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Courts, Codes, and Custom explores the role of legal tradition in shaping state policy toward international human rights and environmental law. Examining the institutional and cultural characteristics within a state's legal tradition across ten case studies, the book shows the importance of domestic legal factors to understanding state policy toward international law.

Research has shown that an enormous range of variation exists in nation-state commitment to environmental treaties and international cooperation. I examine the degree of involvement of eighteen democratic states across fifteen international environmental treaties over the past twenty years. The analysis tests several hypotheses of the rival theories of international-level policy making, specifically structural conditions, political institutions, interest-based, and international connectivity theory, to determine causal forces underlying collaborative international behavior. Empirical findings reveal that the strongest determinants of a state's international environmental treaty engagement are the citizenry's post-material orientations and executive-centered political institutions. This primarily corroborates liberal theory's emphasis on the underlying values of the polity and domestic institutional procedures and challenges the importance of external, international forces and structural conditions.

Global climate change has the most visible consequences in the Arctic and the far-reaching impact in the world's oceans. A basic and standard work offers Michael Byers with his book 'International Law and the Arctic'. The Canadian political scientist and expert on international law is concerned with the circumpolar in the region as a result of the decline in sea ice, the gradual melting of glaciers and thawing of permafrost occurring legal problems. It is based on the 1992 UN Convention entered into force (UNCLOS) and at its base and at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) agreements. Serve as reference the relevant laws of conduct and decisions of international courts. Adapted from the source document.

Over the past two centuries, the concept of human dignity has moved from the fringes to the centre of the international legal system. This book is the first detailed historical, theoretical and legal investigation of human dignity as a normative value, the intellectual sources that shaped its legal recognition, and the main legal instruments used to give it expression in international law. Ginevra Le Moli addresses the broad historical and philosophical developments relating to the legal expression of dignity and the doctrinal geography of human dignity in international law, with a focus on international humanitarian law, international human rights law and international criminal law. The book fills a major lacuna in the literature by providing a comprehensive account of dignity within international law that draws on an extensive documentary and archival basis and a vast body of decisions of international judicial and quasi-judicial bodies.

The end of limited war -- The changing rules of war and peace -- The American war crimes program -- A shift in priorities -- Nuremberg : a cold war conflict of interest