Essays about: "justiciability"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word justiciability.
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1. Adjudicating Climate Change: The Role of Human Rights Litigation in Climate Change Mitigation
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Over the last few decades, states have made a series of attempts to mitigate climate change through international agreements. Greenhouse gas emissions have kept rising, however, and are currently at record levels. This indicates that the international climate change regime has so far proven ineffective. READ MORE
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2. A paradigm shift from voluntary to court-ordered climate change mitigation? The potentials and challenges of a human rights-based approach
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : The central theme of this thesis is anthropogenic climate change; governments' inability to create an effective, inclusive response mechanism that manages to mitigate anthropogenic emissions; and advocates efforts to coerce States to act by invoking State responsibility in adjudicatory dispute settlement processes. States' failure to act in accordance with scientific risk assessments and to mitigate polluting activities has led underrepresented groups to increasingly lose trust in their respective executive and legislative branches, and, by means of protest, these advocates are now turning to court. READ MORE
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3. Humanizing (Anti)corruption: The socio-legal values of a human rights-based approach to corruption
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : This master’s thesis intends to contribute to the current academic and policy debate on the values of determining whether a particular human rights violation was caused by a corrupt behavior; and to defend a human rights-based approach to corruption, based on its added socio-legal values. With this purpose, it analyzes and compares the legal reasoning and socio-legal dynamics of three human rights court cases involving and not involving corruption. READ MORE
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4. The Operationalisation of the Rule of Law in the EU Legal Order: An Evolving Jurisprudence of the Court
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : The European project was founded on the advancement of liberal democracy where the rule of law and respect for human rights have a central place. In a period of ‘instability’ in the Union where organisational changes to national judiciaries have raised fears over rule of law backsliding among Member States threatening the functioning of the European Union’s legal order. READ MORE
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5. Is an individual complaint mechanism an appropriate way to correct the imbalance between civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights? : From the perspective of justiciability
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : .... READ MORE