Edited by John N. Drobak

Norms influence how people act as much as formal law. Norms and law also have an impact on each other. As a result, legal scholars and other social scientists are devoting more attention to the importance of norms. This book examines the relationship between norms and the law in four different contexts - behavioral science, common property, the judiciary, and philosophy. They take a variety of perspectives from law, legal history, neoclassical economics, new institutional economics, game theory, political science, cognitive science, and philosophy.

Edited by John N. Drobak

Norms influence how people act as much as formal law. Norms and law also have an impact on each other. As a result, legal scholars and other social scientists are devoting more attention to the importance of norms. This book examines the relationship between norms and the law in four different contexts - behavioral science, common property, the judiciary, and philosophy. They take a variety of perspectives from law, legal history, neoclassical economics, new institutional economics, game theory, political science, cognitive science, and philosophy.

Thomas J. Schoenbaum

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relevance of international law to the conduct of international relations and foreign policy. Focusing on contemporary problems of terrorism, nuclear non-proliferation, war and peace, economic development, protection of the global environment, reform of the United Nations, democracy and protection of human rights, this work develops the thesis that international law is a neglected tool of foreign policy that can be used to address many of today's difficult and unresolved problems.

Oren Gross, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

This book presents the first systematic and comprehensive attempt by legal scholars to conceptualize the theory of emergency powers, combining post-September 11 developments with more general theoretical, historical and comparative perspectives. The authors examine the interface between law and violent crises through history and across jurisdictions. Three unique models of emergency powers are used to offer a novel conceptualization of emergency regimes, giving a coherent insight into law's interface with and regulation of crisis.

Tracy Sulkin

This book explores how legislators respond to their electoral challengers' critiques. The conventional wisdom is that winners ignore their challengers, but Sulkin shows that their campaigns have a lasting legacy in the content of legislators' behavior in office. In an effort to shore up their weaknesses before the next election, winning legislators take up the issues prioritized by these challengers in their campaigns and incorporate them into their agendas, introducing, cosponsoring, and speaking on the floor about legislation dealing with these themes.

Alan Stephens, Nicola Baker

Making Sense of War provides a comprehensive and clear analysis of the complex business of waging war. It covers the key concepts in strategic thought that have endured since the Athenian general Thucydides and the Chinese philosopher/warrior Sun Tzu first wrote about strategy some 2500 years ago. It discusses strategy at every level, employing a thematic approach and using historical examples from 500 BCE to the present. It demonstrates that the formulation of military strategy will continue to be perhaps the single most important responsibility for senior security officials.

Tobias Kelly

As the Oslo Peace Process has given way to the violence of the second intifada, this book explores the continuing legacy of the Peace Process in the everyday life of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Taking a perspective that sees the conflict in terms of disputes over the distribution of legal rights, the book examines the implications of legal claims for ordinary Palestinians. By linking long term historical processes to everyday encounters, the book offers an evocative, but theoretically informed account of the relationship between law, peace-building and violence.

Edited by Victor V. Ramraj, Michael Hor, Kent Roach

The prevention of terrorism will be one of the major tasks of governments and regional and international organizations for some time. This collection is designed to contribute to the growing field of comparative and international studies of anti-terrorism law and policy. It includes chapters that focus on a particular country or region in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, as well as overarching thematic chapters that take a comparative approach to particular aspects of anti-terrorism law and policy, including international, constitutional, immigration, privacy, maritime, aviation, and financial law.

David Dyzenhaus

Deals with the urgent question of how governments should respond to emergencies and terrorism by exploring the idea that there is an unwritten constitution of law, exemplified in the common law constitution of Commonwealth countries. Cases from the UK, Australia and Canada demonstrate that the law provides a moral resource that can inform a rule-of-law project capable of responding to situations which place legal and political order under stress. The author argues that judges play an important role, but the participation of the legislature and the executive are also required.

Edited by Sujit Choudhry

The migration of constitutional ideas across jurisdictions is rapidly emerging as one of the central features of contemporary constitutional practice. In this book, leading figures in the study of comparative constitutionalism and comparative constitutional politics from North America, Europe and Australia discuss the dynamic processes whereby constitutional systems influence each other. Drawing on case-studies from a variety of jurisdictions, they explore basic methodological questions which have thus far received little attention. They also examine the complex relationship between national and supranational constitutionalism - an issue of considerable contemporary interest in Europe.

Mark C. Murphy

Natural law is a perennial though poorly represented and understood issue in political philosophy and the philosophy of law. Mark C. Murphy argues that the central thesis of natural law jurisprudence - that law is backed by decisive reasons for compliance - sets the agenda for natural law political philosophy, demonstrating how law gains its binding force by way of the common good of the political community.

Edited by Jon Elster

This book offers general theoretical discussions of the processes of retribution and reparation as well as case studies by historians and political scientists who discuss the West European transitions after 1945 and more recent Latin American, East European, and South African transitions to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s. The focus is on retribution against the leaders and agents of the autocratic regime preceding the democratic transition, and on reparation to its victims.

Gerard Carney

This book outlines the constitutional systems of the six Australian States and ten Commonwealth Territories. It begins with their history, basic features, role and future within the Australian federation and is for all law students and constitutional law teachers as well as legal advisors to Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments and Parliaments. It will also be of interest to Supreme, Federal, and High Court judges, political scientists working in the area of federalism and anyone with an interest in constitutional affairs.

Yoram Dinstein

Yoram Dinstein's seminal textbook is an essential guide to the legal issues of war and peace, armed attack, self-defence and enforcement measures taken under the aegis of the Security Council. This fourth edition incorporates new material on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, response to armed attacks by terrorists, recent resolutions adopted by the Security Council, and the latest pronouncements of the International Court of Justice. Rewritten to reflect recent State practice, this book remains a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the legal issues surrounding war and self-defence.

Jeff Gill

Essential Mathematics for Political and Social Research addresses an educational deficiency in the social and behavioral sciences. This is the first book of its kind to specifically address the comprehensive introduction to the mathematical principles needed by modern social scientists. The material introduces basic mathematical principles necessary to do analytical work in the social sciences, starting from first principles, but without unnecessary complexity. The core purpose is to present fundamental notions in standard notation and standard language with a clear, unified framework throughout.

Jennifer Wood, Benoît Dupont

The promotion of security is no longer a state monopoly. It is dispersed and takes place through the practices of states, corporations, non-governmental actors and community-based organizations. But what do we know about the ways in which 'security' is thought about and promoted in this pluralized field of delivery? Are democratic values being advanced and protected, or threatened and compromised? Wood and Dupont bring together a team of renowned scholars to shed light on our understanding of the arrangements for contemporary security governance. Combines theoretical analyses with empirical examples.