Another suggestion:
Lawless World - Philippe Sands QC
(I think the American version has a slightly different subtitle. I'm assuming I have the British version which has the sub-title 'The whistle-blowing account of how Bush and Blair are taking the law into their own hands' but the American one seems to be subtitled 'America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules -- From FDR's Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush's Illegal War'.)
An introduction to international law, its importance and its abuse. I came across this in a second hand book store yesterday for 2.50, so far so good. The reviews have been positive.
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...letereview
From Publishers Weekly
Sands, a British international lawyer and law professor, delivers a cool, reasoned lashing to the Bush administration for leading-and to Tony Blair for colluding with-a "full-scale assault" on the international rule of law, in this richly detailed survey of modern international legal disputes. Since FDR and Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter after WWII, putting in place a rules-based system limiting the use of force, protecting human rights and promoting fair economic liberalization, the world has seen a transformation of international relations, Sands explains, most dramatically marked by Bush's decision to "go it alone." Tracking the current administration's "efforts to rewrite international law into irrelevance," Sands covers the Pinochet case, the creation of the International Criminal Court, U.S. abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, the U.S.'s selectively multilateralist policy vis--vis global free trade, and the "disgraces" of Guantnamo, Iraq and Abu Ghraib. The author also presents a series of dense but lucidly written legal stories to illustrate how the Bush administration's unilateralism has had egregious consequences for 21st-century efforts to make the world safer, cleaner and more just. (Nov.)
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www.complete-review.com/r...sandsp.htm
"He has written an eminently readable book on a subject that more than ever, deserves public understanding and engagement. It is a remarkable achievement to have written a book that deals with an area that is so specialised and complex, and yet makes it completely lucid and compelling. At a time when the world looks set to abandon the international rule of law, this book should be compulsory reading." - Julian Burnside, The Age
A brief extract.
www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0670034525/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/105-1380466-3294861?ie=UTF8&p=S00Y#reader-link
Lawless World - Philippe Sands QC
(I think the American version has a slightly different subtitle. I'm assuming I have the British version which has the sub-title 'The whistle-blowing account of how Bush and Blair are taking the law into their own hands' but the American one seems to be subtitled 'America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules -- From FDR's Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush's Illegal War'.)
An introduction to international law, its importance and its abuse. I came across this in a second hand book store yesterday for 2.50, so far so good. The reviews have been positive.
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...letereview
From Publishers Weekly
Sands, a British international lawyer and law professor, delivers a cool, reasoned lashing to the Bush administration for leading-and to Tony Blair for colluding with-a "full-scale assault" on the international rule of law, in this richly detailed survey of modern international legal disputes. Since FDR and Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter after WWII, putting in place a rules-based system limiting the use of force, protecting human rights and promoting fair economic liberalization, the world has seen a transformation of international relations, Sands explains, most dramatically marked by Bush's decision to "go it alone." Tracking the current administration's "efforts to rewrite international law into irrelevance," Sands covers the Pinochet case, the creation of the International Criminal Court, U.S. abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, the U.S.'s selectively multilateralist policy vis--vis global free trade, and the "disgraces" of Guantnamo, Iraq and Abu Ghraib. The author also presents a series of dense but lucidly written legal stories to illustrate how the Bush administration's unilateralism has had egregious consequences for 21st-century efforts to make the world safer, cleaner and more just. (Nov.)
Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
www.complete-review.com/r...sandsp.htm
"He has written an eminently readable book on a subject that more than ever, deserves public understanding and engagement. It is a remarkable achievement to have written a book that deals with an area that is so specialised and complex, and yet makes it completely lucid and compelling. At a time when the world looks set to abandon the international rule of law, this book should be compulsory reading." - Julian Burnside, The Age
A brief extract.
www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0670034525/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex/105-1380466-3294861?ie=UTF8&p=S00Y#reader-link
