Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "International law"
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Architecture of exclusion: the struggle for land and legitimacy of Palestinians under Israeli law
(2016-10)This research focuses on land law and provides an overview of the right to land under international law, followed by a background of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Subsequently, exploring the underpinning of the land ... -
Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a new bridge to bring human rights law to the domestic level and create a dynamic of change
(2015-09-30)This thesis looks at Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Article 33 requires states to set up a framework, located both within and outside of government, to guide and monitor the ... -
Empire, emergency & the law
(2014-05-27)This thesis interrogates the nature of emergency legal doctrine -- from the institutional and constitutional planes of international relations, national security and political economy, down to more mundane planes of daily ... -
Failed and Failing States: Causes and Conditions
(2012-06-11)Through scholarly consideration this study evaluates structural competency gaps that precipitate state failure and examines the resulting consequences for the world community. As an elected official for over seventeen ... -
Habeas Corpus in international law
(2014-05-04)This thesis seeks to determine its location, scope, application, and significance of the right to habeas corpus in international law. It examines the history of the right, looks the guarantees contained in international ... -
Mainstreaming disability in development aid: A comparative analysis of the United States Agency for International Development, the Australian Agency for International Development and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
(2014-05-15)Intergovernmental organisations such as the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank claim that the majority of the one billion persons with disabilities worldwide live in developing countries and are at high risk of poverty ... -
The right to food and the world trade organization’s rules on agriculture: conflicting, compatible, or complementary?
(2016-06-29)This dissertation explores the relationship between the right to food and the agriculture rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It examines whether or not States’ obligations (as well as rights, permissions and ... -
The role of the judge in the progressive development of international criminal law
(2017-01-19)International criminal law offers fertile ground for considering the role of the bench in the development of law through creative or progressive interpretative methodologies. Since its genesis at Nuremberg more than 70 ... -
State duty to inform and educate public opinion on human rights standards
(2015-02-11)The present study seeks to challenge the State's tendency to simply blame public opinion when there are difficulties in protecting and promoting human rights. This study discovers that on racial and gender equality, ...