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Protecting the Third Pole: Transplanting International Law, by Simon Marsden Edward Elgar, 2019, 328 pp, £95 hb ISBN 9781786437402 hb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2022

Mehran Idris Khan
Mehran Idris Khan*
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Dalian Maritime University School of Law, Dalian (China)
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 218 - 221
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12 Gabčikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary v. Slovakia), Judgment (Merits), 25 Sept. 1977, ICJ Reports (1997), p. 7. See also Nagheeby, M., Faure, M. Piri D. & M., ‘The Legitimacy of Dam Development in International Watercourses: A Case Study of the Harirud River Basin’ (2019) 8(2) Transnational Environmental Law pp. 247–78CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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