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"A companion volume to the author's seminal textbook War, Aggression and Self-Defence, Third Edition, Cambridge (2001), this book focuses on issues arising in the course of hostilities between States, with an emphasis on the most recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The main themes considered by Yoram Dinstein are lawful and unlawful combatants, war crimes, including command responsibility and defences, prohibited weapons, the distinction between...
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Part five looks at the Battle of Waterloo. The battle of Waterloo (the last engagement of Napolean's so-called Hundred Days) was fought on Sunday June 18, 1815, just south of Brussels in modern Belgium. It began late in the morning, as the French Emperor waited for the ground to dry after the soaking rain of previous days, but once battle was joined it raged until evening.
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Part three looks at England in the early 18th century, and the transformation of a people and a nation through a religious revival begun by a preacher named John Wesley. Wherever he went, he preached in the open air, telling people that there was a God who loved them and wanted better for their lives.
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Part Four looks at John Wilkes, a comparatively little-known figure today, but in mid- to late-18th century he was at the epicentre of events which shook the British Establishment and helped prepare the ground for modern civil liberties. Wilkes was part of a successfuly campaign to compel governments to publish the full text of Parliament debates.
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Part two explores one of the towering geniuses of science, Sir Isaac Newton. Active across and astounding range of disciplines, somehow he also found time to be an MP, Master of the Royal Mint, and a magistrate. Yet to what extent was fullest flowering of this driven man's mind only possible in a particular set of circumstances?
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Acclaimed director, Charlie Minn, closely examines three separate killings along the USA-Mexico border. Minn visits the border in Tijuana, Nogales, and Juarez to shed light on a larger picture of historic violence between Mexican nationals and US border officers, a notoriously divisive issue. The film explores the policies and procedures governing the use of force by American border agents.
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Emilie Hafner-Burton, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of International Justice and Human Rights at UC San Diego and co-director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the School, discusses international law, when and why international laws work and don't work, the international human rights system and concrete measures that could be taken to improve it, the International Criminal Court, the role of states in the...
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This episode of the Green Interview features Camille Labchuk, an animal rights lawyer and Executive Director of Animal Justice, a not for profit legislative fund dedicated to advocating for the humane treatment of animals. As a lawyer she defends activists and animals in the courts including the Supreme Court and works on campaigns that seek further protection for animals, particularly farm animals.
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Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision protecting people's right to have an abortion in the United States, will be overturned within a year, says reproductive rights attorney Kathryn Kolbert. In this electrifying call to action, she breaks down the systematic attack against reproductive freedom in the US and envisions what a post-Roe world could look like. "First, we've got to build a badass social justice movement," she says. (This...
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