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International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals

Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman

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This widely acclaimed interdisciplinary coursebook presents a diverse range of carefully edited primary and secondary materials alongside extensive text, editorial commentary, and study questions. International Human Rights in Context, Third Edition, thoroughly covers the basic characteristics of international law; evolution of the human rights movement; civil, political, economic, and social rights; the humanitarian laws of war; globalization; self-determination; women's rights; universalism and cultural relativism; intergovernmental and nongovernmental institutions; implementation and enforcement; internal application of human rights norms; and the spread of constitutionalism.
Extensively revised and restructured, this third edition incorporates new themes and topics including human rights in relation to terrorism and national security; responsibility of non-state actors for human rights violations; recent substantial changes in sources and processes of international law; achieved and potential reform within UN human rights institutions; and theories about international organizations and their influence on state behavior. It is also accompanied by a website housing the Annex of Documents.
Its scope, challenging enquiries, and clarity make International Human Rights in Context, Third Edition, an indispensable resource for human rights students, scholars, advocates, and practitioners alike.

International Law Cases and Materials: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series)

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Comprehensive, but poorly edited 1 out of 5 stars.
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As a general rule, I don't bother to review the casebooks I've been assigned to read (since it's not as though I buy them by choice). But this particular volume was so poorly done that I thought it worth a mention.

Though its bulk is admittedly stunning (I would conservatively estimate its weight at eighty-four pounds), the 1,680-page casebook is frustratingly shallow in clarity and cohesiveness, and as sloppily edited as any written material I've recently encountered: cases are referred to by different names on different pages; citations are inconsistent; and the general tone is as obtuse as anything I've read since first-semester Contracts. I mean no offense to the authors, and I bear them no ill will. But they have together managed to produce the worst casebook that I have encountered as a law student.

The previous reviewer described an earlier edition of this book as "very helpful." For the sake of those who come after me, I very much hope that the Fifth Edition is much closer to the Third than to the Fourth.

Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Casebook)

Lydia Pallas Loren, Ruth Gana Okediji, Maureen A. O'Rourke

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With an emphasis on substantive law, this extensively revised casebook provides comprehensive coverage of major white-collar crime statutes in the federal criminal code, securities laws, and environmental statutes, as well as sentencing principles under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. "Corporate and White Collar Crime: Cases and Materials, Fourth Edition", shows students what white collar crime is and how it is detected, prosecuted, and punished today. The casebook is well known for its teachability: distinguished author Kathleen F. Brickey, who is widely published in the field and has served as a consultant to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, draws on her extensive experience to present a revealing and realistic account of the law; distinctive focus on major white-collar crime statutes allows timely and topical coverage of contemporary substantive law issues; clear and concise expository introductions illuminate the contexts of the cases that follow; well edited and carefully selected cases (the best teaching cases) are reinforced by provocative notes and questions that stimulate lively classroom discussion; and skillfully written problems throughout the book enrich understanding of the cases and challenge students to apply substantive law principles to hypotheticals that test the outer bounds of the principal cases. It also includes recent Justice Department prosecution guidelines provide an excellent platform for exploring policy considerations relating to prosecuting corporations and their officers and executives; and a detailed Teacher's Manual supplies specific guidance on discussion and analysis of casebook problems, notes, and questions. The Fourth Edition incorporates new material on: recent corporate fraud prosecutions, including those of Arthur Andersen, Martha Stewart, and Bernie Ebbers; Sarbanes-Oxley statutes relating to conspiracy, securities fraud, and obstruction of justice; important Supreme Court decisions that invalidate the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (Booker) and Arthur Andersen's obstruction of justice conviction (Andersen), as well as high Court decisions relating to conspiracy (Jimenez Recio), mail fraud (Pasquantino), and federal program bribery (Sabri); and significant appellate court decisions.

Fundamental Perspectives on International Law

William R. Slomanson

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The most amazing book on International Law 5 out of 5 stars.
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The author has achieved a feat of Herculean proportions by his extremely lucid and perspicacious analysis of the very difficult and inaccessible subject of International law. International law is next only to Qunatum Field Theory in its profundity and deep conceptual underpinnings. The very fact that an ignoramus like me can understand and appreciate this work of genius goes to show that everyone even remotely interested in the field should read this book.

overpriced and simplistic 2 out of 5 stars.
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For the price of this book there should be no mistakes. There was constant grammatical errors, and there were multiple errors where the author made a statement and then contradicted it later, sometimes this would happen multiple times concerning the same statement. The book is a very simple look at International law more for the highschool level. The author left out many important subjects and treaties like Kyoto. For the money this poorly written book was a complete dissappointment.

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Comprehensive while remaining succinct, FUNDAMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW provides a uniquely effective mix of cases, articles, documents, text, charts, tables, and questions--all of which pique student interest while enhancing their understanding of key topics. The text is complemented by numerous review problems, as well as print and Web resources for further research.

International Business Law and Its Environment (South-Western Legal Studies in Business Academic)

Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Beverley Earle

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It is an excellent book for international lawyers 4 out of 5 stars.
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This book contains a concise explanation of every day problems regarding foreign transactions, together with an explanation of the Common law system specially in United States, this book concentrates pertinent cases for each of the subjects explained in it.

