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Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal

By Ugo Mattei , Laura Nader

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2008
ISBN
9781405178952, 1405178957
LCC
KZ1275 .M38 2008
Open Library ID
OL11650596M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1298380 bytes)
Pages
292\292
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones. Challenges traditionally held beliefs in the sanctity of the Rule of Law by exposing its dark side Examines the Rule of Law's relationship with 'plunder' – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones – in the service of Western cultural and economic domination Provides global examples of plunder: of oil in Iraq; of ideas in the form of Western patents and intellectual property rights imposed on weaker peoples; and of liberty in the United States Dares to ask the paradoxical question – is the Rule of Law itself illegal?

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