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The responsibility to protect ('R2P') principle articulates the obligations of the international community to prevent conflict occurring, to intervene in conflicts, and to assist in rebuilding after conflicts. The doctrine is about protecting civilians in armed conflicts from four mass atrocity crimes: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. This book examines interventions in East Timor, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Kosovo. The chapters explore and question UN debates with respect to the doctrine both before and after its adoption in 2005; contrasting state attitudes to international military intervention; and what takes place after intervention. It also discusses the ability of the Security Council to access reliable information and credible and transparent processes to enable it to make a determination on the occurrence of atrocities in a Member State. Questioning whether there is a need to find a closer operational link between the responsibilities to prevent and react and a normative link between R2P and principles of international law, the contributions examine the effectiveness of the framework of R2P for international decision-making in response to mass atrocity crimes and ask how an international system to deal with threats and mass atrocities can be developed in the absence of a central authority. This book will be valuable to those interested in international law, human rights, and security, peace and conflict studies.

part I. Legal education, theory and ethics -- part II. Australian law schools after Pearce : a case study in educating critical, theoretical and ethical lawyers? -- part III. Legal ethics : opportunities and challenges in education and practice -- part IV. Legal ethics in a globalizing world.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors and Editors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- PART I: THE PROBLEM AND ITS IDENTIFICATION -- 2 Measuring Corruption -- 3 Corruption Definition and Measurement -- 4 What are We Trying to Measure? Reviewing the Basics of Corruption Definition -- 5 Measuring Corruption – The Validity and Precision of Subjective Indicators (CPI) -- 6 Measuring the Immeasurable: Boundaries and Functions of (Macro) Corruption Indices -- 7 The Non-Perception Based Measurement of Corruption: A Review of Issues and Methods from a Policy Perspective -- 8 Perceptions, Experience and Lies: What Measures Corruption and What do Corruption Measures Measure? -- PART II: THE CASE STUDIES -- 9 Corruption Indices for Russian Regions -- 10 Corruption Risk Areas and Corruption Resistance -- 11 The Public as Our Partner in the Fight Against Corruption -- 12 Citizen Report Cards -- 13 Corruption and Patronage Politics: 'Harambee' in Kenya -- 14 Measuring Corruption: Exploring the Iceberg

There is much debate about the scope of international law, its compatibility with individual state practice, its enforceability and the recent and limited degree to which it is institutionalized. This collection of essays seeks to address the issue of access to justice, the related element of domestic rule of law which does not yet figure significantly in debates about international rule of law. Even in cases in which laws are passed, institutions are present and key players are ethically committed to the rule of law, those whom the laws are intended to protect may be unable to secure protecti.

This book explores the impacts of global economic, political and cultural shifts on various international legal frameworks and legal norms. The economic growth of states throughout Asia, South and Central America and Africa is having a profound effect on the dynamics of international relations, with a resulting impact on the operation and development of international law. This book examines the influence of emerging economies on international legal rules, institutions and processes. It describes recent and predicted changes in economic, political and cultural powers, flowing from the growth of emerging economies such as China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Russia, and analyses the influence of these changes on various legal frameworks and norms. Expert contributors drawn from a variety of fields, including international law, politics, environmental law, human rights, economics and finance, provide a broad analysis of the nature of the shifting global dynamic in its historical and contemporary contexts, and a range of perspectives on the impact of these changes as they relate to specific regimes and issues, including climate change regulation, collective security, indigenous rights, the rights of women and girls, environmental protection and foreign aid and development. The book provides a fresh and comprehensive analysis of an issue with extensive implications for international law and politics. Shifting Global Powers and International Law will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations; international law; international political economy, human rights; and development.

This volume breaks new ground by approaching Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) as an explicitly ethical practice in financial markets. The work explains the origins and conceptual structure of SRI and links its pursuit to both its deeper philosophical foundations and the broader, multi-dimensional global movement towards greater social responsibility in global markets

AbstractThis article investigates whether the methods by which states implement citizens' human rights possess serious weaknesses for ensuring migrant health professionals' rights. Stemming from the discipline of normative philosophy, the moral approach to human rights sees rights as implemented through multiple waves of duties delivered by state‐managed integrity systems. We argue that this otherwise comparatively reliable method can fail to deliver adequate outcomes to migrant health professionals. These professionals can encounter problems stemming from the following: their lack of political priority as non‐citizens; the challenges to effective monitoring of migrant health professional pathways and outcomes; the incapacity of federal lawmakers to impact on key policy levers; the ever‐present threat of "pathways to nowhere"; and state‐enabled employee exploitation. The findings provide a philosophically grounded foundation for acknowledging the human rights concerns of even high‐skilled migrants, and show why special regimes for rights protection, facilitation and monitoring are necessary for migrant health professionals.

General principles of law have made, and are likely further to make, a significant contribution to our understanding of the constituent elements of global justice. Dealing extensively with global headline issues of peace, security and justice, this book explores justice arising in specific areas of international law, as well as underlying theories of justice from political science and international relations. With contributions from leading academics and practitioners, the book adopts an interdisciplinary approach. Covering issues such as international humanitarian law, and examining the significance of non-state actors for the development of international law, the collection concludes with the complex question of how best to rethink aspects of international justice. The lessons derived from this research will have wide implications for both developed and emerging nation-states in rethinking sensitive issues of international law and justice. As such, this book will be of interest to academics and practitioners interested in international law, environmental law, human rights, ethics, international relations and political theory