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TREAD LIGHTLY ON THE EARTH
Religion, The Environment And The Human Future
C G Weeramantry
This book addresses one of the greatest paradoxes of our time. While humanity faces the severest threat to its survival since its evolution, it neglects the richest reservoir of environmental wisdom available to it. The common core of the teachings of the great religions on this topic enshrines the wisdom of millennia of human interaction with the environment. Yet this resource remains largely unknown and unused. It tends to be dismissed as irrelevant, visionary impractical. This book builds a powerful bridge between the past and the present, between the religious and the secular and between the world’s different cultures. It is a vital step forward towards protecting the rights of the future against the depredations of the present. It can make a significant impact on the way we regard and address the problems that threaten the very existence of humanity.
The religions especially examined are Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.
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LAW IN CRISIS
Bridges Of Understanding
C G Weeramantry
“This book describes the developments of the past with references to historical analogies and experiences and an illuminating ‘time chart’ showing the march of mankind. The author is concerned to show that law – which is the very foundation of civilised society – is in peril.” Rt.Hon.Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls, in his Foreword to “The Law in Crisis”
This book is almost a textbook of modern jurisprudence in terms practical and analytical. The uncertainty and unpredictability of the law and its proceedings is the author’s chief topic and one of the main sources of the layman’s disappointment with the law. Modern Law Review (Dr.A.S.Diamond)
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EQUALITY AND FREEDOM
Some Third World Perspectives
C G Weeramantry
This book is a pioneering study of the juristic background of the Third World and of the problems attendant on the sudden emergence into the world community of scores of independent nations newly released from centuries of colonial rule.
It deals with Third World Ideological frameworks, the background to Independence, Legacies of Colonialism, Special Third World problems and paths to Equality and Freedom. It was hailed in Asiaweek (20 April 1977) as “a Third World Magna Carta”
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APARTHEID
The Closing Phases?
C G Weeramantry
Describing apartheid at its height this book gives glimpses of an entire urban district flattened to the ground to separate racial groups, of citizens convicted for permitting their wives to spend the night with them to look after their sick children, of dedicated white freedom workers ostracised at home and boycotted from abroad, of hypocritical attitudes prevalent worldwide regarding South Africa.
“It is almost beyond comprehension how much work must have been done to produce a book so significant in depth and analysis in so short a time ... It will probably be necessary reading for any discussion of apartheid hereafter.” Mr. Bob Hawke, Former Prime Minister of Australia
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AN INVITATION TO THE LAW
C G Weeramantry
“This book seeks to illustrate the nature of law by setting it in its historical and social context, by making out its relationship with many other disciplines and by use of a comparative approach … The book provides a challenging prescription for a broader approach to legal education.” International and Comparative Law Quarterly
“For clarity, breadth and depth it is one of the best introductory books I have ever come across. I have recommended it to my students.” Professor J. Aomi, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo (on An Invitation to the Law)
This book, now in its sixth printing, seeks to fill a gap which is prevalent in legal curricula in many jurisdictions. It draws its material from sources modern and ancient, religious and secular, oriental and occidental, legal and non-legal. It will help the reader to understand the historical and comparative setting of the law, the evolutionary forces which brought it forth and the retarding influences that prevent its full flowering.
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ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE
An International Perspective
C G Weeramantry
This book seeks to present information, not at present available in a single work, on the pioneering efforts of Islamic jurists to develop a comprehensive body of human rights principles and practice, as well as a corpus of international law principles ... This systematic exposition, not attempted before in such detail, will be of interest not only to the Islamic World, but also to philosophers, historians, sociologists and political scientists world-wide.
"...the best study written on the subject throughout the last century..." His Excellency Dr. Ahmed S. El-Kosheri, President of Senghor University, Alexandria and Judge Ad Hoc of the International Court of Justice
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBILITY
C G Weeramantry
Although there had, at the time of appearance of this volume in 1987 been a growing volume of academic writing on the illegality of nuclear weapons, there had been no systematic work on the legal and moral responsibilities of the scientists without whose active and expert contribution those weapons could not have been made.
This was thus a pioneering work in this field and is to date perhaps the major scholarly work addressing this topic. It is a practical, multi-cultural and multidisciplinary study, written in non-legal language but yet explaining the legal issues with a simplicity and clarity which bring it within the range of all categories of readers.
The ethical code it formulates for nuclear scientists has been accepted by and reprinted in The Encyclopaedia of Social Inventions, London
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THE LORD’S PRAYER
Bridge To A Better World
C G Weeramantry
Through an original study of a type not undertaken in the thousands of books written down the centuries about the Prayer, the author demonstrates that the Prayer is a veritable treasury of human rights and principles of world order deeply relevant to the problems of our time.
The book will be a revelation to those who read it, who will probably recite the Prayer thereafter with a new depth of understanding of the guiding light it offers through the tempests of our time.
Totally free of legal and theological complexities, this book is stimulating reading for everyone from school level upwards who is searching at this critical time for a bridge to a better world.
