Review Essays

Recently Received Books: International Law & Ethics

 

Complex Political Victims

Complex Political Victims
By Erica Bouris

Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2007. 211pp.

*Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History

Judicial Accommodation of Human Rights in the European Union

Judicial Accommodation of Human Rights in the European Union
By Ane Maria Røddik Christensen

Copenhagen: DJØF Publishing, 2007. 277pp.

* Cross-listed in Regional: Europe & The West

The Crime of Destruction and the Law of Genocide: Their Impact on Collective Memory

The Crime of Destruction and the Law of Genocide: Their Impact
on Collective Memory

By Caroline Fournet

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. 182pp.

*Cross-listed in War, War Crimes & Genocide

When the State No Longer Kills: International Human Rights Norms and Abolition of Capital Punishment

When the State No Longer Kills: International Human Rights Norms
and Abolition of Capital Punishment

By Sangmin Bae

New York: State University of New York Press, 2007. 178pp.

Civil Justice in the Age of Human Rights

Civil Justice in the Age of Human Rights
By Joseph M. Jacob

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. 251pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Europe & the West

Unconstitutional Regimes and the Validity of Sovereign Debt: A Legal Perspective

Unconstitutional Regimes and the Validity of Sovereign Debt:
A Legal Perspective

By Sabine Michalowski

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. 217pp.

*Cross-listed in Globalization, Labor & Economic Rights

Democracy, Freedom and Coercion: A Law and Economic Approach

Democracy, Freedom and Coercion: A Law and Economics Approach
Edited by Alain Marciano and Jean-Michel Josselin

Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. 276pp.

*Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History
& Globalization, Labor & Economic Rights
&
Development, Democracy & Health

Minority Rights Protection in International Law: The Roma of Europe

Minority Rights Protection in International Law: The Roma of Europe
By Helen O'Nions

Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. 331pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Europe & the West
& Refugees & Displaced Persons

Counter-Terrorism and the Post-Democratic State

Counter-Terrorism and the Post-Democratic State
Edited by Jenny Hocking and Colleen Lewis

Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. 244pp.

*Cross-listed in Development, Democracy & Health
& Humanitarianism, Intervention & Terrorism

Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America

Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America
By David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. 352pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Europe & the West
& Refugees & Displaced Persons

The Costs of War: International Law, the UN, and World Order After Iraq

The Costs of War: International Law, the UN, and World Order
After Iraq

By Richard Falk

New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. 202pp.

*Cross-listed in War, War Crimes, & Genocide
& Humanitarianism, Intervention & Terrorism

International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation

International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans:
Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation

By Victor Peskin

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 272pp.

*Cross-listed in Regional: Europe & the West

Building the International Criminal Court

Building the International Criminal Court
By Benjamin N. Schiff

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 304pp.

*Cross-listed in Global Governance & Civil Society

Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment

Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty
and the Problem of Judgment

By Jennifer L. Culbert

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. 235pp.

The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II

The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of
Justice in the Wake of World War II

By Yuma Totani

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 335pp.

*Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History
& War, War Crimes, & Genocide

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