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A Philosophical Foundation for International Human Rights Law?
Tom Dannenbaum Thu, May 4, 2017, 9:17 AM
A review of Aaron Xavier Fellmeth, Paradigms of International Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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The Newest Idealism: Human Rights in US Foreign Policy
Barbara Keys Wed, Apr 19, 2017, 9:03 AM
A review of Joe Renouard, Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
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Remaining Faithful to “the Basic Principles of Human Rights Found in the Original ECHR”?
Ed Bates Fri, Apr 14, 2017, 3:13 PM
A review of Marco Duranti, The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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A Culture on Trial
Devin Pendas Tue, Apr 4, 2017, 1:31 PM
A review of Kim Christian Priemel, The Betrayal: The Nuremberg Trials and German Divergence (Oxford University Press 2016).
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What is a Civil War?
Andrew Kent Tue, Mar 28, 2017, 8:30 AM
A review of David Armitage, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (Alfred A. Knopf 2017).
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International Law & Nineteenth-Century American Empire
Matthew Waxman Thu, Mar 9, 2017, 12:00 PM
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Matthew Waxman reviews Deborah A. Rosen’s Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood (Harvard Univ. Press, 2015) and Benjamin Allen Coates’s Legalist Empire: International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016).
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The Human Rights Agenda and the Struggle Against Impunity
Barrie Sander Mon, Feb 6, 2017, 8:30 AM
A review of Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda, edited by Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller and D.M. Davis (Cambridge, 2016).
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Detention in a World War I POW Camp
Geoffrey S. Corn Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 3:00 PM
Geoffrey Corn, one of the Lawfare Book Review editors, offers a retrospective review essay on Jean Renoir's classic 1937 film set in World War I, La Grande Illusion
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The Waning Federal Monopoly over Foreign Relations
Peter Spiro Mon, Jan 9, 2017, 11:14 AM
A review of Michael Glennon and Robert Sloane, Foreign Affairs Federalism: The Myth of National Exclusivity (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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A Necessary Discussion About International Law
Ken Watkin Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 11:00 AM
A review of Jens David Ohlin and Larry May's Necessity in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2016)