LexLibris

Here is the list of new titles the Law Library acquired in June 2009. The list is on the Library's home page.

June Acquisitions

In addition, here are a couple highlighted titles of particular interest:

Documents of Native American political development : 1500s to 1933 / [edited by] David E. Wilkins.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. Call number: E98.T77 D63 2009

Publisher's Description:
The arrival of European and Euro-American colonizers in the Americas brought not only physical attacks against Native American tribes, but also further attacks against the sovereignty of these Indian nations. Though the violent tales of the Trail of Tears, Black Hawk's War, and the Battle of Little Big Horn are taught far and wide, the political structure and development of Native American tribes, and the effect of American domination on Native American sovereignty, have been greatly neglected.

This book contains a variety of primary source and other documents--traditional accounts, tribal constitutions, legal codes, business councils, rules and regulations, BIA agents reports, congressional discourse, intertribal compacts--written both by Natives from many different nations and some non-Natives, that reflect how indigenous peoples continued to exercise a significant measure of self-determination long after it was presumed to have been lost, surrendered, or vanquished. The documents are arranged chronologically, and Wilkins provides brief, introductory essays to each document, placing them within the proper context. Each introduction is followed by a brief list of suggestions for further reading.

Covering a fascinating and relatively unknown period in Native American history, from the earliest examples of indigenous political writings to the formal constitutions crafted just before the American intervention of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, this anthology will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the political development of indigenous peoples the world over.

Taussig, Anthony. Blackstone and his contemporaries.
Tex. : Jamail Center for Legal Research, University of Texas at Austin, 2009. Call number: KD621.B54 T39x 2009

Publisher's Description:
As part of its Legal History Series, the Tarlton Law Library at The University of Texas School of Law has recently published Blackstone and His Contemporaries. The publication is based on the fourth annual rare book lecture presented by Anthony Taussig in February 2008. Taussig, a London barrister, has collected an outstanding collection of manuscripts and early printed books on English law. In his lecture, Taussig questioned traditional views about Sir William Blackstone, the English law professor and jurist who is best known for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69). This historical and analytic treatise on the common law significantly influenced the development of the American legal system.

The lecture and the publication were based largely on manuscript materials recently made available, including letters by and about Blackstone in Taussig's own collection, and in the libraries of Lambeth Palace, London, and All Souls College, Oxford. A number of these manuscript resources are reproduced in facsimile or transcribed in the published volume. In the light of those materials, Taussig reviewed Blackstone's work as a barrister and his transition from legal practice in London to a professorship of law at Oxford and then back again to the London Bar. In particular, Taussig scrutinized Blackstone's handling of his most important case--the litigation over the preferential treatment granted to the kin of the Founder (Archbishop Chichele) at All Souls College, Oxford--to evaluate Blackstone's legal skills.
More info: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2009/052709_taussig.html

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The Law Library is closed on Friday July 3.
Law students and others with after-hours UCard access will still be able to access the library and building.

Fast Facts: Fourth of July 2009
Facts and stats relating to the holiday.

Including:

+ 2.5 million
In July 1776, the estimated number of people living in the newly independent nation.

+ Please Pass the Potato Salad
Potato salad and potato chips are popular food items at Fourth of July barbecues. More than half (52 percent) of the nation's spuds were produced in Idaho or Washington state in 2007.

+ $17.3 million
The value of U.S. manufacturers' shipments of fireworks in 2002.

+ $4.7 million
In 2007, the dollar value of U.S. imports of American flags. The vast majority of this amount ($4.3 million) was for U.S. flags made in China.

...and many more

Source: U.S. Census via ResourceShelf

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Kimball, Bruce A. The inception of modern professional education : C.C. Langdell, 1826-1906. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. Call number: KF368.L36 K56 2009

Publisher's Description:
Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, he conceived, designed, and built the educational model that leading professional schools in virtually all fields subsequently emulated. In this first full-length biography of the educator and jurist, Bruce Kimball explores Langdell's controversial role in modern professional education and in jurisprudence.

