A Critical Assessment

Edward Brunet, Richard E. Speidel, Jean E. Sternlight, Stephen H. Ware

This is a book about changing the terms of American Arbitration Law. The book contains individual views of the four ...

The Foundation of Market Contracts

Edited by Omri Ben-Shahar

This book is about the fine print in contracts: the terms that individuals sign without reading when they click 'I ...

The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations

Edited by Daniel A. Bell, Jean-Marc Coicaud

This collection is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human ...

An Interdisciplinary Framework for Intellectual Due Process

Erica Beecher-Monas

This book examines scientific evidence in both civil and criminal contexts and explains how nonscientists who must make decisions about ...

Douglas W. Arner

This book is about international and domestic responses to financial crises over the past twenty years. At the same time, ...

Edited by John D. R. Craig, S. Michael Lynk

This collection of essays by leading legal scholars and lawyers from Europe and the Americas deals with the primary issues ...

Karin Arts, Vesselin Popovski

Children and young persons are increasingly being targeted for trafficking, sexual exploitation, recruitment as child soldiers, and other abuses. This ...

Edited by Nathalie J. Chalifour, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Lin Heng Lye, John R. Nolon

This book surveys the global experience to date in implementing land-use policies that move us further towards sustainable development. The ...

A Guide to Using Clearer Language

Peter Butt, Richard Castle

This second edition shows how and why traditional legal language has developed some of the peculiar characteristics that sometimes make ...

Corporate Author American Law Institute, UNIDROIT

The American Law Institute and UNIDROIT (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) are preeminent organizations working toward the ...

International and Comparative Employment Law - Cases and Materials

Roger Blanpain, Susan Bisom-Rapp, William R. Corbett, Hilary K. Josephs, Michael J. Zimmer

With the forces of globalization as a backdrop, this casebook develops labor and employment law in the context of the ...

Edited by Steven D. Anderman

Publishes the results of an international survey covering the different approaches taken by a variety of countries and legal systems ...

The Role of Legislatures in the Constitutional State

Edited by Richard W. Bauman, Tsvi Kahana

Unlike most works in constitutional theory, which focus on the role of the courts, this book addresses the role of ...

Edited by George A. Bermann, Petros C. Mavroidis

This book gathers papers from distinguished experts discussing how health based trade restrictive measures have fared in WTO case law. ...

Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration

Edited by Rebecca M. Bratspies, Russell A. Miller

This volume examines how states respond to public and private actions that cause harms across international borders. The Trail Smelter ...

1995–2005

Compiled by Appellate Body Secretariat

The WTO Appellate Body is responsible for deciding appeals relating to disputes among the WTO's 148 Members. The Appellate Body ...

The Living Tree

W. J. Waluchow

In this study, Waluchow argues that debates between defenders and critics of constitutional bills of rights presuppose that constitutions are ...

Robert E. Lutz

The book assists U.S. and foreign lawyers - who may seek to enforce a foreign judgment in the United States ...

Daniel R. Pinello

This book tells engaging first-hand narratives about what happened in Massachusetts, San Francisco, Multnomah County, Sandoval County and New Paltz ...

Edited by John Felemegas

The book presents an international comparative approach to the interpretation of the CISG, based on the concept of internationality and ...

Robert Cryer, HÃ¥kan Friman, Darryl Robinson, Elizabeth Wilmshurst

This textbook serves the ever increasing number of courses on international criminal law by providing an introduction to the subject's ...

The Supply and Demand of Body Parts

Michele Goodwin

This book offers a contemporary view of organ and tissue supply and demand. It is the first book of its ...

Government Secrecy in the Information Age

Alasdair Roberts

This book examines the evolution of the move toward openness in government. It looks at how technology has aided the ...

Joel F. Handler, Yeheskel Hasenfeld

This book examines welfare and poverty policy since 'welfare has ended as we know it'. It challenges the assumption that ...

Building the Rule of Law after Military Interventions

Jane Stromseth, David Wippman, Rosa Brooks

Why is it so difficult to promote stability and democracy in societies such as Iraq and Afghanistan? In Can Might ...

Ian Loader, Neil Walker

Ian Loader and Neil Walker present an original argument concerning the importance and value of security, and the virtue and ...

Edited by John R. Nolon

This book collects land use laws from countries on each continent that attempt to achieve sustainable development. As a response ...

Tania Voon

The WTO is an international organisation with 150 Members (which are countries or customs unions such as the European Communities). ...

In the Search for a Supranational Cyberspace Law

Edited by Paul Przemyslaw Polanski

Internet Law and Custom is a book on international law of the Internet. It is the first book that deals ...

Edited by Darren G. Hawkins, David A. Lake, Daniel L. Nielson, Michael J. Tierney

International organizations are important actors in international politics but are frequently criticised for being either over-powerful and unaccountable, or weak ...

