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International Environmental Law
A. C. Kiss, Dinah Shelton

Transnational Publishers, 2004

The third edition of this major legal guide has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover recent events and important emerging issues. New material includes analysis of and commentary on the World Summit on Sustainable Development, ecosystem management, compliance and dispute settlement, armed conflict, and developments in the relationship of trade and the environment.

International Human Rights: Documentary Supplement
Richard B. Lillich, Hurst Hannum, ...

Aspen Publishers, 2006

Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity - 3 Volume Set (T-Z-Index)

1 review

MacMillan Library Reference, 2004

People are alike all over
The first thing that hits you looking through this 3 volume set is how ready, willing and able the human race is, world-wide, to kill, kill, kill. If the human race was a car, it would have been sent back to the factory, the schematics destroyed, and the engineers would have started all over again from scratch! Serious design flaws. Anyway, this set is a (probably brief) catalog of man's ...

International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy, And Practice (Casebook)

2 reviews
H. Hannum, S. James Anaya, ...

Aspen Publishers, 2006

Miserable.
I hope your professor never makes you purchase this book. It is full of excerpts loosely gathered up without rhyme or reason. It takes a lot to make an entire class room loose interest in "international human rights," but it happened!

Remedies in International Human Rights Law

1 review
Dinah Shelton

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

A must for those who take Human Rights seriously
This book is a must for those who take Human Rights seriously. The author explains very neatly the remedies available under International Human Rights Law. This book should be priscribed as a Text Book for all Human Rights Courses.

Commitment and Compliance: The Role of Non-Binding Norms in the International Legal System

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

Commitment and Compliance is the first book to evaluate the impact of state behavior of international norms adopted in forms that are not legally binding. The use of such `soft law' has increased dramatically with the proliferation of international organizations. Whether and how such norms can be used effectively to supplement or substitute for legally binding obligations forms the heart of this discussion.

Regional Protection of Human Rights Documentary Supplement
Dinah Shelton

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

What role do human rights play in the development of regional organizations? What human rights obligations do states assume upon joining regional bodies? This work is the first text of its kind devoted to the European, Inter-American and African systems for the protection of human rights. It illustrates how international human rights law is interpreted and implemented across international organizations and offers examples of political, economic, ...

Manual of European Environmental Law
Alexandre Kiss, Dinah Shelton

Cambridge University Press, 1997

This manual, now revised and updated for its second edition, provides a detailed overview of the complex and distinct body of European environmental law. Written for a multi-disciplinary audience, the book will prove of value to the legal, business and scientific practitioner or researcher, as well as to all those interested in environmental law, science and policy.

International Crimes, Peace, and Human Rights: The Role of the International Criminal Court

Transnational Publishers, 2000

This new collection of essays by sixteen outstanding authorities in the fields of human rights law, humanitarian law, and international criminal law assesses the prospects for the future of the International Criminal Court. Their analysis revolves around such key issues as the lessons of precedents (Nuremberg, ICTR, ICTY), the definition of international crimes, accountability, deterrence, reparations, and complementary jurisdiction. ...

International Human Rights in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)

4 reviews
Thomas Buergenthal, Dinah Shelton, ...

West Publishing Company, 2002

An excellent introduction
An excellent introduction to International Human Rights. I enjoyed the extensive bibliography and the objectivity (not neutrality) of the author's commentaries.

Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (Volume Three T-Z & Index)

Thomson / Gale, 2005

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