The Central American Integration System (SICA) is the latest integration enterprise in a long line of regional governance arrangements in the Central American region. SICA was founded in 1991 as a manifestation of a broader ...

Despite the importance of recognition and enforcement for international commercial disputants, there remains a perception of an unwarranted enforcement ‘gap’ favouring foreign awards over foreign judgments. To the extent ...

The risk of athletes sustaining concussion while participating in professional team sports raises two serious concerns both nationally and internationally. First, concussion in sport carries a public health risk, given ...

This thesis examined the relationship between migration law and labour law in regulating the level of wages and employment security of temporary migrant agricultural workers in Canada and Australia. The findings have ...

This research proposes to study the issue of contractual conflict of laws in Greater China. In this thesis, Greater China refers to the combined jurisdictions of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Cross-border ...

Alcohol is the favoured drug of Western nations. It brings pleasure, but it is also the source of untold harm to the drinker, third parties and the wider society. This thesis starts from the position that regulation has ...

In the past twenty years, the international community has agreed to bans on anti-personnel landmines, on cluster munitions and on nuclear weapons. In all these cases, claims of humanitarianism, understood here as a concern ...

Low-waged, temporary labour migration (TLM) is a global phenomenon that involves the migration of workers for months or years at a time generally without their dependent children. This thesis examines how policies governing ...

The Vietnamese people’s procuracy (viện kiểm sát nhân dân) is a transplanted Soviet institution, which concurrently prosecutes and supervises judicial activities, including criminal investigation and trial. The 2013 ...

The global norm is that, by law or by practice, the judges on courts of constitutional jurisdiction will be citizens of the state they serve. However, in the nine independent states of Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New ...