International Law

Winner of the True Crime Awards Book of the YearShortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award***A Waterstones Best Books of 2...

As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfy...

Documents Annex: http://www.nyupress.org/justtradeannex/index.html It is generally assumed that pro-trade laws are not good for human rights, and l...

Current policy initiatives that address the health of youth, a group where more than one set of developmental standards may apply, often are based ...

Canadians like to think that their country is law-abiding and honours its international commitments. Is Our House in Order? explores this public pe...

When a person is not recognised as a citizen anywhere, they are typically referred to as ‘stateless’. This can give rise to challenges both for ind...

Autonomous weapons systems seem to be on the path to becoming accepted technologies of warfare. The weaponization of artificial intelligence raises...

Autonomous weapons systems seem to be on the path to becoming accepted technologies of warfare. The weaponization of artificial intelligence raises...

A provocative reassessment of the rule of law in world politicsConventionally understood as a set of limits on state behavior, the “rule of law” in...

Guardian's Best Paperback of the Month ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S and FINANCIAL TIMES' BOOKS OF 2020 'In intimate, often tender prose, Gevisser brings...

Human Rights, now in its fourth edition, is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. Its unique interdisciplinary approach inv...

Justice at War irrevocably alters the reader's perception of one of the most disturbing events in U.S. history--the internment during World War II ...

This book addresses how the regulation of international commercial arbitrators takes place. International commercial arbitrators are a unique categ...

"The Selling of 'Free Trade'" shows how Washington works to accomplish political or economic goals, even when confronted with widespread popular op...

American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today--hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and rese...

The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the c...

This volume explores relations between socialist planned economies of Central and East European countries and capitalist market economies of neutra...

Do individual constitutions, and the legal cultures underlying them, pose an obstacle to future EU integration? This ambitious collection brings t...

Human use of marine resources is changing, as is the marine environment itself, and our understanding of marine ecosystems and biodiversity is deve...

Laszlo Bardossy was a wartime prime minister executed for his role in mass murder, but his role remains controversial. His trial was riddled with b...

Covert activity has always been a significant element of international politics. When it has served their interests, governments have secretly diss...

The North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, has been one of the most hotly contested political and economic issues of the past twenty years....

Listen to a short interview with Rawi AbdelalHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneThe rise of global financial markets in the last decad...

This book examines the convergences, divergences and reciprocal lessons that the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) sh...

The tools of reason offer the best hope for the international community to confront the increasing incidents of hate throughout the world. A histor...

While other books deal with the contemporary issue of the right to die, no attempt has been made to demonstrate substantially the historic nature o...

Ffrench's book offers a way out of the pervasive confusion that has frustrated efforts of companies attempting to deal with foreign regulatory prac...

This is the first systematic study of the Stimson Doctrine of Nonrecognition as applied to Lithuania and the other Baltic States. The book blends p...

Provides a cutting-edge, nuanced, and multi-disciplinary picture of the Holocaust from local, transnational, continental, and global perspectives H...

Two leading feminist lawyers reflect on gender in international law to set out what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on internationa...

Comprising two volumes, this is a pioneering study which examines how the United States has deployed public diplomacy with Japan to confront Japane...

Holocaust Restitution is the first volume to present the Holocaust restitution movement directly from the viewpoints of the various parties involve...

Examines the ways military tribunals seek to administer justice The Al-Qaeda terror attacks of September 11, 2001 aroused a number of extraordinary...

In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth centur...

One of the most comprehensive examinations of US torture policy, from the Cold War to the War on Terror to the debate over accountability Waterboar...

International law is a fundamentally modern phenomenon. Tracing its roots to nineteenth-century pronouncements on the 'law of nations,' the discipl...

Despite the handwringing and promises of "never again," the grim recurrences of genocide and crimes against humanity around the world have made it ...

Devolution to Scotland and Wales represented the most fundamental reform of the British state for almost a century. Ten years on, how successful h...

Canadians like to think that their country is law-abiding and honours its international commitments. Is Our House in Order? explores this public pe...

Africa's natural resources have been of interest to other areas of the world for centuries. During the nineteenth-century European colonization of ...

This book critically examines how and why Eastern enlargement has impacted on EU human rights policy. By drawing on the EU’s intervention in human ...