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Politics and law appear deeply entwined in contemporary international relations. Leading scholars accordingly advance a new perspective on the politics of international law in this volume. They redefine the nature of politics and demonstrate how modern politics has conditioned the nature of international law. This new perspective is illustrated through case studies of the use of force, climate change, landmines, migrant rights, the International Criminal Court, the Kosovo bombing campaign, international financial institutions, and global governance. ... Read more

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The TRIPS Agreement which was adopted in 1994 is the most comprehensive and influential international treaty on intellectual property rights. It brings intellectual property rules into the framework of the World Trade Organization, and requires massive changes in national laws, particularly in developing countries. This volume provides a detailed legal analysis of the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement, as well as the jurisprudence already developed in the context of the World Trade Organization.
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The law of international responsibility plays a fundamental role in the modern system of international law, surpassed by none and paralleled only by the law of treaties. The volume seeks to cover the entirety of the field of international responsibility, with a particular focus on the work of the International Law Commission. It provides detailed discussion and analysis of the historically predominant topics of State responsibility, on which the ILC completed its work in 2001, and the specific sub-topic of diplomatic protection, work on which was completed by the ILC in 2006. However, it also covers both the topic of responsibility of international organizations, on which the ILC's work is ongoing (a set of draft Articles having been adopted on first reading in 2009), and that of liability for harmful activities not prohibited under international law on which the ILC adopted drafts in 2001 and 2006.

The volume comprises contributions on specific issues in the international law of responsibility, authored by an international team of specialists in the field, which provides a comprehensive commentary of all aspects of the topic. The chapters are detailed in their coverage, discussing both international jurisprudence and doctrinal controversies, as well as providing a critical assessment of the relevant work of the ILC.In addition to providing detailed consideration of the general secondary rules of international responsibility, coverage is also included of certain specific systems of responsibility and their relationship with the general rules under a number of specialised regimes, in particular under certain human rights treaties, the WTO, and investment protection treaties. ... Read more

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The book provides helpful, practical guidance to international corporate lawyers who confront labor and employment problems in structuring corporate transactions. The focus of the book is on practical issues and the contributors are leading labor lawyers in numerous important jurisdictions. ... Read more

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Practical guide
This is a handy and practical book for corporate counsel.It analyzes employment law issues in thirteen countries by examining a typical corporate transaction -- from hiring (and firing) a workforce, dealing with possible union issues, restrictive covenants, wage and benefits issues, discrimination claims, andemployment law issues on the horizon.

It's not an encyclopedia nor does it try to be one.It will answer your questions in a practical way. ... Read more

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This new edition of Cassese's International Law provides a stimulating and authoritative account of international law for undergraduates and postgraduates. It has been fully revised and updated to include all recent developments in the subject, and contains a new chapter on terrorism as well as extensive revision of the section on State Responsibility. Providing a comprehensive commentary on international law as a whole, it compares the traditional legal position with the developing and evolving law in a way that is sensitive to political and economic considerations, as well as including detailed yet accessible examinations of state responsibility and international criminal law. ... Read more

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Excellent
It is an excellent book , although prety much political. From legal point of view it is interesting and very useful,
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International Law
I cannot review the item, since I never received the book. I didn't receive the book on Holkham Hall either. What happened?
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Not timely
Does not say in the beginning that it may take longer than 14 days and does not tell that there is no shipping on Saturdays.I still don't have my book and it's been over 21 days.

Clear and Comprehensive guide for Int Law Students
I found this book incredibly useful for research, and as one of the main sources of information for a law competition I participated in.
The information is presented in a clear manner, yet it encompases a large range of international law theory. On top of that it includes real life examples within the text, but in a format, that they can be skipped over if neccesary.
The book was a great guide to international law jurisprudence, pointing mein the right direction in every case.
This book is great either as an introduction to international law, or as a reference book.
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This third edition of a best seller is an essential resource for law students and lawyers interested in a career in international law, irrespective of age, experience, nationality, residence or practice area. Each chapter is written by an attorney who has made the transition to international law. The authors detail their paths and describe what their work truly entails, including the pros and cons of their positions. Topics covered include: strategies for starting and developing an international law practice; international in-house counsel careers; international law and the public sector; developing a small firm international law practice; networking; and more. ... Read more

