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  • Global Justice, State Duties

    The Extraterritorial Scope of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law

    Edited by Malcolm Langford, Wouter Vandenhole, Martin Scheinin, Willem van Genugten ...
    The rise of globalization and the persistence of global poverty are straining the territorial paradigm of human rights. This book asks if states possess extraterritorial obligations under existing international human rights law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights and how far those duties extend. Taking a departure point in theory and practice, the book is the first of its ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • The Legitimacy of Investment Arbitration

    Empirical Perspectives

    Edited by Daniel Behn, Ole Kristian Fauchald, Malcolm Langford ...
    Series series Studies on International Courts and Tribunals
    International investment arbitration remains one of the most controversial areas of globalisation and international law. This book provides a fresh contribution to the debate by adopting a thoroughly empirical approach. Based on new datasets and a range of quantitative, qualitative and computational methods, the contributors interrogate claims and counter-claims about the regime's legitimacy. The ... Read more

    $127.09 USD

  • The Limits of the Legal Complex

    Nordic Lawyers and Political Liberalism

    Edited by Malcolm Langford, Malcolm Feeley ...
    Spanning two centuries and five Nordic countries, this book questions the view that political lawyers are required for the development of a liberal political regime. It combines cross-disciplinary theory and careful empirical case studies by country experts whose regional insights are brought to bear on wider global contexts. The theory of the legal complex posits that lawyers will not simply ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Social Rights Jurisprudence

    Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law

    Edited by Malcolm Langford ...
    In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions is vast, from the resettlement of evictees to the regulation of private medical plans to the ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • Adjudicating Trade and Investment Disputes

    Convergence or Divergence?

    Edited by Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi, Daniel Behn, Malcolm Langford ...
    Series series Studies on International Courts and Tribunals
    Recent trends suggest that international economic law may be witnessing a renaissance of convergence – both parallel and intersectional. The adjudicative process also reveals signs of convergence. These diverse claims of convergence are of legal, empirical and normative interest. Yet, convergence discourse also warrants scepticism. This volume contributes to both the general debate on the ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

  • Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance

    Making it Stick

    Edited by Malcolm Langford, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Julieta Rossi ...
    The past few decades have witnessed an explosion of judgments on social rights around the world. However, we know little about whether these rulings have been implemented. Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance is the first book to engage in a comparative study of compliance of social rights judgments as well as their broader effects. Covering fourteen different domestic and ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Human Right to Water

    Theory, Practice and Prospects

    Edited by Malcolm Langford, Anna F. S. Russell ...
    In a short space of time, the right to water has emerged from relative obscurity to claim a prominent place in human rights theory and practice. This book explores this rise descriptively and prescriptively. It analyses the recognition, use and partly impact, of the right to water in international and comparative law, civil society mobilisation and public policy. It also scrutinises the normative ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights

    Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Malcolm Langford, Andy Sumner, Alicia Ely Yamin ...
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have generated tremendous discussion in global policy and academic circles. On the one hand, they have been hailed as the most important initiative ever in international development. On the other hand, they have been described as a great betrayal of human rights and universal values that has contributed to a depoliticization of development. With ... Read more

    $54.19 USD

  • Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa

    Symbols or Substance?

    Edited by Malcolm Langford, Ben Cousins, Jackie Dugard, Tshepo Madlingozi ...
    The embrace of socio-economic rights in South Africa has featured prominently in scholarship on constitution making, legal jurisprudence and social mobilisation. But the development has attracted critics who claim that this turn to rights has not generated social transformation in practice. This book sets out to assess one part of the puzzle and asks what has been the role and impact of socio ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

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    The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations

    by Mark M. Mazower ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    A groundbreaking interpretation of the intellectual origins of the United NationsNo Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Surveillance, Counter-Terrorism and Comparative Constitutionalism

    Edited by Fergal Davis, Nicola McGarrity, George Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Terrorism and the Law
    The decade after 11 September 2001 saw the enactment of counter-terrorism laws around the world. These laws challenged assumptions about public institutions, human rights and constitutional law. Those challenges are particularly apparent in the context of the increased surveillance powers granted to many law enforcement and intelligence agencies.This book brings together leading legal scholars in ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • On Liberty

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    “Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.”Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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