Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities - Hardcover

Tiefenbrun, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195385772 ISBN 13: 9780195385779

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Decoding International Law Violations of international law and human rights laws are the plague of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. People's inhumanity to people escalates as wars proliferate and respect for human rights and the laws of war diminish. In Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities, Professor Susan Tiefenbrun analyzes international law as represented artfully in the humanities. Mass violence and flagrant violations of human rights have a dramatic effect that naturally appeals to writers, film makers, artists, philosophers, historians, and legal scholars who represent these horrors indirectly through various media and in coded language. This reade...

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Review:

The entire book features eloquent writing (except of course when assembling laws and international conventions for evidence), explicit introductions and conclusions, and a merciful absence of the jargon that makes much semiotic writing both incomprehensible to all except the initiated and inconsistent with its imperial claim to apply to all aspects of human understanding. (William Pencak, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law)

About the Author:

Susan Tiefenbrun received her J.D. from New York University Law School, a Ph.D in French literature with distinction from Columbia University, an M.A. in French and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin where she was Phi Beta Kappa as a junior and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Professor Tiefenbrun is Director of the Center of Global Legal Studies at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and Director of the LL.M. Programs in International Trade and Investment and American Legal Studies for foreign lawyers. She was awarded the French Legion of Honor, by Presidential Decree in 2003. Her special interests are international law, international business transactions, international intellectual property, international human rights law, and law and literature. She has written a book-length study of Soviet laws and Eastern European joint venture laws, numerous articles on international intellectual property and piracy, international human rights, as well as global sex trafficking. She is currently writing two books involving women's human rights laws and tax-free trade zones in the world and in the United States. She is President of the Law & Humanities Institute West-coast Branch. She founded two international law study abroad programs in France eighteen years ago and in China four years ago and continues to direct them both each summer. Professor Tiefenbrun speaks ten foreign languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0195385772
• ISBN 13: 9780195385779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 590