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Sales law and contract law made simple. A short and readable book for practioners and students of law, contracts, business administration, commerce and economics, and for anyone in need of an introduction to contract law and sales law.The Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is the present international sales law. It is one of the most important conventions of our time. ... Read more

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Darned good book
I must have read this book three times. It is as billed: a very good general review of contract law, and a very clear overview of the CISG. As such, it is great for students who have studied contracts but not the CISG.
The book is around 150 pages long. It has a quite helpful CISG index, relating the various CISG provisions to the pages of the book where they are explicated. It also contains the text of the CISG for easy reference.
The author is not an American and his text helps highlight certain differences between American and CISG law, especially in regard to force majeure, and therefore a close reading is most instructive to American lawyers. As these types of hornbooks go, this one is pretty darn good. ... Read more

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This important book contains original essays by eighteen of the world's leading scholars and practitioners of international relations and international law. Together they examine the role that international law plays in international politics at the turn of the century. ... Read more

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Interesting collection of essays
This is a very interesting collection of essays on International Law. Important matters such as human rights, environment, use of force, among others, can be found encapsulated in a political approach. 'High Qualified' scholars presented their views on the mentioned topics distinctively contributing to the development of International Law. Very useful source of research content.

up-to-date and new perspectives
Michael Byers is able to gather some of the most innovative international law publicists and practitioners. They cover a big scope of themes, without being abstract and general. I baught this book for my thesis, but I enjoyed it regadless. ... Read more

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John Quigley brings a necessary international law perspective to bear on the seemingly intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this updated edition of his important book. Since 2000, the cycle of bloodshed and retribution has spiraled increasingly out of control. Quigley attributes the breakdown of negotiations in 2000 to Israel's unwillingness to negotiate on the basis of principles of justice and law. He argues that throughout the last century, established tenets of international law--and particularly the right of self-determination--have been overlooked or ignored in favor of the Zionists and then the Israelis, to the detriment of the Palestinians.

In this volume, Quigley provides a thorough understanding of both sides of the conflict in the context of international law. He contends that the Palestinians have a stronger legal claim to Jerusalem than do the Israelis; that Palestinian refugees should be repatriated to areas including those within the borders of Israel; and that Israel should withdraw from the territory it occupied in 1967. As in his earlier volume, Quigley provides an extensively documented evaluation of the conflict over the last century, discussing the Zionist movement, the League of Nations' decision to promote a Jewish homeland in Palestine, the 1948 war and creation of Israel, and Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights during the 1967 war. ... Read more

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Outstanding study of the Israel-Palestine conflict

This excellent survey is a new edition of John Quigley's 1990 classic, `Palestine and Israel'. The author, who is Professor of Law at Ohio State University, examines the origins of the Zionist-Arab conflict in Palestine, the League of Nations' decision to promote a Jewish homeland in Palestine, the 1948 war and the establishment of Israel, the status of Arabs in Israel, the 1967 war, Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and the way to resolve the Palestine-Israel conflict.

During and after the 1948 war, Israeli forces drove 780,000 Palestinian Arabs out of the most densely populated areas of Palestine: only 60,000 remained. As the commander of the Palmach, the elite unit of the Israeli army, admitted, "We did everything to encourage them to flee."

From 1950 onwards, when Palestinians attempted to cross into Israel to attend to their land, Israel repeatedly attacked its Arab neighbours. The UN Security Council condemned these attacks saying, "reprisals have proved to be productive of greater violence rather than a deterrent to violence." This remains true right up to today's brutal Israeli assaults on Gaza and Lebanon.

Mordecai Bentov, who was a cabinet minister when Israel attacked the Arab states in 1967, wrote that Israel's `entire story' about `the danger of extermination' was "invented of whole cloth and exaggerated after the fact to justify the annexation of new Arab territories."

Quigley attributes the breakdown of negotiations in 2000 to Israel's refusal to negotiate on the basis of principles of justice and law. He contends that the Palestinians have a stronger legal claim to Jerusalem than do the Israelis; that Palestinian refugees should be repatriated to areas including those within the borders of Israel; and that Israel should withdraw from all the territories it occupied in 1967.

He argues that throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, Israel and its allies have overridden the basic tenets of international law, particularly the right of self-determination, to the detriment of the Palestinians. He concludes that the conflict can only be ended by establishing a viable Palestinian state.

A stunning history in a legal context that will blow readers away
John Quigley, professor of Law at Ohio State University and a leading American expert in humanitarian law, has written a 2005 update of his 1990 The Case for Palestine. Quigley introduces this book with the hope that it will be used to further peace between Israel and Palestine through better understanding of the situation. The book is highly readable, despite numerous but unobtrusive academic footnotes; the story Quigley relates will stun many who thought they understood much of this historical background.

Quigley starts at the beginning of the Zionist movement, when the first Zionists considered (and tried to obtain at least one of) various locations for a Jewish homeland. This initiative met with success not from a groundswell of support from any Jewish community, but from the persuasion of British officials that a client state near the Suez Canal and oil fields would be useful to British interests. The British requested the British Mandate in 1922 which allowed the Zionist state to develop safely.

Quigley shows that the real start of Israel was not from the UN but was from US President Harry Truman. The UN General Assembly Resolution 181, which laid out a partition of Palestine in 1947 was merely a recommendation that did not even pass! The US had decided that the proposed partition was unworkable and its own UN delegates were about to help draw up a trusteeship for Palestine when President Truman stunned everyone by recognizing Israel after Israel declared itself a state in May of 1948.According to Quigley, Israel had neither title nor legal claim to any part of Palestine until Arafat's recognition at the 1993 Oslo Accords.

Quigley notes that the rationale for Israel's existence as a Jewish refuge was enhanced by Zionist and Israeli actions. Jewish immigration after WW II was often as a result of either the lobbying of foreign governments to curtail the opportunities for refugees to move to countries other than Israel or Israeli intelligence operations that created the belief that Jews were under attack in various countries.

Quigley not only notes that Israel was the aggressor in the 1967 Six Day War which started the occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territory, but also discounts the Israeli rationale for its aggression, putting this instead in the context of Israel's various attempts to expand its territory.

Quigley describes the current grim situation of Palestinian civilians under occupation noting the legal legitimacy of their armed resistance to occupation forces, a resistance that is too often described as "terrorism" in our media. He notes that world judicial bodies give more legitimacy to those seeking their self-determination than to colonizers trying to maintain their power.

This fascinating book is filled with history in a legal context that will equip readers to speak knowledgeably about this situation. Itis an important contribution to public understanding as well as media balance, which too often repeats a one-sided perspective of both history and ongoing events.

a strong case
The title of the book and the case being made is that the Palestinian peoples in the territories Israel occupied in 1967 have a right to self-determination and a future beyond Israeli occupation and colonization through settlements.

The case begins with the conquest by the British of the region in the first world war.The British made promises to european jews that they could construct a homeland in the region.The problem then (as now) is that the land wasn't empty and constructing a new country on top of an existing people and civilization is an unjust act.

He then follows the sad situation through the 1920s and 1930s.As the colonial population grew, political conflict between Palestinians and Jews grew.The British were in a situation where there was no way out.The only way to create the Jewish homeland would be through mass deportation of Palestinians which would never have been considered legal.

The book then shifts to the 1948 war.Palestinians were driven as refugees from their homes by the war.After the war they were not allowed to return.The Israeli government systematically erased their villages with explosives afterward as if somehow to erase their existance from history.

The next major issue is almost 20 years later when as a result of the 1967 war Israel finds itself in military occupation of the west bank and gaza.And this is where the case against Israel grows large.Quigley shows how Israel has systemically ignored international law in the case of the occupation.The illegal annexation of eastern jerusalem and the region around.The colonization of the west bank and gaza.and so on.

He shows how the rise of the extreme right in Israel in the 1970s turned an occupation that might have been initially about security into de-facto annexation.The territories were run as if they were proviences of Israel called Judea and Samaria.The only difference being that the population of the territories was not annexed.They were left in a sort of rightless limbo.Their land could be taken from them and they could be told they could not even build houses while Israeli settlements went up around them.Quigley shows how law was turned on its head to accomplish all this.

