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The Emerging Jurisprudence Of The African Human Rights Court And The Protection Of Human Rights In Africa, John M. Mbaku, Professor Of Economics
The Emerging Jurisprudence Of The African Human Rights Court And The Protection Of Human Rights In Africa, John M. Mbaku, Professor Of Economics
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
During most of the post-independence period, many African countries have either been unwilling or unable to protect human rights or relegated this important function to a small group of poorly funded but brave and courageous non-state actors. Most importantly, some African governments have either actively engaged in human rights violations or failed to bring to justice those who have committed atrocities against their fellow citizens. In the 1970s and 1980s, many African heads of state were more concerned with national sovereignty in an effort to hide the violation of human rights committed within their jurisdictions than participating in the building, …
The Role Of Courts In "Making" Law In Japan: The Communitarian Conservatism Of Japanese Judges, John O. Haley
The Role Of Courts In "Making" Law In Japan: The Communitarian Conservatism Of Japanese Judges, John O. Haley
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Professor Haley is an outstanding international and comparative law scholars, widely credited with having popularized Japanese legal studies in the United States. In 1969, Haley received a fellowship from the University of Washington and was in one of the first classes to graduate from the Asian Law Program, now, the Asian Law Center. After working for several years in law firms in Japan, he joined the law faculty at the University of Washington, where he remained for nearly twenty-six years during which time he directed the Asian and Comparative Law Program. In June 2012, Professor Haley was awarded The Order …
Books Received, Law Review Staff
Books Received, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Books Received
Consensus and Confrontation: The United States and the Law of the Sea Convention
By Jon M. Van Dyke.
Honolulu: The Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, 1985. Pp. x, 576. $29.50
Free Flow of Information; A New Paradigm. By Achal Mehra
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 225. $32.95
The Fund Agreement in the Courts, Volume III. By Joseph Gold Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1986. Pp. xvi, 841.$45.00
A Standard for Justice; A Critical Commentary on the Proposed Bill of Rights for New Zealand
By Jerome B. Elkind and Antony Shaw
New York: Oxford …
Books Received, Journal Staff
Books Received, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
AIR CHARTER REGULATION
By Jaap Kamp
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. Pp. 162. $16.50.
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ANATOMY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
By J.G. Merrills
London: Sweet& Maxwell, 1976. Pp. 106. $7.55.
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AUSTRALIAN LAWYERS AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Edited by David Hambly & John Golding
Sydney: Law Book Company, Ltd., 1976. Pp. 392.$17.50.
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COLONIAL EMANCIPATION IN THE PACIFIC AND THE CARIBBEAN
By Arnold Leibowitz
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. Pp. 221.$20.00.
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THE DEVELOPING COMMON MARKET
By John Paxton
Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1976. 3rd edition. Pp. 240. $25.00.
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ERSKINE MAY'S PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE
Edited by Sir David Lidderdale
London: Butterworths, 1976. …