... political theory discipline of treaty‐making practice of civil rights era public interest litigation terra nullius concept of United Nations administrative law rise & core values of anti‐discrimination norms Charter of Rights and Freedom 1982 Can human rights instruments municipal Racial...

... Assistant Professor in International Law, Leiden School of Law, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. This chapter considers the intricate relations between the public interest embodied by host states and the private interest of foreign investors. While international investment law...

...This chapter examines the motives underlying regulation, first by considering the technical justifications for regulating that may be given by a government that is assumed to be acting in pursuit of the public interest. It then discusses rationales for regulating that can be described as instances...

... goes wrong by focusing on arguments based on futility, jeopardy, and perversity. It also explores theories that invoke public interest and interest groups as factors in regulatory failure, along with approaches that stress the importance of the ‘ideas’ and ‘institutions’. Finally, the chapter outlines...

...Is humanistic marketing possible? Can the marketing concept be suitably applied beyond commercial situations and to the public interest? Is marketing a universal tool, a technology, even a science geared to the work of identifying and satisfying human needs and therefore unyoked to culturally...

... the three models of law officers and suggests that the non-political model ignores the fact that decision-making in the public interest is based on political criteria. Questions relating to the scope of the law officers’ responsibilities and their relationship to the executive are basically...

...The emergence of conservative public-interest law provoked controversy within the American right, where many leading legal intellectuals worried that conservative legal activism threatened conservative legal principles by asking courts to resolve political disputes. Conservatives, including Kit...

... the government can use contract; the weakness of controls over the government's behaviour during the contracting process; and concerns about the place of public interest values in government contracts. All these aspects offer some guidance as to the issues which may need to be addressed in a study of internal...

... Woolf Fiona Dame Woolf Evans Nigel MP Gambaccini Paul Roache William prosecution campus tribunals IICSA therapeutic closure victim-centred justice Crown Prosecution Service CPS consent Jenner public interest The argument of this chapter is that the last decade has seen a shift away from...

...This chapter considers, on a practical level, the extent to which substantive public interest values are present and identified in current regulatory activity, and how regulatory procedures serve, or fail to serve, these values. It discusses the constitutional and legal background and ‘social...

...This chapter seeks to establish an argument for the advisability, or even the necessity, of the adoption of a value-laden concept of public interest, and examines the content and purpose of such a construct in the context of regulation. Philip Selznick defines regulation as ‘the use of the concept...

...This chapter considers other areas in which the concept of public interest might be used to facilitate the legal system's potential to reflect fundamental, substantive, democratic expectations. The areas covered here suggest some preliminary thoughts and agendas for future research, where public...

...The essential argument of this book has been that ‘the public interest’ need not be a cover for ignorance, or an empty vessel, and that seeking to understand it need not be comparable with the mythical quest for the Holy Grail. Rather, the concept has the potential to serve fundamental democratic...

..., noting the traditional focus on confidentiality and privacy and the more recent trend towards transparency and inclusiveness of proceedings before ICSID and/or NAFTA tribunals. The chapter then compares domestic public law approaches to questions of transparency and public interest representation. Having...

... and the principle of balancing individual rights with public interest in Part I, going through the evolution of standards of investment protection in national setting in Part II and including the regulation of pertinent issues in national administra- tive and constitutional laws, in WTO and in human rights law...

... a constitution at all. It proposes the establishment of some body or institution independent of government to plan constitutional reform in a coherent manner, and for the renewal of public interest in constitutional affairs. unwritten constitution Great Britain constitutional reform public interest...

... and the introduction of new mechanisms of appeal against the sanctions imposed on doctors by tribunals. The historical development of medical regulation is reviewed and the more recent changes to address the public interest and crises in the confidence in the regulation of health care are described. General Medical...

...This chapter describes health complaints entities in Australia and New Zealand, with an analytical focus on the ways in which they do, or do not, serve the public interest. The concept of public interest is explored with reference to the aims and functions of these entities, and the competing...

...This book examines the impact of planning politics on the public interest by focusing on the case of Montgomery County and its land use policy. In particular, it considers Montgomery's pioneering approach to inclusionary zoning, the Moderate-Priced Dwelling Unit Ordinance, in terms of its effect...

... and Jeffersonian ideals and contest different notions of property rights, democracy, community welfare, efficiency, fairness, governance, and the public interest. mass transit rivers and waterways roads and road systems Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission WSSC watersheds White Flint Metro station area...