The case made by the book will be clear to most.But a subset of fanatics will not understand it at all.They grew up with Israeli mythology, such as books by Joan Peters, telling them that Palestinians were imaginary.The arabs living in the west bank didn't belong there and only lived there are part of a plot to destroy Israel.The territories are not occupied, they are disputed.And as disputed territory Israel can do whatever it wants there including annexation of the land (but not the people).

Others will talk about the great harm done to the rights of Israelis if they are prevented from living in land under military occupation outside their own country.They talk of the 1930s and the injustice in denying them to live as citizens of Israel under Israeli law in a territory that is not part of Israel.Their right to do so is unimaginably important.

But on the other hand, Palestinians have to accept that it is the natural order of things that in those same territories they are entitled to no rights at all.That their greatest asperation in life should be a job in construction or cleaning.Doing the dirty jobs and manual labor that Israelis are too good to do themselves.

While they steal the land through their control of the law and the occupation, they claim that the palestinians are willing sellers.How can Palestinians in the territories who have no rights under Israeli law expect justice from the occupation or even the enforcement of laws or contracts?They know the answer to that.They can't.

Quigley doesn't deal with ancient history claims to the occupied territories.He deals with the reality that there is an palestinian population in the occupied territories today.Their claims are based on the fact that they exist as people living in those territories today.They are facts on the ground that no amount of Israeli propaganda can change.

Quigley has no time also for modern frauds like Joan Peters' "from time immemorial" which "proved" that palestinians were imaginary and jews were always the majority in modern Israel and the occupied territories.

Quigley also dismisses those who deny the existance of Palestinians.He draws the correct conclusion in saying that a people who number in the millions now who live in a geographic region are a national group.And that their most basic right is the right to live where they are, not be called "arabs" and dumped in Lebannon or Jordan or somewhere else.

But for his critics, occupation isn't occupation.Settlements are really Israeli towns, Palestinians don't exist and Israel has effectively annexed the entire land of the west bank into itself but somehow not annexed a single person living there.Quigley shows what the law says and that from the law rather than from religious belief or moral history or guilt or events that happened in europe, that the Palestinians have the stronger case.

Does not make a reasoned case
I was puzzled by the title of this book.What case was it supposed to make?Maybe the case that there was an ancient Levantine Arab People who were unjustly treated and who now deserve Justice?Or the case that Jews are special, and must be denied the right to buy land and live on it, even in their homeland?

Well, the book begins by explaining why Jews, who were being seriously mistreated in Europe (and elsewhere) wanted to move to the Levant.But it basically says that it was fundamentally unjust for Jews to purchase land there, since that displaced the farmers who lived on it.

Now, maybe the author knows something about law.But I think what he says is so unhelpful that it does not matter how much he knows about law, or how little I know about it.Such a claim by him is either founded in law (and he says it is) or it isn't.And it really doesn't matter.If that claim is not founded in law, we ought to toss his book away.If it is founded in law, then the law has to say one of two things.Either it is illegal for any human to be born, since all of us displace folks just by existing.Or it is illegal for certain untermenschen to have any rights, which is a racist set of laws that I reject.I'm sure the German National Socialists were proud of their laws.But at some point, we have to reject bad laws.And if people who need and want land, which is for sale by willing sellers, are not allowed to purchase it, even though they are high bidders, and even though lower bidders are allowed to buy it, we need to reject such laws.

There are plenty of things wrong with Quigley's arguments.But the most fundamental is that the answers are wrong.

Quigley dismisses ancient claims to the Levant.That's fine with me.But he's selective about it.Jewish claims, Pagan claims, and Byzantine claims are considered bogus.Arab claims, on the other hand, are legitimate!That's a little silly, especially given that Arabs only lightly populated the region, were not sovereign there for centuries, and were the majority only because they didn't let Jews enter in significant numbers.

