Featured Acquisitions - September 2003


		Human Rights in the Private Sphere, by Andrew Clapham Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 KJC5132 .C58 1993 Annx-3rd The application of international human rights law to the private sphere has implications for the worlds of labor relations, race relations, discrimination and violence against women, and for victims of indignities everywhere. This study shows that respect for privacy need not mean excluding wrongs in the private sphere from the world of human rights. Concentrating on the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights, and their enforcement in the courts of the United Kingdom, it develops a coherent approach to human rights in the private sphere. In particular it challenges the presumption that the fundamental rights and freedoms contained in the European Convention on Human Rights are irrelevant for cases which concern the sphere of relations between individuals.
		The National Environmental Policy Act: An Agenda for the Future by Lynton Keith Caldwell Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1998 KF3775 .C35 1998 Balcony What has been achieved since NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act) became national policy in 1969? This book points out where and how NEPA has affected national environmental policy and where and why its intent has been frustrated. The roles of Congress, the President, and the courts in the implementation of NEPA are analyzed. Caldwell also looks at the conflicted state of public opinion regarding the environment and conjectures as to what must be done in order to develop a coherent and sustained policy. He analyzes ways in which the act has been subverted by procedures, how NEPA has been integrated into agency missions, and how NEPA has faired beyond the U.S. territorial jurisdiction (especially with regard to foreign relations and the global commons). A final chapter suggests how the full intent of NEPA can be realized in public policy and ultimately lead to an ammendment to the Constitution.
		Fair Trade and Harmonization: Prerequisites for Free Trade? edited by Jagdish Bhagwati, Robert E. Hudec Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996 HF1379 .F34 1996 Basement The original contributions in Fair Trade and Harmonization investigate the growing conflict between free trade policies and the domestic environmental, labor, and antitrust policies of individual nations. They clarify the issues and offer a critical economic and legal analysis of the contending positions along with a series of proposals for resolving or reconciling them. Taken together, the two volumes present a comprehensive catalog of the government actions that are causing conflict in these areas and a critique of the existing scholarly literature on the subject. In each area, the contributors extensively discuss and analyze forms of policy harmonization and the arguments for and against it, with a goal of better understanding as a constant throughout. A more particular goal, however is to take a sober second look at, and impose some restraint upon, the growing chorus of demands to push aside the existing trade institution (the World Trade Organization) in the name of social policies, especially those regarding environmental and labor rights.
		Oil Pollution at Sea: Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage by Gotthard Gauci Chichester, England ; New York : Wiley, 1997 KD1989.5 .G38 1997 Basement The carriage of crude oil by sea is commonly associated with the disastrous effects of spills,. Major spills include those from the Torrey Canyon, the Amoco Cadiz, the Exxon Valdez, the Haven, the Aegean Sea, the Braer and the Sea Empress. As these and other spills have indicated, the resultant pollution damage can take various forms and the resolution of ensuing disputes can be difficult and protracted. This detailed and thorough analysis of the law relating to liability and compensation for oil pollution damage caused by ships and covers legal issues which fall within the ambit of admiralty law and practice, international and domestic environmental law and the law relating to marine insurance.
		Judging in a Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts edited by Bruce J. Winick, David B. Wexler Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2003 KF380 .J835 2003 Balcony Part I of the book describes the newly emerging problem-solving courts (such as drug treatment courts, domestic violence courts, mental health courts, etc.) and other related approaches to problem-solving judging and judging with an explicit ethic of care. It shows how judges can use therapeutic jurisprudence not only in specialized problem-solving courts, but in general civil and criminal judicial settings as well. In Part II, the book covers emerging "principles" of therapeutic jurisprudence that seem to be at work in successful judicial approaches: how courts can encourage offender reform, how they can help offenders develop problem-solving and coping skills, how they can encourage offender compliance with release conditions, how they can serve as effective risk managers, and much more.
		On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War by Harry G. Summers, Jr Novato, CA : Presidio Press, c1982 DS558.2 .S95 1982 Basement What went wrong in Vietnam? Applying the principles of war (based on the classic On War by Carl von Clausewitz) to the actual conduct of the fighting in Vietnam, the author provides some cogent answers to this question. It is not possible to do justice to the comprehensive nature of this author's arguments in a summary. However, among the points he raises are: the differences between the civilian planning done by government bureaucracy and the actual strategy of military operations; our failure to learn from the Korean experience -- how we "took counsel of our fears" and surrendered the initiative to the enemy; how we failed to distinguish between the internal Vietnamese problemw and the threat of North Vietnamese aggression, or to discern how the North used insurgency as a cloak to hide their real objective. All signs point to On Strategy as being one of the most important books on the subject of Vietnam as well as on war strategy and politics.

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