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Provisions on investment in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the EU, both on substance and on dispute settlement procedures, are the culmination of a long process of replacement of the original EEC approach to establishment by the approaches followed by the GATS, the North American… Read more““CETA on investment: the definitive surrender of EU Law to GATS and NAFTA/BITs” in Common Market Law Review, by Xavier Fernández Pons”

Editors: Torroja, Helena (Ed.) Springer International Publishing DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-66098-1 ISBN 978-3-319-66098-1 Focuses on human security and the impact of PMSCs on the protection of human rights Addresses soft-law initiatives in addition to existing international hard-law norms to regulate PMSCs Examines the possibility of introducing an international minimum standard to regulate… Read more“Public International Law and Human Rights Violations by Private Military and Security Companies, by Helena Torroja”

Although an essential element of the definition of crimes against humanity is that a civilian population be targeted, there is no agreement on what ‘civilian population’ means in this context. The notion has been given different meanings depending on whether the crimes are committed in times of conflict or peacetime…. Read more““Towards a Single and Comprehensive Notion of ‘Civilian Population’ in Crimes against Humanity” in International Criminal Law Review, by Rosa Ana Alija”

Campins Eritja, M. “Strengthening the European Union: Greenland’s Relationship for an Enhanced Governance of the Arctic” in Liu, N.; Kirk, E.; Henriksen, T., (Ed.), The European Union and the Arctic, Brill, 2017. Full text

Rosa Ana Alija Fernández & Olga Martin-Ortega Silence may play different roles during post-authoritarian and transitional periods: in Spain, it has been a key element for impunity. Silence was twice imposed on victims: first, after the end of the civil war and during dictatorship, silence was a survival strategy to… Read more““Silence and the right to justice: confronting impunity in Spain” in The International Journal of Human Rights, by Rosa Ana Alija”