International & Foreign Law

"This volume discusses the impact of human rights law on other fields of international law. Does international human rights law modify other fields of international law? Contributions focus on possible spillover effects of human rights on international economic or international criminal law. Does international human rights law have a streamlining effect on international law as a whole?"

" Part 1. Arctic offshore hydrocarbons and international environmental law -- Introduction -- Drilling in the Arctic -- Identifying international environmental law -- Part 2. The obligations of states to protect the Arctic marine environment -- The right to resources and the no harm principle -- Human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples -- Caution and precaution -- The environmental impact assessment -- Monitoring and follow-up -- Part 3. Responsibility and liability -- Legal consequences of failures to protect the environment -- Liability for damage in the absence of a State's wrongful conduct -- Part 4. Conclusions -- The extent and limitations of international law in the marine Arctic."

" Transit of goods within the international economic legal system -- Transit in the history of foreign trade -- Multilateral and plurilateral agreements -- Regional and bilateral agreements -- Introduction to the Doha round negotiations on trade facilitation concerning freedom of transit -- The WRO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) -- Implications -- Transit- difference of legal concepts : freedom of transit (of goods) vs. right of transit (of goods) -- Legal status of transit -- Definition, qualification and implementation of transit -- Implications"