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Justice for all and how to achieve it : citizens, lawyers and the law in the age of human rights / Geoffrey Nice.
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Title:Justice for all and how to achieve it : citizens, lawyers and the law in the age of human rights / Geoffrey Nice.
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Author/Creator:Nice, Geoffrey, author.
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Published/Created:London, UK : Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2017.
©2017
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Call Number: K3240 .N53 2017
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Human rights.
International law.
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Description:xix, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
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Summary:"What is a crime against humanity and when should it be investigated? What does 'human rights' mean? Is law the new religion and are its high priests, the lawyers, really all bad? What is the role of the law in the regulation of sexual behaviour? Are there limits to what we can reasonably expect from international war crimes tribunals? These and many other crucial questions are explored with wit, panache and consummate even-handedness by Sir Geoffrey Nice, QC, in the series of lectures he delivered as Gresham Professor of Law from 2012 to 2016. Drawing on events from every continent and every period in history, from ancient Babylon to Britain on the brink of Brexit; and referencing icons from Cicero to Socrates, Bertrand Russell to Jean-Paul Sartre, and Joan Baez to Muhammad Ali, Sir Geoffrey applies his own wealth of experience to moral problems which are as pressing in today's anxious world as they ever have been." --publisher description.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-362) and index.
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ISBN:1785511238
9781785511233
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 International Criminal Tribunals: Experiments? Works in Progress?
ch. 2 End of Slobodan Milosevic
ch. 3 Legal Process as a Tool to Rewrite History
ch. 4 State Involvement in War Crimes and War Crimes Trials
ch. 5 Regulation at Home, But not Everywhere
ch. 6 Russell Tribunal on Vietnam
ch. 7 Japanese `Comfort Women' and the Iran Tribunal
ch. 8 Law as a New Religion
ch. 9 Adversarial System and the Art of Advocacy
ch. 10 Burma and North Korea: Avoid the Law Unless Convenient
ch. 11 Cases I Have Known
ch. 12 Srebrenica: Genocide and Trial
ch. 13 Gaza-Israel: The Legal and the Military View
ch. 14 Does the Citizen Have the Right to Protest on the High Seas?
ch. 15 Sex and the Law
ch. 16 Human Rights: Whether in Europe or Out?
ch. 17 Law and Lawyers: Not All Bad?.