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Climate Change: Reversing the Past and Advancing the Future
AJIL Unbound, 2021 After four years of not simply inaction but significant retrogression in U.S. climate change policy, the Biden administration has its work cut out. As a start, it needs to undo what Trump did. The Biden administration took a step in that direction on Day
Daniel Bodansky
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A tale of two courts: the 'creation' of a jurisdiction? [PDF]
, 2004 Two projects to create the international criminal courts were devised during the 20th century. On 1 July 2002, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court entered into force.
Chadwick, E
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The lawyer as an actor in history and society [PDF]
, 2018 This contribution is an introduction to the fourth part of the book “International Humanitarian Law and Justice: Historical and Sociological Perspectives.” It raises general issues in regard to the role of lawyers as actors and prepares for a part, whose
Mats Deland +3 more
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Mirabeau: French Revolutionary and Cosmopolitan Translator [PDF]
Storia e Politica, 2020 Count Mirabeau is remembered in particular as a charismatic leader during the early period of the French Revolution and as such, in popular imagination, emblematic of Frenchness.
Patrick Leech
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, 2011 The South African legal framework regulating the research and commercialisation of plant material, or bioprospecting, consists of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004, and the Bioprospecting, Access and Benefit Sharing ...
A. Myburgh
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European journal of international law, 2019 Today, the contribution by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716), the last ‘universal genius’ to the theory of international law is nearly forgotten.
Tilmann Altwicker
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Shifting Paradigms: Rights of Nature at the Inter-American Court
AJIL UnboundIn its advisory opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) derived the right to a healthy climate from the right to a healthy environment protected under Article 26 of the American Convention on ...
Jorge Calderón Gamboa +1 more
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Does One Need to Be an International Lawyer to Be an International Environmental Lawyer?
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting, 2006 IEL is a relatively young field. In 1945, when the United Nations was created, environmental issues did not even rate a mention in the Charter. Indeed, as recently as 1964, when Wolfgang Friedman wrote The Changing Structure of International Law, he did not include environmental protection among his "new fields of international law"--even though ...
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International Lawyers as Lawmakers
, 2022 International lawyers’ participation in international lawmaking is understudied. This gap is especially poignant in the context of the discipline’s obsession with discussing sources and lawmaking. This thesis employs an eclectic methodology that draws from doctrinal methods, critically inspired description, and empirical approaches to fill this gap ...
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LEGAL SCHOLACTIVISTS IN THE THIRD WORLD: BETWEEN AMBITION, ALTRUISM AND ACCESS
The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2017 This article argues that legal agents from the Third World play an important role in facilitating and advancing subaltern claims by operating as “scholactivists”.
Cynthia Farid
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