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30 Nov

up doing nothing, while the world watches helplessly as the atrocities unfold.  Alternatives to the Security Council do not always exist.  In most situations, the General Assembly cannot simply take up the measures blocked within the Security Council because certain powers contained in the UN Charter are exclusively the province of the Security Council.  On the 75th anniversary of the UN Charter, this book suggests that a solution for this dysfunction may actually exist. The Book’s Central Thesis The central thesis of the book is that casting a veto while...
30.11.20 | |

15 May

[Allison Stanger is Russell J. Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics and Chair of the Political Science Department at Middlebury College. She is the author of One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy.] This is the first day of our book symposium on Laura Dickinson’s book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. Related posts can be found below. Laura Dickinson has written a compelling and thoughtful inquiry into the larger implications of...
15.05.12 | |

10 Nov

The Naval War College has published the latest volume in its Blue Book series. Here is the description and information about how to obtain it (although you can simply get the PDF here): The Naval War College International Law Department recently published volume 87 of its International Law Studies “Blue Book” series. The Blue Book has served as an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners of international law since 1901. Volume 87 is entitled “International Law and the Changing Character of War.” It includes scholarly papers by Professor Robert Chesney,...
10.11.11 | |

13 Nov

The trial of Arthur Greiser in Poland, 1946 23: Immi Tallgren: The Finnish war-responsibility trial in 1945-56: Flawed justice, anxious peace? You can purchase a hard copy of the book at the OUP website here. You can also — as part of an experimental OUP initiative — download a complete PDF of the book for free at either www.oup.com/uk or www.oapen.org. If you cannot afford the £70.00, by all means download the PDF. UPDATE: The free open-access version of the book is now available on the webpage linked to above....
13.11.13 | |

01 Aug

modify the introductory claim. To my mind, this work’s potential is not merely as descriptive book about the Constitution’s foreign affairs text as it was “understood” in the eighteenth century. Pitching it this way make it rely too much on one-sided history, and ironically does the book’s theory a disservice by rending to be a historical curiosity that may or may not be relevant to the age of globalization. Rather, what this book really is doing is presenting an elegant, balanced theory derived from text and one – not “the”...
01.08.07 | |

31 Oct

...within a broader historical context. That is what I did, delving into the fascinating sixteenth century” (p.41). In the year of its publication, the work was promoted in various newspapers as “the most comprehensive study conducted to date on Chile’s Antarctic rights against the claims of other countries” (for example, in the editions of El Mercurio, La Nación, and La Hora from November 5, 1944). Knowing the impact of his book, these newspapers were compiled by Pinochet de la Barra in his personal library. Various publishers praised the book for...
31.10.24 | |

29 Jul

the book that Marty criticizes is not, as he suggests in a good-natured attempt to defend me from my own work, the predations of a publisher keen to sell more books. It is, rather, the core of the book, from which the rest sprung. The book began with an essay in Policy Review a year ago dealing with judicial review and the war on terror–precisely the section of the book that Marty and Deborah now regard as most problematic. The effort to flesh out that essay led me to the...
29.07.08 | |

18 Oct

better forum than Opinio Juris to conduct this exercise. As has been pointed out, the conceptual book on IN-LAW is, together with a case study book, the result of a two-year research project sponsored by the Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law (HiiL). From the kickoff onwards, the project has emphasized the importance of addressing questions of accountability, effectiveness and the tensions that may exist resulting from the operationalization of these concepts. We would like to chip into the discussions and respond to some issues raised with regard to...
18.10.12 | |

26 Mar

[Rachel Brewster is Professor of Law at Duke Law] One of the many virtues of Eric Posner and Alan Sykes’ new book, “Economic Foundations of International Law,” is that it provides the reader with a theoretically coherent and consistent overview of important international treaty regimes, substantive international rules, and state enforcement practices. The book is a lucid introduction to international law for students and also contains sophisticated analysis of the dynamics of international legal systems for academics and international lawyers. A major theme of the book is that state compliance...
26.03.13 | |

22 Oct

[Paul B. Stephan is the John C. Jeffries, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law and David H. Ibbeken ’71 Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.] I applaud Anupam Chander for picking a great subject for his book. New communications technologies have transformed the way we deliver services by radically lowering the cost of dematerialized, long-distance transactions. The resulting explosive growth of cross-border sales of services is one of the most significant aspects of the modern global economy. There are, of course, a host of books about the...
22.10.13 | |

13 May

I was going to wait until the book — entitled The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa — came out to mention it, but now seems like an opportune time. You can pre-order the book from Amazon here, and here is the description: A revealing account of how Israel’s booming arms industry and apartheid South Africa’s international isolation led to a secretive military partnership between two seemingly unlikely allies. Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left: socialist idealists like David Ben-Gurion...
13.05.10 | |

18 Jun

[Jeffrey Dunoff holds the Laura H. Carnell Chair at Temple University Law School] This post is part of our symposium on Dean Schiff Berman’s book Global Legal Pluralism. Other posts can be found in Related Posts below. Paul Berman has produced a terrific, and terrifically ambitious, work of scholarship. The book presents a compelling case that the current legal order is marked by multiple and overlapping international, transnational, national, sub-national and non-state normative orders. Paul argues that relations among these various orders should be managed through a “cosmopolitan pluralist” approach...
18.06.12 | |