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Book Reviews and Libel Proceedings
The American journal of International Law has been informed of the initiation in France of penal proceedings against the editor in chief of the European journal of International Law (EJIL), by virtue of a complaint filed by an author of a book reviewed on a Web site affiliated with the Ejll.1 We share the concerns of other professional societies regarding the potential of such litigation for chilling academic discourse. 2 We also take this opportunity to explain the practice of the AJIL concerning communications from authors who object to book reviews published in our pages, and to state our position on the important questions of academic freedom involved
Access to the African Court on Human and Peoplesâ Rights: A Case of the Poacher Turned Gamekeeper?
âHalal fictionâ and the limits of postsecularism: Criticism, critique, and the Muslim in Leila Aboulelaâs Minaret
This article examines Leila Aboulelaâs 2005 novel Minaret, considering the extent to which it can be seen as an example of a postsecular text. The work has been praised by some as one of the most cogent attempts to communicate a life of Islamic faith in the English language novel form. Others have expressed concern about what they perceive as its apparent endorsement of submissiveness and a secondary status for women, along with its silence on some of the more thorny political issues facing Islam in the modern world. I argue that both these readings are shaped by the current âmarketâ for Muslim novels, which places on such texts the onus of being âauthentically representativeâ. Moreover, while apparently underwriting claims to authenticity, Aboulelaâs technique of unvarnished realism requires of the reader the kind of suspension of disbelief in the metaphysical that appears to run contrary to the secular trajectory of the English literary novel in the last 300 years. I take issue with binarist versions of the postsecular thesis that equate the post-Enlightenment West with relentless desacralization and the âIslamic worldâ with a persistent collectivist and spiritual outlook, and suggest that we pay more attention to fundamental narrative elements which recur across the supposed West/East divide. Historically simplistic understandings of the secularization of culture â followed in the last few years by a postsecular turn â misrepresent the actual evolution of the novel. The âreligiousâ persists, albeit transmuted into symbolic schema and themes of material or emotional redemption. I end by arguing for the renewed relevance of the kind of analysis of literary âarchetypesâ suggested by Northrop Frye, albeit disentangled from its specifically Christian resonances and infused by more attention to cultural cross-pollination. It is this type of approach that seems more accurately to account for the peculiarities of Aboulelaâs fiction
Competing Models of Socially Constructed Economic Man: Differentiating Defoe's Crusoe from the Robinson of Neoclassical Economics
The Influence of Manga on the Graphic Novel
This material has been published in The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel edited by Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey, Stephen E. Tabachnick. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Cambridge University PressProviding a range of cogent examples, this chapter describes the influences of the Manga genre of comics strip on the Graphic Novel genre, over the last 35 years, considering the functions of domestication, foreignisation and transmedia on readers, markets and forms
International Law: Cases and Materials
This classic international law casebook is updated to cover recent case law, including the arbitral decision in the South China Sea Arbitration (Philippines v. China), the International Court of Justiceâs Certain Activities carried out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) case, and the U.S. Supreme Courtâs ruling in Jesner v. Arab Bank. With extraordinary range and depth, this casebook probes hot topics such as cyber-attacks, the Paris Agreement on climate change, developments in the International Criminal Courtâs Al-Bashir proceedings, and complaints of racial discrimination by Palestine against Israel and by Qatar against the United Arab Emirates, all calculated to provoke engaging classroom discussions. This casebook is designed for introductory and advanced classes.https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1208/thumbnail.jp
International Law: Cases and Materials
This classic international law casebook is updated to cover recent case law, including the arbitral decision in the South China Sea Arbitration (Philippines v. China), the International Court of Justiceâs Certain Activities carried out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua) case, and the U.S. Supreme Courtâs ruling in Jesner v. Arab Bank. With extraordinary range and depth, this casebook probes hot topics such as cyber-attacks, the Paris Agreement on climate change, developments in the International Criminal Courtâs Al-Bashir proceedings, and complaints of racial discrimination by Palestine against Israel and by Qatar against the United Arab Emirates, all calculated to provoke engaging classroom discussions. This casebook is designed for introductory and advanced classes.https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1208/thumbnail.jp
Basic Documents Supplement to International Law: Cases and Materials
This up-to-date collection of documents is designed primarily for use in conjunction with Damrosch and Murphy \u27s International Law: Cases and Materials, Seventh Edition (2019). This Documents Supplement also provides a handy general reference for anyone working in the field of international law. The Documents Supplement has been shortened from around 100 to about 30 central documents likely used by anyone teaching the course, along with internet citations to other documents.https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1209/thumbnail.jp
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