Justice for all and how to achieve it : citizens, lawyers and the law in the age of human rights / Geoffrey Nice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nice, Geoffrey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

International law.

Physical Description:

xix, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

- A thought-provoking exploration of the world's enduring legal and moral dilemmas- Based on a prestigious lecture series delivered by an internationally-renowned barristerWhat is a crime against humanity and when should it be investigated? What does 'human rights' mean? Is law the new religion and are its high priests, the lawyers, really all bad? What is the role of the law in the regulation of sexual behaviour? Are there limits to what we can reasonably expect from international war crimes tribunals? These and many other crucial questions are explored with wit, panache and consummate even-handedness by Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC, in the series of lectures he delivered as Gresham Professor of Law from 2012 to 2016. Drawing on events from every continent and every period in history, from ancient Babylon to Britain on the brink of Brexit; and referencing icons from Cicero to Socrates, Bertrand Russell to Jean-Paul Sartre, and Joan Baez to Muhammad Ali, Sir Geoffrey applies his own wealth of experience to moral problems which are as pressing in today's anxious world as they ever have been. The book is due to be launched at Gresham College, 18 October 2017. Follow @GreshamCollege on Twitter (4,700 followers).

Contents:

Chapter 1 International Criminal Tribunals: Experiments? Works in Progress? 9

Chapter 2 The End of Slobodan Miloševic 31

Chapter 3 Legal Process as a Tool to Rewrite History 51

Chapter 4 State Involvement in War Crimes and War Crimes Trials 67

Chapter 5 Regulation at Home, But not Everywhere 83

Chapter 6 The Russell Tribunal on Vietnam 97

Chapter 7 Japanese 'Comfort Women' and the Iran Tribunal 115

Chapter 8 The Law as a New Religion 129

Chapter 9 The Adversarial System and the Art of Advocacy 143

Chapter 10 Burma and North Korea: Avoid the Law Unless Convenient 159

Chapter 11 Cases I Have Known 169

Chapter 12 Srebrenica: Genocide and Trial 185

Chapter 13 Gaza-Israel: The Legal and the Military View 199

Chapter 14 Does the Citizen Have the Right to Protest on the High Seas? 227

Chapter 15 Sex and the Law 243

Chapter 16 Human Rights: Whether in Europe or Out? 257

Chapter 17 Law and Lawyers: Not All Bad? 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-362) and index.

ISBN:

1785511238

9781785511233

OCLC:

982432577