Desktop:
James Traub, The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).
Gregory Jaffe, “Comparative Analysis of the National Biosafety Regulatory Systems in East Africa” (EPT Discussion Paper 146) International Food and Policy Research Institute, January 2006.
Bed-side table:
Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear.
Past reading:
David Kenneth Leary, International Law and the Genetic Resources of the Deep Sea
(Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007).
- I made it through all of this book but the last six pages when I had to return it to the library. This was way back last summer (ie, summer 2007) so my memory of it is a bit fuzzy although I seem to recall thinking that I had hoped for more on benefit-sharing relating to access to the genetic resources of the deep sea and also that it could have used a good proof-read before being published. But a good examination of a lot of the issues relating to deep sea genetic resources.
Fiona McConnell, The Biodiversity Convention: A Negotiating History (London: Kluwer Law International, 1996).
- I don’t know why this one had never come to my attention before. I found it in the library last week while looking for some other books and I really enjoyed it. I’ll try to write more about it later but I think part of the reason I liked it is because the book tries to do something similar to what I do here - provide a personal perspective on international negotiations.
Michel W. Drapeau & Marc-Aurèle Racicot, Federal Access to Information and Privacy Legislation Annotated 2007 (Toronto: Thomson Canada Ltd., 2006).
- I don’t think this one counts as read. I read parts and then had to return it to the library. It will likely re-appear in the reading list down the road.
Betlem & Brans (eds.) Environmental Liability in the EU: The 2004 Directive compared with US and Member State Law (London: Cameron May, 2006).
- not the whole thing, just a few chapters
Past reading bed-side table:
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
- Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Extremely touching, amusing and clever at the same time
Roch Carrier, Our Life with the Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story (transl. Sheila Fischman).
- Maurice Richard is my favourite hockey player. ‘Nuff said.