In total, 157 New Yorkers were injured from gunfire, compared to just 57 last year during the same period.According to the NYPD, last month was the deadliest and most violent June in 24 years, recording a total of 205 shooting incidents over the entire month.New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed the soaring violence on the coronavirus. Article by Anum, April 5, 2014. Above all, though, it is authoritative and ruthless in its analysis of the conduct of the United States and withering about the role of Britain. With an excellent cast capable of displaying deep and complex emotions in every scene, Lawless Lawyer (2018) proved an addicting concoction as a revenge drama, and I basically marathoned it over two days' time. Sands describes the scene at the House of Lords appeal on Pinochet so well that one almost feels as if one is there. According to the New York Post, citing police statistics, there were three times as many shootings in the Big Apple during the last two weeks of June as during the same time period in 2019. In exploring the evolution of international law since the second world war, and the new American attitude of withdrawal and unilateralism, it goes to the very heart of the nature of the international order and its future.Although a large body of international law predates 1945, its real growth and influence has come in the period since. It is also highly readable, which is a fine achievement, given the slightly forbidding subject matter. International law is a subject that, on the face of it, has little drawing power. Moreover, looking further ahead, would a world dominated by the United States, China and India be more or less partial to living by global rules and international law? International law is a subject that, on the face of it, has little drawing power. Share Tweet Subscribe. Lawless World is also a model of clarity: one is never left gasping for comprehension. But there is no guarantee that this will change America's mind. It is because of the law that a man would think thrice before committing a murder, it is because of the law that he would think before he robs a bank or assault anyone. It is a book that deserves to be widely read. Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules by Philippe Sands 324pp, Allen Lane, £12.99. Philippe Sands's book has already commanded the headlines because of its revelations concerning the attorney general's statement in favour of the legality of the Iraqi war. All rights reserved. The prime author of the huge growth in international law since 1945 has, in effect, suddenly chosen to opt out and declare that this legislation is no longer binding on it.It is a salutary reminder that what appeared in an earlier era (notably the 1990s) to be the remorseless logic of an increasingly globalised world - namely the emergence of new rules of global governance, together with a plethora of institutions to exercise them - far from being the product of some neutral "universal interest", was and is, on the contrary, a function of good old-fashioned political power. Similarly, the anti-globalisation movement has drawn attention to the ramifications of international law as it impinges upon the developing world. Without the first use of the Law — as manifested in our conscience, social inhibitions, parental authority and earthly governments — we sinners would tear each other apart, making any kind of cohesive society impossible. The US has turned its back on the International Criminal Court - and gone to great lengths to try to ensure that none of its own citizens will ever be brought before that court; it has renounced its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol; it has flagrantly violated all the established international codes of behaviour concerning prisoners of war (or, alternatively, criminal acts) at Guantánamo; it reneged on international law in the invasion of Iraq, along, of course, with the United Kingdom; and in Iraq and elsewhere, it has bypassed all the laws forbidding the use of torture, most notably at Abu Ghraib.

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