All ebooks in the collection "Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice" - Springer

The Inherent Right of Self-Defence in International Law

Murray Colin Alder

Determining the earliest point in time at which international law authorises a state to exercise its inherent right of self-defence is an issue which has been debated, but unsatisfactorily reasoned, by scholars and states since the 1960’s. Yet it remains arguably the...

The Universalism of Human Rights

Rainer Arnold

Is there universalism of human rights? If so, what are its scope and limits? This book is a doctrinal attempt to define universalism of human rights, as well as its scope and limits. The book presents tests of universalism on international, regional and national...

Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism

René Provost , Colleen Sheppard

Human rights have transformed the way in which we conceive the place of the individual within the community and in relation to the state in a vast array of disciplines, including law, philosophy, politics, sociology, geography. The published output on human rights over...

Electronic Technology and Civil Procedure

Miklós Kengyel , Zoltán Nemessányi

The effect of modern and communication technology on civil procedure first appeared on the agenda of the conference organized by the International Association of Procedural Law in 1999, verifying Lord Woolf’s statement from the 90’s, that ”IT will not only assist in...

Post 9/11 and the State of Permanent Legal Emergency

Aniceto Masferrer

The terrorist attacks occurred in the United States on 11 September 2001 have profoundly altered and reshaped the priorities of criminal justice systems around the world. Atrocities like the 9/11 attacks, the Madrid train bombings of March 2003, and the terrorist act to...

Globalization and Human Rights

Jesús Ballesteros , Encarnación Fernández Ruiz-Gálvez , Pedro Talavera

Globalisation turns out to be untenable because it does not guarantee minimum social equity, peace and respect for the environment, and therefore does not guarantee the effective accomplishment of human rights. This book analyzes this issue and raises proposals for a...

A Comparative Look at Regulation of Corporate Tax Avoidance

Karen B. Brown

This volume provides a fascinating look at the anti-tax avoidance strategies employed by more than fifteen countries in eastern and western Europe, Canada, the Pacific Rim, Asia, Africa, and the United States. It surveys the similarities and differences in...

Cost and Fee Allocation in Civil Procedure

Mathias Reimann

The volume describes and analyzes how the costs of litigation in civil procedure are distributed in key countries around the world. It compares the various approaches, draws general conclusions from that comparison, and presents global trends as well as common problems...

The Three Paths of Justice

Neil Andrews

This book presents a concise account of the English system of civil litigation, covering court proceedings in England and Wales. It is an original and important study of a system which is the historical root of the US litigation system. The volume offers a comprehensive...

Corporate Criminal Liability

Radha Ivory , Mark Pieth

With industrialization and globalization, corporations acquired the capacity to influence social life for good or for ill. Yet, corporations are not traditional objects of criminal law. Justified by notions of personal moral guilt, criminal norms have been judged...

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Giacomo Di Federico

The first part of the book reviews the multi-level system of protection currently operating in Europe and its constitutional implications.The Charter is analysed from a legal, political and practical standpoint.The activity of the European Parliament as a fundamental...

Confronting Genocide

Payam Akhavan , René Provost

“Never again” stands as one the central pledges of the international community following the end of the Second World War, upon full realization of the massive scale of the Nazi extermination programme. Genocide stands as an intolerable assault on a sense of common...

Young People's Human Rights and the Politics of Voting Age

Sonja C. Grover

Young People’s Human Rights and The Politics of Voting Age explores the broader societal implications of voting age eligibility requirements and the legislative bar against youth voting in North America and in Commonwealth countries (where ‘youth’ is defined as persons...

The Rule of Law in Comparative Perspective

Mortimer Sellers , Tadeusz Tomaszewski

Judicial Review of Legislation

Gerhard Van Der Schyff

Constitutionalism is the permanent quest to control state power, of which the judicial review of legislation is a prime example. Although the judicial review of legislation is increasingly common in modern societies, it is not a finished project. This device still...