Antonio Cassese

Broschiertes Buch

Five Masters of International Law

Conversations with R-J Dupuy, E Jimenez de Arechaga, R Jennings, L Henkin and O Schachter

Beschreibung

This book consists of interviews with five distinguished international lawyers from the UK, USA, Uruguay and France, conducted by the editor, Antonio Cassese, between 1993 and 1995. Each interview is preceded by a brief 'intellectual portrait' of the interviewee. In his general introduction Cassese stresses that the interviews, all based on the same questionnaire, were intended to bring out not only the main ideas associated with each scholar in the fields of international law and international relations, but also his intellectual and philosophical background, his general outlook and his views of the prospects for the evolution of the international community. In his final essay, Cassese brings together the main threads of the interviews and points to the parallels and divergences appearing from them.

This book offers a unique and important insight into the legal minds and outlook of a select group of prominent scholars of international law and legal institutions duringthe last years of the twentieth century.

Autor

Antonio Cassese is an international lawyer who has combined a career as a university professor with membership of important UN bodies, and, latterly, membership of several international tribunals. Most recently (1993-2000) he was a judge and President (1993-1997) of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Chairman of the UN International Commission of Inquiry into Crimes in Darfur (Sudan), Independent Expert appointed by the UN Secretary-General to review the efficiency of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and, since March 2009, Judge and President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hart Publishing
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 263126
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781849461207
• ISBN-10: 1849461201
• Artikelnr.: 33672917

Rezensionen

This book...filled me with admiration. It is so typical of certain features of Nino's character, especially his intellectual curiosity and his modesty. Nino, himself a great master of international law, felt the need to interview five masters of international law. It is also highly significant that he emphasizes and praises the human qualities of the interviewees, which were also his own, such as simplicity, affability, gentleness, urbanity, esprit de finesse and witty irony.

Each interview makes for lively and interesting reading: one grasps the rich and different personalities of the interviewees...In spite and beyond their differences, they present important common features. All of them embraced legal positivism, though to varying degrees.
Peter Leuprecht Journal of International Criminal Justice Volume 10