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The Function of Law in the International Community
First published in 1933, this is one of the seminal works on international law, written by a legendary scholar in the field. This republication, featuring a new introduction by Professor Martti Koskenniemi, once again makes this book available to scholars and students in this area.
Recognition in International Law
Originally published by Hersch Lauterpacht in 1947, this book presents a detailed study of recognition in international law, examining its crucial significance in relation to statehood, governments and belligerency. The author develops a strong argument for positioning recognition within the context of international law, reacting against the widely accepted conception of it as an area of international politics. Numerous examples of the use of law and conscious adherence to legal principle in the practice of states are used to give weight to this perspective. This paperback re-issue in 2012 includes a newly commissioned Foreword by James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
The Life of Hersch Lauterpacht
Hersch Lauterpacht, of whom this book is an intimate biography by his son, Elihu, was one of the most prolific and influential international lawyers of the first half of the twentieth century. Having come to England from Austria in the early 1920s, he first researched and taught at the London School of Economics before moving to Cambridge in 1937 to become Whewell Professor of International Law. He did valuable work to enhance relations with the United States during the Second World War and was active after the war in the prosecution of William Joyce and the major Nazi war criminals. For ten years he was also involved in various significant items of professional work and in 1955 he was elected a judge of the International Court of Justice. The book contains many extracts from his correspondence, the interest of which will extend to lawyers, historians of the period and beyond.
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An International Bill of the Rights of Man
First published in 1945, this is one of the seminal works on international human rights law, written by a legendary scholar in the field. This republication, featuring a new introduction by Professor Philippe Sands, QC, once again makes this book available to scholars and students.
The Development of International Law by the International Court
The book appraises the international judicial process and will be of value to anyone interested in this subject.
Private Law Sources and Analogies of International Law
Lauterpacht, Sir Hersch. Private Law Sources and Analogies of International Law: With Special Reference to International Arbitration. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1927. xxv, 325 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2001041399. ISBN 1-58477-184-4. Cloth. $75. * A scientific look at the practice of the use of private law for the development of international law. Lauterpacht expands upon this subject with a useful discussion of international arbitration and international tribunals, and refers to numerous cases. An English international lawyer of Polish birth, Lauterpacht [1897-1960] offers a conception of his subject shaped by academic research and practical experience. He was Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge and a member of the Institute of International Law and the British Academy. He also served as a judge of the International Court of Justice and was a Bencher of Gray's Inn. Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law 716. The Lawbook Exchange has also published a reprint of his other noted work, The Function of Law in the International Community.
Recourse to Force
The nations that drafted the UN Charter in 1945 clearly were more concerned about peace than about justice. As a result, the Charter prohibits all use of force by states except in the event of an armed attack or when authorised by the Security Council. This arrangement has only very imperfectly withstood the test of time and changing world conditions. In requiring states not to use force in self-defence until after they had become the object of an actual armed attack, the Charter failed to address a growing phenomenon of clandestine subversion and of instantaneous nuclear threats. Fortunately although the Charter is very hard to amend, the drafters did agree that it should be interpreted flexibly by the United Nations' principal political institutions. In this way the norms governing use of force in international affairs have been adapted to meet changing circumstances and new challenges. The book also relates these changes in law and practice to changing public values pertaining to the balance between maintaining peace and promoting justice.
Human Dignity and International Law
This book reflects on how the concept of human dignity, a central and classical concept in public international law, is used to protect the rights of particularly vulnerable sectors of contemporary society.
A Gateway between a Distant God and a Cruel World
Through a collective biographical methodology of four scholars 20th century scholars this book investigates how Jewish identity and intellectual ties to Judaic civilisation in the German speaking legal context influenced the international legal discipline.
