Tag: Disputes

Mediating Sovereign Debt Disputes


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 188 Pages | ISBN : 3031467868 | 5.5 MB
This book provides a fresh perspective on resolving sovereign debt disputes within the investor-state mediation framework. In response to the limitations of traditional approaches to adjudicating public debt issues and the resulting gaps in international law concerning sovereign defaults, creditors have increasingly turned to investor-state treaty arbitrations to recover unpaid debts. However, this shift has raised numerous criticisms and concerns.

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Children in Custody Disputes Matching Legal Proceedings to Problems


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 229 Pages | ISBN : 3031463005 | 5.4 MB
​This book explores how legal proceedings in and out-of-court can be matched to the complex problems underlying disputes concerning child custody, residence and contact between parents. It focusses in particular on Nordic experiences of in and out-of-court mechanisms as means of resolving custody disputes. The contributors are internationally renowned and experienced researchers from the legal, psychological, and sociological fields who provide empirical as well as legal perspectives. They examine central legal, ethical and knowledge-based dilemmas in custody dispute proceedings. The findings speak to an international audience and suggest ways how to best realize the interests of the child. It transcends disciplinary, institutional, and jurisdictional boundaries in search of new knowledge.

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Business Lawsuits and Disputes How Law Keeps Businesses in Check


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English | September 1, 2022 | ISBN: 9354795447 | 272 pages | MOBI | 1.88 Mb
Business and law are in continuous communication. In seeking profits and growth, businesses transform the society and, in the process, create new challenges. Law responds by controlling, regulating and most times facilitating business activities. Several court judgements from the apex courts have acted as the frontiers of business law. Leading judgements from the apex courts resolve close contest of ideas, change course of businesses and allow for opening of new business avenues.

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Beyond the Courtroom Resolving Disputes through Agreement


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English | November 3, 2020 | ISBN: 1644692546 | 508 pages | EPUB | 2.05 Mb
Beyond the Courtroom provides a compilation of articles and chapters by a dispute resolution scholar who has made remarkable contributions over his thirty-year career. Professor Abramson has focused his research and practice on parties trying to resolve their own disputes. This book includes publications that have contributed to launching the then new field of mediation representation with special attention on how attorneys, as gate keepers to mediation, can effectively represent clients. The book also includes his original publications that have contributed to the emerging field of intercultural and international mediation and the already robust and mature field of negotiations.

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Rethinking South China Sea Disputes The Untold Dimensions and Great Expectations


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English | ISBN: 1138576956 | 2017 | 176 pages | EPUB | 598 KB
The proposed book draws on the on-going South China Sea dispute, and the multifaceted challenges wrought by the South China Sea issue that requires an inter-disciplinary perspective. It employs legal-analytical methods, to emphasize the nuances of the role and interpretation of international law and treaties by China in different periods, while taking into account policy and strategic concerns, which generally cast great sways in decision-making. The re-introduction of interdisciplinary concerns straddling law and history illustrates that the historical dimension, which has long been neglected, is an emerging concern that poses looming dangers that may unexpectedly radicalize the friction. Contributing to debunking the mystique wrought by confrontations between a historical and a law-dominated perspective, these perspectives are supported by a more nuanced analytical framework, featuring theoretical concerns with a tinge of practicality.

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