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  • Books,  Dissertation Series,  Featured,  Human Rights and Culture

    Linda Veazey argues for a gendered view of cultural rights instead of the usual dichotomy

    A Woman’s Right to Culture is a new and insightful analysis of the usual meme that cultural rights in international law are at odds with the rights of women in affected societies. Rather than seeing these concepts as mutually exclusive, Linda Veazey frames cultural rights — through detailed case studies and analysis of law — in a way that incorporates and enriches the very gender-protective norms they are often thought to defeat. Adding a Foreword by University of Southern California professor Alison Dundes Renteln, the study makes the case, and supports it with illustrations over several continents and cultures, that the only way out of the dilemma is to have…

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    Jonathan Liljeblad explores endangered species and international law, and how CITES is enforced locally

    Debates over U.S. government policy frequently follow a philosophy of devolution in authority from federal government to local government. This concept opens the possibility of greater local involvement in national policy implementation—and provides international treaties an opportunity to advance global policy by incorporating the efforts of local actors into their implementation framework. Much of international policy involves enforcement through international-to-national linkages forming an “implementation chain,” but devolution offers the potential to extend the implementation chain by providing national-to-local linkages. This 2014 book explores the nature of such linkages, taking as a case study the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) via its domestic analog, the Endangered Species…

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    Robert Sauté recounts history and institutions of U.S. public interest law in his book For the Poor and Disenfranchised

    Robert Sauté’s study explores over a century of public interest representations, pro bono legal work, and litigation groups such as the ACLU and NAACP’s Inc. Fund from a social science perspective of history and institutional analysis. For the Poor and Disenfranchised is a sociological account of the public interest bar in the United States. It traces how the legal profession delivered on the legal system’s promise of equal justice for all by making the legal system available to all and a vehicle for substantive justice, exploring political mobilization, entrepreneurial lawyering, and pro bono publico representation. “In this dramatic and detailed account, Robert Sauté documents the establishment and evolution of the…

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    New book on foreign investments in Asian power projects: handling political risk

    The Legal Protection of Foreign Investments Against Political Risk examines how political risks associated with foreign direct investment in the energy sector are managed or mitigated, and suggests new ways to deal with the possibility of such risk. It applies its analysis–using case studies and international law, and examining actual contracts–to the specific context of foreign investment in five Asian countries’ power infrastructure projects. “Legal protection of foreign investments against political risk has been a problem for a long time. Professor Papanastasiou’s book brilliantly balances the legitimate regulatory power of host states with legitimate business interests of foreign investors by presenting a neatly designed multi-layered legal framework for political risk…

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    New study of Ireland’s legal profession discusses history, financial crisis, and reform efforts

    The Regulation of the Legal Profession in Ireland is a new and insightful exploration of history, controversy and reform relating to the Irish legal system. During recent legislative debate over a professional reform bill, Alan Shatter — then the Minister of Justice in Ireland — publicly called this study, in its earlier form as a dissertation, “marvellous” and stated that it “should be compulsory reading for us all.” He noted that the thesis “sets out the history of the legal profession and how it evolved. It evolved continually until approximately 1870 and then went into paralysis and nothing has changed since. … It is extraordinarily curious that people think the…

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    Scientific Evidence and the Law-Science Divide: Book by Cedric Gilson Offers Reconciliation Analysis

    THE LAW-SCIENCE CHASM is a new socio-legal study that takes seriously the varying approaches to science that physicians and scientists use, as compared to legal actors such as judges and lawyers. Offering a way to mediate and translate their different perspectives and assumptions, Gilson uses sociological and philosophical methodologies to explain each discipline to the other. Part of the new Dissertation Series from Quid Pro Books. The book also includes an introduction by Professor John Paterson, of the faculty of law at the University of Aberdeen. As Paterson writes in the Foreword: “Gilson’s book takes seriously the idea of the autopoietic closure of society’s communicative subsystems and works out the…

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