The legal protection of foreign investments deposited in EU financial institutions has attracted considerable attention both in the legal as well as in the business community following European Parliament’s approval on last April of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive which includes the...

Summary: Introduction Public international law and international societies The obligation of international treaties The legal effects of international treaties over parts The legal effects of international treaties to third countries Conclusions No.pg. 156

This article discusses recent developments related to recognition of the link between human rights and climate change in international human rights forums. It focuses on the main human rights body of the United Nations, the Human Rights Council, which has addressed climate change in three...

As revived private-sector interest in African agriculture aggravates commercial pressures on land, the national, international and transnational legal frameworks define the rights, obligations, enforcement mechanisms and arenas for negotiation and contestation among the manifold actors brought...

This paper considers the extent to which international human rights law offers protection to "climate migrants" irrespective of whether these persons would qualify for refugee status. In contrast with most existing literature, it does not focus on States’ obligations arising from the...

Despite the international efforts on the development of a special surveillance regime, banks may become insolvent. The poor management, the excessive risk, the adverse conditions in the market or fraudulent practices can cause serious or even fatal financial problems. Therefore, the rules of...

The paper deals with states` Criminal responsibility in international law. This responsibility occurs as a result of actions and flaws of the state’s agencies or of its public officers, actions which are against the norms of international law and against the obligations assumed by conventions.

The interestingness of marine piracy issue in Somalia is caused by the fact that firstly, piracy problem is often shown and discussed in mass media and secondly because it is still an unsolved trouble. Finally pirates attacks in Somalia have a great influence on late delivery of cargo ships’...

This essay provides and economic analysis of the problem of modern-day maritime piracy. The essay first reviews the current scope of the problem, and then develops an economic of model of piracy that emphasizes the strategic interaction between the efforts of pirates to locate potential targets,...

Sustainable development represents a very complex legal concept, being described as an “umbrella principle, drawing together a series of legal and policy principles” (Ellis, 2008), such as precautionary principle, intergenerational equity and intragenerational equity, polluter pays principle...