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Torture as Tort
The catalyst for this volume was a request to Scott (York U. Law School, Toronto) from Sudanese exiles for advice on transnational avenues for seeking justice against members of their government. The 26 contributions address the frames and foundations of human rights cases; jurisdiction and immunity; choice of law and causes of action; evolving international law on recourse against non-state actors; legitimacy, intervention, and forging of national histories; and the borders of tort theory. Includes tables of cases and legislation. Appends the UN Convention Against Torture, the US code on Alien Tort Claims and Torture Victims Protection Act, provisions of Private International Law (UK, 1995), and an update on developments related to the discussion of the Pinochet case. Distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.
The Law's Ultimate Frontier: Towards an Ecological Jurisprudence
"This important book offers an ambitious and interdisciplinary vision of how private international law (or, conflict of laws) can and must be at the centre of re-working both our general understandings of law and concrete legal norms in directions that respond to ever-deepening global ecological crises. The author demonstrates why, paradoxically, it is this field of law's specific frontier location at the outpost of the law - where it is viewed from the outside as a mysterious obscurity and from the inside as a self-contained normative world - that generates its potential power to transform law generally and globally. Combining pragmatic and pluralist theory with an excavation of "shadow" ecological dimensions of law, the author, a recognised global expert, offers a truly transnational view. Put simply, it is a generational magnum opus. All international and transnational lawyers, be they in the private and public field, should read this book"--
Faith in Courts
"The phenomenon of judicialisation in the field of freedom of religion is long recognised. But, to date, little has been written on how advocacy and strategic litigation has actively changed the field. This important books does just that. It shows how Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims, Sikhs, Evangelicals, Christian conservatives and Russian Orthodox actors have negotiated the right to freedom of religion at the ECtHR over the past 30 years. Drawing on in-depth interviews and case law analysis, and media representation, it is a powerful study of the impact of legal mobilisation on international and transnational law"--
Human Rights and Violence
The dilemma of a liberal human rights lawyer is this: one both believes in and doubts human rights. No wonder, for human rights are ambivalent. As positive legal enactments, they are the result of political bargaining that speak the concrete and verifiable language of rules; yet they also hold an intangible promise of universal good that reaches beyond the text of enacted rules, evoking their cosmopolitan purpose. This dual nature makes human rights strong and accounts for their extraordinary appeal. But it also makes the practice of human rights a fundamentally liberal exercise in irresolution. This book offers a critical, albeit sympathetic, exploration of the conditions for practising and...
Thoughtica
"Thoughtica is stimuli for the sensual brain, meant to help your brain suffer surrender for a short time. Think Twain, Nin, Nabokov and Dr. Seuss. And then add some Lawrence and Joyce. And then imagine something new. This is a collection of stories and poetry that get quite heated, cause a stir, and keep you up at night." -- Amazon.com
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law
The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government and the expansion of international human rights law, the prominence and visibility of the field, among judges, politicians, and scholars has grown exponentially. Even in the United States, where domestic constitutional exclusivism has traditionally held a firm grip, use of comparative constitutional materials has become the subject of a lively and much publicized controversy among various justices of the U...
The Many Lives of Transnational Law
Sixty years after Jessup's Transnational Law Lectures, this collection traces the field's development and significance to the present day.
Inhale
Inhale is a collection of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction that continues to show the author's wit and wordplay and pinpoints all the 'alities' in life: reality, commonality, dysfunctionality, cordiality, sensuality, etc. This book is not necessarily a trilogy completion to Cacoethes and Thoughtica, but between the three, all the 'alities' in life should be covered.
Beyond Territoriality
This book traces the evolution of transnational legal authority in the course of globalization. Representative case studies buttress its conclusion that today transnational authority is multifaceted, a phenomenon that renders unreliable the concepts of territoriality/extraterritoriality as global governance markers.
Backpacker
Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
