Wednesday, April 2, 2008

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 7, 2007) is out. Contents include:
  • Symposium: The History of International Law Scholarship in Central Eastern and Eastern Europe
    • Christian Tomuschat, Foreword
    • Lauri Mälksoo, Insula deserta? Thoughts on the History of International Law Scholarship in Central Eastern and Eastern Europe
    • Karl-Heinz Ziegler, The International Law of Europe since the Middle Ages
    • Carmen Schmidt, The Minority Protection System of the League of Nations and the Central and Eastern European States
    • Vygante Milašiute & Arunas Bučnys, The Lithuanian Tradition of International Law Scholarship
    • Wladyslaw Czaplinski, Paweł Włodkowic (Paulus Wladimiri) and the Polish International Legal Doctrine of the 15th Century
    • Anthony Carty, Hersch Lauterpacht: A Powerful Eastern European Figure in International Law
    • Karolina Wierczynska, Judge Manfred Lachs and His Role in International Adjudication
    • Janne E. Nijman, Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670): Reformer of Humanity
    • Pavel Šturma, The Czech Tradition of International Legal Scholarship
    • Péter Kovács, László Buza and His Heritage for Hungarian International Lawyers
    • Vladimir-Djuro Degan, An Essay on the Doctrine of International Law in Croatia and the Former Yugoslavia
    • Olga Bytkevich, Ukrainian Legal Science on the History of the Ancient and Medieval International Law
    • William E. Butler, Russian International Legal History: A Plea for Revisionism
    • Peter Holquist, The Dilemmas of an “Official with Progressive Views” - Baron Boris Nolde