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Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence is a seminal text on the legal ramifications of machine learning. Analysing both the concept of human rights and specific rights in light of new AI technologies, this expansive volume will be useful to academics, professionals, and policymakers navigating this complex and shifting terrain.

This is the first book to focus on international efforts to address Syrian chemical weapons issues in an international law context. It provides an overview of the process of control over Syrian compliance/non-compliance with international obligations, including the keys to success in eliminating Syria's stockpiles and reasons for difficulties in handling multiple uses of toxic chemicals as weapons in domestic armed conflicts. It also addresses collective and unilateral sanctions against Syria outside of international institutional frameworks, and their implications for subsequent cases. Supported by extensive analyses of developments within the OPCW Executive Council and the UN Security Council, this book is recommended for readers seeking insight about chemical weapons issues and dynamism of international law.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Film making as a creative ecosystem: The case of Soho in London -- Chapter 3: The performing arts ecosystem in Abu Dhabi: Sustainability, resilience, and local capacity building -- Chapter 4: From Strangers to a Designer Community: An Ecosystem Perspective of Creative Hub formation in Taipei City -- Chapter 5: Understanding the role of creative networks for cultural and creative industries: The case of Creative Cardiff -- Chapter 6: SESC: A Brazilian music ecosystem orchestrator -- Chapter 7: Bristol's Film and Television Industries: An Incremental Ecosystem -- Chapter 8: From metaphor to measurement of popular music ecosystems: Putting diversities at the heart of resilience -- Chapter 9: Relative Values in the multidimensional impact in arts: the case of Contact Theatre -- Chapter 10: The Global Creativity Index: National Creativity Ecosystems and their Relationship to Economic Development and Inequality -- Chapter 11: Why a better understanding of the ecosystems of cultural production could have a major impact on public policy -- Chapter 12: Exploring the Productivity Drivers in Zimbabwe's Creative and Cultural Industries: Towards Resilient Creative Ecosystems -- Chapter 13: In denial, artists in the UK creative economy: A focus on artist-led businesses -- Chapter 14: Networks for inclusion -- Chapter 15: Keeping to the Margins: Understanding the role of symbolic violence and institutional fields in creative ecosystems.

In the past few decades, the field of ecology has made huge advancements thanks to stable isotopes. Ecologists need to understand the principles of stable isotopes to fully appreciate many studies in their discipline. Ecologists also need to be aware of isotopic approaches to enrich their 'toolbox' for further advancing the discipline. This book presents a concise and foundational resource for anyone interested in acquiring theoretical and practical knowledge for the application of stable isotopes in ecology. Readers will gain a more in-depth and complete knowledge of stable isotopes and explore isotopic methods used in ecological research, learning about stable isotope definitions, measurement, ecological processes, and applications in research

Introduction : intelligence of a future day -- Overcoming disillusionment with international law / John Dugard -- Re-imagining international law : what might have been, what might be / Michael Wood -- Change in international law / Arnold Pronto -- Fragmentation and fertilisation of international law / Giuditta Cordero-Moss -- The role of private (international) law in achieving the sustainable development goals / Hans van Loon -- Does the United Nations have a future? If so, what may that be? / Malcolm Shaw -- The role of the UN in the codification and progressive development of international law / Attila Tanzi -- Pluralism in international organizations / Ian Johnstone -- Multilateralism in the United Nations / Raja Karthikeya -- The role of public diplomacy in the modern world / Alan Henrikson -- Re-imagining the United Nations Security Council / Vesselin Popovski -- Re-imagining the European institutions / Maria Stoicheva -- International Law in Indian Courts / Gopal Subramanium -- The role of International Law in the United Kingdom / Peter Goldsmith -- Plurality of international legal proceedings in an era of multiple courts and tribunals / Laurence Boisson de Chazournes -- Pursuit of domestic remedies for claims in international law / Vasuda Sinha -- Rethinking humanitarian and human rights institutions for Asia / Sergey Sayapin -- Ecocide as an international crime : options and choices / Christina Voigt -- Public interest in investment arbitration : the rapid ascent of human rights, labour law and environmental law / Monica Feira Tinta -- Re-visiting the Kulbhushan Jhadav Case : due process in international law / Harish Salve -- Family Law : British and Indian Perspective / William Longrigg & Anil Malhotra -- Ukraine : a sunset or a new dawn for international law? / Upendra Baxi -- Transformation of international law through the outlawry of war / Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro -- From legal ambiguity and strategic clarity to legal clarity and strategic ambiguity / Charles Sampford -- Sovereignty as responsibility : understanding the legal parameters of the veto power / Jennifer Trahan -- In Memoriam : Judge James Crawford / Freya Baetens -- In Memoriam : Judge Antônio Trindade / Paula Almeida -- In Memoriam : Soli Sorabjee / Ankit Malhotra.

