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Cambridge's expanding program now offers a renowned range of monographs and textbooks in International law (incorporating the former Grotius imprint) as well as exciting new projects presenting the finest and freshest thinking in European and Comparative law, Intellectual Property, Corporate law, Environmental law and medico-legal studies. You will find details of these and a range of other areas on the pages which follow.

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Add to basket Darfur and the Crime of Genocide

John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond

This book explores the contents of State Department interviews undertaken in 2004 with more than a thousand refugees, who testify to the genocide in Darfur. It gives vivid firsthand accounts of the survivors and explores the genocide in light of policy and criminology.

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$24.99 (G)
Add to basket The Enemy Combatant Papers

American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror

Edited by Karen J. Greenberg, Joshua L. Dratel

"This comprehensive volume tells a powerful story—of executive power run amok, the human beings left in its wake, and the effort to use the courts to restore the rule of law and balance of powers in this country. When the definitive history of this period is written, those who write it will turn to this impressive collection as a primary source."

—Elisa Massimino, Washington Director, Human Rights First

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$85.00 (R)
Add to basket Global Corruption Report 2008

Corruption in the Water Sector

Compiled by Transparency International

Transparency International's Global Corruption Report 2008 demonstrates in its thematic section that corruption is a cause and catalyst for the inadequate access to safe drinking water that over one billion people live with which is likely to be further exacerbated by climate change.

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$39.99 (Z)

Add to basketRules of Origin in International Trade

Stefano Inama

This book offers after more than ten years of negotiations the first overview of the status of the negotiations of non-preferential rules of origin under the WTO agreement on rules of origin and the possible implications for other WTO agreements.

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$135.00 (Z)
Add to basket Courting Social Justice

Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World

Edited by Varun Gauri, Daniel M. Brinks

This book is a first-of-its-kind, five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation.

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$90.00 (C)
Add to basket The Fate of Young Democracies

Ethan B. Kapstein, Nathan Converse

In this book, Kapstein and Converse make use of a unique data base of all democratizations since 1960 to explore the reasons for backsliding and reversal in the world’s fledgling democracies.

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$29.99 (Z)
Add to basket Humanitarianism and Suffering

The Mobilization of Empathy Through Narrative

Edited by Richard A. Wilson, Richard D. Brown

The book examines how stories of suffering are framed and their impact on global politics.

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$85.00 (C)

Add to basket When is Separate Unequal?

A Disability Perspective

Ruth Colker

The book measures the attainment of equality not on the basis of worn-out mantras but instead on the basis of substantive gains.

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$29.99 (Z)
Add to basket Social Rights Jurisprudence

Emerging Trends in Comparative and International Law

Edited by Malcolm Langford

The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions.

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$90.00 (Z)

Add to basket Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Latin America

A Comparative Study of Amparo Proceedings

Allan R. Brewer-Carias

This book examines, with a comparative constitutional law approach, the most recent trends in the constitutional and legal regulations in all Latin American countries regarding the amparo proceeding.

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$90.00

Add to basket The Principle of Legality in International and Comparative Criminal Law

Kenneth S. Gallant

This book fills a major gap in the scholarly literature concerning international criminal law, comparative criminal law, and human rights law.

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$110.00 (C)
Add to basket The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization

Text, Cases and Materials

Peter Van den Bossche

As the leading student text in the field, this title provides both a detailed examination of the law of the World Trade Organization and a clear introduction to the basic principles and underlying logic of the world trading system.

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$90.00 (X)
Add to basket Law and Religion in Theoretical and Historical Context

Edited by Peter Cane, Carolyn Evans, Zoe Robinson

From conservative to liberal, doctrinal to post-modernist and secular to religious, each contributor brings a different approach to the questions under discussion, resulting in a lively, passionate and thoughtful debate that adds light rather than heat to this complex area.

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$110.00 (C)
Add to basket The Business Case for Corporate Governance

Edited by Ken Rushton

This book goes beyond the ‘what and how’ of corporate governance to explore the impact and benefits of good governance for companies and their investors.

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$160.00 (R)

Add to basket Reward Governance for Senior Executives

Edited by Carol Arrowsmith, Rupert McNeil

Covering the appointment of UK executives under contracts governed by UK law, this volume of essays is intended to help anyone involved in the appointment and termination process.

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$150.00 (Z)