EU law making involves areas as diverse as banking regulation, agriculture, the environment, consumer protection and employment rights. With the UK’s proposed withdrawal
from the EU, these powers will be repatriated to the UK. The UK today differs from the UK which joined the European Economic Community in 1973, so the question arises [...]
The World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement procedure is a key arena for establishing global legal norms for what counts as relevant knowledge. As a high-profile
case, the WTO trade dispute on GMOs mobilized scientific expertise in somewhat novel ways. [...]
This article explores the development of human rights law in the context of examing a UK Supreme Court decision restricting the rights of soldiers. A judicial decision can
arrest the development of law. In holding that the Human Rights Act 1998 does not apply to armed forces on foreign soil, the Supreme Court recoiled from an important [...]
On its fifty-first session, the International Law Commission (henceforth, “ILC”) adopted the Draft Articles on State Responsibility (henceforth, “Draft Articles”) and
submitted them to the General Assembly for approval in 2001. The work of the ILC on the Draft Articles took more than forty-four years before the Draft Articles reached [...]
This is a definition of Human Rights Law in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Space Law . Providing a comprehensive and timely overview of the evolving landscape of space law,
this Encyclopedia emphasises the importance of international collaboration in maintaining outer space as a peaceful domain. [...]
The war in Iraq and the recent war in Ukraine symbolise the importance of resolving the crisis of international law and laws of war. In addition, the problematic aspect of
these wars stems from the misconception of aggression or the composition of aggression. [...]
The study contains a comparative analysis of the requirements of Article 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as developed in the case law of the European Court of
Human Rights, and the related regulation in the Albanian legal framework and practical implementation. [...]
The ever-growing and increasingly important role played by international courts in the administration of justice has necessitated the assessment of the quality of their decision-making
process and other concepts relating to the performance of these courts, even more so in the case of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice (the ECOWAS Court or the [...]
With over 500,000 objects in orbit, space pollution has now become a scientific, legal, and ethical issue and raises concerns on what the international community can do through
existing ‘hard law’ and the development of ‘soft law’ to help tackle the problem. [...]
