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Die Zukunft des Völkerrechts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The international legal order today constitutes a truly universal legal system. It has received guiding principles through the United Nations Charter: ever since this ‘Constitution for the world’ began operating, sovereign equality of states, self ...
Tomuschat, Christian
core   +2 more sources

Defending heroic soldiers at the United Nations Human Rights Council: shame, honour, and sovereign masculinity

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 137-157, March 2025.
Abstract Human rights activists worldwide rely heavily on naming and shaming rights‐abusing states at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to induce them to comply with international human rights norms. However, what about national‐level actors who seek to shame a government for complying with human rights?
Chulani Kodikara
wiley   +1 more source

Advocating for the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Against the Odds: Strategies and Legitimation

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 606-623, March 2025.
Abstract Developing legislation to counter the negative impacts of businesses' transnational activities on human rights and the environment is a recent trend. Supporters of such legislation have campaigned to convince policy‐makers to adopt strong law, but this legitimation process has not been theorised.
Morgane Thorens   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human rights, property and the search for ‘worlds other’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
While some accounts of rights and property paradigms see property as an inherent incident of a colonizing form of human rights law and discourse, others draw out the contradictions between them, suggesting that human rights and property have opposing ...
Grear, Anna
core   +2 more sources

Reactivity to sustainability metrics: A configurational study of motivation and capacity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Previous research on reactivity – defined as changing organisational behaviour to better conform to the criteria of measurement in response to being measured – has found significant variation in company responses towards sustainability metrics.
Crilly, D., Gond, J-P., Slager, R.
core   +3 more sources

Universal Jurisdiction: Law out of Context

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 6, Page 1480-1518, November 2024.
Universal jurisdiction enables the prosecution of international crimes by domestic courts in the absence of any nexus between the prosecuting state and the crime charged. While the temptation is for domestic judges to proceed with ‘business as usual’ in the conduct of such trials, difficulties in the practice of universal jurisdiction reflect the ...
Devika Hovell, Mara Malagodi
wiley   +1 more source

Africa and international law: An ode to Taslim Olawale Elias

open access: yesKabarak Law Review, 2023
The study of great personalities is an important venture as it retains the relevant cultural traditions and values and depicts the evolution of legal thought and practice. This is a study of the Nigerian jurist, Taslim Olawale Elias, in the form of a
Elvis Ongiri
doaj   +1 more source

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