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1. Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade

   Remedying the 'Past'?

   Edited by Fernne Brennan, John Packer

   Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the ‘Past’? Addresses how reparations might be obtained for the legacy of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. This collection lends weight to the argument that liability is not extinguished on the death of the plaintiffs or perpetrators. Arguing...

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge
2. Combating Economic Crimes

   Balancing Competing Rights and Interests in Prosecuting the Crime of Illicit Enrichment

   By Ndiva Kofele-Kale

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnational Crime and Criminal Law

   In the last decade a new tool has been developed in the global war against official corruption through the introduction of the offense of "illicit enrichment" in almost every multilateral anti-corruption convention. Illicit enrichment is defined in these conventions to include a reverse burden...

   Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge
3. The European Constitution, Welfare States and Democracy

   The Four Freedoms vs National Administrative Discretion

   By Christoffer C. Eriksen

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   This book explores how the right to the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital in the European Union legal order affects welfare states. These "four freedoms", as they are known, are vital instruments for the protection of a European market unencumbered by internal frontiers. The...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
4. Genocide, State Crime and the Law

   In the Name of the State

   By Jennifer Balint

   Genocide, State Crime and the Law critically explores the use and role of law in the perpetration, redress and prevention of mass harm by the state. In this broad ranging book, Jennifer Balint charts the place of law in the perpetration of genocide and other crimes of the state together with its...

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
5. Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law

   Imagined Constitutions, Remembered Legalities

   By Ian Duncanson

   Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law considers the intersection of these terms in the historical development of what has come to be known as the ‘rule of law’. The separation of governmental powers, checks and balances, and judicial independence signified something entirely new in the way in...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. Human Rights, Natural Resource and Investment Law in a Globalised World

   Shades of Grey in the Shadow of the Law

   By Lorenzo Cotula

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   In the world’s developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power – from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
7. International Law in a Multipolar World

   Edited by Matthew Happold

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, international law has sought to configure itself as a universal system. Yet, despite the best efforts of international institutions, scholars and others to assert theuniversal application of international law, its relevance and applicability has...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
8. The ICJ and the Evolution of International Law

   The Enduring Impact of the Corfu Channel Case

   Edited by Karine Bannelier, Théodore Christakis, Sarah Heathcote

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   In 1949 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its first judgment in the Corfu Channel Case. In diffusing an early Cold War dispute, the Court articulated a set of legal principles which continue to shape our appreciation of the international legal order. Many of the issues dealt...

   Published November 2nd 2011 by Routledge
9. Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law

   From Speakers' Corner to War Crimes

   Edited by Predrag Dojcinovic

   Propaganda, War Crimes Trials and International Law addresses the emerging jurisprudence and international law concerning propaganda in war crimes investigations and trials. The role of propaganda in the perpetration of atrocities has emerged as a central theme in the war crimes trials in the past...

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge