Books and Articles Descript

International Law and its Others
By Anne Orford

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Number Of Pages: 434
• Publication Date: 2006-11-13
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521859492
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521859493
• Binding: Hardcover

Institutional and political developments since the end of the CW have led to a revival of public interest in, and anxiety about, international law. Liberal international law is appealed to as offering a means of constraining power and as representing universal values. This book brings together scholars who draw on jurisprudence, philosophy, legal history and political theory to analyse the stakes of this turn towards international law. Contributors explore the history of relations between international law and those it defines as other - other traditions, other logics, other forces, and other groups. They explore the archive of international law as a record of attempts by scholars, bureaucrats, decision-makers and legal professionals to think about what happens to law at the limits of modern political organization. The result is a rich array of responses to the question of what it means to speak and write about international law in our time.

Finnish Yearbook of International Law
By Jan Klabbers; Taina Tuori

• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Pub
• Number Of Pages: 392
• Publication Date: 2005-05-15
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9004146164
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789004146167
• Binding: Hardcover

Despite its Finnish pedigree, the Finnish Yearbook of International Law does not restrict itself to purely 'Finnish' topics. On the contrary, it reflects the many connections in law between the national and the international. The Finnish Yearbook of International Law annually publishes articles of high quality dealing with all aspects of international law, including international law aspects of European law, with close attention to developments that affect Finland. It offers: longer articles of a theoretical nature; new avenues and approaches; shorter polemics; commentaries on current international law developments; book reviews; and documentation of relevance to Finland's foreign relations not easily available elsewhere. The Finnish Yearbook offers a fertile ground for the expression of and reflection on the connections between Finnish law and international law as a whole and insight into the richness of this interaction.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 432
• Publication Date: 2001-05-02
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9041116249
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789041116246
• Binding: Hardcover

This book is about the role of international law in the arms control process. It discusses the law of arms control as a special branch of international law and covers the following topics: the place of the law of arms control in the system of international law and politics, special characteristics of arms control law, the international legal framework of supervision in the law of arms control, general features of supervisory mechanisms in all multilateral arms control treaties currently in force, case studies on the CWC, IAEA safeguards system and CTBT, and enforcement of the law of arms control. As such, this study provides a comprehensive theory and model for the analysis of supervisory mechanisms in arms control treaties and offers an in-depth overview of the law of arms control as it stands in the post CW situation. The book will be of interest to international lawyers as well as political scientists and policy-makers.

International Law in Antiquity (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)
By David J. Bederman

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Number Of Pages: 342
• Publication Date: 2001-03-05
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521791979
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521791977
• Binding: Hardcover

This study of the origins of international law combines techniques of intellectual history and historiography to investigate the earliest developments of the law of nations. Containing up-to-date literature and archaeological evidence, it reevaluates the critical attributes of international law. David J. Bederman focuses on three essential areas in which law influenced ancient state relations--diplomacy, treaty-making and warfare--in a detailed analysis of the Near East (2800-700 BCE), the Greek city-states (500-338 BCE), and Rome (358-168 BCE). A fascinating study for lawyers, ancient historians and classicists alike.

Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)
By Antony Anghie

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Number Of Pages: 378
• Publication Date: 2005-03-07
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521828929
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521828925
• Binding: Hardcover

This book argues that the colonial confrontation was central to the formation of international law and, in particular, its founding concept, sovereignty. Traditional histories of the discipline present colonialism and non-European peoples as peripheral concerns. By contrast, Anghie argues that international law has always been animated by the 'civilizing mission' - the project of governing non-European peoples, and that the economic exploitation and cultural subordination that resulted were constitutively significant for the discipline. In developing these arguments, the book examines different phases of the colonial encounter, ranging from the sixteenth century to the League of Nations period and the current 'war on terror'. Anghie provides a new approach to the history of international law, illuminating the enduring imperial character of the discipline and its continuing importance for peoples of the Third World. This book will be of interest to students of international law and relations, history, post-colonial studies and development studies.

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 256
• Publication Date: 2002-03-08
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9041115870
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789041115874
• Binding: Hardcover

Since 1985, the Law school at the University of Hull has hosted an annual lecture -- the Josephine Onoh Memorial Lecture - given by a distinguished international lawyer. These annual lectures are funded by the Josephine Onoh Memorial Fund, established in 1984 by the family and friends of Josephine Onoh who was tragically killed in an air crash at Enugu, Nigeria, in November 1983. Josephine was a Hull law graduate, and at the time of her death was registered at the University for a research degree in the field of international law. This book contains a collection of these annual lectures. The first lecture in 1985 was given by the late Judge Taslim Elias, at that time President of the International Court of Justice. Subsequent lectures have been given by both leading practitioners and professors of international law, including Sir Robert Jennings, Bin Cheng, Sir Ian Sinclair, Philip Allott, Henry Schermers, Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, Alexandre-Charles Kiss, Dame Rosalyn Higgins, Peter Sand, Ian Brownlie, Christopher Greenwood, Marti Koskenniemi, and Ralph Zacklin.

The lectures reflect some of the most significant international concerns of the last two decades. The subjects they address include new trends in international law, international courts and politics, the practitioner's view of international law, international law and revolution, the European Convention of human right. European Community law concepts, the global environment and international law, the current role of the United Nations, international environmental trust funds, international boundary law, international law and imperialism, and humanitarian intervention. This important collection of essays by some of the leading international law figures of our generation will be of equal value to all interested in international law, whether the academic or the practitioner.

Time, History and International Law (Developments in International Law)
By Matthew Craven, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Maria Vogiatzi

• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
• Number Of Pages: 256
• Publication Date: 2006-12-30
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9004154817
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789004154810
• Binding: Hardcover

This book examines theoretical and practical issues concerning the relationship between international law, time and history. Problems relating to time and history are ever-present in the work of international lawyers, whether understood in terms of the role of historic practice in the doctrine of sources, the application of the principle of inter-temporal law in dispute settlement, or in gaining a coherent insight into the role that was played by international law in past events. But very little has been written about the various different ways in which international lawyers approach or understand the past, and it is with a view to exploring the dynamics of that engagement that this book has been compiled.

In its broadest sense, it is possible to identify at least three different ways in which the relationship between international law and (its) history may be conceived. The first is that of a history of international law written in narrative form, and mapped out in terms of a teleology of origins, development, progress or renewal. The second is that of history in international law and of the role history plays in arguments about law itself (for example in the constructions of customary international law). The third way of understanding that relationship is in terms of international law in history: of understanding how international law has been engaged in the creation of a history that in some senses stands outside the history of international law itself.

The essays in this collection make clear that each type of engagement with history and international law interweaves various different types of historical narrative, pointing to the typically multi-layered nature of international lawyers' engagement with the past and its importance in shaping the present and future of international law.

The Limits of International Law
By Jack L. Goldsmith, Eric A. Posner

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Number Of Pages: 272
• Publication Date: 2005-01-05
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0195168399
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195168396
• Binding: Hardcover

International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements, and Third World Resistance
By Balakrishnan Rajagopal

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Number Of Pages: 360
• Publication Date: 2003-11-24
• Sales Rank: 138919
• ISBN / ASIN: 0521816467
• EAN: 9780521816465
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
• Studio: Cambridge University Press

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Balakrishnan Rajagopal's fundamental critique of modern international law draws attention to traditional Third World engagements. Rajagopal challenges current approaches to international law and politics either through states or through individuals. With transnational and local social movement action now becoming increasingly visible and important--as witnessed in Seattle in 1999, he demonstrates that a new global order must consider seriously the resistance of social movements in the development of international law.

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