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International Sale of Goods
A Private International Law Comparative and Prospective Analysis of Sino-European Relations
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This book provides an in-depth study of Private International Law reasoning in the field of international sale of goods contracts. It connects the dots between European and Chinese law and offers an unprecedented transversal and comparative legal study on the matter. Its main purpose is to identify...
The Protection of Foreign Investments in Mongolia
Treaties, Domestic Law, and Contracts on Investments in International Comparison and Arbitral Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book analyses the adequacy of Mongolia’s legal system for foreign investment protection by conducting a multi-level assessment of international investment treaties, domestic legislation of the host State, and investor-State contracts from an international comparative perspective. The investigation...
E-Business and Telecommunications
11th International Joint Conference, ICETE 2014, Vienna, Austria, August 28-30, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on E-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2014. ICETE is a joint international conference integrating four major areas of knowledge that are divided into six corresponding...
Quantitative Psychology
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Asheville, North Carolina, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
This proceedings volume compiles and expands on selected and peer reviewed presentations given at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), organized by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and held in Asheville, North Carolina, July 11th to 17th, 2016*.*
IMPS is...
The International Court of Justice
An Arbitral Tribunal or a Judicial Body?
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, and epitomizes the very notion of international judicial institution. Yet, it decides inter-State disputes only with the parties’ consent. This makes it more similar to international arbitral tribunals than...
by Catherine S. Namakula
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language and the Right to Fair Hearing in International Criminal Trials explores the influence of the dynamic factor of language on trial fairness in international criminal proceedings. By means of empirical research and jurisprudential analysis, this book explores the implications that conducting...
Forests in International Law
Is There Really a Need for an International Forest Convention?
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
This book investigates the potential need for an international convention on forests and establishes a multifunctional concept of forests as a cornerstone for international forest regulation. Accordingly, it examines a variety of international instruments pertaining directly or indirectly to forests...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This book explores the human rights consequences of the new mercenarism, as channeled through so-called private military and security companies (PMSCs), and offers an overview of the evolution and status quo of both non-legal (soft law and self-regulation) and legal initiatives seeking to limit them....
Self-Determination and Humanitarian Secession in International Law of a Globalized World
Kosovo v. Crimea
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
This book addresses questions in connection with the international legal regime on demands for secession, which have arisen in various States. More specifically, it examines the unilateral declarations of independence by Kosovo in 2008, and by Crimea and its subsequent annexation by the Russian Federation...
Nicaragua Before the International Court of Justice
Impacts on International Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book analyses Nicaragua's role in the development of international law, through its participation in cases that have come before the International Court of Justice. Nicaragua has appeared before the ICJ in fourteen cases, either as an applicant, respondent or intervening State, thus setting an...
Genetic and Evolutionary Computing
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, November 7-9, 2016 Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This book gathers papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2016). The conference was co-sponsored by Springer, Fujian University of Technology in China, the University of Computer Studies in Yangon, University of Miyazaki in Japan, National...
by Silke Marie Christiansen
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The book addresses the question of whether the currently available instruments of international environmental and international humanitarian law are applicable to climate conflicts. It clarifies the different pathways leading from climate change to conflict and offers an analysis of international...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book focuses on the interface of work and personal life of international professionals. The globalization of business has led to an increasing number of people who work in international roles either through working abroad on different kinds of assignments or through international travelling....
Cartography - Maps Connecting the World
27th International Cartographic Conference 2015 - ICC2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
This book is an important volume in the series on the state-of-art research in Cartography and GI Science. It is a collection of selected peer-reviewed papers organized into contemporary topics of research, presented at the 27th International Cartographic Conference (ICC) in Rio de Janeiro. This is...