Book on international law & Western Sahara
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Published 18 November 2007

The book "International Law and the Question of Western Sahara" has been put together by International Platform of Jurists for East Timor and the Institute of Social Sciences in The Hague from papers delivered at a conference there in October 2006. As far as we know it is the first collective work published in English dealing with the legal aspects of the Western Sahara problem.

With p&p costs, sale price is approx €30. 

Anyone interested in having a copy, please email Pedro Pinto Leite at ipjet2@gmail.com.

Download flyer (pdf).

See launch of the book at University of Melbourne School of Law, Australia, November 2007. 
Speaker: Co-author Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco. 

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