Langdell founded his model on the idea of academic meritocracy. According to this principle, scholastic achievement should determine one's merit in professional life. Despite fierce opposition from students, faculty, alumni, and legal professionals, he designed and instituted a formal system of innovative policies based on meritocracy. This system's components included the admission requirement of a bachelor's degree, the sequenced curriculum and its extension to three years, the hurdle of annual examinations for continuation and graduation, the independent career track for professional faculty, the transformation of the professional library into a scholarly resource, the inductive pedagogy of teaching from cases, the organization of alumni to support the school, and a new, highly successful financial strategy.

Langdell's model was subsequently adopted by leading law schools, medical schools, business schools, and the schools of other professions. By the time of his retirement as dean of Harvard Law School, Langdell had instituted the future model for professional education throughout the United States.

Brabandere, Eric de. Post-conflict administrations in international law : international territorial administration, transitional authority and foreign occupation in theory and practice.
Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009. Call number: KZ3673 .B73 2009

Publisher's Description:
The concept of international administrations of territory, in which comprehensive administrative powers are exercised by, on behalf of or with the agreement of the United Nations has recently re-emerged in the context of reconstructing (parts of) states after conflict. Although in Kosovo and East Timor, the UN was endowed with wide-ranging executive and legislative powers, in the subsequent operations in Afghanistan it was decided, to principally rely on local capacity with minimal international participation, and in Iraq, administrative power was exercised by the occupying powers. The objectives are however very similar.

This work first delineates the origins of the granting of administrative functions to international actors, and analyses the context in which it has resurfaced, namely post-conflict peace-building or reconstruction. Secondly, the book methodically establishes the legal framework applicable to post-conflict administrations and peace-building operations, by taking into account the post-conflict scenario in which they operate. Based on these two analyses, an enquiry into the practice of the reconstruction processes in Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq is undertaken, to analyse and understand the influence of the international legal framework and the different approaches on the implementation of the mandates. Finally, the book concludes with an analysis of questions on exit strategies, local ownership, the internationalisation of domestic institutions, and the need for a comprehensive approach towards post-conflict reconstruction.

Dow, David R. America's prophets : how judicial activism makes America great.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009. Call number: KF5130 .D69 2009

Publisher's Description:
America's Prophets: How Judicial Activism Makes America Great fills a major void in the popular literature by providing a thorough definition and historical account of judicial activism and by arguing that it is a method of prophetic adjudication which is essential to preserving American values. Dow confounds the allegation of the Christian right that judicial activism is legally and morally unsound by tracing the roots of American judicial activism to the methods of legal and moral interpretation developed by the prophets of the Hebrew Bible. He claims that Isaiah, Amos, and Jesus are archetypal activist judges and, conversely, that modern activist judges are America's prophets. Dow argues that judicial restraint is a priestly method of adjudication and that it, not judicial activism, is the legally and morally unsound method.

Race and gender discrimination, separation of church and state, privacy rights, and same-sex marriage are all issues that have divided our nation and required judicial intervention. Every time the courts address a hot-button issue and strike down entrenched bias or bigotry, critics accuse the justices of being judicial activists, whose decisions promote their personal biases and flout constitutional principles. This term, despite its widespread currency as a pejorative, has never been rigorously defined. Critics of judicial activism properly point out that when judges overturn laws that enforce popular norms they thwart the will of the majority. But Dow argues that so-called activist judges uphold two other American legal values that are as deeply embedded in American legal culture as majoritarianism: liberty andequality. He challenges the notion that judicial activism is unprincipled, and he provides a vocabulary and historical context for defending progressive decisions.

With roots in the biblical prophets, judicial activism is a contemporary method of legal interpretation whereby judges base their decisions not on what they personally believe, but instead on the fundamental American values of liberty and equality.

