National Implementation of International Humanitarian Law:international Colloquium Proceedings

This book explores the national adoption and implementation of international norms. With a focus on how transnational expertise and experience networks and local content policies affect a norm reaching compliance, analysis on norm final outcomes is expanded beyond traditional studies on the strength of the international norm, the ability to overcome value conflicts, and the influence of specialised lobby groups. Through examining case studies of two Russian universities, the life cycle of international norm adoption is illustrated from inception to domestic implementation.

This book explores the national adoption and implementation of international norms. With a focus on how transnational expertise and experience networks and local content policies affect a norm reaching compliance, analysis on norm final outcomes is expanded beyond traditional studies on the strength of the international norm, the ability to overcome value conflicts, and the influence of specialised lobby groups. Through examining case studies of two Russian universities, the life cycle of international norm adoption is illustrated from inception to domestic implementation.

This book analyzes international and Chinese regulatory approaches addressing environmental risks that may be caused by GM crops and examines how China implements its international obligations in its policies and laws. Using the legal doctrinal method, the book discusses the precautionary principle and the public involvement principle, as well as several legal measures at the international law level and in Chinese law.

This book analyses how the complementarity regime of the ICC’s Rome Statute can be implemented in member states, specifically focusing on African states and Nigeria. Complementarity is the principle that outlines the primacy of national courts to prosecute a defendant unless a state is ‘unwilling’ or ‘genuinely unable to act’, assuming the crime is of a ‘sufficient gravity’ for the International Criminal Court (ICC).