Climate change is causing traditional political and legal concepts to be revisited. The emergence of a global polity through physical, economic and social interaction demands global responses which should be founded upon new principles and which cannot simply be modelled on traditional constitutionalism centred on the nation-state. This Research Handbook explores how to build this climate constitutionalism at a global level, starting from the narrative of Anthropocene and its implications for law. It provides a critical approach to global environmental constitutionalism, analysing the problems of sustainability and global equity which are entwined with the causes and consequences of climate change. The Handbook explores how to develop constitutional discourses and strategies to address these issues, and thereby tackle the negative effects of climate change whilst also advancing a more sustainable, equitable and responsible global society.
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Edited by Jordi Jaria-Manzano and Susana Borrás
Transnational Business Governance Interactions
Advancing Marginalized Actors and Enhancing Regulatory Quality
Edited by Stepan Wood, Rebecca Schmidt, Errol Meidinger, Burkard Eberlein and Kenneth W. Abbott
From agriculture to sport and from climate change to indigenous rights, transnational regulatory regimes and actors are multiplying and interacting with poorly understood effects. This interdisciplinary book investigates whether, how and by whom transnational business governance interactions (TBGIs) can be harnessed to improve the quality of transnational regulation and advance the interests of marginalized actors.
Tawhida Ahmed and Elaine Fahey
This project has asked contributors to undertake a critical review of the ideas of justice and injustice as they relate to Brexit. The book has asked whose justice is affected by Brexit? What justice is affected by Brexit? What does a just society look like? Whether Brexit is perceived as one of justice or injustice is related strongly to our perspective of the kind of British, European and global society we want and envisage. This project has also asked how can a ‘just’ Brexit be evaluated from an intellectual and methodological perspective, in order to assess our understanding of whether and how national and global governance affect the pursuance of a just society? This has been underpinned by the unique circumstance of Brexit, which concerns the situation of withdrawal from globalisation, or more specifically, an exit of a state from an international organisation. The diverse contributions in the book have been useful in enabling the book to make some observations about the ways in which the topic of Brexit is approached, and what this may expose about our use of frameworks, concepts and methodologies of (legal) research on Brexit.
On Brexit
Law, Justices and Injustices
Edited by Tawhida Ahmed and Elaine Fahey
Timely and engaging, this topical book examines how Brexit is intertwined with the concepts of justice and injustice. Legal scholars across a range of subjects and disciplines utilise a multitude of case studies from consumer law, asylum law, legal theory, public law and private law, in order to explore the impact of Brexit on our ideas of justice. The book as a whole aims to engage with the methodology, lexicon and explicitness of analytical perspectives in relation to Brexit.
UN Reform
75 Years of Challenge and Change
Stephen Browne
Over three-quarters of a century, the UN has been impacted by major changes in the balance of powers among its member states, and is today threatened by nationalistic instincts. In this book, former UN insider Stephen Browne documents the textured history and numerous faces of the UN, from peacekeeper to humanitarian and development actor to stalwart defender of global human rights.
Edited by Nengye Liu, Cassandra M. Brooks and Tianbao Qin
Monograph Chapter
In Governing Marine Living Resources in the Polar Regions
Edited by Nengye Liu, Cassandra M. Brooks and Tianbao Qin
- Published:
- 7 November 2019
Collection:
Law 2019
Edited by Nengye Liu, Cassandra M. Brooks and Tianbao Qin
Monograph Chapter
In Governing Marine Living Resources in the Polar Regions
Edited by Nengye Liu, Cassandra M. Brooks and Tianbao Qin
- Published:
- 7 November 2019
Collection:
Law 2019
Edited by Nengye Liu, Cassandra M. Brooks and Tianbao Qin
Monograph Chapter
In Governing Marine Living Resources in the Polar Regions
Edited by Nengye Liu, Cassandra M. Brooks and Tianbao Qin
- Published:
- 7 November 2019
Collection:
Law 2019
Edited by Nengye Liu, Cassandra M. Brooks and Tianbao Qin
Bringing together leading scholars from across a diverse range of disciplines, this unique book examines a key question: How can we best conserve marine living resources in the polar regions, where climate change effects and human activities are particularly pressing?