Witte, John. The sins of the fathers : the law and theology of illegitimacy reconsidered.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. Call number: K702 .W58 2009

Publisher's Description:
For nearly two millennia, Western law visited the sins of fathers and mothers upon their illegitimate children, subjecting them to systematic discrimination and deprivation. The graver the sins of their parents, the further these children fell in social standing and legal protection. While some reformers have sought to better the plight of illegitimate children, only in recent decades has illegitimacy lost its full legal sting. Yet the social, economic, and psychological costs of illegitimacy still remain high even in the liberal, affluent West.

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Stephen F. Befort and John W. Budd. Invisible hands, invisible objectives : bringing workplace law and public policy into focus.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Economics and Finance, c2009. Call number: KF3319 .B44 2009

Publisher's Description:
At home and abroad, public policy debates are dominated by a free market ideology that emphasizes the pursuit of economic objectives through competitive markets. The invisible hand is rarely questioned, and non-economic objectives are overlooked. Similarly, employment-related scholarship is frequently silent on the objectives of the employment relationship and the underlying assumptions of how that relationship operates.

This book develops a fresh, holistic framework to undertake a "big picture" examination of U.S. workplace regulation. A new scorecard for workplace law and public policy reveals an uneven achievement of efficiency, equity, and voice at work. In response, the authors--a legal scholar and an economics and industrial relations scholar--blend their expertise to propose a comprehensive set of reforms, tackling such issues as regulatory enforcement, portable employee benefits, training programs, living wages, workplace safety and health, work-family balance, security and social safety nets, nondiscrimination, good cause dismissal, balanced income distributions, free speech protections for employees, individual and collective workplace decision-making, and labor unions.

Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives is not just another book that sketches a reform agenda. The book provides the much-needed rubric for how we think about employment policy specifically and economic policy more generally and is distinctively structured around objectives rather than policy issues.

Prentiss Cox, ed. Consumer fraud and deceptive trade practice regulation in Minnesota. 2nd ed.
St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Continuing Legal Education, c2009. Call number: KF209 .M54x 2009 no.43

Publisher's Description:
With its emphasis on the practical - tips, warnings, admonitions, and frank author's notes - Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Trade Practice Regulation in Minnesota is an absolutely essential resource for anyone in Minnesota who protects clients damaged by fraud and deceptive trade practices. Reflecting the expertise of a wide range of contributors, from professors and advocates to private practitioners, this manual furthers the mission of all Minnesota CLE deskbooks: to make practice easier and research faster, and to help attorneys throughout Minnesota get answers when they need them!

Bix, Brian. Diccionario de teoría jurídica / Brian H. Bix ; traducción, Enrique Rodríguez Trujano, Pedro A. Villarreal Lizárraga.
México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2009. Call number: Rare Books (Faculty Collection) Bix

Spanish language translation of Professor Bix's Dictionary of Legal Theory (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Publisher's description Dictionary of Legal Theory:
Modern legal theory contains a wide range of approaches and topics: from economic analysis of law to feminist legal theory to traditional analytical legal philosophy to a range of theories about justice. This healthy variety of jurisprudential work has created a problem: students and theorists working in one tradition may have difficulty understanding the concepts and terminology of a different tradition. This book works to make terminology and ways of thinking accessible. This dictionary covers topics from 'the autonomy of law' to the 'will theory of rights', from 'autopoiesis' to 'wealth maximization', and from 'John Austin' to 'Ludwig Wittgenstein'. The most important concepts and ideas are presented in a simple dictionary format. There are also many longer entries, where the initial definition gives an accessible explanation, but the entry goes on to give more detailed information about the history of an idea and the debates currently surrounding it.

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Roles of public library technology in supporting E-government highlighted in new issues brief

CHICAGO - In the fourth of a series of reports regarding technology access in U.S. public libraries, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Research & Statistics (ORS) is highlighting how public library technology supports public access and use of e-government information and resources. The issues brief draws from national data published in the Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study (www.ala.org/plinternetfunding).

"U.S. Public Libraries and E-Government Services" describes the increased use of online government information and services, the critical role of public libraries in helping provide access and assistance using these resources and the challenges that must be addressed to improve e-government at the local, state and federal level.

