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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silverburg, Sanford R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (657 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-97934-7

0-429-96826-4

0-429-49971-X

1-283-07327-7

9786613073273

0-8133-4523-5

9780429499715

OCLC:

712016189