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“aurora plomer”

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  • Intellectual Property and the Human Rights of Companies in Europe

    by Aurora Plomer ...
    The aim of this book is to investigate the history and rationale for the paradoxical extension of human rights to companies in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and to analyse the Court's jurisprudence on protection of companies' intellectual property in this light. The study shows how, before the adoption of the ECHR, the concepts of legal personality and possessions functioned as ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • Patents, Human Rights and Access to Science

    by Aurora Plomer ...
    The new millennium has been described as 'the century of biology', but scientific progress and access to medicines has been marred by global disputes over ownership of the science by universities and private companies. This book examines the challenges posed by the modern patent system to the right of everyone to access the benefits of science in international law.Aurora Plomer retraces the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Law and Ethics of Medical Research

    International Bioethics and Human Rights

    by Aurora Plomer ...
    The growing globalization of medical research and the application of new biotechnologies in morally contested areas has forced a revision of international ethical guidelines.This book examines the controversies surrounding biomedical research in the twenty-first century from a human rights perspective, analyzing the evolution and changes in form and content of international instruments regulating ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • The Logic of Collective Action

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  • An Introduction to International Organizations Law

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  • The Ungovernable Society

    A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism

    by Grégoire Chamayou ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched – the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships in families, workplaces and colleges. The upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s quickly spread through all sectors of social and ... Read more

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  • Operating Law in a Global Context

    Comparing, Combining and Prioritising

    by Jean-Sylvestre Bergé, Geneviève Helleringer ...
    Lawyers have to adapt their reasoning to the increasingly global nature of the situations they deal with. Often, rules formulated in a national, international or European environment must all be jointly applied to a given case. This book seeks to make explicit the analysis the lawyer engages in every time he or she is confronted by the operation of several laws in different contexts.This reasoning ... Read more

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  • UK, EU and Global Administrative Law

    Foundations and Challenges

    by Paul Craig ...
    Series series The Hamlyn Lectures
    Paul Craig's analysis of UK, EU and global administrative law examines the challenges facing each system and reveals the commonalities in and differences between their foundational assumptions. The challenges which they face may be particular to that legal order, endemic to any legal system of administrative law or the result of interaction between the three systems. The inter-relationship between ... Read more

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  • Business and Human Rights

    History, Law and Policy - Bridging the Accountability Gap

    by Nadia Bernaz ...
    Series series Human Rights and International Law
    Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of corporate human rights abuses which are not adequately prevented and remedied. Business and human rights as a field seeks to enhance the accountability of ... Read more

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  • The Persistent Objector Rule in International Law

    by James A. Green ...
    The persistent objector rule is said to provide states with an 'escape hatch' from the otherwise universal binding force of customary international law. It provides that if a state persistently objects to a newly emerging norm of customary international law during the formation of that norm, then the objecting state is exempt from the norm once it crystallises into law. The conceptual role of the ... Read more

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  • Political Corruption

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    Corruption is once again high on the international policy agenda as a result of globalization, the spread of democracy, and major scandals and reform initiatives. But the concept itself has been a focus for social scientists for many years, and new findings and data take on richer meanings when viewed in the context of long-term developments and enduring conceptual debates. This compendium, a much ... Read more

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