"Public libraries often are the only organizations within a community that can help individuals interact with government agencies and access e-government services," said ALA Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels. "As more and more government information and services are becoming only available online, there is an urgent need for governments to collaborate with public libraries to provide e-government services that best meet community needs."

Among the findings from the national study are:

• 71 percent of libraries report they are the only source of free access to computers and the Internet in their community;
• 80 percent of libraries report providing as-needed assistance with e-government services;
• 61 percent of libraries report providing access to government information is one of the most critical Internet services they provide; and
• Public libraries offer a number of training classes and/or as-needed assistance on a range of topics, particularly Internet use (92.8 percent), general computer skills (91.3 percent) and online Web searching (76.9 percent).

Library staffs are encouraged to use these briefing papers as educational tools with community stakeholders, including elected officials, funders and program partners, as needed to raise awareness of the specific - and sometimes unique - concerns of libraries around technology deployment. Staff may also use this format as a template for providing local data and examples related to a given topic.

The briefing reports are not intended to be comprehensive, but rather to share key findings from the largest and longest-running study of Internet connectivity in libraries. The Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and ALA, continues work begun in 1994 by John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure. The study assesses public access to computers, the Internet and Internet-related services in U.S. public libraries, as well as the impact of library funding changes on connectivity, technology deployment and sustainability.

For more information or to download a copy of the issue brief, please visit http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/ors/plftas/Issues_Briefs.cfm. The research team also invites feedback about future topics and additional tools that would be useful in raising awareness around library technology needs. Please write Larra Clark at lclark@ala.org with comments.

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Joseph Raz. Between authority and interpretation : on the theory of law and practical reason.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. Call number: K231 .R39 2009

Publisher's description:
In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of broader questions in the philosophy of practical reason.

The book opens with a discussion of methodological issues, focusing on understanding the nature of jurisprudence, asking how the nature of law can be explained, and how the success of a legal theory can be established. The book then addresses central questions on the nature of law, its relation to morality, the nature and justification of authority, and the nature of legal reasoning. It explains how legitimate law, while being a branch of applied morality, is also a relatively autonomous system, which has the potential to bridge moral differences among its subjects. Raz offers responses to some critical reactions to his theory of authority, adumbrating and modifying the theory to meet some of them. The final part of the book brings together for the first time Raz's work on the nature of interpretation in law and the humanities. It includes a new essay explaining interpretive pluralism and the possibility of interpretive innovation.

Taken together, the essays in the volume offer a valuable introduction for students coming for the first time to Raz's work in the philosophy of law, and an original contribution to many of the current debates in practical philosophy.

Jamal. J.A. Nasir. The status of women under Islamic law and modern Islamic legislation. 3rd ed. of the rev. and updated work.
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. Call number: KBP526.32.N37 A37 2009

Publisher's description:
This book is believed to be the first of its kind written by a renowned Muslim lawyer in the English language, and by an Arab author who is probably the leading authority writing in English in the subject of Islamic law (the Sharia), and modern Islamic legislation.

There has long been a need for an objective study such as this dealing with the legal rights and obligations of women under the Sharia and under modern Arab Islamic legislation. Seen within the broad principles of Islamic law, the book examines the status of women with regard to marriage, the iddat, parentage and fosterage and custody, and fills an important gap left by recent and more general publications on Islamic law.
The author has researched original Arabic and Islamic text books and reviewed legislation in the different Arab countries in order to present the most up-to-date information on the subject.

It is hoped that this clear, objective account will dispel many of the commonly-held misconceptions about the status of Muslim women in the modern world. This book will provide an enlightenment and deeper understanding of the subject, not only for legal practitioners, but for all those concerned, or with an interest in the subject, particularly Muslim communities in non-Muslim countries, indeed non-Muslim women who may be married to Muslims.

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The University of Wisconsin Law Library is very pleased to announce the release of the J. Willard Hurst Collectionwhich details the career of the man commonly identified as the father of modern American legal history.

