Basic Documents in International Law and World Order

by Hilary Charlesworth, Richard A. Falk, Anthony Damato

The majority of material is organized around the conceptually divisible components of our otherwise indivisible world order: "war/peace," "human rights/social justice," "economic trade/development,"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0314228098
• ISBN13: 9780314228093
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: West Publishing Company
• Length: 1330 Pages
• Weight: 4.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.4" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

this is the basic text

There are few books you can describe as "the basic text", but this is certainly one of them. It should be required reading in every international law class in the world, but alas it is only required in a few hundred of the tens of thousands going on an any given time. Weston and his collection of authors are all looking for ways of makikng thhe international legal system a truly functional order for the governance of otherwise anarchic inter-state relations. Weston's pulled together the very best, some of which are classics, and a few of which were really undiscovered until he came along and plucked the writing and his/her writing from academic obscruity. This book need not be the sole province of the law student -- it is equally useful to the current practitoners.