englischThirty years after the approval of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the CISG has become the law of international sales. In the meantime, 76 states have ratified the CISG covering more than two third of the global trade. Despite CISG’s practical [...]
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englischChina is a major civil-law jurisdiction. Since the end of the 1990s great efforts have been made in China to codify the entire civil law. With the major statutes governing contracts, property, torts and conflict of laws promulgated in 1999, 2007, 2009 and 2010 respectively, the most crucial [...]
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Das Rahmenübereinkommen zum Schutz nationaler Minderheiten ist das mit Abstand wichtigste völkerrechtliche Instrument im Bereich des Minderheitenschutzes, nicht zuletzt dank eines erfolgreichen Überwachungssystems, bei dem das Ministerkomitee und ein Beratender Ausschuss eng zusammenarbeiten. [...]
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englischThe purpose of the handbook is to provide practitioners and legal scholars with a comprehensive overview and a systematic assessment of the relevant cases and issues in the field of international investment law. The handbook thus aims at giving both a first overview as well as a detailed [...]
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englischThe purpose of the handbook is to provide practitioners and legal scholars with a comprehensive overview and a systematic assessment of the relevant cases and issues in the field of international investment law. The handbook thus aims at giving both a first overview as well as a detailed [...]
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englischThe importance of the law of international organisations is continually rising. The textbook which was first edited in German in 2009 explains and analyses not only the structures of international organisations in general, but it focuses upon the interplay between the creation of [...]
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In Europa ist die 2010 durch die griechische Haushaltskrise ausgelöste Notlage des Euroraums ein Weckruf dafür geworden, dass das Phänomen zahlungsunfähiger Staaten nicht etwa für die armen und ärmsten Staaten reserviert ist, sondern ein massives Problem für sämtliche Staaten dieser Welt darstellt [...]
more informationThe 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (“Genocide Convention”) has a special standing in international law, as well as in international politics. For 60 years the crime of genocide has been recognised as the most horrendous crime in international law, [...]
more informationThe 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (“Genocide Convention”) has a special standing in international law, as well as in international politics. For 60 years the crime of genocide has been recognised as the most horrendous crime in international law, [...]
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englischThe European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) entered into force on September 3, 1953 with binding effect on all member states of the Council of Europe. It grants the people of Europe a number of fundamental rights and freedoms: right to life, prohibition of torture, prohibition of slavery [...]
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