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Topics of New Books by Abbott, Tesón
Professor Frederick M. Abbott
Earlier this year, the University of Michigan
Press published International Trade and
Human Rights, Foundations and Conceptual
Issues (World Trade Forum, Volume 5) for
which Florida State law professor Frederick
M. Abbot served as co-editor. Presenting a
selection of papers discussed at the 2001 World Trade Forum,
which addressed the most controversial issues in the globalization
debate, International Trade
and Human Rights examines
the relationship between international
trade from a unique
and important interdisciplinary
perspective. Christine Breining-
Kaufmann, a law professor at the
University of Zurich and a senior
research fellow and board member
of the World Trade Institute
in Berne, and Thomas Cottier,
managing director of the World
Trade Institute and law professor
at the University of Berne,
co-edited International Trade and
Human Rights.
According to The University of Michigan Press, “This book
goes beyond listing the arguments for or against globalization
and offers recommendations to the international community
for possible reforms to better account for the human rights
interests affected by the globalization process.”
Abbott, Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International
Law at the College of Law, is rapporteur for the
Committee on International Trade Law of the International
Law Association; on the Panel of Experts of UNCTAD’s Program
on the Settlement of Disputes in International Trade,
Investment and Intellectual Property; and consultant to the
UNCTAD Project on TRIPS and Development, to the World
Bank Global HIV/AIDS Program and to the Quaker United
Nations Offi ce (Geneva).
Professor Fernando R. Tesón
The third edition of Professor Fernando R.
Tesón’s book Humanitarian Intervention: An
Inquiry into Law and Morality was published by
Transnational Publishers in 2005. First published
in 1988, Humanitarian Intervention is a classic
and controversial defense of the right to use
force for the protection of fundamental human rights. In his fully
revised, expanded and updated third edition, Tesón includes recent
interventions in Kosovo and Iraq; discusses incidents that were not
included in prior editions, such as the interventions in Panama,
Liberia and Sierra Leone; and responds to critics throughout.
“Fernando Tesón is the world’s preeminent moral philosopher
of international law; this timely third edition to his classic volume,
updating recent events and development in this signifi cant area of
international practice, is a welcome addition to the literature on
humanitarian intervention,” said Professor David J. Bederman with
Emory University School of Law. “Teson’s volume will remain a
keystone work for years to come.”
Known for his scholarship
relating political philosophy to
international law (in particular
his defense of humanitarian
intervention), and his work on
political rhetoric, Tesón also
is author of Rational Choice
and Democratic Deliberation
(Cambridge University
Press 2006) [with Guido
Pincione]; A Philosophy of
International Law (Westview
Press 1998); and
many articles in law, philosophy,
and international
relations journals and
collections of essays.
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