Name: Lawless World
Price: 253.00 ZAR
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Author: Philippe Sands
ISBN: 9780141985053

Type

Physical Book

Author

Philippe Sands

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

13 x 19 cm

ISBN13

9780141985053

Lawless World

Philippe Sands (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

New Book Imported to South Africa

Delivery: 06 Jul - 28 Jul

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Synopsis "Lawless World"

International lawyer Philippe Sands has a unique insider's view of the elites who govern our lives. His sensational revelations in Lawless World changed the political agenda overnight, forcing Tony Blair to publish damning mterial that he'd tried to hide.

Now, in this updated edition with a shocking new chapter, you can get the full story of how the US and UK governments are riding roughshod over international agreements on human rights, war, torture and the environment - the very laws they put in place. Here sands looks at why global rules matter for all of us. And he powerfully makes the case for preserving them ... before justice becomes history.

Philippe Sands

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Philippe Sands (London, 1960) is a writer, lawyer, and professor of International Law at University College London. He has participated in prominent international trials held at the Court of Justice of the European Union, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and the European Court of Human Rights. Among the cases he has been involved in are the trial of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, war crimes in Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, the invasion of Iraq, the tortures at Guantanamo prison, and disputes over the Chagos Archipelago, among others. He is the author of the essays Lawless World, about the illegality of the Iraq war, and Torture Team, about the use of torture by the Bush administration. He is a regular contributor to publications such as Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and Vanity Fair, and a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and BBC World Service.

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