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  • Ukraine and the Legal Accountability of Russia

    The Emergence of a New Global Order

    Edited by Yvonne Dutton, Michael P. Scharf, Milena Sterio, Paul R. Williams ...
    This book explains how the response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has transformed international law. It analyzes the significance of the resurrection of the UN General Assembly’s Uniting for Peace mechanism, the insertion of the International Criminal Court into world politics at the highest level, and the creation of new types of investigatory mechanisms and tribunals. It explores ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Founders

    Four Pioneering Individuals Who Launched the First Modern-Era International Criminal Tribunals

    Edited by David M. Crane, Michael P. Scharf, Leila N. Sadat ...
    The Balkan Wars, the Rwanda genocide, and the crimes against humanity in Cambodia and Sierra Leone spurred the creation of international criminal tribunals to bring the perpetrators of unimaginable atrocities to justice. When Richard Goldstone, David Crane, Robert Petit, and Luis Moreno-Ocampo received the call - each set out on a unique quest to build an international criminal tribunal and launch ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Enemy of the State

    The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein

    by Michael A. Newton, Michael P. Scharf ...
    At 12:21 p.m., on October 19, 2005, Saddam Hussein was escorted into the Courtroom of the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad for one of the most important and chaotic trials in history. For a year, two American law professors had led an elite team of experts who prepared the judges and prosecutors for "the mother of all trials." Michael Scharf, a former State Department official who helped create the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Syrian Conflict's Impact on International Law

    by Michael P. Scharf, Milena Sterio, Paul R. Williams ...
    Written as the decade-long Syria conflict nears an end, this is the first book-length treatment of how the Syrian war has changed international law. In The Syrian Conflict's Impact on International Law, the authors explain the history of the current conflict in Syria and discuss the principles and process of customary international law formation and the phenomenon of accelerated formation of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change

    Recognizing Grotian Moments

    by Michael P. Scharf ...
    This is the first book to explore the concept of 'Grotian Moments'. Named for Hugo Grotius, whose masterpiece De jure belli ac pacis helped marshal in the modern system of international law, Grotian Moments are transformative developments that generate the unique conditions for accelerated formation of customary international law. In periods of fundamental change, whether by technological advances ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Prosecuting Maritime Piracy

    Domestic Solutions to International Crimes

    Edited by Michael P. Scharf, Milena Sterio, Michael A. Newton ...
    This book addresses maritime piracy by focusing on the unique and fascinating issues arising in the course of domestic piracy prosecutions, from the pursuit and apprehension of pirates to their trial and imprisonment. It examines novel matters not addressed in other published works, such as the challenges in preserving and presenting evidence in piracy trials, the rights of pirate defendants, and ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The United States and the International Criminal Court

    National Security and International Law

    by Gary J. Bass, Bartram S. Brown, Abram Chayes, Robinson O. Everett, Richard J. Goldstone, Madeline Morris, William L. Nash, Leila Nadya Sadat, Michael P. Scharf, David J. Scheffer, Ruth Wedgwood, Samantha Power, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Lawrence Weschler ...
    American reluctance to join the International Criminal Court illuminates important trends in international security and a central dilemma facing U.S. Foreign policy in the 21st century. The ICC will prosecute individuals who commit egregious international human rights violations such as genocide. The Court is a logical culmination of the global trends toward expanding human rights and creating ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis

    The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser

    by Michael P. Scharf, Paul R. Williams ...
    Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis grew out of a series of meetings that the authors convened with all ten of the living former U.S. State Department legal advisers (from the Carter administration to that of George W. Bush). Based on their insider accounts of the role that international law actually played during the major crises on their watch, the book explores whether international law ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

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  • The Politics of Genocide

    by Edward S. Herman, David Peterson ...
    In this impressive book, Edward S. Herman and David Peterson examine the uses and abuses of the word “genocide.” They argue persuasively that the label is highly politicized and that in the United States it is used by the government, journalists, and academics to brand as evil those nations and political movements that in one way or another interfere with the imperial interests of U.S. capitalism. ... Read more

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  • War Law

    Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict

    by Michael Byers ...
    "Professor Byers's book goes to the heart of some of the most bitterly contested recent controversies about the International Rule of Law." —Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford UniversityInternational law governing the use of military force has been the subject of intense public debate. Under what conditions is it appropriate, or necessary, for a country to use force when diplomacy has failed? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rogue States

    The Rule of Force in World Affairs

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    The bestselling author and activist "has delivered another impressive argument that the U.S. flouts international law when it finds it convenient to do so" ( Publishers Weekly ).In this still-timely classic, Noam Chomsky argues that the real "rogue" states are the United States and its allies. Chomsky turns his penetrating gaze toward US involvement in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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