02422cam a2200229 a 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100017000670200016000840500017001002450087001172600084002043000036002884400031003245000020003555040066003755051646004416500030020877000024021177000027021417000024021681389106220210414114212.0050307s2004    nyub     b    001 0 eng    a  2005272026  a1587786532 00aKZ1242.5.I5800aInternational law in contemporary perspective. /cW. Michael Reisman ... [et al.].  aNew York, N.Y. :bFoundation Press ;a[St. Paul, Minn.] :bThomson/West,c2004.  alvii, 1585 p. :bmaps ;c27 cm. 0aUniversity Casebook Series  aIncludes index.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [ix]-xiii) and index.  aContents: The Constitutive process in the global community context -- How shall we conceive international law -- How is international law made and applied -- The Interaction between international and national actors in applying international law -- The Relation between the lawfulness of actions and the constitutive process -- Establishment, transformation and termination of states and other actors: Introduction -- The Policies at stake in establishment, transformation and termination of territorial actors -- The Role of internal elites -- The Role of external elites -- Establishment of international actors other than states -- Protection and control of persons: Nationality -- Human rights -- Allocation, protection and regulation of use of the resources of the planet: General principles governing resource use -- Water -- Land -- Airspace -- Antarctica -- Outer space and celestial bodies -- The Environment -- State responsibility: Introduction -- Responsibility for breach of an international legal obligation -- Attribution of an act to a state -- Circumstances precluding wrongfulness -- Consequences of responsibility -- Serious violations of peremptory norms -- Invocation of state responsibility -- Strategies: Regulating the use of the military instrument -- Regulating the use of the economic instrument -- Regulating the use of the ideological instrument -- Regulating the use of the diplomatic instrument -- Regulating international agreements -- Jurisdiction: allocation of competence to make and apply law: Introduction -- Competence to make law -- Competence to apply law -- Recognition and enforcement -- Conclusion. 0aInternational lawvCases.  aReisman, W. Michael  aArsanjani, Mahnoush H.  aWeissner, Siegfried