Research Handbook on International Law and Social Rights

Research Handbook on International Law and Social Rights
Author: Christina Binder
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788972139

This comprehensive Research Handbook offers a comparative overview of the history, nature and current status of social rights at the universal and regional level. Tracing their evolution from rather modest beginnings, to becoming the category of rights responding most accurately to the 21st century’s policy objectives of poverty eradication and equitable resource allocation, this Research Handbook assesses the mechanisms used to enhance the implementation and enforcement of social rights.

Research Handbook on International Law and Cities

Research Handbook on International Law and Cities
Author: Aust, Helmut P.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2021-08-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788973283

This groundbreaking Research Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the impact of international law on cities. It sheds light on the growing global role of cities and makes the case for a renewed understanding of international law in the light of the urban turn.

Research Handbook on International Human Rights Law

Research Handbook on International Human Rights Law
Author: Sarah Joseph
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1849803374

This handbook brings together the work of 25 leading human rights scholars from all over the world, covering a broad range of human rights topics.

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty
Author: Martha F. Davis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1788977513

This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.

Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace

Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace
Author: Tsagourias, Nicholas
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789904250

This revised and expanded edition of the Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine how international legal rules, concepts and principles apply to cyberspace and the activities occurring within it. In doing so, contributors highlight the difficulties in applying international law to cyberspace, assess the regulatory efficacy of these rules and, where necessary, suggest adjustments and revisions.

Research Handbook on the Sociology of International Law

Research Handbook on the Sociology of International Law
Author: Moshe Hirsch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: International law
ISBN: 9781783474486

"Bringing together a highly diverse body of scholars, this comprehensive Research Handbook explores recent developments at the intersection of international law, sociology and social theory. It showcases a wide range of methodologies and approaches, including those inspired by traditional social thought as well as less familiar literature, including computational linguistics, performance theory and economic sociology. The Research Handbook highlights anew the potential contribution of sociological methods and theories to the study of international law, and illustrates their use in the examination of contemporary problems of practical interest to international lawyers."--Publisher's description.

Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights

Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights
Author: Jackie Dugard
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788974174

This exciting Research Handbook combines practitioner and academic perspectives to provide a comprehensive, cutting edge analysis of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), as well as the connection between ESCR and other rights. Offering an authoritative analysis of standards and jurisprudence, it argues for an expansive and inclusive approach to ESCR as human rights.

Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights

Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights
Author: Newman, Dwight
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788115791

This ground-breaking Research Handbook provides a state-of-the-art discussion of the international law of Indigenous rights and how it has developed in recent decades. Drawing from their extensive knowledge of the topic, leading scholars provide strong general coverage and highlight the challenges and cutting-edge issues arising in international Indigenous rights law.

Research Handbook on International Environmental Law

Research Handbook on International Environmental Law
Author: Fitzmaurice, Malgosia
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2021-11-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1786439719

This thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this foundational Handbook combines practical and theoretical analyses to cover a wide array of cutting edge issues in international environmental law (IEL). It provides a comprehensive view of the complexity of IEL, both as a field in its own right, and as part of the wider system of international law.

Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law

Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law
Author: Alexander Orakhelashvili
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788116712

This updated and revised second edition, with contributions from renowned experts, provides a comprehensive scholarly framework for analyzing the theory and history of international law. Featuring an array of legal and interdisciplinary analyses, it focuses on those theories and developments that illuminate the central and timeless basic concepts and categories of the international legal system, highlighting the interdependency of various aspects of theory and history and demonstrating the connections between theory and practice.