A Barrister in the Far East - Duncan McNeill

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This book is about pre-emptive attack and securing the peace. </span>Questions of legal extraterritoriality feature prominently in international investment and WTO trade law international human rights law state responsibility and a large number of other areas. Nevertheless many accounts are yet to grapple with its historical practice and its ramifications for the present and future. This book shares the memoirs of a Barrister in the Far East Duncan McNeill who for thirty-five years from the beginning of 1891 practised in Extra-territorial Courts. The book will be of considerable interest to legal practitioners legal scholars historians and those working in diplomacy and international relations in China Hong Kong and Japan.</p>