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  • Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law

    Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy

    by Steven R. Ratner, Jason S. Abrams, James L. Bischoff ...
    This book explores the promises and limitations of holding individuals accountable for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. It analyses the principal crimes under international law, such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, and appraises both prosecutorial and other key mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice. After applying their conclusions ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Thin Justice of International Law

    A Moral Reckoning of the Law of Nations

    by Steven R. Ratner ...
    In a world full of armed conflict and human misery, global justice remains one of the most compelling missions of our time. Understanding the promises and limitations of global justice demands a careful appreciation of international law, the web of binding norms and institutions that help govern the behaviour of states and other global actors. This book provides a new interdisciplinary approach to ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Talking International Law

    Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom

    Edited by Ian Johnstone, Steven Ratner ...
    Examining legal argumentation by states and other actors in the settings where it mostly transpires - outside of courts, Talking International Law challenges the realist assumption that legal argumentation is largely inconsequential. Addressing a gap in scholarship within international law and international relations theory, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of why it occurs, how, where, ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • America's Disappeared

    Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the War on Terror

    by Reed Brody, Barbara Olshansky, Michael Ratner, Steven Macpherson Watt ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    The confirmation proceedings for Alberto R. Gonzales and Condeleeza Rice, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, triggered a national debate about the U.S. government’s controversial treatment of detainees and its practice of torture. At the heart of the debate is the question: Is the United States undermining democracy, freedom, and human rights in it’s effort to protect its citizens from terrorism? ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Impossible Subjects

    Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition

    by Mae M. Ngai ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s—its ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure

    by Darryl Robinson, Sergey Vasiliev, Elies van Sliedregt, Valerie Oosterveld ...
    Building on the success of previous editions (Cryer et al.), this popular textbook is now expanded and updated in a 5th edition featuring two new co-authors, Elies van Sliedregt and Valerie Oosterveld. A market leader and one of the most globally trusted textbooks on international criminal law, it is known for its accessible and engaging tone and for an even-handed approach that is both critical ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • At America's Gates

    Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

    by Erika Lee ...
    With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants.At America’s Gates is the first book ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to International Criminal Law

    Edited by William A. Schabas ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Law
    This comprehensive introduction to international criminal law addresses the big issues in the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective. Expert contributors include international lawyers, judges, prosecutors, criminologists and historians, as well as the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials. Serving as a foundation for deeper study, each chapter explores key academic debates and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Crimes against Humanity

    Historical Evolution and Contemporary Application

    by M. Cherif Bassiouni ...
    This book traces the evolution of crimes against humanity (CAH) and their application from the end of World War I to the present day, in terms of both historic legal analysis and subject-matter content. The first part of the book addresses general issues pertaining to the categorization of CAH in normative jurisprudential and doctrinal terms. This is followed by an analysis of the specific ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Americans in Waiting

    The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States

    by Hiroshi Motomura ...
    Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be. In Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura looks to a forgotten part of our past to show how, for over 150 years, immigration was assumed to be a transition to citizenship, with immigrants essentially ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • At Home in Two Countries

    The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship

    by Peter J Spiro ...
    Read Peter's Op-ed on Trump's Immigration Ban in The New York TimesThe rise of dual citizenship could hardly have been imaginable to a time traveler from a hundred or even fifty years ago. Dual nationality was once considered an offense to nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It was the stuff of titanic battles between the United States and European sovereigns. As those conflicts ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The International Law of Human Trafficking

    by Anne T. Gallagher ...
    Although human trafficking has a long and ignoble history, it is only recently that trafficking has become a major political issue for states and the international community and the subject of detailed international rules. Anne T. Gallagher calls on her direct experience working within the United Nations to chart the development of new international laws on this issue. She links these rules to the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD