When international courts are given sweeping powers, why would they ever refuse to use them? The book explains how and when courts employ strategies for institutional survival and resilience forbearance and audacity, which help them adjust their sovereignty costs to pre-empt and mitigate backlash and political pushback.
Speeding up land reform through a constitutional amendment that would explicitly permit the expropriation of land without compensation has dominated legal and political-policy debates in South Africa in recent years.
Examining the twenty years since China acceded to the World Trade Organization, this collection provides an original, systematic assessment of the opportunities and challenges that China has presented to the WTO. Offering in-depth analyses of the “two-way†relationship between China and the WTO.
There is a growing literature examining the decline in labor market status experienced by lesser-educated men in the past half century. Despite workplace advances in automation and rising real wages for most workers during much of this period, lesser-educated men have experienced declining employment rates and real wages, along with declining marriage rates.
The papers aim to contribute to a better understanding of problems and solutions of geotechnical nature, as well as to a more adequate management of natural resources. Case studies are included to better disseminate the success and failure of Geotechnical Engineering practice.
This illustrated history paper is one of a kind, as it is the first time that the history of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology is presented in English and embedded in a wider historical context.
In the aerospace field, hypersonic flight plays a fundamental role. Some sixty years after the experimental flights of the North American X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, sustained hypervelocity travel is still the next frontier in high-speed transportation.
As a former senior air safety investigator and current assistant professor, I have dedicated my career to understanding and improving air safety. In this book, "Air Safety Investigation: The Journey", I draw on my years of experience investigating airplane accidents and incidents in order to provide a comprehensive guide to the principles and practices of air safety investigation.
As Qatar’s aspirations of becoming a key location for international dispute settlement and international trade grow, so too does the importance of understanding private law in Qatar and the Gulf states. In this innovative book, Ilias Bantekas and Ahmed Al-Ahmed provide an original, English-language treatise on the contract law of Qatar. Using an abundance of case law, the autho…
Through the colorful world of Berlin’s grand hotels, this book charts a new history of German liberalism and explores the changing relationships among big business, society, and politics. Behind imposing facades, managers and workers were often the pictures of orderly and harmonious service, despite living in sometimes uncomfortable proximity. Then, during World War I, class te…