Projects

Investment Promotion and Protection in the Canada-UK Trade Relationship

18 Nov 2018 LONDON

A new investment agreement between Canada and the UK constitutes a crucial opportunity to include innovative provisions from recent international agreements and to explore new possibilities…

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Arbitration+1
Investment and Trade
Media Professionals and International Humanitarian Law

11 Nov 2018 LONDON

In November 2018 the British Red Cross launched the field guide and handbook Media Professionals and Armed Conflict: Protection and Responsibilities Under International Humanitarian Law (IHL)…

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Human Rights
Maritime Search and Rescue: Responsibilities and Implications for Private Vessels

01 Nov 2018 LONDON

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law has just launched a new project looking at the responsibilities of and implications for private vessels of maritime search and rescue…

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Migration
A "failure to prevent" adverse human rights impacts mechanism project

01 Oct 2018 LONDON

In March 2017, the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights released a report on business and human rights in which it proposed the introduction of a "failure to prevent" mechanism for corporate…

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Business and Human Rights
The Use of Force in relation to Sovereignty Disputes over Land Territory

01 Jun 2018 LONDON

There are disputes over territory in almost every region of the world, sometimes leading to escalations and violence between States and threatening international peace and security. International…

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Law of the Sea
Study on Collective Redress for the European Commission

01 Nov 2017 LONDON

BIICL conducted a study for the European Commission, in a research consortium with Civic Consulting and Risk & Policy Analysts (RPA), and supported by the Office for Economic Policy and…

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Centre for Comparative Law+1
Collective Redress
Business and Human Rights Due Diligence in Supply Chains

01 Mar 2017 LONDON

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights were unanimously adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011, and require all business enterprises to undertake human rights due diligence.…

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Business and Human Rights
When national law conflicts with international human rights standards

01 Mar 2017 LONDON

BIICL recently completed a study for the Business Network on addressing conflicts between international human rights standards and national laws. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human…

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Business and Human Rights
Legal Pathways to Protection

10 Jan 2017 LONDON

Between October 2017 and March 2018, BIICL Associate Senior Research Fellow Dr Jean-Pierre Gauci, in collaboration with King's College London colleagues Dr Leonie Ansems de Vries and Dr Henry…

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Migration
Obligations of States under Articles 74(3) and 83(3) of UNCLOS in respect of Undelimited Maritime Areas

30 Jun 2016 LONDON

More than half of the world's maritime boundaries are not the subject of a delimitation agreement. Worldwide, many of these boundaries are hotly disputed, leading to tensions and generating…

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Law of the Sea

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