i was talking to a judge on the special court for sierra leone which is the court that tried charles taylor for his crimes, and tried other human rights crimes and is one of these new international criminal court's that have grown up in the past decade or so. he asked what i was researching but i said i was looking at courts in 19 city. he said of course you know about the first international criminal court, the slave trade tribunal does that in sierra leone. and i said no, i've never heard of that. and i studied this. making it about it because the special court for sierra leone that where one of these courts that and it was part of the local lore that this court had been there. and had heard these cases and it was sort of local common knowledge but not something that people were were a proposal. and i discovered that the british were asked to record keepers. and so the complete archives of the courts are in the british archiving unit. so it was pretty easy to see what the courts of them. >> host: and from that spark came this book, "the slave trade and the origins of international rights

settling claims to create an international tribunal and i was talking to us a judge that tried to charles taylor in sierra leone and is in new international criminal court that has sprung up and as i am looking at the court's of course, you know, what felt the slave trade tribunal and i said no. i have never heard of that. he knew about it because this special court is where one of the court sat it was parch of a local court but it had been there to hear the cases it was local common knowledge and not something people were aware of and i discovered the british were excellent record keepers sova completes archives are in the british archives in london. it was pretty easy to reconstruct what the courts had done. >>host: from that spark came this book "the slave trade and the origins of international human rights law" published by oxford stanford law professor jenny martinez is the author. you are watching booktv on c-span2. >> on your screen is a new book him called the romney's family table. when did you find time to put this together? >> oddly enough i had written a cookbook before but nobody wo

conference talking to a judge on the special court for sierra leone which is the court that tried charles taylor for his crimes and tried of the human rights crimes and is one of these new international criminal court that has sprung up in the last decade or so. he asked what i was researching and i sat in looking at courts of the 19th century. he said of course the first international criminal courts in sierra leone. i said i've never heard of that and i studied this. he knew about it because the special court for sierra leone set in freetown and it was part of this local court that heard these cases and there was a sort of local common knowledge but not something people were aware about and i discovered that they were excellent record keepers of the complete our clients are in the british archives in london so it was pretty easy to reconstruct what the court had done. >> and from that came this book of the slave trade and the origin of the human rights law, published by oxford. stanford law professor is the author. you are watching book tv on c-span2. >>> an appetite for wonder is the name of

is necessary to continue the national emergency with respect to the former liberian regime of charles taylor. signed, barack obama, the white house, july 17, 2013. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committee on foreign affairs and ordered printed. he house will be in order. he house will be in order. the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. please take your conversations off the floor. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: madam speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. will be in order. lease come to order. lease come to order. members, take your conversations off the floor, please. he house will come to order. the gentleman is recognized. mr. thompson: madam speaker, last week the house passe

when it came to charles, i was going to tell him to stick to orthopedic surgery. when it came to senator taylori was going on ask why this was the first time in a decade we had ever heard him talk about the concern for women's abortion procedures. so it was going to go down line as long as i could get to in two minutes. >> you only mentioned one legislator. how many women were on that dais? is part of what outrages you and other activists in the pro-choice movement the fact that so many men are making these decisions and essentially ruling women's voices out of order? >> yeah. it is 85% male. it is not acceptable. you're talking about the health care decisions of 50% of the population. actually 51%. abortion is a medical part of our health care. 30% of women under the age of 40 will experience in their lifetime. it is not a moral decision. it is not something for people to contemplate. it is just a fact of life. women have been having abortions, safe or not, since we knew we could abort pregnancies. since we could plan families. when you ask about who was on the dais, there was senator donna ca

taylor, thanks for calling in. i appreciate it. let me just get straight to this. moody, i know, has admitted to killing charlesstered sex offender, but why? why him exactly? >> well, right now we don't know that information for sure. we've still been in contact with him and still talking to him. other than what he has originally told us, that's all we know right now. >> remind me, what did he originally tell you? has he been cooperative? >> yes, he has. he originally told us in his statement that mr. parker thought he was there to kill him for robbery, and he said, i'm not here to rob you. i'm here to kill you because you're a child molester. >> and not only that, but did he share more with you in terms of plans to kill others? >> well, we took him into custody wednesday morning about 3:40 a.m. he told us that, if we had not arrested him and we'd waited until the next day, there would have been another victim. >> can i ask the tone he took with you? was it rather matter of fact admission? >> yes, ma'am, pretty much. >> i understand that there are other sex offenders who have seen this story, they're calling yo