Steven Wheatley

This work explores the contribution that international law may make to the resolution of culture conflicts in democratic States. The ...

Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy

Bill Ong Hing

In the past three decades, images of undocumented immigrants pouring across the southern border have driven the immigration debate and ...

Rosemary Lyster, Adrian Bradbrook

Energy Law and the Environment shows the relevance of energy production and consumption to climate change and sustainable development. It ...

William Ian Miller

This book is a historical and philosophical mediation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation ...

Aernout Schmidt, Wilfred Dolfsma, Wim Keuvelaar

As the explosive growth of the Napster and KaZaA services show, peer-to-peer file sharing has tremendous appeal in our information ...

The Structure of International Legal Argument

Martti Koskenniemi

Presents a critical view of international law as a practice that aims to ‘depoliticise’ international relations. Drawing from a range ...

David P. Forsythe

This new edition of Forsythe's successful textbook provides an overview of international human rights in an age of terrorism. Fully ...

Edited by John Henry Merryman

The issue of returning art and cultural property removed from explored or conquered lands by Americans and Europeans is an ...

The Real Challenge to Intrastate Peace

Miek Boltjes

Most intrastate peace agreements (i.e., relating to conflicts within states) are not adequately implemented. This leads to renewed tensions and ...

A New Dimension for the WTO?

Martyn D. Taylor

Should an international competition agreement be incorporated into the World Trade Organization? Taylor examines this question, arguing that such an ...

Fairness, Effectiveness, and World Order

Elli Louka

This book provides a detailed analysis of the rules and future trends of the law and policy for the protection ...

Treaties, Cases, and Analysis

Francisco Forrest Martin, Stephen J. Schnably, Richard Wilson, Jonathan Simon, Mark Tushnet

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Treaties, Cases, and Analysis introduces the reader to the international legal instruments and case ...

Edited by Anne Orford

International law is appealed to as offering a means of constraining power and as representing universal values. Here, scholars draw ...

The Politics of International Legitimacy

Katharina P. Coleman

What distinguishes a peace enforcement operation from an invasion? This question has been asked with reference to the US intervention ...

Refuge from Deprivation

Michelle Foster

This book considers whether the key instrument in international law for the protection of refugees - the Refugee Convention - ...

Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad

This book seeks to comment upon the nature, scope and effect of two important remedies in the adjudication of boundary ...

Problems and Perspectives

Asif H. Qureshi

The case law of the World Trade Organization is now very extensive, running into hundreds of cases and thousands of ...

From the Constitution of the Arbitral Tribunal through Recognition and Enforcement Proceedings

Tibor Várady

International commercial arbitration is a trans-cultural venture, and the need to bridge language differences is a part of the process. ...

The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation

John Witte, Foreword by Martin E. Marty

The Lutheran Reformation of the early sixteenth century brought about immense and far-reaching change in the structures of both church ...

Threat to the Rule of Law

Brian Z. Tamanaha

The contemporary U.S. legal culture is marked by ubiquitous battles among various groups attempting to seize control of the law ...

Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice

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 ...

Arthur T. von Mehren, Peter L. Murray

Law in the United States, 2nd Edition, is a concise discussion of elements of the American legal system likely to ...

Michael B. Likosky

Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights looks at the relationship between international economic law and human rights. The book fits within ...

Tobias Kelly

As the Oslo Peace Process has given way to the violence of the second intifada, this book explores the continuing ...

Human Rights, Environment and Arms Control

Edited by Geir Ulfstein, With Thilo Marauhn, Andreas Zimmermann

International law has traditionally left enforcement to individual parties, but more and more treaties contain arrangements to induce States to ...

1st Supplement to the 1st Edition

General editor Maher M. Dabbah, K. P. E. Lasok

Merger Control Worldwide is a comprehensive, multi-contributor collection which sets out the details of every jurisdiction where a mechanism for ...

Limitations and Opportunities in International Law

Jennifer A. Zerk

The 'corporate social responsibility' ('CSR') movement has been described as one of the most important social movements of our time. ...

International and Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Andrew T. Kenyon, Megan Richardson

The challenges faced by privacy laws in changing technological, commercial and social environments are considered in this broad-ranging examination of ...

The Law and Policy of Revolutionary Technologies for the Military and Law Enforcement

David A. Koplow

This book examines the rapidly evolving field of ‘non-lethal weapons’ - systems that enable police and military officers to temporarily ...

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. ...

Matthew Kramer

What is objectivity? What is the rule of law? Are the operations of legal systems objective? If so, in what ...

Hilton McCann

There are around 40 offshore finance centres around the world, where tax rules limit the amount of tax paid. There ...