While the world was swept up in the complications and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, Malaysia's government changed leadership twice without going to ballot. Employing the Malaysian case as a starting point for examining a wider trend in Southeast Asia, Pandemic, Politics, and a Fairer Society in Southeast Asia delves into how politicians and policymakers navigate political uncertainty and the impact of their decisions on creating and maintaining a fairer society. Presenting perspectives from political scientists from across Malaysia and the SEA region, chapters base themselves in the circumstances of political upheaval that Malaysia faced during the pandemic, making a unique and critical contribution to literature on the Southeast Asian experience of COVID-19. Covering trends in Southeast Asia, public perception, elections, and governance, contributors chronicle the rise of regional governments that sought to increase populism and authoritarianism at the height of the pandemic, in addition to monitoring the ongoing fluctuation of public trust and its relation to the political landscapes of the region. With a special focus on creating a fair and just society for a sustainable future, Pandemic, Politics, and a Fairer Society in Southeast Asia offers an in-depth analysis of regional political dynamics from multiple disciplines, including international relations, philosophy, and gender studies.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. The COP27 climate change conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt made it clear that fighting global warming will require continuing commitment, cooperation, and collaborative action from multiple constituencies around the world. Urging readers from the Global North to rethink their approaches and potential contributions to long-term change, Empowering Female Climate Change Activists in the Global South explains how woman climate change leaders are confronting patriarchal structures to achieve social justice. Examining the lived experiences of woman climate change activists based in rural areas, Peg Spitzer presents eighty-five original interviews that feature women whose careers in business, education, politics, and the arts have championed women's rights in Asia, environmental defenders who have established projects in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and woman farmers in three Indian villages who have faced climate-related droughts and floods. Suggesting ways in which successful climate change amelioration and adaptation led by women in the Global South may be replicated elsewhere, Spitzer also considers how NGOs and other organizations from the Global North can best contribute to facilitating positive changes in the communities where they work by focusing on empathetic cooperation. Addressing the urgent need to develop gender-just solutions that uplift and empower those who are experiencing environmental degradation in their communities, Empowering Female Climate Change Activists in the Global South uncovers the flaws in current combative structures and strategies and re-examines scholarly research at the nexus of feminism, transnational advocacy, and hierarchies of need.

This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data, parliamentary discourse, and historical linguistics in a truly interdisciplinary exploration at the vanguard of big data and corpus methods for investigating the intersection between linguistic and social change.

Today, 189 out of 193 officially recognised nation-states have a written constitution, and 75% of these have been ratified since 1975. How did this worldwide diffusion of constitutions come about? In this book, Wim Voermans traces the varied and surprising story of constitutions since the agricultural revolution of c.10,000 bce. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Voermans shows how human evolution, human nature and the history of thought have all played their part in shaping modern constitutions. Constitutions, in turn, have shaped our societies, creating imagined communities of trust and recognition that allow us to successfully co-operate with one another. Engagingly and wittily told, the story of constitutions is vital to understanding our world, our civilisations and, most significantly, ourselves

Non-elite or marginalized early modern women-among them the poor, migrants, members of religious or ethnic minorities, abused or abandoned wives, servants, and sex workers-have seldom left records of their experiences. Drawing on a variety of sources, including trial records, administrative paperwork, letters, pamphlets, hagiography, and picaresque literature, this volume explores how, as social agents, these doubly invisible women built and used networks and informal alliances to supplement the usual structures of family and community that often let them down. Ten essays, ranging widely in geography from the eastern Mediterranean to colonial Spanish America and in time from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, show how flexible, sometimes ad hoc relationships could provide crucial practical and emotional support for women who faced problems of livelihood, reputation, displacement, and violence