LAWLESS WORLD: MAKING AND BREAKING GLOBAL RULES

Abstract

Philippe Sands (Penguin Books, London 2006) Paperback, Pp 432, ISBN 9780141017990, £8.99 This being the first book that I have ever read dedicated exclusively to international law, I was not certain what to expect.  I did not feel disappointed or out of my depth with “Lawless World” however, as Professor Sands writes clearly and authoritatively on subject-matter which will be quite familiar to most readers: the Pinochet trial, the Kyoto Protocol, trade rules, foreign investment, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, the Iraq War and torture.