Profiles of Religion in Conflict Resolution

Edited by David Little, Corporate Author Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

Around the globe, there are men and women who are moved by their religious beliefs to put their lives ...

A Strategy for Negotiating a Sacred Peace

David E. Guinn

This book seeks to advance the Middle East peace process by promoting the development of an international legal regime to ...

Designs, Dilemmas and Experiences

Edited by Michael W. Dowdle

This book responds to an on-going perception of a 'crisis' in public accountability in modern-day governance caused by globalization and ...

Yong-Shik Lee

Prevalent poverty in less developed countries is one of the most pressing issues of our time and economic development in ...

Critique on the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution

Edited by Robin Fretwell Wilson

This book provides a critical examination of the American Law Institute's (ALI) Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis ...

Exploratory Essays

William Twining

These essays, written over a period of twenty-five years, develop a readable, coherent historical and theoretical perspective about problems of ...

The Cultural Politics of Love and Law

Kathleen E. Hull

Fierce and sometimes ugly battles are being waged, especially in America, over who is allowed to marry, and what marriage ...

International Law Perspectives

Edited by Marcelo G. Kohen

Secession is the creation of a new State through the separation of part of the territory and population of an ...

John H. Jackson

This book grapples with the long-held assumptions of international law (such as the consent basis of international law norms, equality ...

Michael Thomas, With contributions by David Goy

Providing an incisive, comprehensive commentary on every aspect of SDLT, this book will appeal to property lawyers, tax specialists, and ...

Legality in a Time of Emergency

David Dyzenhaus

Deals with the urgent question of how governments should respond to emergencies and terrorism by exploring the idea that there ...

Litigation, Mobilization and Governance

Rachel A. Cichowski

The European Union today stands on the brink of radical institutional and constitutional change. Despite the perceived novelty of ...

1995–2005

Peter Gallagher

This book provides a factual account of the first decade of the World Trade Organization. It aims to cover the ...

Peter Rowe

This book considers those aspects of human rights law which may become relevant to the activities of armed forces whether ...

Rianne M. Letschert

Focuses on three mechanisms set up for the protection of minority groups: the OSCE High Commission on National Minorities (established ...

Books, Buccaneers and the Black Flag in the Nineteenth Century

Catherine Seville

Explores the history of international copyright law, focusing on 19th century international copyright law as it affected Europe, the British ...

Contract Theory and the Enforcement of International Law

Robert E. Scott, Paul B. Stephan

In recent years international law enforcement has become more like domestic law, with independent tribunals holding defaulters to account through ...

Edited by Sujit Choudhry

The migration of constitutional ideas across jurisdictions is rapidly emerging as one of the central features of contemporary constitutional practice. ...

Legal, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Edited by Amanda Perreau-Saussine, James B. Murphy

Some legal rules are not laid down by a legislator but grow instead from informal social practices and customs. In ...

A Critical Appraisal

Edited by David M. Trubek, Alvaro Santos

This book is an indispensable guide to understanding the legal face of globalization. It is the first one to provide ...

James G. Dwyer

This is a philosophical analysis of a legal topic. It uses welfare-based and autonomy-based moral theories to develop a theory ...

From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect

Ramesh Thakur

The role of the United Nations has evolved over recent decades, from avoiding inter-state wars, to managing humanitarian emergencies. Ramesh ...

The Contribution of the Dispute Settlement System

Edited by Giorgio Sacerdoti, Alan Yanovich, Jan Bohanes

Bringing together articles by some of the leading policy-makers, this book examines: the relationship and balance between political governance and ...

Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400–1600

Edited by Philip L. Reynolds, John Witte, Jr.

This volume analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property settlements, prenuptial contracts, court testimony, ...

Science, Law and the Possibility of Justice

Carl F. Cranor

Personal injury law is changing before our eyes, but citizens are unaware of it because of the complex scientific and ...

Beyond Truth versus Justice

Edited by Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Javier Mariezcurrena

Dealing with the aftermath of civil conflict or the fall of a repressive government continues to trouble many parts of ...

Mark Freeman

This book examines notions of procedural fairness applicable to truth commissions. Truth commissions are official human rights investigations established in ...

Edited by Mats Berdal, Spyros Economides

After years of paralysis, the 1990s saw an explosion in United Nations field operations around the world. In terms of ...

Sean D. Murphy

Sean D. Murphy’s in-depth survey of U.S. practice in international law in the period 2002-2004 draws upon the statements and ...

A Comparative Approach

Alan Schenk, Oliver Oldman

This book integrates legal, economic, and administrative materials about value added tax. Its principal purpose is to provide comprehensive teaching ...

Foundations of Modern Military Policy

William C. Martel

What does it mean to achieve victory? Can we win a war and still lose the peace? The central argument ...