Sendai five years on: reflections on the role of international law in the creation and reduction of disaster risk

This article offers a critical examination of the position of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 within international law. It is argued that any interrogation into the role of international law must begin not with existing disaster risk reduction (DRR) laws and policies, but rather with an enquiry into the nature of disaster risk and the role of international law in its creation and reduction. It is demonstrated how, while areas such as international human rights law can be utilized to enforce obligations in support of DRR, other areas – in particular international investment law – actively work to undermine DRR efforts. In order for international law to be a productive tool in the reduction of disaster risk international lawyers must engage with critical work in disaster studies in order to explore the role that the former has played – and can play – in creating and addressing hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities

The misery of international law: confrontations with injustice in the global economy

This book challenges conventional justifications of economic globalization and eschews false choices. It is not about whether one is for or against international trade, foreign investment, or global finance. The issue is to resolve how, if we are to engage in trade, investment, and finance, we do so in a manner that is accountable to persons whose lives are affected by international law. The deployment of human rights for their part must be considered against the ubiquity of neoliberal globalization under law, and not merely as a discrete, benevolent response to it

Global Justice and International Economic Law: Opportunities and Prospects

Global justice is one of the most important subjects in law and political theory today. What principles of justice might tell us about the actual practices of the WTO and other international economic institutions is of vital importance to states and their citizens. This volume reflects the results of a symposium held at Tillar House, the ASIL headquarters in Washington, DC, in November 2008 which brought together philosophers, legal scholars, and economists to discuss the problems of understanding international economic law from the standpoint of rights, justice, and economic efficiency. The book makes advances in developing the normative criterion for ecaluation and justifying the international economic legal order -- Provided by publisher

Global Justice and International Economic Law: Opportunities and Prospects

Global justice is one of the most important subjects in law and political theory today. What principles of justice might tell us about the actual practices of the WTO and other international economic institutions is of vital importance to states and their citizens. This volume reflects the results of a symposium held at Tillar House, the ASIL headquarters in Washington, DC, in November 2008 which brought together philosophers, legal scholars, and economists to discuss the problems of understanding international economic law from the standpoint of rights, justice, and economic efficiency. The book makes advances in developing the normative criterion for ecaluation and justifying the international economic legal order -- Provided by publisher

La justicia más allá de nuestras fronteras: Experiencias de reforma útiles para América Latina y el Caribe

El objetivo de este libro consiste en presentar, pragmáticamente, algunos de los esfuerzos de reforma judicial que han sido exitosos fuera de la región o más allá de nuestras fronteras, indicando qué se está haciendo y por qué, e identificando prácticas que pudieran ser apropiadas para incorporarlas en el diseño de proyectos de apoyo al mejoramiento de la administración de justicia en nuestros países. Estas experiencias, que no hacen más que demostrar que los problemas del sector justicia se reproducen en prácticamente todo el orbe, van desde innovadores sistemas de gestión de casos para los procesos judiciales, pasando por interesantes planteamientos para establecer y hacer más efectivos los sistemas de asistencia jurídica para las personas de escasos recursos, hasta el análisis de un proceso de modernización judicial de amplio alcance en el País Vasco en España.