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Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis
Recovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. To capture the enormous challenges Indians confronted, Steven W. Hackel integrates textual and quantitative sources and weaves together analyses of disease and depopulation, marriage and sexuality, crime and punishment, and religious, economic, and political change. As colonization reduced their numbers and remade California, Indians congregated in missions, where they forged communities under Franciscan oversight. Yet missions proved disastrously unhealthful and coercive, as ...
Aquella Barcelona
Páginas emocionantes, trágicas y evocadoras de la gran urbe portuaria que es Barcelona. «La ciudad de los prodigios» es un espacio sentimental por el que el autor, barcelonés de nacimiento y vocación, nos permite viajar a través de las décadas, desde la posguerra hasta la espléndida celebración de los Juegos Olímpicos de 1992. Conoceremos la dureza de la guerra, la sordidez de la posguerra, la prohibición del idioma catalán, la restricción de tradiciones culturales y el periodo de incertidumbres y desafíos. Sin embargo, la Ciudad Condal nunca perdió su espíritu cívico y solidario. En abril de 1939, el emblemático Liceo reabrió sus puertas con «La bohème», reivindicando...
Targeted Killings and International Law
Existing international law is capable to govern the “war on terror” also in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. The standards generally applicable to targeted killings are those of human rights law. Force may be used in order to address immediate threats, preventive killings are permitted under strict preconditions but targeted killings are prohibited. In the context of armed conflicts, these standards are complemented by international humanitarian law as lex specialis. Civilians may only be targeted while directly taking part in hostilities and posing a threat to the adversary. Also in Israel and the Occupied Territory, these standards apply. Contrary to the Israeli Supreme Court’s view, international humanitarian law is not complemented by human rights law, but human rights law is – to some degree – complemented by international humanitarian law. According to these standards, many killings which would be legal according to the Israeli Supreme Court violate international law.
Practitioners' Guide to Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict
Although the relationship between international human rights law and the law of armed conflict has been the subject of significant recent academic discussion, there remains a lack of comprehensive guidance in identifying the law applicable to specific situations faced by military forces. Providing guidance for armed forces and practitioners on the detailed application of international human rights law during armed conflict, this book fills that gap. Part 1 of the volume details foundational information relating to international human rights law and human rights institutions, the types of operations that States' armed forces engage in, and how the law of armed conflict and international human...
Principles of International Humanitarian Law
ÔThis is a concise and nuanced overview of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The structure is unusual. While the book reflects the state of the law with accuracy and sobriety, it nevertheless shows the idealist and philosophical ambitions of the authors. Legal issues are often discussed within a wider moral and ethical context. The authors add many basics on human rights and the enforcement of international law, which are not directly relevant for IHL, but ensure the reader understands the wider picture.Õ Ð Marco Sass~li, University of Geneva, Switzerland This book provides a clear and concise explanation of the central principles of international humanitarian law (or the law of armed...
International Law and Drone Strikes in Pakistan
While conventional warfare has an established body of legal precedence, the legality of drone strikes by the United States in Pakistan and elsewhere remains ambiguous. This book explores the legal and political issues surrounding the use of drones in Pakistan. Drawing from international treaty law, customary international law, and statistical data on the impact of the strikes, Sikander Ahmed Shah asks whether drone strikes by the United States in Pakistan are in compliance with international humanitarian law. The book questions how international law views the giving of consent between States for military action, and explores what this means for the interaction between sovereignty and consent...
Tánger era la clave
Franco ha muerto y el Rey Juan Carlos I está decidido a que España sea una democracia parlamentaria de corte occidental, pero hay dos graves escollos: ETA, que sigue asesinando y el resurgimiento de la extrema derecha. Ambas, están dispuestas a boicotear el proceso de transición de la dictadura a la democracia. En este clima, el periodista Fernando del Corral es requerido por su periódico para que regrese a Madrid y abandone su puesto de corresponsal en Varsovia y se dedique a investigar quién está detrás de los atentados de los últimos meses. El rastro de quienes boicotean el proceso con armas y explosivos, nos llevará hasta Tánger, donde el periodista relatará los convulsos aco...
Advocating for Human Rights
Moot Court competitions constitute an alternative model of human rights training, giving students the skills to contribute to the development of international human rights law and thus make them qualified advocates for human rights change in their home countries and abroad. By focusing on the perfection of oral as well as written skills, participants are more likely to be successful not only in cases brought before their home courts, but in front of international tribunals and other organs. Such competitions have opened the doorway for more human rights classes in law schools, more clinical training programs, more NGOs dedicated to human rights law, and overall more lawyers dedicated to participating in an expanded notion of a human rights community. As demonstrated in this volume, moot court competitions have revolutionized human rights legal education in Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Fighting Terrorism through Multilevel Criminal Legislation
This book analyses the implementation of UN and EU framework legislation on terrorism in six European states. Main issues are the concept of terrorist offences, the broad criminalisation of preparatory acts and the extraterritorial application of national law.
Spain
This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent transition to democracy up to the present day Tusell was a celebrated public figure and historian. During his lifetime he negotiated the return to Spain of Picasso’s Guernica, was elected UCD councillor for Madrid, and became a respected media commentator before his untimely death in 2005 Includes a biography and political assessment of Francisco Franco Covers a number of pertinent topics, including fascism, isolationism, political opposition, economic development, decolonization, terrorism, foreign policy, and democracy Provides a context for understanding the continuing tensions between democracy and terrorism, including the effects of the 2004 Madrid Bombings
