1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910689797503321

Titolo

Reauthorizing Head Start : preparing children to succeed in school and in life : hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, on examining proposed legislation authorizing funds for Head Start, focusing on programs to prepare children to succeed in school and life, July 22, 2003

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 90 p.) : ill

Soggetti

Head Start programs - United States - Finance

Children with social disabilities - Education (Preschool) - United States - Finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818974303321

Titolo

Participants in the international legal system : multiple perspectives on non-state actors in international law / / edited by Jean d'Aspremont

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2011

ISBN

1-136-72492-3

1-136-72493-1

1-283-24164-1

9786613241641

0-203-81683-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 p.)

Collana

Routledge Research in International Law

Altri autori (Persone)

AspremontJean d'

Disciplina

341.2

Soggetti

Non-state actors (International relations)

International relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Participants in the International Legal System: Multiple perspectives on non-state actors in international law; Copyright; Contents; Cases and statutes; Notes on contributors; Foreword: Veritas vos liberabit; Acknowledgments; Presentation; Introduction: non-state actors in international law: oscillating between concepts and dynamics; PART I Theoretical perspectives; 1 Non-state actors from the perspective of legal positivism: the the secondary rules of international law; 2 Non-state actors from an international constitutionalist perspective: participation matters!

3 Non-state actors from the perspective of the Pure Theory of Law4 Non-state actors from the perspective of the policy- oriented school: power, law, actors and the view from New Haven; 5 Towards an interdisciplinary approach to non- state participation in the formation of global law and order; PART II The regional perspectives; 6 Non- state actors in French legal scholarship: international legal personality in question; 7 Non-state actors in North American legal scholarship: four lessons for the progressive and critical international lawyer

8 Non-state actors in Southeast Asia: how does civil society contribute towards norm- building in a state- centric environment?9 Contemporary Russian perspectives on non- state actors: fear of the loss of state sovereignty; PART III Institutional perspectives; 10 Non-state actors from the perspective of the International Court of Justice; 11 Non-state actors from the perspective of the International Law Commission; 12 Non-state actors from the perspective of the Institut de Droit international; 13 Non-state actors from the perspective of international criminal tribunals

14 Non-state actors from the perspective of the International Committee of the Red Cross15 The International Law Association and non- state actors: professional network, public interest group or epistemic community?; 16 NGOs' perspectives on non-state actors; PART IV Subject- matter based perspectives; 17 Non-state actors and human rights: corporate responsibility and the attempts to formalize the role of corporations as participants in the international legal system; 18 Non-state actors in international humanitarian law; 19 Non-state actors in international criminal law

20 Non-state actors in international institutional law: non-state, inter-state or supra-state? The peculiar identity of the intergovernmental organization21 Non-state actors in international peace and security: non- state actors and the use of force; 22 Non- state actors in international dispute settlement: pragmatism in international law; 23 Non-state actors in international investment law: the legal personality of corporations and NGOs in the context of investor-state arbitration; 24 Non-state actors in international environmental law: a Rousseauist perspective

25 Non-state actors in refugee law: l'état, c'est moi. Refugee law as a response to non- state action

Sommario/riassunto

The international legal system has weathered sweeping changes over the last decade as new participants have emerged. International law-making and law-enforcement processes have become increasingly multi-layered with unprecedented numbers of non-State actors, including individuals, insurgents, multinational corporations and even terrorist groups, being involved. This growth in the importance of non-State actors at the law-making and law-enforcement levels has generated a lot of new scholarly studies on the topic. However, while it remains uncontested that non-State actors are now?playing an