Legal Research

This Week's Highlighted Acquisitions

The emerging practice of the International Criminal Court / edited by Carsten Stahn and Goran Sluiter ; with a foreword by Adriaan Bos.
Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009. Call number: KZ6311 .E364 2009

Publisher?s Description:
The International Criminal Court is at a crossroads. In 1998, the Court was still a fiction. A decade later, it has become operational and faces its first challenges as a judicial institution. This volume examines this transition. It analyses the first jurisprudence and policies of the Court. It provides a systematic survey of the emerging law and practice in four main areas: the relationship of the Court to domestic jurisdictions, prosecutorial policy and practice, the treatment of the Court?s applicable law and the shaping of its procedure. It revisits major themes, such as jurisdiction, complementarity, cooperation, prosecutorial discretion, modes of liability, pre-trial, trial and appeals procedure and the treatment of victims and witnesses, as well as their criticisms. It also explores some of challenges and potential avenues for future reform.

Knowles, Helen J. The tie goes to freedom : Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on liberty.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009. Call number: KF4749 .K59 2009

Publisher?s Description:
At the ideological center of the Supreme Court sits Anthony M. Kennedy, whose pivotal role on the Rehnquist Court is only expected to grow in importance now that he is the lone "swing Justice" on the Roberts Court. The Ties Goes to Freedom is the first book-length analysis of Kennedy, and it challenges the conventional wisdom that his jurisprudence is inconsistent and incoherent.

Using the hot-button issues of privacy rights, race, and free speech, this book demonstrates how Kennedy forcefully articulates a libertarian constitutional vision. The Tie Goes to Freedom fills two significant voids--one examining the jurisprudence of the man at the ideological center of the Supreme Court, the other demonstrating the compatibility of an expansive judicial role with libertarian political theory.

Full post as published by LexLibris on April 07, 2009 (boomark / email).