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In the spirit of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations and the United Nations Decade of International Law, the contributors to Perspectives on International Law honour with this legal treatise a devoted friend of the United Nations and international law, Judge Manfred Lachs - a noted judge, diplomat, humanist and, above all, teacher. The work includes a variety of perspectives on international law relating to what were Judge Lachs' four main areas of interest: the theory and practice of international law, the United Nations, the World Court, and space law. The book meets the need for a reference work covering selected subject areas and providing different perspectives on some of the key issues of current concern. Many eminent experts in various fields related to international law, including Judges of the International Court of Justice, diplomats, and professors of law - most of whom knew Judge Lachs personally - have contributed. Each chapter has been prepared specifically for the book. The contributors represent all political, legal and cultural regions of the world and provide a range of backgrounds and viewpoints, offering a variety of new ideas for strengthening international law, based on their assessment of the lessons of the past

In honour of the work and writings of Professor John Bell, leading scholars present essays on factors affecting the course of 'legal development' in common law and Civilian systems. The reasons and context for legal development in a comparative perspective embrace the law both in action and in the books, legal institutions, legal cultures, and the extra-legal environment. Offering an accessible pathway into understanding comparative law, the collection introduces the core features of understanding foreign legal systems. With a range of illustrative case studies, the essays explore topical problems and debates in tort, contract, legal history, and judicial studies. In a tribute to one of the defining legal scholars of our time, this volume draws a rich, nuanced picture of the object of comparative legal research, and indicates new and exciting avenues for further research.

This book celebrates Professor Margaret Brazier's outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics. It examines key aspects developed in Professor Brazier's agenda-setting body of work, with contributions being provided by leading experts in the field from the UK, Australia, the US and continental Europe. They examine a range of current and future challenges for healthcare law and bioethics, representing state-of-the-art scholarship in the field.The book is organised into five parts. Part I discusses key principles and themes in healthcare law and bioethics. Part II examines the dynamics of the patient–doctor relationship, in particular the role of patients. Part III explores legal and ethical issues relating to the human body. Part IV discusses the regulation of reproduction, and Part V examines the relationship between the criminal law and the healthcare process.

Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. These 13 new essays acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights into the cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety of historical contexts and circumstances. --

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Biography; Contributors; Foreword: There are men too gentle to live among wolves; Abbreviations; 1: Hilaire McCoubrey and international conflict and security law; 2: The development of operational law within Army Legal Services; 3: Reflections on the relationship between the duty to educate in humanitarian law and the absence of a defence of mistake of law in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; 4: Superior orders and the International Criminal Court; 5: Command responsibility: victors' justice or just desserts?

The ongoing global tax governance is bringing international tax law to unprecedented levels of coordination, backed up by technical consultations with stakeholders. This book in honour of Guglielmo Maisto is the outcome of a theoretical and practical research project involving all its contributors, which rank among the most authoritative experts of international tax law.

"This wide-ranging collection of essays reflects the manifold scholarly interests of legal historian Charles Donahue, whose former students engage here with questions related to foundational Roman law concepts, the impact of the law on women and families in medieval and early modern Europe, the intersection of law and religion, and the echoes of legal ideas on later developments in American law and in world literature and philosophy. From the monks of Metz to the book sellers of colonial Boston, from fourteenth-century English charters to the writings of Faust, these essays invite you to experience law at once learned and lived. Contributors are: Charles Bartlett, Anton Chaevitch, Wim Decock, Rowan Dorin, Sally E. Hadden, Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch, Nikitas Hatzimihail, Samantha Kahn Herrick, Daniel Jacobs, Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Amalia D. Kessler, Saskia Lettmaier, Sara McDougall, Stuart M. McManus, Elizabeth W. Mellyn, Bharath Palle, Ryan Rowberry, Carol Symes, James R. Townshend, and John Witte, Jr"--

"For nearly fifty years, Professor Harry Glasbeek has been at the forefront of legal scholars and public intellectuals challenging assumptions and understandings about the injustices embedded in the economic, social, political and legal orders of Western capitalist democracies. His writings and teachings have influenced generations of law students, academics and activists."--

Intro -- Foreword by David Anderson -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I. GENERAL INTERNATIONAL LAW -- 1. Less is More: Rules and Principles in International Law-Making -- I. Introduction -- II. The Two Styles of Law-Making -- III. The Detailed Rule-Based Approach -- IV. The General Principle-Based Approach -- V. Subsequent Practice and the Elaboration of General Principles -- VI. Conclusion -- 2. An Amodernist Approach to International Law: The Law of the Sea in the Amarna Letters -- I. Introduction: Modern Approaches to International Law -- II. An Amodernist Approach to International Law -- III. A Brief Amodernist Account of the History of International Law -- IV. The First Law of the Sea: The Amarna Letters -- V. Conclusions -- 3. The Sources of Public International Law Historically Considered -- I. Introduction -- II. Before Article 38(1) of the 1945 Statute of the International Court of Justice -- III. The Necessity of Natural Law -- IV. Thinking through the Contents and Relevance of the Martens Clause -- V. Treaties, Custom and Paquette Habana (1900) -- VI. Multilateral Treaties: On Codification and Progressive Development -- VII. On the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases (1969) -- VIII. Final Reflections -- PART II. HUMAN RIGHTS LAW -- 4. The United Nations and Human Rights: Reform through Review? -- I. Introduction -- II. The Treaty Body Crisis -- III. Addressing the Crisis: The 'Treaty-Strengthening Process' -- IV. Strengthening the Treaties: Resolution 68/268 -- V. The Road to the 2020 Review -- VI. Conclusion: Reform by Review -- VII. Postscript -- 5. United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Universality and National Implementation -- I. Introduction -- II. Deference by the ECtHR -- III. Deference by Other International Courts -- IV. Deference by Human Rights Treaty Bodies -- V. Conclusions.