Thilo Marauhn

Heinhard Steiger

"The contributions collected in this edited volume go back to an international symposium hosted by the Franz von Liszt Institute for International and Comparative Law of the Faculty of Law of the Justus Liebig University Giessen in 2005."

Universality and Continuity in International Law

English summary: Children's rights are a very important topic in national and international law. A broad variety of measures has been adopted to combat the military, economic or sexual exploitation of children. These issues as well as questions related to international child abduction and international adoptions are dealt with in this volume. In addition, the final chapter focuses on children's rights under the new South African Constitution. Four of the seven chapters are written in English. German description: Kinderrechte scheinen en vogue zu sein - jedenfalls in der politischen Rhetorik. Die tatsachlichen Lebensverhaltnisse von Kindern - national wie international - sind demgegenuber zum Teil erschutternd. Trotz internationaler Regelungen wie dem Ubereinkommen uber die Rechte des Kindes von 1990 und trotz partieller nationaler Gewahrleistung von Kinderrechten werden Kinder weiterhin als Soldaten in Kriegen eingesetzt und als billige Arbeitskrafte oder Sexualobjekte ausgebeutet. Die im vorliegenden Band dokumentierten Beitrage widmen sich der Frage, wie das geltende nationale und internationale Recht zum Schutz der Kinderrechte moglichst effektiv angewandt und gegebenenfalls verbessert werden kann. Die Bandbreite der Themen reicht von Fragen des humanitaren Volkerrechts in bewaffneten Konflikten uber Fragen des internationalen Kindschaftsrechts bis hin zu strafrechtlichen Aspekten der sexuellen Ausbeutung von Kindern. Daruber hinaus wird die Gewahrleistung von Kinderrechten in der Europaischen Menschenrechtskonvention und in der neuen sudafrikanischen Verfassung analysiert. Vier der sieben Beitrage sind in englischer Sprache verfasst.

politische Rhetorik oder effektives Recht?

Internationaler Kinderschutz

Ulrich Beyerlin

International Environmental Law is a new textbook written for students, practitioners, and anyone interested in the subject. The overall aim of the book is to provide a fresh understanding of international environmental law as a whole, seen in the light of climate change, biodiversity loss, and the other serious environmental challenges facing the world. The book has also been kept deliberately manageable in size by careful selection of topics and by adopting a cross-cutting synthesis of regulatory interaction in the field. This enables the reader to place international environmental law in the broader context of public international law in general, revealing at the same time that international environmental law is experimental ground for developing new legal approaches towards global governance. To this end, the authors have combined theory and practice. Apart from discussing concepts, rule-making and compliance, the book looks at options for improved coordination, harmonisation and even integration of existing multilateral environmental agreements, analysing how conflicts between various environmental regimes can be avoided or, at least, adequately managed. The authors argue that an appropriate management of international environmental relations must address the North-South divide, which continues to be a major obstacle to global environmental cooperation. Furthermore, the authors emphasise the growing human rights dimension of international environmental law. This book is an ideal 'door opener' for the further study of international environmental law. Focusing on 'international environmental governance' in a comprehensive way, it serves to explain that each institution, each actor, and each instrument is part of a multi-dimensional process in international environmental law and relations.

International Environmental Law

The Case of Estonia

Supreme Court of Seperate Constitutional Court

Louis J. Kotzé

In Transboundary Governance of Biodiversity, African and European specialists provide a critical and comprehensive analysis of the international and regional regulatory frameworks and associated issues pertaining to the transboundary governance of biodiversity.

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