Wednesday, June 13, 2012

New Volume: German Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the German Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 54, 2011) is out. Contents include:
  • Forum: The Global Financial Crisis
    • Christian Tietje, The International Financial Architecture as a Legal Order
    • Christoph Ohler, The European Stability Mechanism: The Long Road to Financial Stability in the Euro Area
  • Focus: The Arctic Challenge
    • Kristin Bartenstein, Navigating the Arctic: The Canadian NORDREG, the International Polar Code and Regional Cooperation
    • Jonas Attenhofer, Navigating Along Precedence: How Arctic Sovereignty Melts with the Ice
    • Nele Matz-Lück, Continental Shelf Delimitation and Delineation in the Arctic: Current Developments
    • Richard Barnes, International Regulation of Fisheries Management in Arctic Waters
    • Nigel Bankes, Indigenous Land and Resource Rights in the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Comparisons with the Draft Nordic Saami Convention
    • David L. VanderZwaag, The Arctic Council at 15 Years: Edging Forward in a Sea of Governance Challenges
    • Tim Stephens, The Arctic and Antarctic Regimes and the Limits of Polar Comparativism
    • Adalheidur Jóhannsdóttir, The European Union and the Arctic: Could Iceland's Accession to the EU Change the EU's Influence in the Arctic?
  • General Articles
    • Emmanuel Voyiakis, International Law, Interpretative Fidelity and the Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer
    • Bjørn Kunoy, Conservation and Management of Shared Fish Stocks and the Applicable International Trade Regime
    • Rosemary Rayfuse, Differentiating the Common? The Responsibilities and Obligations of States Sponsoring Deep Seabed Mining Activities in the Area
    • Ralf Müller-Terpitz, Genetic Testing of Embryos in vitro – Legal Considerations with Regard to the Status of Early Human Embryos in European Law
    • Kasey L. McCall-Smith, Reservations and the Determinative Function of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies
    • Christoph J. Schewe & Azar Aliyev, The Customs Union and the Common Economic Space of the Eurasian Economic Community: Eurasian Counterpart to the EU or Russian Domination?
  • German Practice
    • Susanne Wasum-Rainer & Christophe Eick, The UN Security Council and International Law in 2011
    • Peter Wittig, Climate Change and International Peace and Security: The Open Debate in the United Nations Security Council on 20 July 2011
    • Thomas Giegerich, The Federal Constitutional Court's Deference to and Boost for Parliament in Euro Crisis Management
    • Jan Oliva, Legal Persons from EU Member States and their Entitlement to Fundamental Rights under the German Basic Law
    • Björn Elberling, German Practice Regarding Enforcement of Sentences Passed by International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
    • Patrick Kroker, Universal Jurisdiction in Germany: The Trial of Onesphore R. Before the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt
    • Tobias Thienel, Torture Abroad, Consular Assistance and the Admissibility of Evidence
    • Oliver Daum, Juridicial Virgin Soil and the Well-fortified Democracy – The Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution under International Legal Scrutiny
    • Felix Machts, Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions – Patentability of Extraction of Precursor Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells (ECJ)
    • Patrick Braasch, The European Convention on Human Rights' Limitations in the Dismissal of Non-clergy Church Employees
    • Sara Jötten & Jule Siegfried, The German Strike Ban for Public Officials in Light of the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights: The Judgments of the Administrative Court of Düsseldorf of December 2010 and the Administrative Court of Kassel of July 2011
    • Stephanie Schlickewei, Denial of Individual Right to Compensation to Victims of World War II Massacre in Light of the ECHR: Sfountouris and Others v. Germany
    • Claudia Schubert, Whistle-Blowing after Heinisch v. Germany: Much Ado About Nothing?
    • Antje Siering, Freedom of Expression in a National Context: The Case of Hoffer and Annen v. Germany
    • Philipp Tamme, No Residence Permit after Marriage in Denmark: The Federal Administrative Court in Breach of EU Law?