Law and science have partnered together in the recent past to solve major public health issues, ranging from asbestos to averting the threat of a nuclear holocaust. This paper

travels to a legal and health policy frontier where no one has gone before, examining the role of precautionary principles under international law as a matter of [...]

ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to clarify the contribution of international dispute adjudication mechanisms in regard to environmental protection. Most specifically,

the study aims to identify and develop the criterion adopted by the international judge in relation to the compensation for environmental damages. [...]

This study provides an analysis on the scope of crimes against humanity set out in the Rome Statute in order to permit the International Criminal Court to prosecute and punish

perpetrators of eco-destruction during peacetime. Despite the anthropocentric feature of Art. [...]

This article discusses a phenomenon difficult to ignore in the relations among national and international courts and tribunals in the twenty-first century: "judicial dialogue,"

or the practice of using the reasoning of other national or international courts to arrive at a better understanding of human rights. [...]

The evolution of Inter-American Court case law and the advances made by international bodies and instruments, as well as those in domestic legislation, clearly reveal that

the right to the truth is now recognized as an autonomous and independent right. Although this right is not expressly included in the American Convention, it does [...]

The chapter analyses the interaction of law and the politics of historical memory, summarizing its genesis and evolution as well as outlining legal governance of historical

memory nowadays, in particular by virtue of so-called memory laws. The analysis focuses on the ways politics of memory has infiltrated the settings of human rights [...]