Wednesday, August 11, 2021

New Volume: German Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the German Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 62, 2019) is out. Contents include:
  • Forum: Comparative Disciplinary Perspectives on the Challenges Facing the Human Rights Council
    • Rosa Freedman & Samuel Gordon, An International Law Perspective on the Challenges Confronting the Human Rights Council
    • Wolfgang S. Heinz, An International Relations Perspective on the ReformNeeds of the Human Rights Council
  • Focus: The Treaty of Versailles at 100
    • Andreas von Arnauld, The Treaty of Versailles at 100: By Way of Introduction
    • Christian J. Tams, Experiments Great and Small: Centenary Reflections on the League of Nations
    • Thomas Kleinlein, The Versailles Peace Treaty Before the Permanent Court of International Justice: Tracing the Legalism of the Paris Settlement
    • Claus Kreß, The Peacemaking Process After the Great War and the Origins of International Criminal Law Stricto Sensu
    • Lauri Mälksoo, The Treaties of Brest-Litovsk, Versailles and Moscow: Contesting Sovereignty and Hegemony in Eastern Europe in 1918–1939
    • Jochen von Bernstorff, From Versailles to the Kellogg-Briand Pact: Prohibiting and Justifying Aggression in the Interbellum
    • Markus P.Beham, A Forgotten Lighthouse of International Law: Heinrich Lammasch and the League of Nations
    • Magnan Johannes Mohr, Between Pacifism and Patriotism: Walther Schücking (1875–1935)
  • Walther Schücking Lecture
    • Alan Boyle, Progressive Development of International Environmental Law: Legislate or Litigate?
  • General Articles
    • James Gerard Devaney, Reappraising the Role of Experts inRecent Cases Before the International Court of Justice
    • Nikolay Marin & Bilyana Manova, The Constraints of International Courts as a Tool for Resolving the Ukrainian-Russian Conflicts
    • Ulf Linderfalk, The Exercise of Discretion in International Law – Why Constraining Criteria Have a Proper Place in the Analysis of Legal Decision-Making
    • Bjørn Kunoy, Sharing is Caring: Transboundary Hydrocarbon Deposits on the Continental Shelf
    • Julian Scheu & Petyo Nikolov The Incompatibility of Intra-EU Investment Treaty Arbitration With European Union Law – Assessing the Scope of the ECJ’s Achmea Judgment
    • Ilya Berlin, Western Sahara, Morocco, and the EU: Did the CJEU Get it Wrong? A Commentary of Advocate-General Wathelet’s Opinion and the CJEU Decision in the Western Sahara Campaign UK Case
  • German Practice
    • Alexander Grimmig, The German Constitutional Court’s Pronouncement on Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors in Syria
    • Leander Beinlich, Drones, Discretion, and the Duty to Protect the Right to Life: Germany and its Role in the United States’ Drone Programme Before the Higher Administrative Court of Münster
    • Liv Christiansen & Lilo B. Rösch, German Practice Concerning the Implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement
    • Alexandra Lily Kather & Britta Redwood, Universal Jurisdiction in Germany: Frameworks and Practice Insights