Reviews for Canada's Arctic Waters in International Law

The average rating for Canada's Arctic Waters in International Law based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-09-22 00:00:00 Keith Thomas This is an excellent introductory book on the topics of the international human rights, state terrorism in Chile and Argentina, and transitional justice. The chapter that covered the post-WWII development of human rights monitoring organizations, such as the UN Human Rights Commission and Americas Watch, was really helpful for my students. I really appreciated the fact that the book covered the transition to democracy and the struggle for justice in both Argentina and Chile. I also liked the fact that Wright used a comparative framework. This angle was strongest in the final two chapters where the author discusses transitional justice and the attempts by the new democratic regimes to prosecute the perpetrators of state violence. Despite the obvious similarities, there were significant difference between Argentina and Chile's attempts to hold the military responsible for the torture and murder of so many people. My main critique of the book is that it did not sufficiently address the question of historical memory.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-06-29 00:00:00 Joseph Miegoc Provides a very useful critique on the bureaucratisation of human rights in the international community; uses narrative style and personal experiences to illustrate an individual response of the human rights lawyer, this makes it much easier to read than the general variety of commentary upon human rights. However, because of this, the book is less useful to an academic, and the concerns raised remain very much unresolved by the end of the book.