This chapter examines what insights critical legal scholarship and critical childhood studies can offer each other, with a focus on three themes: fluidity, violence, and human

faces. It is argued, first, that neither legality nor the child are matters of fact. [...]

PhD ; This thesis is concerned with whether international law is capable of evolving to adequately address the adverse impact of international trade practices on the billions

of people living in poverty in the world today. To this end, it explores international law’s capacity to integrate ethical obligations into international trade [...]

This article examines the right to water from an environmental perspective. In particular it focuses on the various forms of legal recognition provided to the right and how

these interact with the realities of water stress and shortage. It places particular emphasis on the international construction of the right and its domestic application. [...]

The thesis examines the protection of the vulnerability of children’s health from environmental threats in international law and the regional legal systems of Europe. While

there has been ample scientific evidence that children’s health is far more vulnerable to environmental degradation than adults’, there is no direct response [...]

This would allow it to better able to engage with the reality of the integration that it is there to promote. Based on comparative methodology, the volume examines legal practice,

as revealed by national and regional case law. [...]

PhD ; This thesis explores the rules of treaty interpretation as they are applied by foreign investment arbitral tribunals ("FIATs"). Its primary aims are: a) to determine

whether FIAT treaty interpretation practice is generally consistent with other international courts and tribunals; b) to assess whether the treaty interpretation [...]

Medical humanitarianism and global health are two distinct but co-dependent spheres of global health security. Their actors differ in their units of analysis, understanding

of neutrality, and organizational capacities. While health underpins the normative principles of humanitarian action, humanitarian ideas, and notably medical humanitarian [...]

Between 2016-2018 the international community under the auspices of the UN adopted two new instruments, both entitled Compacts, one for refugees, the other for safe, orderly

and regular migration. In this contribution we examine the consequences of the adoption of the migration compact in international law. [...]

The judiciary should not become the mouthpiece of the law by overriding the values of justice. In order to find the values of justice in every decision, judges should explore

the values that live in society. Indonesian legal figure, Prof. Dr. Satcipto Rahardjo expressed progressive legal thinking that prioritizes the deepest meaning of [...]