Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The economics of lawmaking	Francesco Parisi	'The Economics of Lawmaking' explores the relative advantages and limits of alternative sources of law. Professors Francesco Parisi and Vincy Fon view the sources of law through a law and economics l…	OL10707826W
Derecho y relaciones internacionales contemporaneas	José María Leiva Leiva	An analysis of the "new world order" by Honduran scholar of international law, including background forces, terrorism, the case of Iraq, human rights, the role of ethics in diplomacy, the U.N., Islam…	OL11698373W
The Limits of International Law	Jack L Goldsmith	1. IntroductionPart I: Customary International Law 2. A Theory of Customary International Law3. Case StudiesPart II: Treaties 4. A Theory of International Agreements5. Human Rights6. International Tr…	OL15169194W
Decolonising international law	Sundhya Pahuja	"The universal promise of contemporary international law has long inspired countries of the Global South to use it as an important field of contestation over global inequality. Taking three central e…	OL15981158W
Foundations of modern international thought	Armitage, David	"Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign …	OL16664476W
On Rawls, development and global justice	Huw Lloyd Williams	"Huw Lloyd Williams looks at the critical debate surrounding John Rawls' The Law of Peoples. He responds to the work of cosmopolitan theorists and Amartya Sen, arguing that Rawls offers a persuasive …	OL16937904W
Legitimacy in international law	Ru diger Wolfrum,Volker Ro ben	Does international law lack legitimacy in general? Has international law or a part of it yielded to the facts of power? What is the relevance of non-enforcement or failure to obey for the legitimacy …	OL16950048W
Handbook of international law	Anthony Aust	This handbook is for the non-specialist in international law who needs to gain a working knowledge of its central principles and rules. It will, for example, help you to understand the differences be…	OL16975613W
Intervention in world politics	Hedley Bull	This book is the best guide to the complexities of intervention now available. The issues raised by it will remain important and divisive for some time.'___ The Times Literary Suplement.	OL17984549W
Liability of multinational corporations under international law	Menno T. Kamminga	"This volume examines whether multinational corporations have obligations under international law and, if so, how they may be held accountable if they act in breach of these obligations. It concludes…	OL18290225W
Themes and theories	Rosalyn Higgins	As President of the International Court of Justice, Rosalyn Higgins is the world's most senior judge. This two-volume set collects together all of her most important writings as a scholar, a member o…	OL18737346W
Russko-angliĭskiĭ diplomaticheskiĭ slovarʹ	K. V. Zhuravchenko,N. P. Geraskina	734 p. ; 21 cm	OL19228214W
Anglo-russkii diplomaticheskii slovar'	K. V. Zhuravchenko,V. S. Shakh-Nazarova,N. O. Volkova	854 p. ; 21 cm	OL19393161W
Asylum and International Law	Surya Prakash Sinha	xii, 366 pages 24 cm	OL20997652W
International criminal procedure	Gideon Boas	"Volume 3 of the International Criminal Law Practitioner Library completes the review of international criminal law begun in Volumes 1 and 2, which analyse the forms of responsibility and the element…	OL23289122W
Foreign affairs in English courts	Mann, F. A.	Describes and analyses the attitudes and techniques which English judges adopt or ought to adopt when confronted with problems arising from the conduct of foreign policy by the executive.	OL2339243W
Cases and materials on international law	D. J. Harris	"Widely recognised as the leading text of its kind, the eighth edition of Cases and Materials on International Law incorporates all major developments in the subject, including: International Court o…	OL2545550W
Innocent Civilians	Colm McKeogh	"Why may soldiers be killed in war? Why may civilians not be killed? Justice requires that innocent civilians should not be targeted in war; as innocents, the justification of punitive killing does n…	OL2657092W
Intellectual property	Aaron Schwabach	In this timely and readable volume, law professor Aaron Schwabach explores the three traditional categories of intellectual propertyocopyright, patent, and trademark. He traces their historical devel…	OL5828347W
The implementation game	Carolyn Deere	"The fight between North and South over intellectual property (IP) reached new heights in the 1990s. In one corner, large multinational companies and developed countries sought to protect their inves…	OL6002940W