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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789862103321

Titolo

International law : contemporary issues and future developments / / edited by Sanford R. Silverburg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, CO : , : Westview Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-429-97934-7

0-429-96826-4

0-429-49971-X

1-283-07327-7

9786613073273

0-8133-4523-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (657 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SilverburgSanford R

Disciplina

341

Soggetti

International law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prosecuting crimes against humanity : the revolution in international criminal law / Dave O. Benjamin -- The responsibility to protect and the north-south divide / Ramesh Thakur -- Responsibility to protect : new perspectives to an old dilemma / Giulherme M. Dias -- Universal jurisdiction as an international "false conflict" of laws / Anthony J. Colangelo -- Non-state actors, international law, and human rights / Elena Pariotti -- Disparate notions of fairness : comparative insider trading regulation in an evolving global landscape / Joan MacLeod Heminway -- China's first loss / Raj Bhala -- Corporations and international law / Emeka Duruigbo -- Reaching beyond the state : judicial independence, the inter-American court of human rights, and accountability in Guatemala / Jeffrey Davis and Edward H. Warner -- The upsurge in international courts after the establishment of the ICJ / Igor Borba -- Modern international humanitarian law / Stefan Kirchner -- Peace unkempt : how ambiguities in public international law and international humanitarian law contributed to the failed un intervention in Somalia / Bjorn Sorenson -- Space settlements, property rights, and international law : could a lunar settlement claim the lunar real estate it



needs to survive? / Alan Wasser and Douglas Jobes -- A contemporary review of the air space and outer space regimes : the thin lines between law, policy and emergent challenges / Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto and Steven Freeland -- The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the European Union, and the rule of law : what is going on in the Adriatic Sea? / Davor Vidas -- Power politics or orderly development? Why are states "claiming" large areas of the arctic seabed? / Timo Koivurova -- The law of the sea and human rights / Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy -- Moral knowledge's potential for reducing the restraint of law : the risk of moral education -- Catherine lotrionte -- Babysitting terrorists : should states be strictly liable for failing to prevent transborder attacks? / Vincent-Joel Proulx -- Force qua terrorism : international law in the wake of 9/11 / Anna Oehmichen -- Exceptional engagement : Protocol I and a World United against Terrorism / Michael A. Newton -- Terrorism as postcolonialism / Thomas R. O'Connor -- The flawed foundations of postcolonial state borders : uti possidetis and self-determination / Andrew A. Rosen -- Modernity and international law : mythological materialism in the east-west telos / Prabhakar Singh -- The postcoloniality of international law / Sundhya Pahuja -- The evolution of core legal principles / Jeffrey S. Morton -- International law and politics / James Larry Taulbee -- Law versus justice in international negotiations : the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-resolution (management) process / Sanford R. Silverburg.

Sommario/riassunto

Invited contributions from well-established scholars and emerging stars in law and politics provide instructors and students with a compact, essential reader of timely essays on the key issues facing international law today.