International Law - Law

The 1947 Constitution confers on Japanese citizens the 'right to life'. Williams examines the meaning of this right, discussing abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment and 'karoshi' - death through overwork...

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court..

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court..

This book applies general concepts of legal philosophy to explain the continuing relevance of custom as a source of international law, while at the same time inferring from this theoretical framework concrete practical and methodological consequences, the most important of which is the special role ..

This book analyses the regulatory development for the UN Security Council’s exercise of authority with an original perspective of ‘proximity’-- a concept that refers to the ‘distance’ between the UN Security Council’s authority to maintain ‘international’ peace and security...

This book discusses the critical legal issues raised by the US responses to the terrorist threat, analyzing their compliance with international law. The book extrapolates from the actions of the USA, going on to look at the difficulties all modern democracies face in trying to combat international t..

This volume of essays examines the development of political and legal thinking regarding the use of force in international relations. It provides an analysis of the rules on the use of force in the political, normative and factual contexts within which they apply and assesses their content and relev..

This book addresses the themes of praxis and the role of international lawyers as intellectuals and political actors engaging with questions of justice for Third World peoples. It includes chapters from some of the pioneering Third World jurists who have led this field since the time of decolonizati..

Are there "too many lawyers"? This book addresses this question by country and globally, as well as the facts, reasons, consequences and solutions regarding the future of lawyers and legal practice...

The author argues here that there is no absolute food shortage and that distorted agricultural trade which undermines world food distribution is a vital and overlooked factor. The book looks at EU and US agricultural policies and World Trade Organization negotiations in agriculture and proposes that..

This book examines the issues of crime and its control in the twenty-first century - an era of human history where people live in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world - providing invaluable and first-hand readings for undergraduate and postgradate students...

This book examines two particular constraints operating on the regulation of transnational corruption in general and bribery in particular. Firstly, it explores the limits of international cooperation in the regulation of transnational corruption and highlights the disparities between the capacitie..