International Law

International Law

Thoroughly updated to keep pace with the many new developments in international law, the Fifth Edition of this popular casebook covers the core topics, basic doctrines, and a broad range of foreign policy issues relevant to the contemporary public international law course. Proven in the classroom, clearly organized, and with a distinctively accessible style, International Law offersa comprehensive and effective blend of current issues and materials with basic international law principles and conceptsa balanced combination of relevant cases, excerpts, notes, questions, and other interdisciplinary materials representing a variety of perspectives and disciplinesan analysis of the relationship between international and domestic law and public and private lawtreatment of such substantive topics as International Dispute Resolution, Criminal Law, Human Rights, Environmental Law, and the Use of Forcea complete teaching package, including a Teacher's Manual and a biannual Document SupplementReflecting the many recent developments in this area of the law, the Fifth Edition features: a new co-author, Allen S. Weiner, who brings extensive first-hand knowledge of international legal institutions a new chapter on International Criminal Law that includes current materials on extradition and rendition, the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and torture, and the emergence of international tribunals, including the International Criminal Courtnew cases, including Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, American Insurance Assoc. v. Garamendi, Republic o