Quigley discusses the question of Levantine Arab "distinctiveness."That's a good question!After all, it is more than a technicality to say, ex post facto, that your fist always had a right to be where someone else's nose turned up!Inventing a particular Arab people and claiming that they had a right to all Jewish land and no other land seems like the same deal.Their fists have rights, Jewish noses do not.But Quigley claims that Levantine Arab distinctiveness is irrelevant because Arabs lived there!Um, that's ridiculous.Mongols lived in Russia, and outnumbered the Russians once the Mongols had killed most of the Russians.But the Mongols populated the region only lightly.It was a Mongol colony, not the Mongol homeland.And the Russians reclaimed it.It is quite relevant that the Levant was an underpopulated backwater of an Arab Empire which housed Jerusalem, the Jewish capital.It explains why Jews outbid Arabs for one parcel of land after another once they had a chance to do so.

And, oh yes, Arab aggression against Israel in 1948 and 1967 is somehow called Israeli aggression.And Israeli towns in the West Bank are called illegal.

One can't do everything in a book.One can't toss absurd and false taunts at a party to a dispute and still present a well-reasoned case.Quigely had a choice to make.He could state his complaints honestly and sincerely, and try to make a case.Or he could taunt Zionists.He chose to do the latter.That precluded him from making a case in favor of anyone.Maybe he had a bad case in the first place, but I still think he ought to have done better than this. ... Read more

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Denial of justice is one of the oldest bases of liability in international law and is examined by Jan Paulsson in this book. The possibilities for prosecuting the offence of denial of justice have evolved in fundamental ways and it is now settled law that States cannot disavow international responsibility by arguing that their courts are independent of the government. Even more importantly, the doors of international tribunals have swung wide open to admit claimants other than states: non-governmental organizations, corporations, and individuals, and Paulsson examines several recent cases of great importance in his book. ... Read more

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This book comprises fifteen specially commissioned contributions from the Editorial Board of the Oxford Journal of International Economic Law in celebration of the Journal's tenth anniversary. The contributions examine various issues confronting the international economic regime today, and cover a wide range of international economic institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO.

It pays particular attention to examining the WTO and its regulatory scope, its systemic and structural deficiencies, its role in development and in liberalizing trade in services, its tense relationship to regionalism and to trade-related issues such as environment, competition and dispute settlement in the field of investment.

The contributions are authored by leading academics in the field, including lawyers, economists, and political scientists who come from a range of developed and developing country backgrounds. This book constitutes a reflection by important individuals on almost all the major contemporary issues facing the WTO today, and therefore represents a snapshot of the key lines of thinking among many of the leading legal scholars of the WTO and international economic regime which are likely to guide the field in the years to come.

This is a book edition of the special 10th anniversary third issue of vol. 10 of the Oxford Journal of International Economic Law September 2007. ... Read more

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This book offers a systematic analysis of the interaction between international investment law, investment arbitration and human rights, including the role of national and international courts, investor-state arbitral tribunals and alternative jurisdictions, the risks of legal and jurisdictional fragmentation, the human rights dimensions of investment law and arbitration, and the relationships of substantive and procedural principles of justice to international investment law.

Part I summarizes the main conclusions of the 24 book chapters and places them into the broader context of the principles of justice, global administrative law and multilevel constitutionalism that may be relevant for the administration of justice in international economic law and investor-state arbitration. Part II includes contributions clarifying the constitutional dimensions of transnational investment disputes and investor-state arbitration, as reflected in the increasing number of arbitral awards and amicus curiae submissions addressing human rights concerns. Part III addresses the need for principle-oriented ordering and the normative congruence of diverse national, regional and worldwide legal regimes, focusing on the pertinent dispute settlement practices and legal interpretation methods of regional economic courts and human rights courts, which increasingly interpret international economic law with due regard to human rights obligations of the governments concerned.

Part IV includes twelve case studies on the potential human rights dimensions of specific protection standards (e.g. fair and equitable treatment, non-discrimination), applicable law (e.g. national and international human rights law, rules on corporate social accountability), procedural law issues (e.g. amicus curiae submissions) and specific fundamental rights (e.g. the protection of human health, access to water, and protection of the environment). These case studies discuss not only the still limited examples of human rights discourse in investor-state arbitral awards; they also probe the potential legal relevance of investor-state arbitration for the judicial recognition, interpretation and balancing of primary rules, such as of investment law and human rights law, in the light of the principles of justice as defined by national and international law. ... Read more

