepwater Horizon. This book dissects the fallout—from cleanup to litigation—and reveals the profound, lasting impact these disasters have on shoreline real estate markets.
Earth’s oceans face unprecedented environmental crises. The UN Law of the Sea is failing to address plastic pollution, acidification, and sea-level rise. This book offers a blueprint for transforming outdated ocean law into planetary stewardship.
Airports today face growing competitive pressures and are less often seen as natural monopolies. This book explores the global shift towards pro-competitive regulation in the airport sector, arguing that efforts remain at an early stage and require co-ordinated action.
This guide to the legal landscape of sea transport focuses on Letters of Indemnity (LoI) and Bills of Lading. It bridges legal theory and maritime practice, analyzing risks and offering practical solutions for shippers and carriers, including emerging blockchain technology.
This book examines the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies and the ongoing debate surrounding it. Uniquely, it studies the issue from the perspective of developing countries, with a special focus on India. It acts as an essential primer for students and researchers.
This book examines important issues in tort and free speech, including asset freezing orders, contributory negligence, robotic speech, disinformation, and social media platform censorship.
The Palestinian Constitutional Court
This book argues the Palestinian Constitutional Court has failed to uphold the Basic Law against authoritarian actions. It offers a case study on how courts in authoritarian regimes obstruct rights and is the first authoritative English-language study of the Court’s judgments.
Spanning 45 years, these essays chart the author’s evolving thought on Taiwan’s modern history. They investigate political reform by intellectuals since the 1970s and the creation of a national human rights commission, including the handling of transitional justice.
This collection of essays examines the contemporary crisis facing human rights. Bringing together academics and practitioners, it links austerity and the rise of the far-right to a crucial question: are human rights rights at all?
International sales have been ruled by conflicting English and Civil Law. This book shows how the Vienna Convention (CISG) harmonised these differences, blending civil law codification with common law institutions to bring vital certitude and sophistication to global commerce.
The United Nations System
This introduction to the United Nations covers its purposes, history, and structure. The volume examines the UN’s work through two major sections: by topic, including development, peace, and security; and by geographical region, from Africa and the Americas to Asia and Europe.
This book discusses track access charging with regard to rail freight competitiveness. It addresses the costs incurred, the impact of traffic volume, market response, and the influence of transport policy, appealing to infrastructure managers seeking to shift freight to railways.
Online Arbitration in Theory and in Practice
Amro presents an overview of online arbitration and electronic contracting worldwide, examining their national and international contexts and assessing their ongoing relevance. As such, he offers solutions to the challenges facing online arbitration and electronic contracting.
Competition Law in Times of Crisis
This book examines EU competition law, using its response to crisis as a test of its aims. It concludes that competition policy is a forum for debating the European integration project, while the law serves as a tool for implementing broader policy objectives.
Unconscionable Conduct in Commercial Transactions
Wooler looks at the historical use of allegations of unconscionable conduct within the context of independent trade finance instruments. He makes a detailed survey of the law of unconscionable conduct and the complexities of the doctrine of independence.
This book argues that if law is not underpinned by a moral understanding, the moral law itself is violated. It objects to impunity for those who contravene international peremptory criminal law, reaffirming universal principles of truth, equality, and the essential value of man.
Developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts, making it a matter of moral ethics. This book explores how concerted global action and traditional knowledge can enable them to adapt to the effects of climate change.
Global Discourse in Fractured Times
This engaging, thought-provoking, and informative international volume addresses contemporary issues in communication and media. It is an essential resource for researchers, media professionals, and students in communication, cultural studies, and related subjects.
Peace and Conflict Resolution in Africa
This conference proceedings compiles reflections on both historical and contemporary conflicts in Africa, focusing on issues of ethno-religious conflicts, corruption, and land. It also documents areas of progress in legitimizing democracy and conceptualizing social justice.
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