Synopses & Reviews
Featuring original contributions from well-established scholars and emerging stars in law and politics, this cutting-edge reader provides students with a succinct overview of the key issues facing international law today. The authors range from political science and law school instructors to professional researchers and lawyers in private practice, and they offer diverse, multinational perspectives on traditional and emergent issues in the practice and study of international law. Topics include R2P (Responsibility to Protect) and universal jurisdiction, nonterritorial subjects of international law, international political economics (IPE), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), international humanitarian law (IHL), the environment, political violence and terrorism, and post-colonialism. A concluding section on international political interaction covers a wide range of issues that link international politics to international law. Offering the most inclusive and contemporary body of material available,
International Law: Contemporary Issues and Future Developments is an essential resource for courses on politics and international law.
Review
"This compendium contains the richest substantive contribution to the study of international law published within the last two decades. Its 29 chapters are authoritatively documented, cogently written and compellingly argued. Silverburg has done a superb job of selecting the contributors, organizing the chapters, and editing the contents. It is highly recommended for both undergraduate and graduate courses in international law."
andmdash;Christopher C. Joyner, Professor of Government and International Law, Georgetown University
Synopsis
This book offers diverse, multinational perspectives on traditional and emergent issues in the practice and study of international law. It deals with the evolving foundations of international law and covers a wide range of issues that link international politics to international law.
Synopsis
and#160;Invited contributions from well-established scholars and emerging stars in law and politics provide instructors and students with a compact, essential reader of timely essays on the key issues facing international law today.
About the Author
Sanford R. Silverburg is professor of political science at Catawba College. His publications include
Palestine and International Law: Essays on Politics and Economics and
U.S. Foreign Relations with the Middle East and North Africa (with Bernard Reich).
Table of Contents
PrefaceAbout the Authors
1 Introduction
SANFORD R. SILVERBURG
PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL LAW FOUNDATIONS
SECTION A Norms of International Law
2 Prosecuting Crimes Against Humanity: The Revolution in International Criminal Law
DAVE O. BENJAMIN
SECTION B R2P: Responsibility to Protect
3 The Responsibility to Protect and the North-South Divide
RAMESH THAKUR
4 Responsibility to Protect: New Perspectives to an Old Dilemma
GIULHERME M. DIAS
SECTION C Universal Jurisdiction
5 Universal Jurisdiction as an International and#147;False Conflictand#8221; of Laws
ANTHONY J. COLANGELO
PART TWO: NON-TERRITORIALISM
6 Non-State Actors, International Law, and Human Rights
ELENA PARIOTTI
PART THREE: ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS
7 Disparate Notions of Fairness: Comparative Insider Trading Regulation in an Evolving Global Landscape
JOAN MACLEOD HEMINWAY
8 Chinaand#8217;s First Loss
RAJ BHALA
9 Corporations and International Law
EMEKA DURUIGBO
PART FOUR: COURTS
10 Reaching Beyond the State: Judicial Independence, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and Accountability in Guatemala
JEFFREY DAVIS AND EDWARD H. WARNER
11 The Upsurge in International Courts After the Establishment of the ICJ
IGOR BORBA
PART FIVE: INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
12 Modern International Humanitarian Law
STEFAN KIRCHNER
13 Peace Unkempt: How Ambiguities in Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law Contributed to the Failed U.N. Intervention in Somalia
BJORN C. SORENSON
PART SIX: THE ENVIRONMENT
SECTION A: Air Law
14 Space Settlements, Property Rights, and International Law: Could a Lunar Settlement Claim the Lunar Real Estate It Needs to Survive?
ALAN WASSER AND DOUGLAS JOBES
15 A Contemporary Review of the Air Space and Outer Space Regimes: The Thin Lines Between Law, Policy, and Emergent Challenges
JACKSON NYAMUYA MAOGOTO AND STEVEN FREELAND
SECTION B: Maritime Law
16 The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the European Union, and the Rule of Law: What Is Going on in the Adriatic Sea?
DAVOR VIDAS
17 Power Politics or Orderly Development? Why Are States and#147;Claimingand#8221; Large Areas of the Arctic Seabed?
TIMO KOIVUROVA
18 The Law of the Sea and Human Rights
SOPHIE CACCIAGUIDI-FAHY
PART SEVEN: FORCE QUA TERRORISM
19 Moral Knowledgeand#8217;s Potential for Reducing the Restraint of Law: The Risk of Moral Education 393
CATHERINE LOTRIONTE
20 Babysitting Terrorists: Should States Be Strictly Liable for Failing to Prevent Transborder Attacks?
VINCENT-JOand#203;L PROULX
21 Force Qua Terrorism: International Law in the Wake of 9/11
ANNA OEHMICHEN
22 Exceptional Engagement: Protocol I and a World United Against Terrorism
MICHAEL A. NEWTON
PART EIGHT: POSTCOLONIALISM
23 Terrorism as Postcolonialism
THOMAS R. Oand#8217;CONNOR
24 The Flawed Foundations of Post-Colonial State Borders: Uti Possidetis Juris and Self-Determination
ANDREW A. ROSEN
25 Modernity and International Law: Mythological Materialism in the East-West Telos
PRABHAKAR SINGH
26 The Postcoloniality of International Law
SUNDHYA PAHUJA
PART NINE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL INTERACTION
27 The Evolution of Core Legal Principles
JEFFREY S. MORTON
28 International Law and Politics
JAMES LARRY TAULBEE
29 Law Versus Justice in International Negotiations: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict-Resolution (Management) Process
SANFORD R. SILVERBURG
Selected Bibliography
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Index