The Cambridge Companion to World Trade Law offers expert but compact discussion of the diverse perspectives, enduring issues, and emergent challenges in the field. This volume offers a lively and thorough overview of the subject in all its dimensions. It takes stock of the state of the field of trade law without allowing current events to dominate key debates. It is intended to be appreciated not only by a legal audience as a collection of concise yet thoughtful reflective pieces, but also...

The Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed in 1984 and transferred control of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China from the 1st July 1997. This sets the scene for the establishment of the Special Administrative Region (SAR) in Hong Kong, which has been at the heart of the civil unrest in 2019-2020, culminating in the National Security Law on 30 June 2020. In the 25th anniversary year of the handover of Hong Kong, C. L. Lim uses British archival sources to re-examine the Joint Dec...

This Cambridge Companion explores the main senses of the term 'international arbitration'; including the arbitration of private commercial disputes, disputes between a State and a foreign investor, disputes between States and also between a State and its parts. It treats these various forms as being inter-related, if not always conceptually, then as a matter of history, rather than as collective victims of imprecise language. The book touches not only on current debates but also more found...

Tales of the Automazombs: Dreams of Eysan collects stories from all three eras of The Tales of the Automazombs not found within the main anthology, as well as two short comics, concept sketches, myths, and worldbuilding tidbits.Disease and strife have taken down whole cities during the age of the Automazombs. Unease grips the nations of Eysan as the survivors wonder what comes next? Wise patrons of knowledge find comfort in the libraries of Ontaakh. The libraries welcome all curiou...

The Inventors Guild and the Teraltian Government have declared victory over the terrible plague that spread across the lands. Every country of the continent has been affected by the illness, but the plague is - purportedly - now being cleansed. The Guild's fearsome creatures lumber through quarantined cities, reclaiming the plagued lands for the living. Still, the people of Eyso remain wary. Dark rumors follow in the wake of these metal men. It is said that those who stray too close to the...

Plague casts a dire shadow across the continent. This terrible disease preserves its victims even after death. Every attempt to cure or neutralize the plague only spreads it further. Only the Inventors Guild has a plan to destroy the sickness - with science. It all begins with A Desperate Plan. They will graft mechanical enhancements onto the recently deceased and use their creations to cleanse the land of infected bodies. Desperate citizens do what they must to pick up the pieces...

All the best intentions of the Inventors Guild have failed. Survivors of the Automazomb attacks are infected with a new, more terrifying plague. Consumed by a hateful emptiness and robbed of thought, these victims lash out at everyone they see. When they die, their symptoms only worsen. Everyone bitten spreads the disease until no place remains clean.Soon, fear rules Eysan. To be alive is to be hunted. The dead swarm the cities of land and sky alike. They roam, endlessly searching ...

**Winner of the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award****Shortlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize****Highly Commended Fiction — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021****Shortlisted for the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards: Fiction Book Award**'Before I go into my grave,' she says out loud, 'I will kill that man.'A brilliant new novel f...

This book provides a detailed snapshot of cultural policies in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In addition to an historical overview of the culture-state relationships in East Asia, it provides an analysis of contemporary developments occurring in the regions' cultural policies and the challenges they are facing.

*Winner of the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing*Middle-class, clever and white, Nick is a child of privilege while his best friend Andie is the daughter of Indo-Chinese refugees. Despite their very different backgrounds, they share a conviction they can change the world for the better.At the outset, Nick is pushing papers in a dead-end job while Andie is embarking on a secular crusade against world poverty. This gene...

This collection explores the theme of fragmentation within international economic law as the world emerges from the 2008 global financial crisis, the subsequent recession and the European sovereign debt crisis which began in early 2010. The post-crisis 'moment' itself forms a contemporary backdrop to the book's focus on fragmentation as it traces the evolution of the international economic system from the original Bretton Woods design in the aftermath of the Second World War to the present...

This book is about the forces that are reshaping the international law on foreign investment today. It begins by explaining the liberal origins of contemporary investment treaties before addressing a current backlash against these treaties and the device of investment arbitration. The book describes a long-standing legal-intellectual resistance to a neo-liberal global economic agenda, and how tribunals have interpreted various treaty standards instead. It introduces our reader to the chang...