Lawless World - Softcover

Sands, Philippe

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ISBN 10: 0713997923 ISBN 13: 9780713997927

Publisher: Allen Lane, 2005

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A book that addresses the challenges for the established international legal order which are posed by neo-conservative American policies and actions in Iraq, the war on terrorism, the environment and the new International Criminal Court.

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Synopsis:

An explosive boom that argues that recent American actions around the world pose a decise threat to the international systems of lega order developed since WW2. America is undermining the global legal order by promoting its ecnomic interests at the expense of human rights and the enviroment. Based on his participation in leading international cases including the British detainees at Guantanamo, Pinochet's case at the House of Lords and intergovernmental negotiations on global warming and the ICC, Philippe Sands contends that globalisation witll only be seen as legitimate if it is founded on a rules based system which constrains excessive unilaterialism and balances social and economic objectives.

About the Author:

Phillipe Sands QC is a practising barrister in the Matrix Chambers and a professor of international law at University College, London. He appears regularly on news and current affairs programmes in the UK and abroad, reviews and writes for the British broadsheets and has been involved in many of the recent high profile cases at the World Court.

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