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The law of maritime delimitation has been shaped by the interpretation of certain provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which has led to State practice being neglected in current scholarship.

The Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges and opportunities for metal and mineral production and use, in the context of climate change and the United Nation Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.

This book carries out a comprehensive analysis of the María Luz incident from a legal perspective. While historians have written widely on the subject, the legal importance of this event has been relatively neglected. This book uses the case to explore the technical legal issues Japan was facing in its transition from pre-modernity to modernity.

The seaworthiness of merchant ships plays a critical role in ensuring the safety of life and property and the prevention of marine pollution. The book is written to meet the needs of lawyers, maritime professionals and academics, to thoroughly explain the concept of seaworthiness and the relevant legal issues.

This book presents a radical, but compelling, argument that liberal democracies must be able accommodate violent protest.

This fifth volume in the series comprises ten contributions written by an expert team of academics and practitioners. Collectively they analyse and expound many of the contemporary legal issues and debates in the law and practice of marine insurance.

This book asks why crime and violence persist in Latin America on these extreme levels and why the states have not been able to more effectively solve this problem that dominates the lives of many millions of Latin Americans.

International commercial arbitration and litigation are often seen as competing fora, fields of law, or markets. This intersection is at its highest at the forefront of any proceedings, at the jurisdictional stage.

Unaccompanied child asylum seekers are amongst the world's most vulnerable populations and their numbers are increasing. This book reconceptualises the relationship between unaccompanied child asylum seekers and states.

Globally, social work faces increasingly complex cultural, political, economic, legal, organisational, technological and professional conditions.

This is the first book to focus on the law and practice relating to offshore oil and gas floating production. It deals with all legal and commercial risk management issues from initial concept through design, construction, modification, installation, acceptance, production and offloading, including ancillary legal topics.

This edited collection seeks to map the landscape of contemporary informational interests, to evaluate a range of recognised and putative rights and wrongs associated with modern information societies, and to consider how law, regulation, and governance should be deployed in response.

This book collects various contributions on the principle of solidarity in international law. It reconstructs the foundations of solidarity in law and investigates the origins of the principle. It then seeks to ascertain whether solidarity exists as a principle in international law and, if so, what its scope is.

Discussing the overlaps and distinctions between piracy and maritime terrorism, this book considers how the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, and other vessel identification and tracking measures in the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, would be likely to reduce the risk of terrorist attacks at sea.

Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses legal constitutions of value.

This book evaluates the differences in the level of compliance with IFRS across the GCC states, exploring the impact of corporate governance on the level of compliance with IFRS and presenting an empirical analysis of companies across the GCC.

This book explores the various ways in which participation in sport and physical activity might contribute to effective solutions within criminal justice systems.

This book contributes to the literature on organized crime by providing a detailed account of the various nuances of what happens when criminal organizations misuse or infilltrate legitimate businesses, and sheds light on the important role the private sector can play to fight back.

Drawing from the wealth of academic literature about Eurovision written over the last two decades, this book consolidates and recognizes Eurovision's relevance in academia by analysing its contribution to different fields of study.

This volume is the first comprehensive study of the Polish history of law and Christianity written in English for a global audience. It examines the lives of twenty-one central figures in Polish law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their country and the region.

By means of a historical, legal and scientific approach, this book identifies the issues, progress and setbacks in the right for women to access abortion in various countries of the Global North.

In an age when everyone aspires to teach critical thinking skills in the classroom, what does it mean to be a subversive law teacher? Who or what might a subversive law teacher seek to subvert - the authority of the law, the university, their own authority as teachers, perhaps?

This comprehensive Handbook provides a detailed and unique overview of current thinking about marine governance in the context of global environmental change.

Is political equality viable when a capitalist economy unequally distributes private property? This book examines the nexus between wealth and politics and asks how institutions and citizens should respond to it.

What really happened at Heenan Blakie? This is the ultimate account of what went on behind the scenes of the largest law firm dissolution in Canadian history.

This book examines the integration of human rights and environmental standards within international investment agreements (IIAs).Aimed at policymakers, legal scholars, and international law practitioners, this book provides a thorough framework for understanding and reforming IIAs.