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From Apology to Utopia—The structure of international legal argument

Boldizsár Nagy
- 01 Jan 1991 - 
- Vol. 13, Iss: 4, pp 428-429
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Systematic Gender Violence and the Rule of Law: Aboriginal Communities in Australia and Post-War Liberia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the extent to which the Western concept of the rule of law impacts systematic violence against Indigenous girls and women in Australia and post-war Liberia, and found that although the principle of the Rule of Law is an emancipatory tool for justice and redress generally, it can also be an apparatus for persistent systemic violence against women.
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Searching for a world polity : the world after international anarchy question

Aaron McKeil
TL;DR: In this article, a new world polity formation theory is developed that explains how systems of polities become single polities, and an account of the historically specific transcivilizational and planetary social form a world polite must necessarily attain if it were to be practically constructed in a late modern context.
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La dette écologique en droit international public

TL;DR: The dette ecologique as discussed by the authors is a discours politique politique, politique designed to lutter contre le fardeau des dettes financieres qui grevait les budgets des Etats en developpement.
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Strengthening the rule of law or serving as a tool of war? : a critical analysis of United Nations sanctions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relationship between United Nations sanctions and the rule of law and argue that sanctions have been applied in such a way that they have undermined the rule-of-law, thus weakening the authority and legitimacy of the U.N.
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Systematic Gender Violence and the Rule of Law: Aboriginal Communities in Australia and Post-War Liberia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the extent to which the Western concept of the rule of law impacts systematic violence against Indigenous girls and women in Australia and post-war Liberia, and found that although the principle of the Rule of Law is an emancipatory tool for justice and redress generally, it can also be an apparatus for persistent systemic violence against women.
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The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

TL;DR: The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime synthesises and advances the growing literature on this subject by integrating legal, economic, and political perspectives as mentioned in this paper based on an analysis of the substantive and procedural rights conferred by investment treaties.
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Searching for a world polity : the world after international anarchy question

Aaron McKeil
TL;DR: In this article, a new world polity formation theory is developed that explains how systems of polities become single polities, and an account of the historically specific transcivilizational and planetary social form a world polite must necessarily attain if it were to be practically constructed in a late modern context.
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A Case Study of the Construction of International Hierarchy: British Treaty-Making Against the Slave Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate different theories of hierarchy in international relations through a case study of the treaty system that the British constructed in the early nineteenth century in an effort to abolish the slave trade.
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Law(yers) congealing capitalism: on the (im)possibility of restraining business in conflict through international criminal law

G. Baars
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the progeny and role of law as sine qua non of capitalism, and establish that capitalism's main motor, the corporation, was developed as a legal concept to congeal relations of production and minimise risk-exposure of the capitalists.
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