When international courts are given sweeping powers, why would they ever refuse to use them? The book explains how and when courts employ strategies for institutional survival and resilience forbearance and audacity, which help them adjust their sovereignty costs to pre-empt and mitigate backlash and political pushback.
Speeding up land reform through a constitutional amendment that would explicitly permit the expropriation of land without compensation has dominated legal and political-policy debates in South Africa in recent years.
Examining the twenty years since China acceded to the World Trade Organization, this collection provides an original, systematic assessment of the opportunities and challenges that China has presented to the WTO. Offering in-depth analyses of the “two-way†relationship between China and the WTO.
The majority of the world’s largest carbon emitters are either federations or have adopted systems of decentralised governance. The realization of the world’s climate mitigation objectives, therefore, depends in large part on whether and how governments within federal systems can cooperate to reduce carbon emissions and catalyze the emergence of low-carbon societies.
Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change is the third part of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was prepared by its Working Group III. The volume provides an updated global assessment of current and projected emissions from all sources and sectors, mitigation options that reduce emissions or remove greenhouse gases from the a…
As Qatar’s aspirations of becoming a key location for international dispute settlement and international trade grow, so too does the importance of understanding private law in Qatar and the Gulf states. In this innovative book, Ilias Bantekas and Ahmed Al-Ahmed provide an original, English-language treatise on the contract law of Qatar. Using an abundance of case law, the authors combine…
Health care delivery is shifting away from the clinic and into the home. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth, wearable sensors, ambient surveillance, and other products was on the rise. In the coming years, patients will increasingly interact with digital products at every stage of their care, such as using wearable sensors to monitor changes in temperature or blood pres…
This book takes as its starting point recent debates over the dematerialisation of subject matter which have arisen because of changes in information technology, molecular biology, and related fields that produced a subject matter with no obvious material form or trace. Arguing against the idea that dematerialisation is a uniquely twenty-first century problem, this book looks at three situation…
Recent public debate on common ownership by institutional investors has brought awareness to one of the many intersections between the corporate and antitrust worlds. But the interplay between these two fields dates back to the dawn of US antitrust. This volume shines a light on the often underplayed and misunderstood connections between antitrust and corporate law and finance. It offers a mu…
What would a sustainable economy look like? What would it take to live within our environmental means? Legacy answers these questions, setting out the key features of the sustainable economy. It explains what it would take to properly maintain different types of capital, why polluters would have to pay, why the current generation would have to fund the necessary maintenance of our natural asset…