Tuesday, January 22, 2019

New Volume: German Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the German Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 60, 2017) is out. Contents include:
  • Forum: The Relationship between African States and the International Criminal Court
    • Gerhard Werle & Moritz Vormbaum, African States, the African Union, and the International Criminal Court: A Continuing Story
    • Dire Tladi, Of Heroes and Villains, Angels and Demons: The ICC-AU Tension Revisited
  • Focus: International Law and the Dehumanisation of Activities
    • Helmut Philipp Aust, »The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness«: The Future of Human Rights Law in the Light of Algorithmic Authority
    • Thomas Burri, International Law and Artificial Intelligence
    • Aldo Chircop, Testing International Legal Regimes: The Advent of Automated Commercial Vessels
    • Stephan Hobe & Benjamyn I. Scott, International Civil Aviation and the Dehumanisation of Activities
    • Stefan A. Kaiser, Legal Challenges of Automated and Autonomous Systems
    • Nicholas Tsagourias & Russell Buchan, Automatic Cyber Defence and the Laws of War
    • Antje von Ungern-Sternberg, Artifical Agents and General Principles of Law
  • Walther Schücking Lecture
    • Philip Allott, Beyond War and Diplomacy: A Giant Step for Mankind
  • Special Section: Towards Utopia – Rethinking International Law
    • Jens T. Theilen, Isabelle Hassfurther, & Wiebke Staff, Guest Editors’ Introduction: Towards Utopia – Rethinking
    • Jens T. Theilen, Of Wonder and Changing the World: Philip Allott’s Legal Utopianism
    • Ka Lok Yip, What is Human? Reading Social Idealism against the Reality of Blackman and Azaria
    • Radhika Jagtap, Resistance through Utopia: Reflections on the Niyamgiri Anti-Mining Movement and International Law
    • Wiebke Staff, Customary International Law: A Vehicle on the Road from Istopia to Eutopia?
    • Isabelle Hassfurther, Transforming the »International Unsociety«: Towards Eutopia by Means of International Recognition of Peoples’ Representatives
    • Dorothy Makaza, Towards Afrotopia. The AU Withdrawal Strategy Document, the ICC, and the Possibility of Pluralistic Utopias
    • Severin Meier, The Influence of Utopian Projects on the Interpretation of International Law and the Healthy Myth of Objectivity
    • Marnie Lloydd, Persistent Tensions? International Legal Perspectives on ›Other‹ Foreign Fighters
    • Michelle Staggs Kelsall, From a Stark Utopia to Everyday Utopias
    • Rossana Deplano, Building Pragmatic Utopias: The »Other« Security Council, International Law, and the United Nations Dream
  • General Articles
    • Peter Lawrence & Lukas Köhler, Representation of Future Generations through International Climate Litigation: A Normative Framework
    • Anja Seibert-Fohr, From Complicity to Due Diligence: When Do States Incur Responsibility for Their Involvement in Serious International Wrongdoing?
  • German Practice
    • Avril Rushe, Same-Sex Marriage under the Grundgesetz and the European Convention on Human Rights
    • Isabelle Hassfurther, Will There Be »Justice for Syria«? The Assad Regime in German Courts
    • Felix Würkert, The German Past between Collectives and Individuals
    • Tobias Thienel, Application and Repeal of the Offence of Insulting Foreign Heads of State: The Böhmermann Affair
    • Alena Kunstreich, Prohibition or Non-Proliferation? Germany’s Point of View Concerning the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and Effective Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament
    • Markus Gentzsch & Marc Becker, PSPP – Curtain Up for a New Act in the Drama »German Federal Constitutional Court versus European Court of Justice«