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Breaking On Through To The Other Side: Understanding Continental European Corporate Governance, Ángel Oquendo
Breaking On Through To The Other Side: Understanding Continental European Corporate Governance, Ángel Oquendo
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The European Human Rights System As A System Of Law, Richard Kay
The European Human Rights System As A System Of Law, Richard Kay
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Russia And The Legality Of Strasbourg Law, Mark Weston Janis
Russia And The Legality Of Strasbourg Law, Mark Weston Janis
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The aim of this essay is to comment on Russia's accession to the Council of Europe and its probable accession to the European Convention on Human Rights from the perspective of the legal theory concerning the nature of obligation in international law and the law-like character of international law. The facts of Russia's accession test a philosophical argument that has been made elsewhere about the nature, efficacy and 'legality' of the legal system of the European Human Rights Convention. An important premise therein is that 'sometimes a happy (or unhappy) confluence of political decisions, social attitudes, and individual actors and …
The European Convention On Human Rights And The Authority Of Law, Richard Kay
The European Convention On Human Rights And The Authority Of Law, Richard Kay
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By almost all accounts, the system of international law established by the European Convention on Human Rights has been successful to a degree unimaginable when the Convention was signed in 1950. The European Court of Human Rights now routinely issues judgments finding the states party to the Convention to have defaulted in their obligations under it. Those judgments, sometimes touching on difficult and controversial issues that might have been thought to lie at the center of state sovereignty, are, almost equally routinely, honored by the respondent states who both pay the compensation ordered by the Court and also adjust their …
The Development Of European Regional Law Of The Sea, Mark Weston Janis
The Development Of European Regional Law Of The Sea, Mark Weston Janis
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