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The greatest possible honor for an international lawyer is to be invited to deliver the Hague Academy General Course in International Law. Rosalyn Higgins was so honored and this volume is the revised text of the lectures she delivered there. Its purpose is to show that there is an essential and unavoidable choice to be made between the perception of international law as either a system of neutral rules or as a system of decision-making directed towards the attainment of specific declared values. This book focuses on resolving this in addition to many other difficult and unanswered issues in contemporary international law. ... Read more

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Something different and refreshing
Reading this book is like a breeze of fresh air in the worl of the literature on international law, which is mostly just listed rules and principles. The author has come up with a truly original and enjoyable style, which is much more fluent and lets the reader feel him/herself more as a person, who does know something about international law. It is good to see that those who sit on the World Court, really do know the subject and can handle it just as skilfully as the clowns handle their stuff at circus.

boring , long winded, verbose
This text is a pointless foray into the venue of international law. The long winded sentences are filled with self adulation and lackinging in valuable information

How else can you say "genius"?
Prior to joining the International Court of Justice, RosalynHiggins wrote Problems & Process, one of the best books written onmodern international law in the past ten years.She successfully writes for two audiences; neophytes of international law, as well as for experienced, lifelong students of the subject.It is rare that an author can present such an accurate and fulfilling work on as many levels as she.Read this book and understand why she sits on the World Court. ... Read more

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International law is playing an increasingly important role in international politics. However, international relations theorists have thus far failed to conceptualise adequately the role that law plays in politics. Instead, IR theorists have tended to operate with a limited conception of law. An understanding of jurisprudence and legal methodology is a crucial step towards achieving a better account of international law in IR theory. But many of the flaws in IR's idea of law stem also from the theoretical foundations of constructivism - the school of thought which engages most frequently with law. Adriana Sinclair rehabilitates IR theory's understanding of law, using cases studies from American, English and international law to critically examine contemporary constructivist approaches to IR and show how a gap in their understanding of law has led to inadequate theorisation. ... Read more

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This basic guide to intellectual property law, from the point of view of international commerce, clearly demarcates the ground on which any contract involving intellectual property must be based. It describes and analyses the legally valid guidelines by which any commercial entity may: facilitate the sale of a protected product in foreign markets; prevent the use of protected property by competitors at home and abroad; and forestall the manufacture abroad of identical or misleadingly similar items. The author considers both the variety of national requirements and the international intellectual property regime that is now in place under the WTO/GATT, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and multilateral treaties. In connection with both technology and proprietary information, emphasis is on the need to determine, on a country-by-country basis: which 'ideas' are subject to intellectual property protection; which 'persons' can seek and obtain intellectual property protection; which special use permits may apply; and which technical requirements must be met. This is a fundamental resource for any business person or counsel considering entry into foreign markets.The information and guidance it provides is easy to understand and use, and will help any cross-border business venture to proceed smoothly and successfully. ... Read more

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Codified in the 1899 and 1907 Hague Peace Conferences and later modified by the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, the traditional international law of occupation has been challenged by advocates of human rights and self- determination and tested by the numerous occupations of the last two decades--among them Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus, the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia, U.S. operations in Grenada and Panama, and occupations during the Persian Gulf crisis. To address the new issues that have emerged, Eyal Benvenisti formulates a contemporary theory of the law of occupation and establishes guidelines for the lawful management of occupation. In his new preface the author addresses issues arising from the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Benvenisti delineates the international responsibilities and obligations of governments that gain control over foreign territories through the use of force and examines the conduct of various occupying powers of the twentieth century, beginning with the German occupation of Belgium during World War I. He analyzes the actions of these occupants by contrasting them with the reactions of ousted governments, of peoples under occupation, and of other states and of supranational organizations. Additionally, he evaluates the legality of various measures taken by occupants, with the result that the nature of occupation can now for the first time be systematically assessed. ... Read more

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Very Useful
I was referred to Mr. Benvenisti's book by a fellow researcher and was not disappointed. His concise, yet accurate, explanations of intenational law has been a wonderful resource for my work.

