specifically; whether it falls within the scope of one of the categories of the official definition given to International Law in …

components in the development of the continent: law, democracy and quality of government. Political regimes of democracy, polity …-stability, regulation quality and rule of law. Findings indicate democracy has an edge over autocracy while the later and polity overlap. A …

This paper analyzes the place of human rights in global law theories …

treaties, custom, general principles of law, jurisprudence, soft law, and domestic statutes), and many distinct types of …

climate law, human rights, and technology transfer. The introduction highlights key research and scholarship on intellectual … the debate over climate change. In particular, it looks at the role and function of patent law, trademark law, consumer … law, design law, copyright law, trade secrets, open licensing, as well as plant breeders' rights, access to genetic …

change requires us to think systematically – and ambitiously – about how to engage the rule of law as a tool in efforts to … between ongoing pressures on the rule of law and efforts to draw upon the rule of law to limit climate change. It posits that … the growth of right-wing populist, nationalist, and authoritarian movements worldwide puts pressure on the rule of law and …

This is a pre-publication draft of my contribution to a symposium in the Emory Law Journal honoring the extraordinary …

In September 2010, world ... …

rights entitlements of corporations. Thereby, this piece provides a critique of both established corporate law thinking as … – theoretically, doctrinally and practically. The article draws on ECtHR jurisprudence, general legal as well as corporate law theory … and on comparative constitutional law in order to corroborate its argument …