The latest volume of the
Japanese Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 60, 2017) is out. Contents include:
- In Memoriam
- Professor Dr. Yasuo Ishimoto (1924-2015)
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Uniform Law Treaties: Their Reception, Implementation, Success and Failure
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Hiroo Sono,
Introductory Note
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Hiroo Sono, Going Forward with Uniform Private Law Treaties: A Study in Japan’s Behavioral Pattern
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Tomotaka Fujita,
When Does Japan Not Conclude Uniform Private Law Conventions?
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Souichirou Kozuka,
The Selective Reception of Uniform Law in Asia
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Tetsuo Morishita,
Successes and Failures of Harmonization of Commercial Laws
- New Japanese Legislation for Peace And Security (2015) and International Law
- Shunji Yanai, New Japanese Legislation for Peace and Security — Its Background and Salient Points —
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Tadashi Mori, Collective Self-Defence in International Law and in the New Japanese Legislation for Peace and Security (2015)
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Akira Mayama, The Constitutional Limitation on the Exercise of the Right of Collective Self-Defense: Minesweeping in Foreign Territorial Waters and Close-In Logistical Support for Belligerents
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Masahiro Kurosaki, The Legal Frameworks of “Coming-To-Aid” Duty: The Pluralism of the Concept of Self-Defense and Its Multi-Layered Legal Grounds
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Half a Century with the International Covenants on Human Rights: Long-Term Impacts on the World, Asia and Japan: Part Two
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Naoko Maeda, Forty Years’ Practice of the UN Human Rights Committee for Implementation of the Covenant: A Universal Model for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights
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Walter Kälin,
Human Rights Treaties within the UPR Process: Opportunities and Limits of Inter-Governmental Monitoring of Human Rights
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Kimio Yakushiji,
Developments in the Acceptance and Implementation of Obligations Defined in Core UN Human Rights Conventions by East Asian and Southeast Asian Countries
- Unilateralism and Multilateralism in Regulating Cross-Border Business Transactions: Part Two
- Yoshiaki Nomura,
Fall of Extraterritoriality and Resurgence of Choice of Law in Global Securities Litigation
- Special Lecture
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Ronny Abraham, The Role of the ICJ in the Promotion of the Rule of Law
- Japanese Digest of International Law
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Shotaro Hamamoto, Territorial Status of the Northern Territories
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Shin Hae Bong, Legislative, Administrative and Judicial Measures in Japan Against Racial Hate Speech
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Cases and Issues in Japanese Private International Law
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Dai Yokomizo,
Recognition of a Foreign Judgment on Children Born Through Surrogate Pregnancy
