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Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are persons who have been forced to leave their places of residence due to armed conflict, human rights violations, and natural or man-made disasters, but who have not crossed an international border. This book explores to what extent the protection of IDPs complements or conflicts with international refugee law.

This resource provides a systematic account of the role of distributive justice in the normative legitimation of liberal constitutions. The requirements of distributive justice are highly contested, and constitutions are susceptible to influencing those they govern. Rosenfeld suggests that liberal constitutions must incorporate 'justice essentials'.

Frank I. Michelman explains why constitutional debates persist in modern day democracies. Through the lens of John Rawls' seminal work 'Political Liberalism', Michelman responds to the problems governments of constitutional-democratic societies face from deep-lying disagreement among citizens by presenting them with Rawls' solution: an accepted constitution.

Examines how the rules-based international order is threatened by challenges such as climate change, autonomous weapons, and cyber weapons. It discusses how the international order can confront these threats, and proposes future developments of the rules-based international order as a whole.

'The World Bank's Lawyers' gives an original socio-legal account of the evolving institutional life of international law. It tells the previously untold story of the World Bank's legal department. This is a story of people and the practices they cling to and how these practices gain traction, or fail to do so, in an international bureaucracy.

'The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law' analyses how lawyers representing refugees use human rights provisions in national constitutions to close the gap between the Law and its implementation. The book examines how laws are adapted to suit social, political, and legal contexts, focusing on Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda, and the US.

'Awakening to China's Rise' delivers the first post-Cold War history of how Europe's major powers (Britain, France, and Germany) have responded to the perceived security challenge posed by China's rising assertiveness both in the Asia-Pacific and in Europe.

This volume explores how famine and mass starvation in our lifetime are the result of man-made policies, and invariably occur during times of armed conflict. It provides expert analysis on defining starvation, early warning systems, gender and mass starvation, the use of sanctions, reporting on, and memory of famine.

A comparative and comprehensive account of the jurisprudence of constitutional conflict between the Court of Justice and national courts with the power of constitutional review. It addresses the incidences of, and reasons for, constitutional clashes in the application and enforcement of EU law.

'Unconventional Lawmaking in the Law of the Sea' explores the ways that actors operating at the international level are developing standards of behaviour to regulate varied maritime activities beyond traditional lawmaking. Other than conventions and customary international law, there is a plethora of international agreements that influence international conduct. This 'soft law' or 'informal law' is now prolific in ocean governance, and so it is timely to consider its significance for the law of the sea.

'Financing the Future' explains how the unique governance arrangements and financial models of multilateral development banks shape their behavior, and uses that framework to show how different sets of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) are grappling with the challenges of the 21st century.