The collection primarily spans the years 1932 through Hurst's death in 1997. The bulk of material dates between 1946 and 1980 when Hurst was a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he developed the field of American legal economic history through his scholarship and teaching. The collection provides insight into the evolution of Hurst's view of legal history and his role in developing a community for legal historians.

The collection includes Hurst's personal outlines and notes; course texts; publications; publication reviews; research notes; correspondence (incoming and outgoing letters); personnel records; photographs; audio recordings; and typewriter. Correspondence, topical outlines and notes, and audio recordings compose a bulk of the collection.

In anticipation of high research demand, the majority of materials in this collection have been digitized and are freely available on the UW Law Library website. Researchers may browse the collection by series; search the detailed finding aid; or view the complete finding aid in PDF. The complete collection, including those materials which have not been digitized, is available at the UW Law Library.

If you have any comments about the collection, please contact bjshucha@wisc.edu.

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An occasional feature, "Law Library Staff Recommend..." highlights books that Law Library staff members have read for enjoyment and now recommend that others consider for inclusion on their own reading lists. If you have any comments or questions about any of the titles presented in this feature, feel free to email lawlib@umn.edu or stop by the library. Today we highlight Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education by Alonso, Anderson, Su & Theoharis (NYU Press, 2009). Call number: Wilson Library LC 5131.O87 2009

Taking a closer look at how Brown vs. Board is being applied to modern urban schools, this book examines the stories of youth who are interested in a rigorous education, but are failing, through no fault of their own. Youth are finding a lack of commitment on the part of government and school administrators to finding resources to support the notion that anyone who wants a good school can have one. The book also criticizes the popular opinion that the opportunities found through Brown are being lost because minorities have developed a "culture of failure" and "cool pose culture." By sharing the point of view from youth, in their own words, this book goes beyond the typical sociological case study text and engages the reader, inviting an identification with the frustrations these youth are feeling in their quest for a better education and future.

A supplemental website is at http://www.ourschoolssuck.org/.

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Legal, Factual and Other Internet Sites for Attorneys and Legal Professionals, 15 Rich. J.L. & Tech. 13 (2009), by Timothy Coggins, Associate Dean for Library & Information Services and Professor of Law, Univ. of Richmond School of Law, lists Internet sites for legal, factual, and general research for attorneys, law students, and law librarians. The list includes sites for primary authorities, both federal and state, as well as links to other types of information such as names of possible expert witnesses and biographical and background information about individuals.

Source: Law Librarian Blog

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The Law Library is proud to announce the arrival of our STEP-UP Intern for Summer 2009. Johnnisha Williams will be a junior this fall at Minneapolis South High School. She will be spending her internship in both the Library and Law Clinics office, and is planning on a career in law. Please join us in welcoming Johnnisha to the Law School and Law Library!

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Halliday, Terence C. and Bruce G. Carruthers. Bankrupt : global lawmaking and systemic financial crisis.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009. Call number: K1375 .H35 2009

Publisher's Description:
The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies. In response, international organizations insisted that legal reforms could help protect markets from financial breakdowns. Sitting at the nexus between the legal system and the market, corporate bankruptcy law ensures that the casualties of capitalism are treated in an orderly way.

Halliday and Carruthers show how global actors--including the IMF, World Bank, UN, and international professional associations--developed comprehensive norms for corporate bankruptcy laws and how national policymakers responded in turn. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in China, Indonesia and Korea, the authors reveal how national policymakers contested and negotiated domestic laws in the context of global pressures. The first study of its kind, this book offers a theory of legal change to explain why global/local tensions produce implementation gaps. Through its analysis of globalization, this book has lessons for international organizations and developing and transition economies the world over.