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International business law doesn't have to be a mystery. With its unique thematic approach, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW AND ITS ENVIRONMENT, 7e, enables you to learn public and private law issues quickly and easily. From intellectual property to direct foreign investment, this student-friendly text explains issues in ways you can understand. Known for its current, comprehensive, and accurate coverage, the text balances the legal challenges of doing business in developing and nonmarket-economy countries with the economic and political issues that commonly arise. It also focuses on the transactional aspects of international business as well as on the legal, cultural, political, and economic environment affecting managerial decision making on a global scale. Packed with real-world examples, the text emphasizes ethics issues throughout, incorporates cutting-edge cases, and includes a companion Website that helps you maximize your study time.

A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Mary Ann Glendon

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A Thoughtful Remeberance 4 out of 5 stars.
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Professor Glendon vividly and lucidly elaborates the people and events whose obscure work yielded perhaps the single most important document of the second half of the 20th Century.

For those of us who are privileged to live under the blanket of freedom, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights might not be understood to be the beacon of hope and freedom that is has become to many millions around the world who live in conditions of extraordinary disadvantage. This book is a gift in that it provides with a detailed narrative of the places, people, and events which conspired to deliver the UDHR at a moment in history when it was so desperately needed.

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A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed United nations and brought into being by an extraordinary group of men and women who knew, like the framers of the Declaration of Independence, that they were making history. They worked against the clock, the brief window between the end of World War II and the deep freeze of the cold war, to forget the founding document of the modern rights movement.

A distinguished professor of international law, Mary Ann Glendon was given exclusive access to personal diaries and unpublished memoirs of key participants. An outstanding work of narrative history, A World Made New is the first book devoted to this crucial moment in Eleanor Roosevelt's life and in world history.

The United Nations and Changing World Politics

Thomas G Weiss, David P. Forsythe, Roger A. Coate, KELLY-KATE PEASE

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With updates throughout, this newly revised fifth edition serves as the definitive text for courses dealing with the United Nations. Built around three critical themes in international relations-international peace and security, human rights and humanitarian affairs, and building peace through sustainable development-The United Nations and Changing World Politics, fifth edition, guides students through the complexity of politics and history of the UN. Students of all levels will learn what the UN is, how it operates, and what its relationships are with the universe of external actors and institutions, from sovereign states to the plethora of nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations now playing important roles in world politics. This new edition is fully revised to take into account recent events, including the aftermath of September 11th and the war on terrorism, the war in Iraq, the first deliberations of the International Criminal Court, and the largest-ever world summit on the occasion of the UN’s sixtieth anniversary.

International Law: Cases and Commentary (American Casebook Series)

Mark W. Janis; John Noyes

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Interesting 4 out of 5 stars.
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I consider this book an interesting tool for an international law class, because of its variety of cases and its handling of matters such as jus cogens, that makes it really didactic and comprehensible. Worth to be have in mind by University professors, students and investigators of this law area.

Great Quality... 4 out of 5 stars.
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Book was in great condition. Took awhile to receive, so just order early.

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Introduces the history and nature of international law, and examines the sources of international law—treatise, custom, general principles, jus cogens, and equity. Also covers important fields of international law: individuals and human rights; recognition and self-determination; war and peace and the United Nations; Antarctica, outer space, the law of the sea, and international environmental laws; and international conflict of laws, foreign sovereign immunity, and act of state.

The European Union: Politics and Policies

John S McCormick

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Already one of the best and most widely used introductions to the politics and policies of the European Union, this new edition of John McCormick's book brings the remarkable story of European integration up to date. Retaining the familiar three-part structure - covering the history, governing institutions and policies of the EU - it shows its readers how the EU has become one of the world's economic and political superpowers. It explains how the efforts to build a single market have had far-reaching effects that have changed the lives of Europeans in many different and often unexpected ways, and have helped the 15 individual member states to take a newly-assertive role on the global stage. Thoroughly revised and updated, with many new tables, figures and boxes, the third edition takes into account the following important changes: the effects of the treaties of Amsterdam and Nice the conversion to the euro in early 2002 the conclusions of the EU's constitutional convention the implications of eastern enlargement developments on the common foreign and security policy Characterized by McCormick's clear and engaging style of writing, The European Union: Politics and Policies avoids the bureaucratic and legal jargon that colors so many other studies of this important political and economic actor. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the EU works, and how it has impacted the lives of 380 million Europeans.

BETWEEN VENGEANCE+FORGIVENESS CL

Martha Minow

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With Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, Martha Minow, Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on justice and healing after horrific violence. Remembering and forgetting, judging and forgiving, reconciling and avenging, grieving and educatingMinow shows us why each may be necessary, yet painfully inadequate, to individuals and societies living in the wake of past horrors. She explores the rich and often troubling range of responses to massive, societal-level oppression. She writes of the legacy of war-crime prosecutions, beginning with the Nuremberg trials. She explores whether reparation - such as the monetary awards given to Japanese-Americans for internment during World War II, or art, such as Holocaust memorials - can be a basis for reconciliation after immeasurable personal and cultural loss. Minow also writes with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably South Africa, and in the process delves into the risks and requirements involved in hearing from victims, the dynamics of gender, and the value of even imperfect gestures in the midst of these riveting experiments in justice and healing.