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23 Feb C-SPAN Book TV Interview on ‘Living With the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order’
If you’re interested, I’ll be on C-SPAN Book TV tomorrow, Sunday, February 24, at 1:20 pm, talking about my book, Living With the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order. It runs about half an hour, and though I have no idea whether I’m especially interesting on the program, I very much enjoyed doing it – I thought the interviewer was terrific and asked excellent questions. (Plus, he let me talk pretty much as long as I liked.)...21 Jul Bainbridge is Self-Publishing His Latest Book
of the pricing flexibility offered by self-publishing. (Notice that the author, not the publisher, gets to decide the appropriate price point for the book). For those interesting in self-publishing ebooks, CNET editor David Carnoy has a nice summary here. You can also self-publish paperback books with print-on-demand (POD) services. Carnoy’s summary of that process is here. BTW, what are the top-selling international relations books on Amazon right now? Two self-published ebooks by journalists, The Hunt for Bin Laden and The Instigators, both short Kindle Single edition books priced at $1.99....07 Jul America Between the Wars or the New James Bond?
The day, a few weeks ago, when America Between the Wars arrived on my doorstop also saw the arrival of another book via Amazon … Sebastian Faulks-as-Ian Fleming, The Devil May Care. The serious policy-history tome or the new James Bond novel? What to do, what to do? I idly picked up America Between the Wars, assuming that within nanoseconds I would get bored and flip over to Bond – but no, I found myself quite entranced with this book of 1990s history. I finished it before ever returning to...
22 Apr Symposium: Practical and Doctrinal Challenges and Developments of the Responsibility to Protect
...lawyers will—or should—appreciate the reality check on the limitations of individual state action via universal jurisdiction cases, an increasingly popular alternative avenue to justice. I cannot speak for Nahlawi, but I interpreted this as a way of expressing support for international justice mechanisms, which do not exist for Syria other than the evidence-gathering/case-file-preparing International Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM). As an RtoP tool, the IIIM is perhaps all the more valuable for indicating practice and opinio juris that non-UNSC UN bodies (here, the UNGA) are empowered to discuss and make...17 Jan Book Review, Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties
I’ve posted on SSRN my recent book review for the American Journal of International Law of Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Olufemi Elias‘ Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties (Eleven International Publishing, 2005). Here’s the abstract: On the surface, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN THE LAW OF TREATIES, by Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Olufemi Elias, makes no overt claims regarding the debate over the fragmentation of international law. Yet on closer examination, I argue in this book review that their work has the potential to make an important contribution to that discourse. In both...02 Feb Greenburg: “Bush Will Not Get Another Supreme Court Appointment”
her book. As Jonathan Varat said yesterday, it’s hard to imagine that a book about the Supreme Court could be a page turner, but this one is. Indeed, right now it is one of the top fifty books for sale on Amazon. UPDATE: You can watch the Pepperdine book presentation here. It features Jan Crawford Greenburg and includes commentary about her book by Jesse Choper (Boalt Hall), Jonathan Varat (UCLA), Ken Starr (Pepperdine) and Doug Kmiec (Pepperdine). Her comment that President Bush will not get another Supreme Court appointment is...27 Jul The Dark Side of Territoriality
I want to join others in congratulating Kal on the publication of his outstanding book. I also want to thank the OJ contributors for inviting me to visit their territory. Issues of spatiality — place, geography, and territory — have been largely under-examined in legal scholarship. This book is an invaluable synthesis and examination of a critical aspect of legal spatiality. One of the most intriguing parts of the evolutionary path Kal charts is the consistently instrumental use of territory to further national goals. I think territorial instrumentalism, in all...02 Mar OUP/OJ Book Club, Richard Gardiner’s Treaty Interpretation
As I mentioned last week, we’re pleased to host Richard Gardiner (University College London) for the next three days for a discussion of his book, Treaty Interpretation. In addition to comments by our regular contributors, we’ve invited several distinguished treaty experts to respond to his work, including Isabelle van Damme (Clare College, Cambridge), Malgosia Fitzmaurice (University of London, Queen Mary), and Jan Klabbers (Helsinki). Some of our guest experts will be commenting on the book itself, others may choose to comment on the comments. In either case, we’re looking forward...