The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law

As Legal Adviser to Amnesty International, Mr. Rodley is well aware of the numerous occasions on which prisoners and detainees in a variety of countries suffer inhumane treatment, often involving torture or even death. As a contribution to the UNESCO series New Challenges in International Law he has produced this study of The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law seeking to show the extent to which international legal regulation attempts to protect such persons, either by way of the general rules concerning human rights or by way of specific regulations and studies carried out under the auspices of international organizations

Newfoundland and Dominion Status

The relationship between Canada and Newfoundland was under stress for a number of different reasons during the eighties. There was a dispute over off-shore mineral rights\u27 as well as concern over French fishing rights.2 For those interested in the relationship, Dr. Gilmore\u27s book, Newfoundland and Dominion3 Status, subtitled The External Affairs Competence and International Law Status of Newfoundland, 1855-1934, therefore provides a useful historical background as well as fascinating information about the constitutional development of Newfoundland. This may be of interest as well to constitutional and international scholars generally as well as to Newfoundland\u27s neighbours in the Maritimes

Reseñas

MAURER, A., C.S.B., About Beauty. A Thomistic Interpretation, (Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas), 1983, 135 pp. / ZUM BRUNN, E., KALUZA, Z, DE LIBERA, A., VIGNAUX, P. et WEBER, E. Maitre Eckhart à Paris. Une critique médiévale de l'ontothéologie. Études, textes et introductions. Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études (Section des Sciences Religieuses), Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1984

The Theory and History of Ocean Boundary Making

Over the years, Douglas Johnston has written and edited a large body of literature on the subject of ocean boundary making. The functionalist approach to ocean boundary which he presents in this book is obviously the result of his careful accumulation of knowledge and experience over many years\u27 involvement with the topic as researcher and writer. While at Dalhousie University in Halifax he had significant and direct involvement with the Ocean Studies Program

Acid Rain and Ozone Layer Depletion: International Law and Regulation

Although international customary and conventional law have addressed aspects of transfrontier pollution problems for decades,\u27 the regional and global environmental degradations which have come to the forefront in the 1980s and 1990s - acid rain, ozone depletion, and global warming, to name but three - represent new challenges to existing international law institutions and concepts. In a sense, the world has over the past two centuries gone through a period of what could be called technological adolescence , as individuals and corporations, largely from industrialized nations, exploited the earth\u27s resources with little if any concern for the immediate and long-term implications of their actions. In the face of evermounting and ominous evidence of the seriously ill health of the planet, there has been growing recognition that there are limits to what the earth can provide as well as responsibilities associated with the use of its resources. The as yet unanswered question is whether the structures and concepts of international law developed to this point are or will be adequate to contend with the serious threats to the world\u27s environment which lie ahead

The Fiercest Debate: Cecil A. Wright, the Benchers and Legal Education in Ontario 1923-1957

In the dozen years after the end of the Second World War, long-standing conflicts about the nature of education for the legal profession in Ontario became especially acute. Fortunately, climax and successful compromise came in 1957. In that year the Law Society of Upper Canada, which had controlled legal education and admission to practice from the early days of the Colony of Upper Canada, gave up its monopoly of legal education and conceded an equal position in this respect to Ontario universities willing and able to enter the field. Several were, and promptly did so. Indeed the University of Toronto was already there. For many decades it had been teaching law, but the Law Society refused proper recognition to the University of Toronto law degrees for purposes of admission to the legal profession in the Province

Introduction- Twenty-Five Years of the Fordham International Law Journal

A review of the history of the Fordham ILJ. It is a partial reprint of an essay published in 20 FORDHAM INT\u27L L.J. 1 (1996). The essay attempts to briefly summarize the purpose of the ILJ and past volumes

Examples of the Political Character of International Water Law

It is widely known that over a billion people lack access to potable water, and well over twice that number are without adequate sanitation\u27-the latter situation often being related to the former. It has been calculated that every eight seconds a child dies of water-related causes-a stunning statistic and an absolutely unacceptable state of affairs. While much has been made of the prospect of global water shortages, what is perhaps not so well known is that most of the world\u27s fresh water is shared by two or more states. There are more than 260 international drainage basins, which account for about 60 percent of global river flows. This figure does not include an increasingly important form of this resource, groundwater, much of which also straddles international boundaries. Perhaps this is in part what motivated UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to say, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January of this year: As the global economy grows, so will its thirst... many more conflicts lie over the horizon, and too often, where we need water, we find guns. The question for this panel is: To what extent do political considerations affect the legal relations among states sharing freshwater resources ? In many ways this is a field that almost invites the intervention of politics: partly because individuals-the Egyptian, Ethiopian or Mexican farmer, for example-may be directly affected by their government\u27s practice regarding shared water resources; and partly because water may be so vital to the very life of a nation that it can be regarded as a matter of national security and thus influence strongly the way that country relates to its neighbors