Law Among Nations: An Introduction to Public International Law - Softcover

Glahn, Gerhard; Taulbee, James Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138691720 ISBN 13: 9781138691728

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Offering a more accessible alternative to casebooks and historical commentaries, Law Among Nations explains issues of international law by tracing the field's development and stressing key principles, processes, and landmark cases.

This comprehensive text eliminates the need for multiple books by combining discussions of theory and state practice with excerpts from landmark cases. The book has been updated in light of the continuing revolution in communication technology, the dense web of linkages between countries that involve individuals and bodies both formal and informal; and covers important and controversial areas such as human rights, the environment, and issues associated with the use of force.

Renowned for its rigorous approach and clear explanations, Law Among Nations remains the gold standard for undergraduate introductions to international law.

New to the Eleventh Edition

• Added or expanded coverage of timely issues in international law:

• Drones and their use in the air and in space
• Immigration
• Islamic views of international law
• Inviolability and the difference between diplomatic immunity and sovereignty, in light of the Benghazi attack

• Thoroughly rewritten chapters in areas of great change:

• International criminal law
• Just war and war crime law

• New cases, statutes, and treaties on many subjects

About this title

About the Author

Gerhard von Glahn (late) was Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

James Larry Taulbee is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Emory University. 

Review

Praise for the Eleventh Edition

Thorough, insightful, informative, and readable, Law Among Nations is the gold standard for international law textbooks. This text includes a brilliant compilation of legal material, and is essential reading for students of international law at all levels.

Jeffrey S. Morton, Florida Atlantic University

I have used Law Among Nations for several years in undergraduate law and international relations classes and found that it works well for instructor and students alike. The coverage is comprehensive, including environmental law and economic law as well as the more traditional topics, with clear explanations of complex international law subjects. I am looking forward to using the new edition.

David A. Gantz, University of Arizona

Larry Taulbee has updated and improved this International Law text, which continues to be the very best summation of the legal approach. It allows non-lawyers to understand how the different states (countries), as well as non-state actors and even individuals, are regulated by the laws that most states follow most of the time, and the rules that persist even when those rules are ignored. Students are exposed to legal cases, but unlike a law school text, it provides clear explanations of the complicated rules that have emerged over centuries but continue to become more complicated and relevant to everyone everywhere, whether or not they realize it.

Henry Frank Carey, Georgia State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138691720
• ISBN 13: 9781138691728
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 628