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Author: Marie Chevrier, Krzysztof Chomiczewski, Henri Garrigue & others

Incidents of bioterrorism and biowarfare are likely to recur, leading to increased public concern and government action. The deficiencies of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) are in urgent need of attent ...

Author: Howard Ball

The "ethnic cleansing" that has gripped the Balkans for much of this decade is but another chapter in the long history of man's inhumanity to man. Hopeful but unflinching in the face of such realities, Howard Ball's book ...

Author: John Raymond Cook

Challenges the current criminal justice emphasis on incarceration and punishment and encourages instead a focus on rehabilitation and treatment. The current emphasis on "get tough" approaches to crime has had and will co ...

Author: John C. Baker & David G. Wiencek

The Spratly Islands have represented a potential political and military flashpoint in the South China Sea for years, involving as they do various claims by China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Taiwan. This edit ...

Author: Neal Riemer

A collection of essays exploring key problems in working toward prevention of genocide. They highlight the existence of considerable early warning of genocide and emphasize that the real problem is lack of political will ...

Author: Alain Finkielkraut

In 1988 in what was probably one of the last trials of a Nazi war criminal and the first of such trials to take place in France, Klaus Barbie, the notorious "Butcher of Lyon", was found guilty of crimes against humanity ...

Author: Arthur Selwyn Miller & M. Feinrider

This book presents a rounded critique of the conventional wisdom about the legality of nuclear weapons by experts in international and constitutional law. Part I addresses the status of nuclear weapons under internationa ...

Author: Frances Howell Rudko

During his thirty-five years as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Marshall wrote the opinions in 80 cases involving international law issues. But unlike other scholars who have claimed that Marshall's education ...

Author: Karen O'Connor & Lee Epstein

"Public Interest Law GroupS" focuses on a special segment of the profession, namely groups that provide cost-free legal care to willing clients' including legal aid and legal services groups, interest groups that liti ...