Personal Thoughts on Benvenisti's Point of View
I thought this book was well-written and took into consideration of all of the major occupations that occurred throughout history.My particular interest was his explanation of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and theterritorial dispute of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.I would morethan welcome and purchase more of Mr. Benvenisti's point of viewsconcerning international law. ... Read more

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International insolvency is a newly-established branch of the study of insolvency that owes much to the phenomenon of cross-border incorporations and the conduct of business in more than one jurisdiction. It is largely the offspring of globalisation and involves looking at both law and economic rules. This book is a compendium of essays by eminent academics and practitioners in the field, who trace the development of the subject, give an account of the influences of economics, legal history and private international law and chart its relationship with finance and security issues as well as the importance of business rescue as a phenomenon. Furthermore, the essays examine how international instruments introduced in recent years function as well as how the subject itself is continually being innovated by being confronted by the challenges of other areas of law with which it becomes entangled. ... Read more

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These papers are concerned with the theory, history, sources, relationships of international law with municipal law, subjects of international law, recognition, succession, jurisdiction, territory, state responsibility, the individual, treaties, international organisations, settlement of disputes and the law of war and neutrality. This first or general volume includes the English text of a general course of lectures on international law which Hersch Lauterpacht delivered at the Hague Academy of International Law in 1937 and the chapters on the general part of international law which he prepared for the new edition of Oppenheim's International Law on which he was working at the time of his death. ... Read more

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International Trust Laws provides practical and broad ranging coverage of the most important issues in international trust law across leading jurisdictions. It analyzes crucial topics surrounding the creation of trusts, the powers and duties of trustees, mechanisms of control, and the special uses of trusts. The topics are considered in the light both of their original development under English law, and the statutory solutions worked out by offshore jurisdictions such as Jersey, Guernsey, the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, the Isle of Man and New Zealand. Other examples are drawn from a wealth of other jurisdictions including Dubai, Mauritius, and the Cook Islands. The book also reviews a wealth of case law from English and offshore courts and offers a unique consideration of the recognition and impact of trust law issues in civil law contexts. ... Read more

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Trusts...international?
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An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers

Like the English language itself, which has spread out over we can't remember how many countries, the concept of trusts, although fundamentally English, has now gone international, particularly in the last 25 years.

The publication of Paolo Panico's `International Trust Laws' is therefore timely and fulfillsa pressing need for an extensive and detailed understanding of the concept, function and administration of trusts worldwide.

The very word `trust' is significant - an obligation on which all may confidently rely. The author's introductory quote from Frederick Maitland's view of trusts deliberately emphasizes the point that attaching `an obligation of conscience to the title to property' formed, in Maitland's words, "perhaps the greatest and most distinctive achievement of English lawyers", finding no equivalent in foreign law.Trusts exemplify `English legal genius' at its best-- and just to make sure you get the message, the author lightheartedly prefaces his comments with those lines from Gilbert & Sullivan's `HMS Pinafore'...'for in spite of all temptations, to belong to other nations, He remains an Englishman!'

So if you are a legal practitioner with a burgeoning offshore practice, rest assured: there is a corner of that increasingly complex foreign field of trusts that remains forever England.However -- it is noted in the text that because trusts have an identifiable `common core' consisting of (a) asset segregation and (b) fiduciary administration by trustee for beneficiary...it is therefore possible to `recognize trusts in jurisdictions sharing different legal traditions.'

`International Trust Laws' (in the author's words) `considers the main aspects of international trust laws, with reference to express private trusts, primarily in a private donative context as well as in respect of commercial applications'. Covering at least 26 different jurisdictions, the book attempts (and in my view succeeds) in reflecting the wide diversity within the international dimension of trust law.

Logically structured in five parts, the book covers the creation of trusts...the powers and duties of trustees...trustee liability...control mechanisms...and special uses of trusts. Following a general pattern, each chapter starts with the development of the English traditional model, then reviews legislative developments in various offshore jurisdictions, both in the common law and civil law traditions.
The extensive Tables of Cases (listed alphabetically by country) and of Legislation, plus excellent index, make this an instructive and easy to use work of reference.

For both private and commercial clients, the world, as was once predicted, is fast becoming a `global village' which is why the copiously researched and lucidly written International Trust Laws is an important book.Read it and you will certainly acquire a broader understanding of... and certainly a global perspective on, trusts.
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