The Human Rights Initiative promotes the study, understanding and implementation of universal human rights, as embodied in international treaties, regional agreements, and customary international law. This initiative considers the nature and basis of universal human rights and fundamental freedoms, and encourages their equal realization for all persons and nations.

The Democratic Institutions Initiative studies and encourages the institutional development of democracy in national and international institutions. This initiative specifically considers the nature of the rule of law and the constitutional, administrative, and legislative processes that support democratic reform and a just legal order.

The Environmental Law Initiative advances the development of international environmental standards and agreements, with special emphasis on climate change and biological diversity.

Prof Ioanna Tourkochoriti is leading a research network on Business and Human Rights. The network is composed by leading business and human rights scholars and practitioners. The network aims to pursue a research agenda on Environmental, Sustainability, Governance. It aims to investigate and provide guidance on issues related to Human Rights Due Diligence in Global Supply Chains. Part of the research agenda involves the enforcement of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the US legislation banning the goods produced by forced labor. Members of the network include: Sarah Altschuller, Director, Environmental Social Governance and Global Head, Business and Human Rights, Verizon, Sunny Ajike Elebua, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Exelon, Heather McDonold, Senior Manager, Environmental Social Governance, T. Rowe Price, Bethany Solgado, Associate Manager, Global Human Rights, Pepsico.

The Competitive Markets Initiative considers the development of national and international markets, with special emphasis on how national antitrust, trade and foreign investment laws and policies affect industrial competitiveness and the welfare of consumers. This initiative promotes improved international and national markets through the comparison of existing rules and legal systems. .

The Intellectual Property Initiative promotes the study, understanding, and implementation of international protection for intellectual property rights. This initiative compares different national regimes and encourages the improvement of international institutions.

The Commercial Transactions Initiative focuses on the international regulation of commercial transactions between private parties, and between private parties and foreign governments, with special emphasis on the sale of goods under international, national, and multilateral agreements.

ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory is a book series published by Cambridge University Press and edited by Center Directer Mortimer Sellers and Mark Agrast, Executive Director of the American Society of International Law. This series produces high quality, reflective and innovative scholarship in the field of public international law. It publishes works on international law that are of a theoretical, historical, cross-disciplinary or doctrinal nature.

The purpose of the ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory is to clarify and improve the theoretical foundations of international law. Too often the progressive development and implementation of international law has foundered on confusion about first principles. This series raises the level of public and scholarly discussion about the structure and purposes of the world legal order and how best to achieve global justice through law. This series grows out of the International Legal Theory project of the American Society of International Law. The ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory deepen this conversation by publishing scholarly monographs and edited volumes of essays considering subjects in international legal theory.

ASCL Studies in Comparative Law is a book series published by Cambridge University Press and edited by Center Directer Mortimer Sellers and David Gerber.  This series publishes volumes that broaden theoretical and practical knowledge about the world's laws, legislation, and legal institutions of every kind. These studies raise the level of legal understanding by encouraging a more sophisticated conversation about fundamental legal questions, from a comparative perspective

AMINTAPHIL is the American Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.  The AMINTAPHIL book series considers the philosophical foundations of law and justice from the perspectives of academic philosophy, practical political science and applied legal studies.  The American Section of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy ("AMINTAPHIL") supervises the series, which dedicates each volume to the most pressing contemporary problems in legal theory and social justice.  AMINTAPHIL holds biennial meetings of leading scholars in philosophy, law, and politics to discuss the philosophical basis of vital questions.  The AMINTAPHIL volumes present the ultimate results of these discussions.

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Ius Gentium is a book series which discusses the central questions of law and justice from a comparative perspective. The books in this series collect the contrasting and overlapping perspectives of lawyers, judges, philosophers and scholars of law from the world's many different jurisdictions for the purposes of comparison, harmonisation, and the progressive development of law and legal institutions. Each volume makes a new comparative study of an important area of law. This book series continues the work of the well-known journal of the same name and provides the basis for a better understanding of all areas of legal science.

The Ius Gentium series provides a valuable resource for lawyers, judges, legislators, scholars, and both graduate students and researchers in globalisation, comparative law, legal theory and legal practice. The series has a special focus on the development of international legal standards and transnational legal cooperation.

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The purpose of this book series is to publish high quality volumes on the history of law and justice. Legal history can be a deeply provocative and influential field, as illustrated by the growth of the European universities and the ius commune, the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and indeed all the great movements for national liberation through law.  The study of history gives scholars and reformers the models and courage to question entrenched injustices, by demonstrating the contingency of law and other social arrangements. Yet legal history today finds itself diminished in the universities and legal academy.  Too often scholarship betrays no knowledge of what went before, or why legal institutions took the shape that they did.  This series seeks to remedy that deficiency.  

Studies in the History of Law and Justice will be theoretical and reflective.  Volumes will address the history of law and justice from a critical and comparative viewpoint.  The studies in this series will be strong bold narratives of the development of law and justice.  Some will be suitable for a very broad readership. Contributions to this series will come from scholars on every continent and in every legal system.  Volumes will promote international comparisons and dialogue.  The purpose will be to provide the next generation of lawyers with the models and narratives needed to understand and improve the law and justice of their own era. The series includes monographs focusing on a specific topic, as well as collections of articles covering a theme or collections of article by one author.

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