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  • Just Intervention

    by Terry Nardin, Nicholas Onuf, Simon Chesterman, Sohail Hashmi, Thomas G. Weiss, Amir Pasic, Richard Caplan, Martin L. Cook, Julie Mertus, Michael Barnett, Nicholas Wheeler ...
    Series series Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs series
    What obligations do nations have to protect citizens of other nations? As responsibility to our fellow human beings and to the stability of civilization over many years has ripened fully into a concept of a "just war," it follows naturally that the time has come to fill in the outlines of the realities and boundaries of what constitutes "just" humanitarian intervention.Even before the world ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We, the Robots?

    Regulating Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of the Law

    by Simon Chesterman ...
    Should we regulate artificial intelligence? Can we? From self-driving cars and high-speed trading to algorithmic decision-making, the way we live, work, and play is increasingly dependent on AI systems that operate with diminishing human intervention. These fast, autonomous, and opaque machines offer great benefits – and pose significant risks. This book examines how our laws are dealing with AI, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Law and Practice of the United Nations

    by Simon Chesterman, Ian Johnstone, David M. Malone ...
    Law and Practice of the United Nations: Documents and Commentary combines primary materials with expert commentary demonstrating the interaction between law and practice in the UN organization, as well as the possibilities and limitations of multilateral institutions in general. Each chapter begins with a short introductory essay describing how the documents that ensue illustrate a set of legal, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Studying Law at University

    Everything you need to know

    by Simon Chesterman, Clare Rhoden ...
    Do you want to do well in Law from day one?Law is a challenging and competitive subject to study at university. You need to become familiar with its peculiar language and complicated practices as quickly as possible if you want to do well.Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of students, Studying Law at University demystifies your law course. With reliable tips and practical suggestions, it ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Just War or Just Peace?

    Humanitarian Intervention and International Law

    by Simon Chesterman ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs in International Law
    The question of the legality of humanitarian intervention is, at first blush, a simple one. The Charter of the United Nations clearly prohibits the use of force, with the only exceptions being self-defence and enforcement actions authorized by the Security Council. There are, however, long-standing arguments that a right of unilateral intervention pre-existed the Charter. This book, which won the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Treaties

    by Simon Chesterman, David M. Malone, Santiago Villalpando ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The United Nations is a vital part of the international order. Yet this book argues that the greatest contribution of the UN is not what it has achieved (improvements in health and economic development, for example) or avoided (global war, say, or the use of weapons of mass destruction). It is, instead, the process through which the UN has transformed the structure of international law to expand ... Read more

    $133.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Asia and the Pacific

    Edited by Simon Chesterman, Hisashi Owada, Ben Saul ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The growing economic and political significance of Asia has exposed a tension in the modern international order. Despite expanding power and influence, Asian states have played a minimal role in creating the norms and institutions of international law; today they are the least likely to be parties to international agreements or to be represented in international organizations. That is changing. ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

  • From Community to Compliance?

    The Evolution of Monitoring Obligations in ASEAN

    by Simon Chesterman ...
    Series Book 2 - Integration through Law The Role of Law and the Rule of Law in ASEAN Integration
    In the past decade, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has transformed from a periodic meeting of ministers to setting ambitious goals of becoming a Community by 2015. ASEAN is now the most important regional organisation in the history of the continent of Asia. An important tension in this transformation is the question of whether the 'ASEAN way' - defined by consultation and ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • Private Security, Public Order

    The Outsourcing of Public Services and Its Limits

    Edited by Simon Chesterman, Angelina Fisher ...
    Private actors are increasingly taking on roles traditionally arrogated to the state. Both in the industrialized North and the developing South, functions essential to external and internal security and to the satisfaction of basic human needs are routinely contracted out to non-state agents. In the area of privatization of security functions, attention by academics and policy makers tends to ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • One Nation Under Surveillance

    A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty

    by Simon Chesterman ...
    What limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the interests of national security? Spying on foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy, by contrast, has historically been subject to various forms of legal and political restraint. For most of the twentieth century these regimes ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Artifice

    by Simon Chesterman, Simon Chesterman ...
    Narrated by Joe Jameson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 6 min

    Humanity's greatest invention could be our last. Archie's involvement in the artificial intelligence project known as Janus was limited to routine diagnostics. But when she discovers that she and everyone else has been deceived by their creation, it launches her on a journey that will change her life — and humanity's future. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    I, Huckleberry

    by Simon Chesterman ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    New York native Huckleberry Jones doesn't know why his parents packed him off to a camp for "exceptional teenagers" at Oxford University, England, though meeting the beautiful, glamorous Kat might just make it worthwhile. Together with Mei and Tshombe, friends from four continents, they discover more in common than their differences. But Huck soon finds himself trapped in a mystery linked to an ... Read more

    $10.99 USD