From the Bookshelves: James Gathii, War, Commerce & International Law

Oxford University Press has published Professor James Gathii’s book, War, Commerce & International Law.  Professor Gathii is the Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and the Governor George E. Pataki Professor of International Commercial Law at Albany Law School.

War, Commerce & International Law explores the changing definitions war and commerce in
international law; their changing applications and interpretations in different places at the same time and at different times; as well as their functional linkages and slippages. It explores the extent to which belligerents continue to confiscate, pillage, destroy private property, and ignore contract rights upon conquest and during occupation, as well as in resource wars. It exposes the sometimes confounding applications, interpretations and adjudications of international law that arise in these contexts. In so doing, War, Commerce and International Law shows how these applications, interpretations and adjudications constitute these rules while simultaneously carrying forward both the legacy of colonial disempowerment and the promise of better outcomes for peoples everywhere in the contemporary period.

KJ