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  1. Families of the Missing

    A Test for Contemporary Approaches to Transitional Justice

    By Simon Robins

    Series: Transitional Justice

    Addressing the needs of Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political violence. Studying the needs of families of the missing in two contexts, Nepal and...

    Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems

    Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, Third Edition

    Edited by Obi N. I. Ebbe

    Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems: Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, Third Edition examines the history, dynamics, structure, organization, and processes in the criminal justice systems in a number of selected countries. Designed for courses in comparative criminal justice...

    Published May 12th 2013 by CRC Press

  3. Rules, Politics, and the International Criminal Court

    Committing to the Court

    By Yvonne Dutton

    Series: Global Institutions

    In this new work, Dutton examines the ICC and whether and how its enforcement mechanism influences state membership and the court’s ability to realize treaty goals, examining questions such as: Why did states decide to create the ICC and design the institution with this uniquely strong...

    Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge

  4. The Law on the Use of Force

    A Feminist Analysis

    By Gina Heathcote

    Series: Routledge Research in International Law

    The book presents the international laws on the use of force whilst demonstrating the unique insight a feminist analysis offers this central area of international law. The book highlights key conceptual barriers to the enhanced application of the law of the use of force, and develops international...

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development

    By David Reed

    Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

    This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of '...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge

  6. 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 May 6th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia

    Edited by Vivienne Bath, Luke Nottage

    Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

    This book considers foreign investment flows in major Asian economies. It critically assesses the patterns and issues involved in the substantive law and policy environment which impact on investment flows, as well as the related dispute resolution law and practice. The book combines insights from...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Towards Institution Building

    Edited by Hitoshi Nasu, Ben Saul

    Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

    The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Environmental Justice and the Rights of Ecological Refugees

    By Laura Westra

    Climate change and other environmental problems are increasingly leading to the displacement of populations from their homelands, whether through drought, flooding, famine or other causes. Worse, there is currently no protection in international law for people made refugees by such means....

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    International and Domestic Legal Perspectives

    By Laura Westra

    More than 300 million people in over 70 countries make up the world?s indigenous populations. Yet despite ever-growing pressures on their lands, environment and way of life through outside factors such as climate change and globalization, their rights in these and other respects are still not fully...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge