Publication date: 2006-10
Review TM: International Law 2e / Aspen Publishers:You can illuminate the process of international lawmaking with this timely and practical revision. "International Law: Norms, Actors, Process: A Problem-Oriented Approach, Second Edition", uses compelling problems and an interdisciplinary approach to lead students from fundamental to advanced topics. This efficient and effective casebook offers: a distinguished team of authors, all known for their widely published writing; a real-life problem approach that illustrates the law in action - for example, genocide in Rwanda, state formation in the former Yugoslavia, and the problem of ozone depletion in protecting the atmosphere - and grounds material for students to give the subject a contemporary connection; comprehensive, current, and well-balanced coverage of the field; engaging and challenging visuals, including maps, charts, and photographs; interdisciplinary materials incorporating perspectives from economics, political science, and critical and feminist legal studies; a brief historical section to give students a deeper understanding of global history; manageable length; an extensive Teacher's Manual containing a sample syllabus; clear and accessible notes and writing styles; and, useful author website with key documents, updates, and related links. The second edition presents a wide range of new material: developments, cases, and updated notes and questions relating to the war on terrorism, the Iraq war, global warming/climate change, the law of occupation, international law in U. S. courts, and the International Criminal Court; new cases: Sosa (the Alien Tort Claims Act), the ICJ and U. S. death penalty and consular notification cases, the ICJ and the Israeli High Court on the separation barrier, and U. S. courts on detainees held at Guantanamo and elsewhere; an, new sections of the text deal with recent important topics and update existing coverage.
Publication date: 1998
Review Strukturwandel der Nichtverbreitungspolitik: Die Verbreitung von Massenvernichtungswaffen und die weltpolitische Transformation (Schriften des Forschungsinstituts ... fur Auswartige Politik e.V., Bonn) / Oldenbourg:
Publication date: 2007-12-30
Dewey code: 344
Price: $125.00
Review State Procedure & Union Rights: A Comparison of the European Union & the United States / Iustus Forlag:That Member State courts apply the laws of the European Community is central to the enforcement of Community law. What may detract from the effective enforcement of Community law is that national courts in such situations as a general rule apply national procedural rules. While this scheme - state procedure and union rights - function well in most situations, national procedural law sometimes affects Community law to an unacceptable extent. In response, several exceptions from the general rule of national procedural autonomy have been established. What can be and in this study is questioned is whether the current European order adequately balances the interests of all parties affected. By comparing the current European solution to how a similar issue has been approached in the United States it is demonstrated herein that much emphasis is placed on the effectiveness of Community law and that this is done at the expense of other, competing interests, most importantly the proper division of power between Community and Member States. The American example also provides the European Community with several suggestions how a workable and more balanced approach could be constructed.
Publication date: 1979
Price: $79.00
Review Sozialistisches Volkerrecht?: Darst., Analyse, Wertung d. sowjetmarxist. Theorie vom Volkerrecht "neuen Typs" (Beitrage zum auslandischen offentlichen Recht und Volkerrecht) / Springer:
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2006-04
Dewey code: 341
Price: $20.00
Review Comercio Exterior/foreign Trade: Exportaciones E Importaciones Segun Destino Y Origen Por Principales Zonas Economicas / United Nations Pubns:
Creator: Gabriella Venturini
Publication date: 2006-02-15
Dewey code: 343
Price: $130.00
Review The Law of Air Warfare: Contemporary Issues / Eleven International Publishing:
Publication date: 1979
Price: $79.00
Review Sozialistisches Volkerrecht?: Darst., Analyse, Wertung d. sowjetmarxist. Theorie vom Volkerrecht "neuen Typs" (Beitrage zum auslandischen offentlichen Recht und Volkerrecht) / Springer:
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2006-04
Dewey code: 341
Price: $20.00
Review Comercio Exterior/foreign Trade: Exportaciones E Importaciones Segun Destino Y Origen Por Principales Zonas Economicas / United Nations Pubns:
Publication date: 1985
Review Human rights & foreign policy: The role of government : a report of two colloquia / The Association:
Publication date: 2007-01
Review Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond / Columbia University Press:When the American media published photographs of U. S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the Bush administration assured the world that the abuse was isolated and that the perpetrators would be held accountable. Over the next three years, it refined its narrative at the margins, but by and large its public position remained the same. Yes, the administration acknowledged, some soldiers abused prisoners, but these soldiers were anomalous sadists who ignored clear orders. Abuse, the administration said, was aberrational-not systemic, not widespread, and certainly not a matter of policy. The government's own documents, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, tell a starkly different story. They show that the abuse of prisoners was not limited to Abu Ghraib but was pervasive in U. S. detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay. [+]Even more disturbing, the documents reveal that senior officials endorsed the abuse of prisoners as a matter of policy-sometimes by tolerating it, sometimes by encouraging it, and sometimes by expressly authorizing it. Records from Guantánamo describe prisoners shackled in excruciating "stress positions," held in freezing-cold cells, forcibly stripped, hooded, terrorized with military dogs, and deprived of human contact for months. Files from Afghanistan and Iraq describe prisoners who had been beaten, kicked, and burned. Autopsy reports attribute the deaths of those in U. S. custody to strangulation, suffocation, and blunt-force injuries. Administration of Torture is the most detailed account thus far of what took place in America's overseas detention centers, including a narrative essay in which Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh draw the connection between the policies adopted by senior civilian and military officials and the torture and abuse that took place on the ground. The book also reproduces hundreds of government documents& mdash;including interrogation directives, FBI e-mails, autopsy reports, and investigative files& mdash;that constitute both an important historical record and a profound indictment of the Bush administration's policies with respect to the detention and treatment of prisoners in U. S. custody abroad.
Publication date: 2007-12-30
Dewey code: 344
Price: $125.00
Review State Procedure & Union Rights: A Comparison of the European Union & the United States / Iustus Forlag:That Member State courts apply the laws of the European Community is central to the enforcement of Community law. What may detract from the effective enforcement of Community law is that national courts in such situations as a general rule apply national procedural rules. While this scheme - state procedure and union rights - function well in most situations, national procedural law sometimes affects Community law to an unacceptable extent. In response, several exceptions from the general rule of national procedural autonomy have been established. What can be and in this study is questioned is whether the current European order adequately balances the interests of all parties affected. By comparing the current European solution to how a similar issue has been approached in the United States it is demonstrated herein that much emphasis is placed on the effectiveness of Community law and that this is done at the expense of other, competing interests, most importantly the proper division of power between Community and Member States. The American example also provides the European Community with several suggestions how a workable and more balanced approach could be constructed.
Publication date: 2005-03
Dewey code: 341.2422
Price: $52.00
Review The European Union: A Polity Of States And Peoples / Hart Pub:This book explains to a general audience what the European Union is about and how it has grown since 1952 into a polity of 25 States and a population of more than 450 million people. It explains the constitution-making process that is currently taking place in the European Union, and the significance of the draft constitution which has been submitted for ratification by the 25 member states. The book is written from a legal perspective, but contains many references to political science and recent American and European history. It aims to show how the distinctive features of a democratic polity that characterize the Member States can be gradually transplanted to the European Union. To make the book useful to a more specialized set of readers, such as students of law and politics, it contains a large number of notes that contain detailed information and point to additional reading on a variety of topics. The book draws on the author's exceptionally wide and profound knowledge of the institutions of the EU, its history, its laws and its varied cultures.
Publication date: 2007-01
Review Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond / Columbia University Press:When the American media published photographs of U. S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the Bush administration assured the world that the abuse was isolated and that the perpetrators would be held accountable. Over the next three years, it refined its narrative at the margins, but by and large its public position remained the same. Yes, the administration acknowledged, some soldiers abused prisoners, but these soldiers were anomalous sadists who ignored clear orders. Abuse, the administration said, was aberrational-not systemic, not widespread, and certainly not a matter of policy. The government's own documents, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, tell a starkly different story. They show that the abuse of prisoners was not limited to Abu Ghraib but was pervasive in U. S. detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay. [+]Even more disturbing, the documents reveal that senior officials endorsed the abuse of prisoners as a matter of policy-sometimes by tolerating it, sometimes by encouraging it, and sometimes by expressly authorizing it. Records from Guantánamo describe prisoners shackled in excruciating "stress positions," held in freezing-cold cells, forcibly stripped, hooded, terrorized with military dogs, and deprived of human contact for months. Files from Afghanistan and Iraq describe prisoners who had been beaten, kicked, and burned. Autopsy reports attribute the deaths of those in U. S. custody to strangulation, suffocation, and blunt-force injuries. Administration of Torture is the most detailed account thus far of what took place in America's overseas detention centers, including a narrative essay in which Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh draw the connection between the policies adopted by senior civilian and military officials and the torture and abuse that took place on the ground. The book also reproduces hundreds of government documents& mdash;including interrogation directives, FBI e-mails, autopsy reports, and investigative files& mdash;that constitute both an important historical record and a profound indictment of the Bush administration's policies with respect to the detention and treatment of prisoners in U. S. custody abroad.
Publication date: 2006-10
Review TM: International Law 2e / Aspen Publishers:You can illuminate the process of international lawmaking with this timely and practical revision. "International Law: Norms, Actors, Process: A Problem-Oriented Approach, Second Edition", uses compelling problems and an interdisciplinary approach to lead students from fundamental to advanced topics. This efficient and effective casebook offers: a distinguished team of authors, all known for their widely published writing; a real-life problem approach that illustrates the law in action - for example, genocide in Rwanda, state formation in the former Yugoslavia, and the problem of ozone depletion in protecting the atmosphere - and grounds material for students to give the subject a contemporary connection; comprehensive, current, and well-balanced coverage of the field; engaging and challenging visuals, including maps, charts, and photographs; interdisciplinary materials incorporating perspectives from economics, political science, and critical and feminist legal studies; a brief historical section to give students a deeper understanding of global history; manageable length; an extensive Teacher's Manual containing a sample syllabus; clear and accessible notes and writing styles; and, useful author website with key documents, updates, and related links. The second edition presents a wide range of new material: developments, cases, and updated notes and questions relating to the war on terrorism, the Iraq war, global warming/climate change, the law of occupation, international law in U. S. courts, and the International Criminal Court; new cases: Sosa (the Alien Tort Claims Act), the ICJ and U. S. death penalty and consular notification cases, the ICJ and the Israeli High Court on the separation barrier, and U. S. courts on detainees held at Guantanamo and elsewhere; an, new sections of the text deal with recent important topics and update existing coverage.
Publication date: 1985
Review Human rights & foreign policy: The role of government : a report of two colloquia / The Association:
Publication date: 1998-03-15
Dewey code: 341.2909497
Price: $105.00
Review Legitimacy in International Relations and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia / Palgrave Macmillan:This book aims to develop a model of legitimacy in international relations which takes seriously the idea of legitimacy as being a value judgement to the Weberian tradition and writings of international lawyers who concentrate on custom, practice and procedure. Concentrating on the West, the model looks at the interactions and contradictions between the value systems of the state system, the liberal ideal internationals economy. Through an examination of the rise and fall of post-World War Two Yugoslavia, and the international response to its dissolution, the book shows how a value-based approach to legitimacy throws some new light on the reasons for and timing of Yugoslavia's collapse and the policy choices by those trying to cope with a desperate and difficult situation.
Publication date: 1998
Review Strukturwandel der Nichtverbreitungspolitik: Die Verbreitung von Massenvernichtungswaffen und die weltpolitische Transformation (Schriften des Forschungsinstituts ... fur Auswartige Politik e.V., Bonn) / Oldenbourg:
Publication date: 1998-03-15
Dewey code: 341.2909497
Price: $105.00
Review Legitimacy in International Relations and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia / Palgrave Macmillan:This book aims to develop a model of legitimacy in international relations which takes seriously the idea of legitimacy as being a value judgement to the Weberian tradition and writings of international lawyers who concentrate on custom, practice and procedure. Concentrating on the West, the model looks at the interactions and contradictions between the value systems of the state system, the liberal ideal internationals economy. Through an examination of the rise and fall of post-World War Two Yugoslavia, and the international response to its dissolution, the book shows how a value-based approach to legitimacy throws some new light on the reasons for and timing of Yugoslavia's collapse and the policy choices by those trying to cope with a desperate and difficult situation.
Publication date: 2005-03
Dewey code: 341.2422
Price: $52.00
Review The European Union: A Polity Of States And Peoples / Hart Pub:This book explains to a general audience what the European Union is about and how it has grown since 1952 into a polity of 25 States and a population of more than 450 million people. It explains the constitution-making process that is currently taking place in the European Union, and the significance of the draft constitution which has been submitted for ratification by the 25 member states. The book is written from a legal perspective, but contains many references to political science and recent American and European history. It aims to show how the distinctive features of a democratic polity that characterize the Member States can be gradually transplanted to the European Union. To make the book useful to a more specialized set of readers, such as students of law and politics, it contains a large number of notes that contain detailed information and point to additional reading on a variety of topics. The book draws on the author's exceptionally wide and profound knowledge of the institutions of the EU, its history, its laws and its varied cultures.
Creator: Gabriella Venturini
Publication date: 2006-02-15
Dewey code: 343
Price: $130.00
Review The Law of Air Warfare: Contemporary Issues / Eleven International Publishing:
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