“The work is remarkable not only for the erudition and sweep of mind which it evidences but for the spirit which illuminates and informs the whole ….. [It} is a monumental synthesis of law and the deepest human aspirations.” Sir Gerard Brennan, former Chief Justice of Australia, (on “The Lord’s Prayer” Bridge to a Better World)
“It is a marvelous distillation of the elements of the search for justice in which its author has been engaged in the five decades since he graduated from Law School.” Professor Roger S.Clark, Rutgers School of Law (in a review in the American Journal of International Law)
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ARMAGEDDON OR A BRAVE NEW WORLD?
Reflections On The Hostilities In Iraq: 2nd Edition
C G Weeramantry
“One year after the start of the Iraqi war, and with the presidential campaign already in full swing, this brief and passionate book could not be timelier. In it, C.G. Weeramantry, a former judge of the International Court of Justice, and a law professor in Australia, warns that our pre-emptive and controversial war in Iraq could lead us back to the law of the jungle...Mr. Weeramantry marshals his arguments with clarity and force. He quotes a dazzling number of experts, including John Locke, Benjamin Franklin, Machiavelli and Mahatma Gandhi.” The New York Law Journal - May 28, 2004
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XENOTRANPLANTATION
The Ethical And Legal Concerns
C G Weeramantry
Xenotransplantation research is one the most advanced in the history of surgery. It seems to be wonderful answer to the problem of shortage of organs. Yet it raises a series of medical, legal, moral, psychological and human rights questions. Among these is the possibility of new strains of infection which could trigger off a major epidemic, endangering life everywhere and causing researchers to halt and take stock of the situation.
This is one of the most detailed studies available of the implications of this research of law and society. It resulted from a study conducted by the author at the invitation of the Harvard Medical Faculty where he spent some time as a Visiting Professor researching this subject with faculty members who are in the vanguard of this dramatic research.
“…..I believe the Judge has rendered an important service to the medical profession and the general public by raising the level of awareness of a series of issues of vital importance in this challenging area of research. I wish the book will have a wide readership and am happy to commend it as an important interdisciplinary study. It should be of great assistance in protecting the rights of patients and the general public against a wide variety of dangers which require concerned attention across the boundaries of academic disciplines and territorial frontiers, for it is a problem that has deep implications for all human beings wherever they may be, irrespective of whether they are parties or not to the procedures in question.” Fritz Bach (Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel, Deaconess Medical Center- Director)
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JUSTICE WITHOUT FRONTIERS
Vol.1 – Furthering Human Rights
C G Weeramantry
This book offers a valuable examination of the practical applications of justice in several different contexts: human rights, technology and scientific discovery, international law and the legal profession.
Superseding territorial or conceptual boundaries, Judge Weeramantry provides insight into the past shortcomings, as well as some inventive delineations of the future course of justice, on both a national and an international scale.
"In Justice Without Frontiers, His Excellency Christopher G. Weeramantry provides us with a penetrating interdisciplinary exploration of the subject of justice. Justice without Frontiers is also a timely contribution to the “United Nations Decade of International Law” (1989-1999). It offers an enriching, multicultural perspective into the importance of international law and the contributions made by the World Court" Dr.Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former Secretary-General of the United Nations (Foreword)
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JUSTICE WITHOUT FRONTIERS
Vol.2 – Protecting Human Rights In The Age Of Technology
C G Weeramantry
This book offers a valuable examination of the practical applications of justice in several different contexts: human rights, technology and scientific discovery, international law aThese essays are based on the general philosophy that the legal problems posed by advances in science and technology cannot be solved without more interdisciplinary interaction between the disciplines of law, philosophy, ethics and sociology, on the one hand, and the sciences on the other.
The issues dealt with in this volume reach through to the core of human liberty under the rule of law, and affect every human right enshrined in international conventions and declarations.
“This truly monumental work deserves a wide readership, because it is concerned with nothing less than the survival of humanity, and the necessity of making the right use of the awesome new powers that Science, and its (occasionally ugly) sister Technology have given us …” Sir Arthur C.Clarke, Kt, CBE, the noted futurist
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A CALL FOR NATIONAL REAWAKENING
C G Weeramantry
This publication sets out in simple language some brief thoughts aimed at arresting the current decline in Sri Lankan affairs and at setting the country once more on an upward course of peace, happiness and prosperity. It contains some suggestions based on the author’s practical experience in Sri Lanka and in many countries overseas and is meant to be a stimulus to further discussion of the many problems that face Sri Lanka.
“My first reactions after a first reading of the book were twofold. Firstly that this is not just the work of a brilliant legal mind or an eminent international personality and prolific writer, all of which are qualities that the author is abundantly endowed with…Rather, that this is the work of a down to earth sage who is uniquely placed to buttress his reasoning with personal experience gained at the helm of international recognition; secondly, that this book must be translated into Sinhala and should be recognized as prescribed reading for students at high schools in Sri Lanka. The book should also be commended to public administration officials and politicians.” Dr. Ruwantissa Abeyratne, Coordinator, Air Transport Programs, ICAO, Montreal
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