Book Review: The most fundamental legal right: habeas corpus in the Commonwealth
| Published date | 01 September 2000 |
| Date | 01 September 2000 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/092405190001800322 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
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the twenty-first century. The book examines the policy-making process that establishes and
tries to apply human rights norms through the United Nations, regional organisations, State
foreign policy, human rights groups, and transnational corporations. Four themes permeate the
book: that human rights are here to stay in international relations, that State sovereignty is being
transformed by the human rights discourse, that the 'soft' law
of
diplomacy is as important as
the
'hard'
law
of
court judgements, and that private actors are highly important in international
human rights developments. The book documents the many changes in international human
rights during the past half-century, and considers the future
of
universal human rights.
Containing chapter-by-chapter guides to further reading and discussion questions.
The international criminal court: the making
of
the Rome Statute: issues, negotiations, and
results Ied. by Roy S. Lee. - The Hague: Kluwer, 1999. - xxxv, 657 p.
ISBN: 90-411-1212-X
This publication is a collective work by a group
of
persons closely associated with the' actual
making
of
the Rome Statute. It covers the substantive and procedural issues raised during the
preparatory stages as well as the Conference. These active participants in the Conference
provide an account
of
the main contentions on each
of
the key issues, the divergent approaches
put forward by the principal proponents, how differences were resolved, how groups
of
articles
were prepared, and how the final text as a whole was assembled. All the authors served certain
key functions during the Conference, most
of
them chaired or co-ordinated the work
of
a
committee, aworking group or a negotiating body, all
of
which together produced the Statute.
Their professional account
of
the work
of
the Conference makes this publication a resource for
States contemplating ratification and preparing national implementation legislation.
International refugee law: a readerIed. by B.S. Chimni. - London: Sage Publications, 2000. -
xxix, 613 p.
ISBN: 0-7619-9362-2
Ensuring the humane and rights based treatment
of
refugees in an increasingly restrictive
environment is among the most pressing problems facing the international community today.
The subject
of
international refugee law has, as a consequence, acquired global importance.
This reader constitutes an introduction to international refugee law from an interdisciplinary
and third world perspective. It provides not only a detailed analysis
of
the 1951 UN Convention
on the Status
of
Refugees but covers regional conventions and declarations as well.
The most fundamental legal right: habeas corpus in the Commonwealth IDavid Clark and
Gerard McCoy. - Oxford: Clarendon, 2000. - xci, 316 p.
ISBN: 0-19-826584-0
This collection
of
essays on habeas corpus throughout the Commonwealth explores the theme
of
the fortunes
of
the writ and the conditions under which it has either flourished or waned.
Drawing upon a wide range
of
commonwealth authorities, and including materials from the
colonial period as well as from ex-commonwealth or ex-empire States, the papers in this
volume consider the diffusion
of
the writ, the myths surrounding it, and the uses to which the
writ had been put, which distinguish the remedy from the English experience.
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