- Are Women Human?
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? She exposes the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women and its systemic condonation as she points toward fresh ways of targeting its toxic orthodoxies. A critique of the transnational status quo that also envisions the transforming possibilities of human rights, this bracing book makes us look as never before at an ongoing war too long undeclared.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
- Comparative Studies and the Right to Health
- Edited by Stephen P. Marks
- Foreword by Paul Hunt
- Contributions by Raul Pangalangan
- Contributions by Omar Haider Chowdhury
- Contributions by G. Nimal Gunatilleke
- Contributions by Ravi Duggal
- Contributions by Raymond Atuguba
- Contributions by Ariel Frisancho Arroyo
- The right to health has been acknowledged as one of the most important human rights for economic and social development, but few efforts have been made to assess the problems and prospects for the realization of this right across national health systems. This book examines, in comparative perspective, how health and the right to health have been dealt with in six countries: the Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Ghana, and Peru.
- Paperback 2009
- Development As a Human Right
- A Nobel Book
- Edited by Bård A. Andreassen
- Edited by Stephen P. Marks
- Foreword by Louise Arbour
- Drawing on the papers presented at the Nobel Symposium on The Right to Development and Human Rights in Development, this book contains chapters on the conceptual underpinnings of development as a human right, the national dimensions of this right, and the role of international institutions. The contributors explore the meaning and practical implications of human rights-based approaches to economic development and ask what this relationship may add to our understanding and thinking about human and global development.
- Paperback 2007
- The Economic Structure of International Law
- Joel P. Trachtman
- This book presents policymakers and scholars with an over-arching analytical model of international law, one that demonstrates the potential of international law, but also explains how policymakers should choose among different international legal structures.
- Hardcover 2008
- The History of an Islamic School of Law
- Nurit Tsafrir
- The Hanafi school of law is one of the oldest legal schools of Islam, coming into existence in the eighth century in Iraq, and surviving up to the present. So closely is the early development of the Hanafi school interwoven with non-legal spheres, such as the political, social, and theological, that the study of it is essential to a proper understanding of medieval Islamic history. Tsafrir offers a thorough examination of the first century and a half of the school's existence, the period during which it took shape.
- Hardcover 2004
- Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia
- Edited by R. Michael Feener
- Edited by Mark E. Cammack
- Although often neglected in the literature on Islamic law, contemporary Indonesia is an especially rich source of insight into the Islamic legal tradition. The essays in this volume provide focused examinations of the internal dynamics of intellectual and institutional Islamic law in modern Indonesia, together offering a substantive introduction to important developments in both the theory and practice of law in the world's most populous Muslim society.
- Hardcover 2007
- The Islamic School of Law
- Edited by Peri Bearman
- Edited by Rudolph Peters
- Edited by Frank E. Vogel
- Contributions by Camilla Adang
- Contributions by Alfonso Carmona
- Contributions by Maribel Fierro
- Contributions by Robert Gleave
- Contributions by Steven C. Judd
- Contributions by Eyyup Said Kaya
- Contributions by Daniella Talmon-Heller
- Contributions by Bernard G. Weiss
- Contributions by Ihsan Yilmaz
- The Islamic school of law, or madhhab, is a concept on which a substantial amount has been written but of which there is still little understanding, and even less consensus. This collection of selected papers from the III International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies, held in May 2000 at the Harvard Law School, offers building blocks toward the entire edifice of understanding the complex development of the madhhab, a development that even in the contemporary dissolution of madhhab lines and grouping continues to fascinate.
- Hardcover 2006
- Islands of Agreement
- Gabriella Blum
- We are culturally conditioned to think of war and peace in binary terms of strict opposition, tending to focus on conflict prevention or resolution. But as this book demonstrates, war and peace are increasingly coexisting entities. Accordingly, Blum suggests that even where conflict exists, we regard it as only one dimension of a multifaceted interstate relationship. The result is a shift in perspective from constricting binaries toward a more holistic approach of relationship management.
- Hardcover 2007
- Law and Investment in Japan
- Yukio Yanagida
- Daniel H. Foote
- Edward Stokes Johnson
- J. Mark Ramseyer
- Hugh T. Scogin
- Law and Investment in Japan introduces both Japanese law and the strategic issues that arise in cross-border transactions. Centered around the details of an actual joint venture between the U.S. and Japan, the book combines materials from the transaction itself with cases, statutes, and background data.
- Hardcover 2001
- On the Law of Nations
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- As the era of totalitarianism recedes, the time is at hand to ask by what rules we expect to conduct ourselves, Senator Moynihan writes in this pellucid, and often ironic, examination of international law. Our founding fathers had a firm grasp on the importance and centrality of such law; later presidents affirmed it and tried to establish international institutions based on such high principles; but we lost our way in the fog of the cold war.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992
- Raising the Bar
- Edited by William P. Alford
- Over the past two decades, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia have been engaged in unprecedented efforts to re-cast and rapidly expand the legal profession-with profound implications not only for law, but also for politics, international relations, and society itself. Raising the Bar is the first book-length study in English of this phenomenon.
- Paperback 2007
- Unfiltered
- Eric Feldman
- Ronald Bayer
- Unfiltered tells the story of how anti-smoking advocates, public health professionals, bureaucrats, and tobacco corporations have clashed over smoking regulation. The nations discussed in this book--Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States--restrict tobacco advertising, tax tobacco products, and limit where smoking is permitted. Each is also struggling to shape a tobacco policy that ensures corporate accountability, protects individual liberty, and asserts the state's public health power.
- Hardcover 2004