..., the principle of legality and its requirements, the role of parliament, the paradox of parliamentary sovereignty, and common law. discrimination English law freedom of expression freedoms fundamental liberties police powers protests censorship contempt of court emergency powers government human...

.... It looks at a number of normative considerations, such as the universality and indivisibility of human rights, territorial sovereignty, citizenship, cultural relativism, and regionalism. The question of whether a human rights instrument applies in principle...

... in non-state societies. Radbruch’s aim was not to provide a historiography of punitive interventions in tribal Germanic society, but to remind his readers of the constitutive importance of sovereignty for the emergence of criminal law. This relates to Radbruch’s concern for legal certainty, and explains...

...The vision of a uniform body of property law applicable in all states may be traced back to natural law theory, which challenged the Westphalian axiom that property rights were intertwined with sovereignty, and thus could arise only under the municipal law of a particular state. Despite the revival...

...This chapter covers the course of the wars in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and international efforts to broker a peace accord that culminated in 1995 in the Dayton Peace Agreement. It considers the belligerents’ competing interpretations of self-determination, sovereignty and the meaning of “nation...

... of parliamentary sovereignty had antecedents that J. C. D. Clark dates back to the English Reformation. ⁴¹ The concept certainly became more fully evolved as a result of the Revolutionary Settlement of 1688–9 that required that the Crown summoned Parliament at least once a year in order to vote...

... solely on the principles of sovereignty. As we shall see in the next chapter, new components have been added to the regime in order to try to remedy some of its weakness, but it remains the basic operating system for global competition law, and thus assessment of future policy in the area must rest...

...This chapter examines the ambiguous relationship between violence, law, and sovereignty in the context of terrorism today. It focuses, not on normative questions about terrorist violence, but on its structural relationship to law and the sovereign state. It substitutes states' differing approaches...

...This chapter discusses three points regarding the international status of Jerusalem. They are: (i) the question of whether after the 1948-49 hostilities Israel and Jordan acquired sovereignty over Western and Eastern Jerusalem respectively; (ii) the legal status of Jerusalem after Israel occupied...

...It is easy to find fault in any new legal institution. In the case of the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose Statute was adopted in Rome on 17 July 1998, however, one should be mindful of the fact that, firstly, this is a revolutionary institution that intrudes into state sovereignty...

...The revolutions in England in 1642 and 1688 and the enthronement of William and Mary in place of James II by the Bill of Rights 1689 were justified by the principle of the sovereignty of the people, as explained by Hume, Blackstone, Condorcet, Burke, and others. The people were represented...

... the institutional contours of contemporary international society, with its unique blend of universal sovereignty and global law, and its forms of hierarchy that coexist with commitments to international human rights. The book explores the multiple forms of contestation that challenge international society today...

... personality, and his distinction between the legal, religious, and political realms, must have been alien to his imagined Islamic readers in Southeast Asia. Dutch East India Company VOC Grotius Hugo Taj al Salatin Alexandrowicz Charles H Eurocentrism Bertrand Romain universalism sovereignty British...

... of territorial sovereignty in Europe and the right of European states over their own territory; second, it verifies how that concept and that right were used by international lawyers of the second half of the nineteenth century to define legally the non-Western space. This led to a recognition of the different...

... in the fields of political science, historical writing, witchcraft, and a great deal else besides. Best known for his contribution to formulating the modern doctrine of sovereignty, Bodin has also been credited with developing the quantity theory of money and with advocating religious toleration at a decidedly...

...: imperial minorities and consociations. Milošević Slobodan Serbia democracy Europe national minorities sovereignty state Czechoslovakia Empire Jews Kokoschka Oskar Poland Romania Russia empire nationalism religion Bosnia Croatia Iliescu Ion Kandinsky Wassily Kosovo Modigliani Amedeo...

... Henry IV prodigal sovereignty chattels landholding Henry IV Part 1 takes up the historical thread about a year after the end of Richard II. As the new play begins, the strife foreseen by the Bishop of Carlisle at Richard's deposition is apparently already coming...

...This chapter outlines the argument, themes, and structure of the book. It introduces the Indus river system waters dispute, the context of decolonization in South Asia, the role of water in international relations scholarship, and the conceptual frames of territoriality and sovereignty. It also...

.... Pakistan, downstream, appealed to the idea that its own historical uses of Indus Basin water overrode India’s right to autonomy. Controlling the flow of water out of, or into, a state’s territory was a vital marker of its fitness to govern. absolute sovereignty Egypt Government of India Government...

...This chapter highlights the confluence of territory, sovereignty and state-building in South Asia with the international politics of the Cold War. It deconstructs the idea of international cooperation in the Indus Basin, asking how the framework for accommodating competing Indian and Pakistani...