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"Once a highly cosmopolitan profession, law was largely domesticated by the demands of the Westphalian state. But as the walls between sovereign states are lowered, law is globalizing in a way that is likely to change law, lawyering and legal education as much over the next 30 years -- when the students entering law schools today reach the peak of their profession -- as it has over the last 300. This book provides a sustained investigation of the theoretical and practical aspects of legal practice and education ... The book features two major areas of investigation. First, it explains the significance of the 'critical', 'theoretical' and 'ethical' dimensions of legal education and legal practice in making more effective practitioners -- placing ethics and values at the heart of the profession. Second, it explores the old/new challenges and opportunities for ethical lawyers. Challenges include those for lawyers working in large organisations dealing with issues from international tax minimisation to advising governments bent on war. Opportunities range from the capacity to give client's ethical advice to playing a key role in the emergence of an international rule of law as they had to the 'domestic' rule of law."--

1. Socially responsible investment : a nascent global movement -- 2. Non-financial values : from oxymoron to tautology -- 3. The meaning of ethics and criticism of SRI -- 4. A philosophical foundation for SRI -- 5. SRI in Australia -- 6. Engaging SRI : improving Australian SRI engagement -- 7. Fiduciary responsibility and the global growth of SRI -- 8. Global SRI : first link in an ethical chain.

The rule of law is widely seen as the cornerstone of any effective polity and increasingly a vital component of the international political system. If the international rule of law were to be strengthened, it would greatly contribute to trade, security, human rights and global cooperation in a range of fields. Yet, in many areas the rule of law seems almost absent in international affairs. This book explores the institutions that support the effectiveness of the rule of law domestically. It focuses on the extent to which similar institutions already exist at international level and analyses the.

This book examines interventions in East Timor, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Kosovo. The chapters explore and question UN debates about the doctrine of the responsibility to protect, both before and after its adoption in 2005, contrast state attitudes to international military intervention and analyse what takes place after intervention. It also discusses the ability of the Security Council to access reliable information and credible and transparent processes to enable it to make a determination on the occurrence of atrocities in a Member State.

Scrutinizing the practice of legislators and politicians from an ethical perspective, this work looks closely at various methods to facilitate ethical conduct.

This collection of essays is based upon papers delivered at a conference in Brisbane in August 1993. The essays range widely over the results of an empirical study of ethical dilemmas in legal practice and matters concerned with contemporary legal practice in the UK, Australia, and the USA.

1. UN special procedures for defending universal human rights / Michael Kirby -- 2. International criminal justice : at the vortex of power, norms and a shifting global order / Ramesh Thakur -- 3. International Criminal Court in the development of international rule of law : a reflection of Asian-African views / Rahmat Mohamad -- 4. The building of the international rule of law through the work of international criminal tribunals / Vesselin Popovski -- 5. Kenyans before the International Criminal Court : an end to impunity? / Edwin Bikundo -- 6. Norms as frames for institutions : the pact of Paris, Nuremberg and the international rule of law / William Maley -- 7. International legitimacy and the building blocks of the international rule of law / Jean-Marc Coicaud -- 8. National militaries and the development of the international rule of law / John Sanderson -- 9. No longer a moot point : towards an independent international legal tribunal? / Charles Sampford.

1. What is "access to international justice" and what does it require? / Patrick Keyzer, Vesselin Popovski and Charles Sampford -- 2. Walking the talk : human rights, access to justice and the fight against poverty / Dan Banik -- 3. Access to international justice : the role of the International Criminal Court in aiding national prosecutions of international crimes / Rahmat Mohamad -- 4. Aggression and Monetary gold quo vadis? / Mirinda O'Gorman and Charles Sampford -- 5. Drone strikes and human rights : balancing national security, individual rights and international justice / Ramesh Thakur -- 6. Access to international justice : law and practice of the European Court of Human Rights / Vesselin Popovski -- 7. Access to justice for victims of the use of force in international affairs : individual civil responsibility for aggression / Edwin Bikundo -- 8. Access to justice before international criminal tribunals : an evaluation of the scheme of victim participation adopted by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) / Susan Lamb -- 9. "Visions of a distant millennium"? : the effectiveness of the UN Human Rights Petition System / Darren O'Donovan and Patrick Keyzer -- 10. The International Committee of the Red Cross and access to international justice : a carefully considered paradox / David P. Forsythe -- 11. Convergence, fragmentation and sustainability in access to international justice / Simon Chesterman -- 12. Accessing ecological justice in the Anthropocene epoch! / Afshin Akhtarkhavari -- 13. Climate justice and the distribution of rights to emit carbon / Brendan Mackey and Nicole Rogers -- 14. Nuclear power and human security : lessons from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's accident / Yasunobu Sato.