Unlock the value of your intellectual property. Experts use in-depth case studies to reveal how companies profit from patent licensing, strategic litigation, and M&A. An essential guide for business leaders and IP law professionals navigating today’s competitive landscape.
Gender Identity in International Law
This book challenges prevailing narratives by refashioning gender identity as a belief. This reframing protects the conflicting rights of women, children, and LGB people, as well as the right of people to express a gender identity incongruent with their sex.
Exiting the European Union
This book provides a detailed discussion of the legal process for a Member State’s exit from the EU. It covers voluntary withdrawal like Brexit, forced expulsion, and secession. A relevant read for anyone interested in what the future holds for European integration.
This book examines the civil liabilities of corporations for torts and breaches of international and human rights law. It illustrates how legal principles, such as the duty of care, can be applied to promote corporate accountability and resolve human rights abuses issues.
This unique book unravels the authority and limitations of coast guards in maritime law enforcement. Based on the author’s experience as a Commissioner General, it provides practical insights by examining international law, comparative studies, and key cases.
Putin’s war in Ukraine is a stark violation of international humanitarian law. This book analyzes the International Criminal Court and alternative judicial avenues to hold perpetrators accountable for war crimes and secure justice for the victims.
This book explores why international conventions on terrorism and organized crime falter. It reveals how divergent national laws create obstacles to state cooperation and argues that without legal symmetry between nations, effective collaboration remains out of reach.
Joining, Staying in, and Leaving the European Union
This book explores the legal, political, and economic perspectives of a Member State’s “circle of life” in the EU: accession, participation, and potential exit in the form of withdrawal or expulsion.
Sovereignty and Justice
The ICC’s legitimacy rests on complementing, not violating, national sovereignty. For this to work, states must ensure their trials meet international standards, with support from the ICC and the global community. This book offers recommendations to succeed.
Human Rights and Diverse Societies
In a world of increasing diversity, how can universal human rights be practically realized? This book explores the tensions between group identities and individual freedoms, identifying new frameworks to empower marginalized groups in diverse societies.
Geographical Indications (GIs) give products like Darjeeling tea legal protection. This book analyzes the inclusion of GIs in Free Trade Agreements signed by Asian countries, examining the challenges, opportunities, and impact on local economies, agriculture, and industries.
An essential guide exploring the intersection of energy, public international, and environmental law. It covers fossil fuels, renewables, energy economics, diplomacy, and dispute settlement, providing a holistic view for practitioners of international law and management.
This collection by world-class Nigerian legal academics provides critical analyses of Nigerian law, with international comparisons. Covering the gamut from land and commercial to human rights law, it is exceedingly useful to legal practitioners, academics, and students.
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Theory and in Practice
This book examines the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards under the New York Convention in common and civil law countries. It analyzes recurring judicial problems, providing solutions and advocating for a more liberal regime to favor enforcement.
Palestine Membership in the United Nations
Leading scholars explore the legal and political aspects of Palestine’s UN membership as a State. This collection goes beyond statehood to consider prospects for resolving one of history’s longest conflicts as the two-State solution seems to be failing.
Baber’s monograph contains ten cross-referenced writings on different aspects of international law. Issues covered include different types of legal instruments in international law settings and the past, present and future of international law.
Private Military and Security Companies
Calazans investigates the application of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law in addressing the business conduct of Private Military and Security Companies during armed conflicts.
Rethinking Sustainable Development in Terms of Justice
This title explores renewed and distinctive approaches to the sustainability and justice debate, integrating a range of perspectives that include moral philosophy, sociology and law.
Lawfare
While promoting a definition of aggression, the Soviet Union and Russia used international law as a weapon. This work demonstrates their program of “lawfare”—the manipulation of the legal system to supplement military and political objectives.
This monograph on tort law in Ukraine analyzes current legislation and develops a new classification of torts. The author argues for introducing a system of extraordinary torts and examines the mechanism of compensation for damage in private international law.