Modern Treaty Law and Practice Anthony Aust
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

30 June To be sure, this solution is unnecessarily violent and drastic, since a treaty could do the job and do it better; but governments refuse to sign such a treaty, so what's left to do? As for crime, I doubt this will be of any use for preventing the most widespread and damaging crimes, such as foreclosure fraud or the purchase of laws that hurt millions of workers. Since 1867, habeas corpus, or the Great Writ, has been available to state prisoners "in all cases where any person may be restrained of his or her liberty in violation of the constitution, or of any treaty or law of the United States." The modern era of federal habeas corpus, however, did not begin until the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. 30 June Torture anywhere is monstrous, but as an American I am especially disgusted by the torture practiced by the US. None of these concerns should be taken to say that President Sarkozy should not have brokered this agreement. Part 2 "Thinking Peace: Voices from the Past," contains six essays that look in detail at how the Roman law of treaties and the canon law operated, and in turn influenced early modern treaty practice. A core group of international law treatises and handbooks are available in BLS Library's first-floor Reserve collection, including: Anthony Aust, Modern Treaty Law and Practice, 2d ed. Close Sorry, an error occurred while adding your rating. See Anthony Aust, Modern Treaty Law and Practice (2000), p. 'It appears that Aust's intention in writing this book was to provide a practitioners' manual of sorts on the law of treaties.