Author : Philip Caryl Jessup
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231037211
Explores the birth of seven new nations following World War II including Korea, Indonesia, Morroco, Tunesia, Libya, Somalia, Eritrea and Israel.
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Comparative law
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Author : Julia Rose Kraut
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674246179
In this first comprehensive overview of the intersection of immigration law and the First Amendment, a lawyer and historian traces ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States from the Alien Friends Act of 1798 to the evolving policies of the Trump administration. Beginning with the Alien Friends Act of 1798, the United States passed laws in the name of national security to bar or expel foreigners based on their beliefs and associations—although these laws sometimes conflict with First Amendment protections of freedom of speech and association or contradict America’s self-image as a nation of immigrants. The government has continually used ideological exclusions and deportations of noncitizens to suppress dissent and radicalism throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the War on Anarchy to the Cold War to the War on Terror. In Threat of Dissent—the first social, political, and legal history of ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States—Julia Rose Kraut delves into the intricacies of major court decisions and legislation without losing sight of the people involved. We follow the cases of immigrants and foreign-born visitors, including activists, scholars, and artists such as Emma Goldman, Ernest Mandel, Carlos Fuentes, Charlie Chaplin, and John Lennon. Kraut also highlights lawyers, including Clarence Darrow and Carol Weiss King, as well as organizations, like the ACLU and PEN America, who challenged the constitutionality of ideological exclusions and deportations under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court, however, frequently interpreted restrictions under immigration law and upheld the government’s authority. By reminding us of the legal vulnerability foreigners face on the basis of their beliefs, expressions, and associations, Kraut calls our attention to the ways that ideological exclusion and deportation reflect fears of subversion and serve as tools of political repression in the United States.
Author : Alexander J. Bělohlávek
Publisher : Juris Publishing, Inc.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Conflict of laws
ISBN : 1578233569
We are proud to present to our readers Czech Yearbook of International Law 2012, Volume 3. The overarching topic of this volume, Public Policy and Ordre Public turns its focus to the doctrine which is inherently connected with private international law, which is true only at first glance. The problem of Public Policy and Ordre Public is intertwined more deeply in the national legal orders than virtually any legal branch. However, the platform of private international law through which these doctrines emerge and find its strongest application is in the cross-border traffic of the court and extra-court decisions. In these relationships, the most important differences in understanding the extent and nature of these terms take shape. The third volume of the Czech Yearbook of International Law focuses on the uncovering of national differences and the comparison of such doctrines in a global perspective. CYIL 2012 takes into account the completely different connotations given to both doctrines in the United States and the Common Law countries in continental Europe. Institutions participating in the CYIL Project: Academic institutions within Czech Republic: - Masaryk University (Brno), Faculty of Law, Department of International and European Law. - University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Faculty of Law, Department of Constitutional Law & Department of International Law. - VŠB-TU Ostrava, Faculty of Economics, Department of Law. - Department of European Law, Department of Commercial Law & Centre for Comparative Law of the Faculty of Law, Charles University. - University College of International and Public Relations Prague. - Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i. Non-academic institutions in the Czech Republic - Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, Department of Legislation, Prague. - Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic, Prague. - ICC National Committee Czech Republic, Commission on Arbitration, Prague. Institutions outside Czech Republic participating in the CYIL Project: Austria University of Vienna, Department of European, International and Comparative Law, Section for International Law and International Relations. Poland Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of Private International Law. Slovak Republic Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of State and Law, Bratislava. University of Matej Bel in Banská Bystrica, Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations, Department of International Affairs and Diplomacy. Trnava University in Trnava, Faculty of Law, Department of Labour Law and Social Security Law.
Author : Jack L. Goldsmith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199883378
International law is much debated and discussed, but poorly understood. Does international law matter, or do states regularly violate it with impunity? If international law is of no importance, then why do states devote so much energy to negotiating treaties and providing legal defenses for their actions? In turn, if international law does matter, why does it reflect the interests of powerful states, why does it change so often, and why are violations of international law usually not punished? In this book, Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner argue that international law matters but that it is less powerful and less significant than public officials, legal experts, and the media believe. International law, they contend, is simply a product of states pursuing their interests on the international stage. It does not pull states towards compliance contrary to their interests, and the possibilities for what it can achieve are limited. It follows that many global problems are simply unsolvable. The book has important implications for debates about the role of international law in the foreign policy of the United States and other nations. The authors see international law as an instrument for advancing national policy, but one that is precarious and delicate, constantly changing in unpredictable ways based on non-legal changes in international politics. They believe that efforts to replace international politics with international law rest on unjustified optimism about international law's past accomplishments and present capacities.
Author : Francine Hirsch
Publisher :
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 0199377936
The Nuremberg Trials (IMT), most notable for their aim to bring perpetrators of Nazi war crimes to justice in the wake of World War II, paved the way for global conversations about genocide, justice, and human rights that continue to this day. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this new history of the trials, a central part of the story has been ignored or forgotten: the critical role the Soviet Union played in making them happen in the first place. While there were practical reasons for this omission--until recently, critical Soviet documents about Nuremberg were buried in the former Soviet archives, and even Russian researchers had limited access--Hirsch shows that there were political reasons as well. The Soviet Union was regarded by its wartime Allies not just as a fellow victor but a rival, and it was not in the interests of the Western powers to highlight the Soviet contribution to postwar justice. Stalin's Show Trials of the 1930s had both provided a model for Nuremberg and made a mockery of it, undermining any pretense of fairness and justice. Further complicating matters was the fact that the Soviets had allied with the Nazis before being invaded by them. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 hung over the courtroom, as did the fact that the everyone knew that the Soviet prosecution had presented the court with falsified evidence about the Katyn massacre of Polish officers, attempting to pin one of their own major war crimes on the Nazis. For lead American prosecutor Robert Jackson and his colleagues, focusing too much on the Soviet role in the trials threatened the overall credibility of the IMT and possibly even the collective memory of the war. Soviet Justice at Nuremberg illuminates the ironies of Stalin's henchmen presiding in moral judgment over the Nazis. In effect, the Nazis had learned mass-suppression and mass-murder techniques from the Soviets, their former allies, and now the latter were judging them for crimes they had themselves committed. Yet the Soviets had borne the brunt of the fighting--and the losses--in World War II, and this gave them undeniable authority. Moreover, Soviet jurists were the first to conceive of a legal framework for viewing war as a crime, and without that framework the IMT would have had no basis. In short, there would be no denying their place at the tribunal, nor their determination to make the most of it. Illuminating the shifting relationships between the four countries involved (the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the U.S.S.R.) Hirsch's book shows how each was not just facing off against the Nazi defendants, but against each other and offers a new history of Nuremberg.
Author : Harlan Grant Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2021-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107188431
Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this volume shows how international law shapes behavior.
Author : Francesca Bignami
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1782545611
Governance by regulation – rules propounded and enforced by bureaucracies – is taking a growing share of the sum total of governance. Once thought to be an American phenomenon, it is now a central form of state action in every part of the world, including Europe, Latin America, and Asia, and it is at the core of much international lawmaking. In Comparative Law and Regulation, original contributions by leading scholars in the field focus both on the legal dimension of regulation and on how this dimension operates in those places that have turned to regulation to meet their obligations.
Author : Susan Block-Lieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107187583
Lawmaking by international organizations has enormous influence over world trade and national economies. This book explores who makes that law and how.
Author : Afra Afsharipour
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1788975332
This research handbook provides a state-of-the-art perspective on how corporate governance differs between countries around the world. It covers highly topical issues including corporate purpose, corporate social responsibility and shareholder activism.