Artz, Lilian and Dee Smythe, eds. Should we consent? : rape law reform in South Africa.
Cape Town : Juta, c2008. Call number: KTL4202 .S56x 2008

Publisher's Description:
For more than a decade, South Africans have been advocating a reform of the country's laws on sexual offences. South Africa has one of the highest levels of reported rape in the world, and legislative reform was seen as an essential step towards shifting the understanding of rape and its treatment within the criminal justice system. Since 1996 the activism has focused on the South African Law Reform Commission's investigation into sexual offences, and the parliamentary process, which culminated at the end of 2007 in the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act.

Many of the authors of Should We Consent? were involved in substantive legal submissions, research and legislative drafting and promoting changes to the law to provide rape victims with effective redress and protection. Drawing on a body of empirical, social and legal scholarship, this unique text charts the critical social and legal debates and jurisprudential developments that took place during the rape law reform process. This book also provides important insights into the engagement of civil society with law reform and includes thoughtful and contemporary discussions on topics such as 'defining' rape, HIV, sexual offences against children and sentencing of sexual offenders.

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From The Dallas Morning News:

The George W. Bush Presidential Library in University Park could be one of the last brick and mortar institutions of its kind.

Congress is looking for ways to cut the expense of overseeing such buildings, and some researchers say the traditional library setup for keeping presidential documents is outdated in a digital world.

What to do? Use a cave to store vital paper records instead of big compounds. Get out of the museum business and let the president's backers run that part of the library.

Read more, including opinions about what a Presidential Library means as a national monument, at the Free Government Information blog.

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A U.C. Berkeley report shows that most Internet users don’t understand web site privacy policies, and that major online businesses like Google Inc. freely gather data and share it with affiliated businesses via loopholes in those policies.

Using trackers called “web bugs,” third parties collect user data from many popular web sites, and sites often allow this, even though their privacy policies say they don’t share user data with others.

Read more at http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/06/01/daily22.html

Read the whole report at http://www.knowprivacy.org/

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Four Recently Released Research Guides from the Library of Congress:

Now online:

+ Civil War: Selected Resources

+ Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author

+ Illinois State Guide

+ Presidents of the United States: Resource Guides

Source: ResourceShelf

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Joyner, Daniel. International law and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. Call number: KZ5675 .J69 2009

Publisher’s Description:
Proliferation of WMD technologies is by no means a new concern for the international community. Indeed, since the signing of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1968, tremendous energies have been expended upon diplomatic efforts to create a web of treaties and international organizations regulating the production and stockpiling of WMD sensitive materials within states, as well as their spread through the increasingly globalized channels of international trade to other states and non-state actors.

However, the intervention in 2003 by Western powers in Iraq has served as an illustration of the importance of greater understanding of and attention to this area of law, as disagreements over its content and application have once again lead to a potentially destabilizing armed intervention by members of the United Nations into the sovereign territory of another member state. Other ongoing disputes between states regarding the character of obligations work assumed under non-proliferation treaty instruments, and the effect of international organizations' decisions in this area, form some of the most contentious and potentially destabilizing issues of foreign policy concern for many states.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of international law and organizations in the area of WMD proliferation. It will serve both as a reference for understanding the law as it currently exists in its political and economic context, as well as an analysis of areas in which amendments to existing law and organizations are needed.

Bowden, Brett, Hilary Charlesworth and Jeremy Farrall, eds. The role of international law in rebuilding societies after conflict : great expectations.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. Call number: KZ6785 .R65 2009

Publisher’s Description:
International law can create great expectations in those seeking to rebuild societies that have been torn apart by conflict. For outsiders, international law can mandate or militate against intervention, bolstering or undermining the legitimacy of intervention. International legal principles promise equality, justice and human rights. Yet international law's promises are difficult to fulfill. This volume of essays investigates the phenomenon of post-conflict state-building and the engagement of international law in this enterprise. It draws together original essays by scholars and practitioners who consider the many roles international law can play in rehabilitating societies after conflict. The essays explore troubled zones across the world, from Afghanistan to Africa's Great Lakes region, and from Timor-Leste to the Balkans. They identify a range of possibilities for international law in tempering, regulating, legitimating or undermining efforts to rebuild post-conflict societies.

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