Search for dissertations about: "public international law"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 70 swedish dissertations containing the words public international law.
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11. On the Virtual Borderline: Cyber Operations and their Impact on the Paradigms for Peace and War : Aspects of International and Swedish Domestic Law
Abstract : Contemporary disputes between states contain elements of psychological and information operations, intelligence operations and cyber operations as well as methods for physical use of force. Cyber operations may use, or contribute to, all of these different techniques and methods combined and can be focused on intelligence gathering, preparation of networks for future attacks, sabotage or on preventing access to information. READ MORE
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12. The Tragedy of the Global Commons in Public International Law
Abstract : To what extent does public international law that generally applies in our global commons enable a tragedy of the commons in the global commons? The theory of the tragedy of the commons describes the plights of overuse and degradation that shared resources face when subject to, inter alia, a freedom of use, and the theory is often applied to criticize certain positive emanations of public international law in the global commons. As the theory is routinely used in the context of economic approaches to law and commons, the method employed is a positive economic analysis of international law. READ MORE
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13. Bioprospecting and deep-sea genetic resources in a fragmenting international law
Abstract : This thesis investigates if public international law manages to function as a coherent system in the case of deep-sea bioprospecting, where rules in three regimes provide seemingly inconsistent obligations for states. Based on an investigation of the development of bioprospecting and patenting of deep-sea genetic resources, the study explores how rules in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (WTO TRIPS) apply to such activities. READ MORE
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14. The Responsibility to Protect by Military Means : Emerging Norms on Humanitarian Intervention?
Abstract : This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study on the external ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) and international law. It focuses on the legal customary process on jus ad bellum by which states try to address the gap between the legitimacy and legality of humanitarian intervention to protect human security within a state against genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. READ MORE
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15. Public Policy Exception and Arbitrability Defence under the New York Convention 1958 : A study of public policy and arbitrability, including empirical evidence of national court decisions
Abstract : This thesis investigates the public policy exception and arbitrability defence under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“New York Convention 1958”) in international commercial arbitration. It examines the varied notions of public policy, including domestic/national, international, and transnational public policy, and scrutinises the nuances of the arbitrability concept, noting a distinct approach in the U. READ MORE
