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Intro -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Part I: Law and Psychology in Different Countries -- Law and Psychology in Europe: Current Status and Future Perspectives -- Psychology and Law in Latin America. State of the Art -- Criminological and Legal Psychology in Portugal: Past, Present and Future -- Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Policies, Practices and Public Opinion -- Psychological Aspects of the Family Law Reform and the Influences in Legislation after the German Unification -- Part II: Victimology -- Criminal Behavior and the Pre-Victimization Process: Three Studies on Neutralization, Redefinition, and Desensitization -- Criminal Victimization and Well-Being: A Prospective Study on the Direct and Buffering Effects of Personality Traits -- Victimological Aspects of Computer Crimes -- Victimization in Close Relationships: On the Darkness of "Dark Figures" -- The Victim's Experience and Fear of Crime. A Contribution to the Victimization Perspective -- Part III: Witnesses and Expert Testimony -- Child Witnesses: Lying about Something Heard -- Instructions and Suggestions: Effects on the Amount of Details in Children's Statements -- Changes in Subtle Hand/Finger Movements During Attempted Deception -- The Effects of Distraction on Police Officer Shooting Behavior -- Paralinguistic and Nonverbal Triggers of Biased Credibility Assessments of Rape Victims in Dutch Police Officers: An Experimental Study of "Nonevidentiary" Bias -- Psychological Expert Testimony on Eyewitness Issues on the Basis of Case Related Field Experiments -- Some Aspects of the Role of the Expert in Criminal Cases -- Part IV: Juries and Tribunals -- Models in Jury Decision-Making -- Formal Pattern in Jury Decision Making -- Inquisitorial Jury Selection through Scientific Support.

For the past several centuries of Anglo-American legal thought, law has been paradigmatically understood as the product of the state. The state, operating through the legal and political institutions of its government, imposes law on the people who are its subjects. Over the same centuries, however, the development of international law and constitutional law has made the state itself subject to law. Bu assimilating constitutional and international law as parallel projects of imposing law upon the state, and by highlighting the peculiarities of the state as a subject of law, this book aspires to close that gap.

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One. The Relationship between International Law and State Behaviour in International Crises Involving the Threat or Use of Force -- Chapter Two. An Alternative Theoretical Approach for Understanding the Relationship between International Law and State Behaviour During International Crises: International Law as Ideology -- Chapter Three. The Place of International Law in State Behaviour During the Korean War -- Chapter Four. The Place of International Law in British and American Foreign Policy Behaviour During the Suez Crisis -- Chapter Five. The Place of International Law in State Behaviour During the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Chapter Six. The Place of International Law in State Behaviour During the Dominican Republic Crisis -- Chapter Seven. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

"An effective system of law must be able to authoritatively specify what the law is, and then get its subjects to follow it. Skeptics of international law have long questioned its ability to meet this standard, wondering, for instance, why a global superpower like the United States would bow to a rule of international law that disserved its interests, rather than changing, disregarding, or interpreting it away. We might equally wonder, however, why a President of the United States would choose to abide by constitutional limitations rather than dismiss them as "parchment barriers." While constitutionalists have paid less attention to these kinds of questions than their internationalist counterparts, the answers available to them are, not surprisingly, similar. This chapter describes how law for states can achieve some measure of settlement and compliance even in the absence of a crown-wearing, sword-wielding Leviathan standing above"--

This book presents a distinctive approach to the study of war and its law. It provides a vehicle for students from various disciplines -- historical analysis, international relations theory, law and economics, behavioral economics and psychology, science and technology (including the study of the environment), sociology, political philosophy, moral and ethical theory, and comparative religion -- to work together in addressing the cutting edge issues presented in the modern law of war. Practical activity in the law of war – in governments, international governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and elsewhere -- now requires an ability to understand the language of practitioners in other disciplines who participate in the formation of new norms and their application in the law of war; and practitioners in those other disciplines who participate in the formation and application of the law of war now also need to have an understanding of the distinctive features of international law as a separate discipline. Thus, much as war itself is too important to be left to generals, the law of war is too important to be left to international lawyers alone. The book can be used in research seminars in international law at law schools, graduate programs in these various disciplines, and even in advanced courses at the undergraduate level, with the goal of enabling students to develop interdisciplinary fluency in discussion of the case studies ranging from the Melian Dialogue to the Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice. ; https://scholarship.law.edu/fac_books/1128/thumbnail.jpg