MPIL: Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors: Impulses from the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law has posted Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors: Impulses from the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War. Contents include:

• A. Peters & C. Marxsen, Editors’ Introduction: Self-Defence in Times of Transition
• O. Corten, Has Practice Led to an “Agreement Between the Parties” Regarding the Interpretation of Article 51 of the UN Charter?
• T. Christakis, Challenging the “Unwilling or Unable” Test
• I. Österdahl, Scarcely Reconcilable with the UN Charter
• S. Kawagishi, Clearing Uncertainties of the Jurisprudence of the ICJ on Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors
• P. Urs, Effective Territorial Control by Non-State Armed Groups and the Right of Self-Defence
• L. Lo Giacco, Reconsidering the Legal Basis for Military Actions Against Non-State Actors
• B. Sjöstedt, Applying the Unable/Unwilling State Doctrine – Can a State Be Unable to Take Action?
• M. Hartwig, Which State’s Territory May Be Used for Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors?
• J.A. Frowein, Article 51 and the Realities of the Present Day World
• K. Oellers-Frahm, Article 51 – What Matters Is the Armed Attack, not the Attacker
• I. Couzigou, The Right to Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors – Criteria of the “Unwilling or Unable” Test
• G. Keinan, Humanising the Right of Self-Defence
• C.J. Tams, Embracing the Uncertainty of Old: Armed Attacks by Non-State Actors Prior to 9/11
• L. van den Herik, “Proceduralising” Article 51
• A. Tancredi, Doctrinal Alternatives to Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors
• M. Wood, Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors – A Practitioner’s View
• L. Grover, Intertemporality and Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors
• C.-P. Sassenrath, Diverging Interpretations of Individual State Practice on Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors – Considerations for a Methodological Approach
• P. Starski, A Call for a Turn to the Meta-Level of International Law: Silence, the “Interregnum”, and the Conundrum of Ius Cogens
• C. Marxsen, A Note on Indeterminacy of the Law on Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors