This book contains the updated papers of the 3rd Annual MAA Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference, which was held on 14 April 2011 in Vienna. The contributions cover a variety of topics. Subjects discussed include the trends in the relative importance of physical and non-physical attributes of goods in terms of conformity under the CISG, the characteristics of various forms of documentary performance and the outer limits of the CISG in relation to property damages.

This book sets out how the legal provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights, of which there are few, emerged into a vast body of European human rights law. The author presents a creative and thorough analysis of the case law of the European Court of Human rights and shows how the Court manages to bring and hold together judges coming from a great number of diverse legal and cultural traditions. The analysis of key issues, such as creativity, binding force of precedence and interpretation, illustrate the complexity of the case-by-case international protection of human rights. This analysis gives both scholars and practitioners a memorable insight into a prudent and innovative construct of opinions on the Court's jurisprudence. The book provides a valuable contribution to the emerging European human rights law.

Much has been written about the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the case-law of the Court of Human Rights from a variety of perspectives; yet there seems to be a gap in the literature when it comes to the impact of the Convention in different countries and the question why this impact may differ from one country to another. This book fills this gap with regard to the new member countries of the Council of Europe (CoE) in Central and Eastern Europe by way of a comprehensive analysis that provides truly comparable information from all or nearly all countries in the region and suggests some conclusions that may be drawn. Country reports are included from all ten CEECs that have already joined the EU, as well as most or even all of the other countries in the region that have joined the Council of Europe and have ratified the ECHR after the end of communist party dictatorship. A couple of reports regarding countries that have also emerged from communism but are not eligible for membership in the Council of Europe are also included for comparative purposes. This book is aimed at academics and practitioners interested in human rights generally and more specifically in the European Convention on Human Rights. About the editors: Leonard Hammer lectures in the fields of public international law and international human rights and has published extensively in these areas. He has received a number of fellowships and grants to conduct research on international law, freedom of religion and conscience, migrant workers, and holy places. He also serves as an International Scholar for the Open Society Institute, operating principally at Baku State University in Azerbaijan. Frank Emmert is a tenured professor and director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis. He has twenty years of experience in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus Region, Central Asia, and the Middle East, working for and with various universities, the EU Commission, the Council of Europe, USAID, the Soros Foundation, and other partners, for the development of rule of law, democracy, and human rights. 

The state-centric international order is in flux and the role of the individual as an actor in international law is growing. Yet in most international law regimes, states continue to interposition themselves between individuals and international law. Against the background of humanization which is shown to permeate all international legal regimes, this book sketches the future of individuals in international law. From the normative success of International Internet Law as the most innovative post-interposition regime this book draws lessons for the optimal design of (existing and emerging) legal frameworks. Describing in detail the characteristics of a post-interposition regime, including a commitment to multistakeholderism, non-traditional normative instruments and system-wide disintermediation, this book demonstrates why the future of individuals in international law looks bright.

This book covers Judge Zupancic 's individual separate opinions, including those joined by other judges, plus the joint opinions of several judges in which Judge Zupancic participated. The collection gives an account of Judge Zupancic 's views regarding human rights. This is a companion volume to the author's The Owl of Minerva, published in 2007.The title of the book is taken from Hegel and refers to the idea that philosophy cannot be prescriptive because it understands only in hindsight. The same holds true for conceptions of human rights. Based on his many years of experience in the field, the author shares his thoughts about human rights and the role it plays in society.

The Russian Legal Practitioner concentrates primarily on the advokat, who is the Russian lawyer with a right of audience in court, but also deals with the jurisconsult -- the lawyer who works for commercial law firms or in the civil service. The book uses the Federal Law on the Advokatura as its central organizing point, with introductory chapters on the history of both branches of the profession. Under the new (2002) legislation foreigners can become either, but the book is orientated mostly towards the academic and professional markets, as these are the Russian jurists whom foreign investors and foreign law firms work with.

Judicial independence is not just an abstract principle that systems of government ensuring the rule of law must adhere to. It is also a concrete standard, set out in binding (as well as in some non-binding) human rights documents and enforced by human rights courts all over the world. These multiple human rights documents and human rights courts have developed legal norms relating to judicial independence but in doing so, have they taken the shaky nature of the assumption that individuals and institutions can exert true agency, uninfluenced by their environments, into account? This book addresses this by studying the very particular issue of the effect of the frames employed in print news media on judicial independence. The question is whether the print news medias framing of the practice of waterboarding influenced judicial opinions of this practice and if so, did this influence compromise judicial independence? The book looks at judicial independence as it is defined in international human rights documents and also in light of the democratic purpose behind judicial independence.

This book contains the updated papers of the 2nd Annual MAA Peter Schlechtriem CISG Conference which was held in March 2010. The contributions cover a variety of topics, ranging from empirical research relating to the UN Convention on the Sales of Goods (CISG) to issues of uniformity. Subjects discussed include the global acceptance of the CISG, CISG arbitration, legal education on CISG, CISG and Electronic Communication, the applicability of CISG and the role of CISG in Asia. As the application of CISG continues to be expanded, a book that covers the latest developments on CISG and ensuing domestic trade law reform cannot fail to be of importance.

This is a fine collection of articles by outstanding scholars from various disciplines (law, history, theology and philosophy) and various continents (Asia, America and Europe). This work deals with interesting topics about universality and continuity in international law, ranging from universal validity to islamic international law. The work shows that research in the history of public international law cannot be limited to the development of modern public international law in a European perspective. It should cover the cultural traditions of other regions and traditions as well that tend to be increasingly integrated into current public international law.