International Law: Norms, Actors, Process: A Problem-Oriented Approach

by Jeffrey L. Dunoff

You can illuminate the process of international lawmaking with this timely and practical revision. "International Law: Norms, Actors, Process: A Problem-Oriented Approach, Second Edition", uses compelling problems and an interdisciplinary approach to lead students from fundamental to advanced topics. This efficient and effective casebook offers: a distinguished team of authors, all known for their widely published writing; a real-life problem approach that illustrates the law in action - for example, genocide in Rwanda, state formation in the former Yugoslavia, and the problem of ozone depletion in protecting the atmosphere - and grounds material for students to give the subject a contemporary connection; comprehensive, current, and well-balanced coverage of the field; engaging and challenging visuals, including maps, charts, and photographs; interdisciplinary materials incorporating perspectives from economics, political science, and critical and feminist legal studies; a brief historical section to give students a deeper understanding of global history; manageable length; an extensive Teacher's Manual containing a sample syllabus; clear and accessible notes and writing styles; and, useful author website with key documents, updates, and related links. The second edition presents a wide range of new material: developments, cases, and updated notes and questions relating to the war on terrorism, the Iraq war, global warming/climate change, the law of occupation, international law in U.S. courts, and the International Criminal Court; new cases: Sosa (the Alien Tort Claims Act), the ICJ and U.S. death penalty and consular notification cases, the ICJ and the Israeli High Court on the separation barrier, and U.S. courts on detainees held at Guantanamo and elsewhere; an, new sections of the text deal with recent important topics and update existing coverage.

Genres: Law, Nonfiction, Reference, International Relations, Politics

1044 pages, Hardcover

First published August 9, 2006

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book taught me that the US is a jerk.

[Alex Gordon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Uses 1 or 2 examples in detail per chapter to explore different concepts but has many other relative cases and history sprinkled throughou. That invite you to dig deeper elsewhere... However these tidbits are sometimes in the middle of the example case you are trying to focus on so I did a lot of skimming to the interesting parts.... Good book just reads like textbook that could be organized to be easier to follow like with footnotes or margins or number key to find more incites in a section after example story etc... I kept feeling like the case stories kept getting rudely interrupted :)

[Caroline Wolinsky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hard to grasp the purpose of each included case or passage at times because there is so much going on in international law.

[Vaughn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good case book for law and unpacks the issues in each case--would've liked to see more depth into the cases, as in not just facts but implications and predictions.