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The Many Paths of Change in International Law analyses drivers, conditions, and consequences of change across the different fields of international law. Tracing change processes and the conditions that facilitate and hinder their success, the book paints complex and varied picture of an international legal order in flux. Learn More

In September 2015, the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This historic document constituted a universal 'plan for action for people, planet and prosperity.' The Sustainable Development Goals serves as an expert compendium, the most authoritative ready-reference tool for anyone interested in the SDGs. Learn More

In this new volume in the Elements series, Daniel D. Bradlow explores international development finance institutions, including the IMF, World Bank, and regional development banks, and provides a detailed overview of the legal frameworks within which these institutions operate, their origins, and the rights and obligations of their member states. Learn More

In this new volume in the Elements series, Daniel D. Bradlow explores international development finance institutions, including the IMF, World Bank, and regional development banks, and provides a detailed overview of the legal frameworks within which these institutions operate, their origins, and the rights and obligations of their member states. Learn More

EU Procedural Law provides a rigorously structured analysis of the system of judicial protection in the European Union and the procedure before the Union Courts. It examines the various types of proceedings which may be brought before the Union Courts and addresses the relationship between the Court of Justice and the national courts. Learn More

Updated legal commentary on the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. Addresses developments in relevant case law and practice. Critically examines selected regional trade agreements as well as the development dimension of the SPS Committee and its ability to address the existing needs of developing countries. Learn More

This volume offers a study of when and why contested international norms decline. It includes four contemporary case studies (the torture prohibition, the responsibility to protect, the duty to prosecute institutionalized in the ICC, and commercial whaling) and two historical case studies (privateering and the transatlantic slave trade). Learn More

By interrogating how international criminal tribunals relate to their domestic counterparts through the principle of complementarity, International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability advocates for improved institutional design and less deference toward states to strengthen the enforcement of international criminal law. Learn More

European Constitutional Imaginaries promises to open debates on European constitutionalism that are necessary to understanding Europe's present predicament and its various crises, all navigated through the medium of law. Learn More

An introduction to Immanuel Kant's constitutional theory, and to the European system of rights protection, this book explains how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has become the most active and important rights-protecting court in the world through its manifestation as a Kantian cosmopolitan legal order. Learn More

In light of the rise to prominence of the European Central Bank, caused by the Global Financial Crisis and the following Euro area sovereign debt crisis, this collection reflects on the past and the future of this powerful and contested institution. Learn More

This volume emphasizes the consequential nature of secondary rules of international law (such as attribution, causality, and the standard and burden of proof) and argues that the outcome of litigation is fundamentally shaped by the exact standard of proof, standard of review, or attribution basis that is chosen by adjudicators. Learn More