USA Law

Category: Books

  • Florida Legislative Journals

    Florida Legislative Journals in the United States Uses of Journals Both the House and the Senate publish an official journal for each day that each house is in formal session. The legislature begins a new set of page numbers each time a new session convenes. There is a separate index for […]

  • Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness

    Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness in the United States Mark Freeman (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006, 316 pp) The emphasis on the ‘right to know’1 as a crucial aspect of ending impunity has lead to a greater focus on the necessity of holding truth commissions. As many […]

  • A Common Law of International Adjudication

    A Common Law of International Adjudication in the United States Chester Brown (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007, liii + 303 pp) The rise of international courts and tribunals in the past few decades has led to a wealth of scholarly studies, the establishment of academic institutions, […]

  • Targeted Killing in International Law

    Targeted Killing in International Law in the United States Nils Melzer (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, 468 pp) Targeted killing is not an easy topic to write, or read, about. The more examination given to the issue of whether a state has the legal, or even moral, right to kill, […]

  • Law, War and Crime

    Law, War and Crime in the United States Gerry Simpson (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2007, ix + 225 pp) Law, War and Crime is a history of international criminal law. The field is a young one and its tensions, ironies and incoherencies, illuminated in the first five chapters of Gerry Simpson’s […]

  • Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession

    Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession in the United States Aleksander Pavković and Peter Radan (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, 277 pp) This book offers a very useful addition to contemporary scholarship on secession. For an interested audience of non-experts, it covers the main […]

  • Art as Intellectual Property: guide

    Art as Intellectual Property: guide in the United States Intellectual property has become one of the most salient aspects of the modern Information Age. In an era when great promises have been for enhanced access to information, contentious battles over who gets to use certain information […]

  • Justice and the Role of Archivists

    Justice and the Role of Archivists in the United States A publication from the Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority, Arkiv, Demokrati og Rettferd, RBM no. 28, ISBN 82-8105-034-9, contains two contributions (by David Wallace and Tom Connors) in English. Wallace’s essay, […]

  • Detained without access to legal counsel

    Detained without access to legal counsel in the United States The continuing debate over individuals detained by the federal government without access to legal counsel because they are suspected of terrorist activities brings to mind other earlier sad moments in American justice and fail […]

  • Libraries: Presidential Secrecy and the Law

    Libraries: Presidential Secrecy and the Law in the United States Robert M. Pallitto and William G. Weaver, Presidential Secrecy and the Law (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) demonstrates that there is a long history predating what “W,” Cheney, Ashcroft, Gonzales, and Rove […]

  • Culture protection: Antiquities Under Siege

    Culture protection: Antiquities Under Siege in the United States Lawrence Rothfield, ed., Antiquities Under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection After the Iraq War (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2008) provides additional testimony to this trend. Right at the beginning, editor Rothfield sounds […]

  • First Amendment: Finding Jefferson

    First Amendment: Finding Jefferson in the United States In his Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, A Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an Age of Terrorism (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2008), legal scholar Alan Dershowitz not only employs his acquiring of an 1801 […]

  • Investment treaty law and arbitration books reviews

    Investment treaty law and arbitration books reviews in the United States See: Investment treaty law and arbitration books Investment treaty law and arbitration books chapters Investment treaty law and arbitration articles Investment treaty law and arbitration symposia […]

  • Investment treaty law and arbitration books

    Investment treaty law and arbitration books in the United States See:    Bilateral Investment Treaties  –  Arbitral Institutions – Arbitration resources –  Arbitration Organizations worldwide – Books by year: Andrea Bianchi & Anne Peters, eds., Transparency in International Law […]

  • Arbitration Resources

    Arbitration Resources in the United States Arbitration is an alternative to litigation in which an arbitrator or a panel of arbitrators listen to the positions of the disputing parties in a relatively informal proceeding and then issue a decision on how the situation should be resolved. With […]