Product Description: Customary laws and traditional institutions in Africa constitute comprehensive legal systems that regulate the entire spectrum of activities from birth to death. Once the sole source of law, customary rules now exist in the context of pluralist legal systems with competing bodies of domestic constitutional law, statutory law, common law, and international human rights treaties...read more

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Documents in International Environmental Law is the companion volume to the second edition of Philippe Sands' Principles of International Environmental Law (Cambridge, 2003). It comprises a representative selection of international environmental treaties and documents essential to anyone interested in international law within the field of environmental protection. This edition represents an up-to-date collection of the most important documents and makes the text and the key information on the legal status of the various acts, including its parties where a treaty is concerned, easily accessible to students, academics and practitioners. Also available: Principles of International Environmental Law 0-521-81794-3 Hardback $130.00C 0-521-52106-8 Paperback $47.00D (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters was concluded on September 27, 1968, among the original six Member States of the then EEC. On March 1, 2002, the Convention was replaced by EC Regulation No 44/2001 of December 2000 on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters...read more