Monday, August 24, 2009

New Volume: German Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the German Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 51, 2008) is out. Contents include:
  • Pieter Jan Kuijper, Superpower Frustrated? The Costs of Non-Lisbon in EU External Affairs
  • Focus Section: Poverty as a Challenge to International Law: The Millennium Development Goals and the Guise of Humanitarianism
    • Margot E. Salomon, Poverty, Privilege and International Law: The Millennium Development Goals and the Guise of Humanitarianism
    • Christine Kaufmann & Minna Grosz, Poverty, Hunger and International Trade: What's Law Got to Do with It? Current Mechanisms and the Doha Development Agenda
    • Daniel Bradlow, Developing Countries Debt Crises, International Financial Institutions, and International Law: Some Preliminary Thoughts
    • Edith Brown Weiss & Tanya Karina Lat, Engaging the World's Poor People in Sustainable Development
    • Vincent Chetail, Paradigm and Paradox of the Migration-Development Nexus: The New Border for North-South Dialogue
    • Karin Arts, The European Community's Contribution to the Fight Against Poverty in Developing Countries: Normative and Real?
    • Malcolm Langford, Poverty in Developed States: International Human Rights Law and the Right to a Remedy
  • Robin Geiß, The Protection of Journalists in Armed Conflicts
  • Sabine von Schorlemer, Compliance with the UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Reflections on the Elbe Valley and the Dresden Waldschlösschen Bridge
  • Christian J. Tams & Andreas Zimmermann, "[T]he Federation Shall Accede to Agreements Providing for General, Comprehensive and Compulsory International Arbitration". The German Optional Clause Declaration of 1 May 2008
  • Alexander Proelß, Marine Genetic Resources under UNCLOS and the CBD
  • Hiroshi Taki, Opinio Juris and the Formation of Customary International Law: A Theoretical Analysis
  • Yoshifumi Tanaka, Rethinking Lex Ferenda in International Adjudication