New Volume: Japanese Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Japanese Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 54, 2011) is out. Contents include:

• The Contribution of International Environmental Law to International Law: Past Achievements and Future Expectation
• Edith Brown Weiss, The Evolution of International Environmental Law
• Akiho Shibta, International Environmental Lawmaking in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century: The Form and Process
• Daniel Bodansky, Implementation of International Environmental Law
• Mari Koyano, The Significance of Procedural Obligations in International Environmental Law: Sovereignty and International Co-operation
• Peter H. Sand, Environmental Dispute Settlement and the Experience of the UN Compensation Commission
• Ellen Hey, The Interplay between Multilateral Environmental and Fisheries Law: A Struggle to Sustainably Regulate Economic Activity—Including a Case Study of the North Sea—
• Erik Franckx & Koen Van den Bossche, The Influence of Environmental Law on the Development of the Law of the Sea: CITES and the International Law of Fisheries
• New Japanese Rule on International Jurisdiction: Part One
• Masato Dogauchi, New Japanese Rules on International Jurisdiction: General Observation
• Shunichiro Nakano, Agreement on Jurisdiction
• Akira Saito, International Civil Jurisdiction Based on the Place of Performance of Obligation Relating to A Contract
• Kazuhiko Yamamoto, International Jurisdiction Based on the Location of Property
• Yoshihisa Hayakawa, Lis Pendens
• Public International Law
• Yutaka Arai-Takahashi, The Principle of Humanity under International Humanitarian Law in the “Is/Ought” Dichotomy
• Note
• Tomohiko Kobayashi, Pinning Down the Circling Concept of Circumvention: A Comprehensive Approach to Anti-Circumvention Disciplines under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture
• Special Lecture
• Shigeru Oda, Taiwan as Sovereign and Independent State—Status of Taiwan under International Law