I argue that in modern algebraic-formulated science the ‘physical constant’ can be understood, for practical purposes, as an ‘identifier’ of a universal law of nature.

This identifying role is possible because the concept of ‘physical constant’ fulfills the same need for universality, stability, and fundamentality (as universal [...]

This review article presents scholarly debates in the field of “Big History” since the late 20th century. Pomeranz’s groundbreaking book, Great Divergence, serves as

a key reference throughout the article. It analyzes the interpretive approaches of the California School, to which Kenneth Pomeranz is often attributed. [...]

This article analyses the interplay between inter-State obligations to increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology in accordance

with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14.a, with a view to contributing to enhanced implementation of the international law of the sea (SDG 14.c), and providing [...]

Rights protection in the UK is multi-faceted and multi-layered. Multi-faceted because our rights derive from several sources: from the European Convention on Human Rights (the

ECHR or the Convention); from the general principles of EU law or from its Charter of Fundamental Rights (the EU Charter), as well as from the common law. [...]

The interpretative clarifications under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on children’s human right to a healthy environment help illuminate areas for transformative

change through the evolutive interpretation and implementation of international environmental law. [...]

Could Turkey dam the Tigris and Euphrates and deprive its downstream neighbors of vital water resources? Could Brazil over-pump the Guarani Aquifer System to the detriment

of the other aquifer states? Could Egypt put pressure on upstream Nile states and prevent them from developing river related infrastructure that might limit downstream [...]

This paper addresses the normativity of the Draft Articles on the law of transboundary aquifers, which are not likely to become an international treaty in the short term. In

order to address this issue, the paper focuses generally on work of the United Nations International Law Commission that has not led to an international convention. [...]

nternational law governing transboundary aquifers is considerably underdeveloped, with only a handful of bilateral and multilateral agreements governing specific aquifer systems

to date. However, the significance of transboundary aquifers in addressing water security concerns is gaining recognition, and dialogue discussing the future of the [...]

This chapter begins by considering the relationship between the Member States, the EU and the relevant instruments of international law. The disparate systems under which labour

standards have developed impose conflicting obligations on EU Member States in certain respects. [...]