2005, ISBN: 9780853230397

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. xxiii, [3], 794, [2] pages. Foreword by Myres S. McDougal. A Postcript on "The… Mehr…

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. xxiii, [3], 794, [2] pages. Foreword by Myres S. McDougal. A Postcript on "The Pentagon Papers", Footnotes. Documentary Appendices. A Selected Bibliography of Writings on Indo-China and the Legal Order. Index. Heavy book, somewhat cocked. DJ is taped to boards, repaired with tape, and price clipped. DJ has wear, tears, chips, and soiling. John Norton Moore, the most prominent legal scholar to defend a position basically in agreement with the present Administration, presents a coherent, well-argued interpretation of the specific legal issues raised by U.S. involvement in Vietnam and their implications for international and constitutional law. He is an authority on international law, national security law and the law of the sea. He also teaches advanced topics in national security law and the rule of law. Moore taught the first course in the country on national security law and conceived and co-authored the first casebook on the subject. From 1991-93, during the Gulf War and its aftermath, Moore was the principal legal adviser to the Ambassador of Kuwait to the United States and to the Kuwait delegation to the U.N. Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission. From 1973 to 1976, he was chair of the National Security Council Interagency Task Force on the Law of the Sea and ambassador and deputy special representative of the president to the law of the sea conference. Previously he served as the counselor on international law to the State Department. He was co-chair in March 1990 of the U.S.-USSR talks in Moscow and Leningrad on the rule of law. From a review by Eugene V. Rostow, Sterling Professor of Law and Public Affairs, Yale Law School. Professor John Norton Moore has been an active belligerent on the home front. He has participated in a long cycle of debates before innumerable conferences, symposia, teach-ins, colloquia, and congressional and other committee hearings. He has spoken on television, and written regularly for the law journals. In this role, Moore earned high and equal respect from those who agree with him, and from those who do not. This is a considerable achievement, both of mind and of spirit, for our troubles over Vietnam have been more vehemently emotional, and less accessible to reason, than any we have had to endure since the Civil War. And the sector where Moore has been active-that of contention about the legality of our course in Indo-China-was necessarily the eye of the storm. We are people of the Book. To our minds, whatever we dislike intensely must also be illegal. The claim that the policy of the United States in Indo-China violated international law, or the law of our own Constitution, was the natural, and indeed the nearly indispensable predicate for a vast and inflamed literature charging the nation with immorality, aggression, imperialism, and other sins and crimes hideous to our notion of ourselves as a people. Confronting this outcry, Moore remained unflappably the professor: courteous, moderate, scrupulous in his respect for the evidence, meticulously fair to the arguments of his adversaries, and learned, resourceful, and thoughtful in developing his own. With admirable discipline, Citizen Moore never states his political position on American policy in South East Asia. The reader closes the book without a hint I could detect indicating Moore's opinion about the wisdom, efficacy, and prudence of the nation's course in Vietnam. Professor Moore's subject is its legality, which he vindicates in terms I find unanswerable., Princeton University Press, 1972, 2.25, Liverpool University Press, 2005. Book. Near Fine. hardback. hardback, three volumes complete as a boxed set, octavos, black cloth lettered gilt to spines, dust wrappers not called for, a near fine tightly bound set in original pictorial slipcase, the text is clean and unmarked.., Liverpool University Press, 2005, 4<