Product Description: This collection of essays emerged from a seminar on international investment law taught jointly by the editors at the Yale Law School. The participants brought a rich experience and, as important for a subject like this, a rich national diversity...read more

Product Description: This indispensable handbook is the first legal resource to gather together the most important cases and commentary no the increasingly significant subject of foreign investment disputes. It fills the need for a compilation of the basis source material into a well-organised and up-to-date volume covering the full scope of the subject...read more

Product Description: International law, once a marginal and largely abstract part of the work of the lawyer and diplomat, has become one of the central facets of modern legal and political life. Yet for all its current familiarity, international law continues to be one of the most intellectually difficult and often frustrating parts of the law school curriculum...read more

Product Description: This series brings together published journal articles in international law as determined by the editors of each volume in the series. The proliferation of law, specialist journals, the increase in international materials and the use of the internet has maeant that it is increasingly difficult for students and legal scholars to have access to the relevant articles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Even in our most casual encounters with strangers -- when we are looking at each other, talking, or standing in line -- legal systems with elaborate codes, authorized exceptions, and procedures for sanctioning deviance operate with a remarkable degree of success...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: International Commercial Arbitration tracks every phase of the international commercial arbitral process, including jurisdictional issues, choosing arbitrators, arbitral proceedings, control mechanisms, and enforcement of awards.

Product Description: International Commercial Arbitration tracks every phase of the international commercial arbitral process, including jurisdictional issues, choosing arbitrators, arbitral proceedings, control mechanisms, and enforcement of awards.

Covert activity has always been a significant element of international politics. When it has served their interests, governments have secretly disseminated propaganda in other countries, manipulated foreign economies, and abetted coups against their adversaries. What are the circumstances, if any, in which it is lawful, under international law or United States law, to resort to covert action either directly or through local proxies? When is it right to do so? This book is the first to assess the lawfulness of covert action under international law. It includes as well a chapter on United States law and a candid discussion of the implications for democratic states that covert operations pose. W. Michael Reisman and James E. Baker identify different types of covert actions, discussing a variety of cases that include the Trujillo assassination in 1961, the Rainbow Warrior in 1985, and the raid on Libya in 1986. After explaining the complex operations of the international legal system, they explore trends in decision making and the conditions that accounted for them--whether the covert operations were proactive, defensive, or reactive. They examine in detail the procedures followed in the United States to authorize and oversee covert activity and propose guidelines for political leaders who may contemplate using covert techniques. An appendix reviews twenty years of allegations of covert aggression brought to the attention of the United Nations Security Council.

Product Description: What law "counts" in international politics? Does any? How are effective international norms established? This provocative book introduces a new way of looking at these questions. It shows that many international standards of acceptable conduct derive far less from adjudications, statutes, or treaties and far more from what is found to be acceptable in the conflicts that we today call international incidents...read more

Product Description: A basic text in legal theory and decision making from a problem solving perspective, incorporating classical and modern materials, with notes and comments. Designed for use at the college and law school level.

Examines the dynamics and function of price-fixing, bribery, and payments to foreign governments as part of recognized corporate business practices, drawing attention to the lawfulness of these actions and the harmful ramifications of anti-bribery campaigns