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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"KZ Law of Nations"”.
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Peacekeepers as enforcers? A legal analysis of the attribution of enforcement powers to UN peacekeeping operations in the new millennium
… actions must be preserved so that the efficacy of peacekeeping will not be imperilled. It is submitted that the primary strength of peacekeeping has long been that it was not in the nature of enforcement. Whereas an enforcement operation is forceful, partial and imposed on a state against its …
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The impact of the World Trade Organisation on the formulation of the antimonopoly law of the People's Republic of China
China became a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in December 2001. This historical event has impact on both China and the WTO. As an observer noted, ‘The WTO will change China, but China will also change the WTO’. This thesis is an example how the WTO will change China. It examines the …
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Examining the ICC's impact on the rule of law in Côte d'Ivoire and Libya: catalysts, multi-level judicial dialogue and local ownership in prosecuting and judging international crimes
This research consists of an empirically informed analysis of the ICC’s impact on the rule of law in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya through the lens of admissibility and co-operation. It first asks how the principle of complementarity has been construed and implemented in practice and considers what this …
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The UN Principles and Guidelines on Reparation: is there an Enforceable Right to Reparation for Victims of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Violations?
… evaluates the international legal standing of the right to a remedy and reparation contained in the UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law. It focuses …
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Blue Gold – The Utilisation of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System in Light of Islamic Norms and its Impact on the Emerging Law of Transboundary Fossil Aquifers
The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System is one of the world’s largest transboundary fossil aquifers and stretches underneath the territories of the North African States of Egypt, Libya, Sudan and Chad. All four States have strong Islamic cultural backgrounds, and Egypt, Libya and Sudan have enshrined …
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The East African community‘s maritime domain: an innovative institutional framework
… out in its 1999 founding Treaty, Article 5(2), of political union. In that regard, it differs profoundly from other supra-national organisations, which are analysed for comparison. The research uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches and a case study technique to obtain …
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The projected Arab Court of Justice: a study to its draft statute and rules, with specific reference to the International Court of Justice and principles of Islamic Shariah
… thesis deals with the projected Arab Court of Justice (ACJ) as a regional court, expected to be created within the League of Arab States system. Chapter one deals mainly with the basic structure of the League of Arab States itself, its membership, its organs, the settlement of disputes, and …
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Study on Establishing a Financial Consumer Alternative Dispute Resolution Scheme in China
… These functions may balance the imbalance of power between financial firms and consumers and increase confidence on Chinese financial service market. For the second research question, the thesis argues that the government or regulators may impose such new financial consumer ADR scheme …
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Conflict of Laws in E-Commerce in the UAE and the Prospect for Harmonization among Gulf Cooperation Council Member States
… Arab Emirates (UAE), and across member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), requires development in the areas of determining the judicial jurisdiction and the law applicable to those transactions. Following analyses focusing on the provisions of the UAE and GCC member states for …
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The Social and Environmental Responsibilities of EU Multinational Corporations in Saudi Arabia: A Critique of the Saudi National Law and a Proposal for a New Legislative Framework
… the social and environmental responsibilities of EU multinational corporations (MNCs) in Saudi Arabia. It found that such corporations do not have enough social and environmental responsibilities when they operate in Saudi Arabia. It argues that as Saudi Arabia seeks economic growth, the Saudi …
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Freedom of Association as a Foundation for Trade Union Rights: a Comparison of EU and ECHR Standards
The title of this thesis is Freedom of Association and Trade Union Rights in Europe, Comparative Analysis of the ECJ and ECtHR Case Law. There are several issues that the thesis will try to shed light on. Firstly, it will identify what level of freedom of association as a trade union right is …
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International law of the sea and national legislation on piracy and terrorism in the straits of Malacca: a study in law and policy
The issue of piracy and maritime terrorism becomes complicated when it is discussed in relation to the rights of the coastal states regarding the right of passage in straits used for international navigation. One of the issues in this respect is the conflicting interests of littoral states that …
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UN Security Council Resolution 1373: the substantive basis for a developing legal framework for the prevention and suppression of acts of terrorism
The original contribution of this thesis is to argue that UN Security Council Resolution 1373 has formed the basis for a developing legal framework for the preventing and suppression of acts of terrorism. The absence of a single definition of the term “terrorism” led to 12 separate UN …
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Corporate misconduct, human rights, and the challenges of extraterritorial solutions
… misconduct, and does so through an analysis of the dilemmas they raise. The background to the research is the difficulty of imposing human rights standards on transnational business operating in ‘host’ countries where, for various reasons, such standards are not implemented locally, resulting …
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A Critical Analysis of the Legal Problems associated with Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Saudi Arabia: Will the New Saudi Arbitration Law (2012) Resolve the Main Legal Problems?
… associated with the recognition and enforcement of domestic and foreign arbitral awards in Saudi Arabia. The aim is to illuminate whether or not the new Saudi Arbitration Law 2012 (SAL) and the new Enforcement Law 2012 (SEL) will be able to resolve these problems. In the thesis, we investigate …
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The Vernacularisation of Indigenous Peoples' Participatory Rights in the Bolivian Extractive Sector: Including Subgroups in Collective Decision-Making Processes
One of the most comprehensive collective rights regimes has been developed in the area of indigenous peoples and respective land and resource rights in particular. International legal instruments (ILO C169 and UNDRIPS) and Inter-American jurisprudence (e.g. the Saramaka and Sarayaku cases) …
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A centripetal formula for Turkey : a multiculturalist proposal for the resolution of the republic’s long-running Kurdish question
… centripetalism is a multiculturalist way of managing ethno-cultural diversity. Many scholars have examined how a consociational or territorial pluralist formula might help Turkey to resolve its long-running Kurdish problem. To date, no one has paid enough attention to the merits of …
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Wǝ́xa Sxwuqwálustn: Pulling Together Identity, Community, and Cohesion in the Cowlitz Indian Tribe
… and have greatly impacted the emic identity of the tribe. Previous identity research with the Cowlitz predates these changes and no longer accurately describe the Cowlitz. The question for this research was how have these changes affected the emic identity of the Cowlitz today as seen in …