Friday, December 30, 2022

New Volume: Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law

The latest volume of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (Vol. 25, 2021) is out. Contents include:
  • Gabriela Argüello, The International Maritime Organization’s Contribution to Regime Interaction: Past, Present, and Future
  • José-Miguel Bello y Villarino, Middle Point, End of the Road or Just the Beginning? Anticorruption Efforts, Failures and Promises at the United Nations
  • Guilherme Canela, Namara Burki, & Samrita Menon, UNESCO’S Judges’ Initiative: Training the Custodians of the Legal System on Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and the Safety of Journalists
  • Jacob Katz Cogan, ‘Mechanisms’ at the United Nations
  • Pierre-Marie Dupuy, The Constitutional Dimension of the UN Charter Revisited: Almost One Quarter of a Century Later
  • Rana Moustafa Essawy, Closing the Doors on Health Nationalism: The Non-emptiness of the Legal Duty to Cooperate in Pandemic Response under Lex Specialis
  • Francesco Francioni, Cultural Heritage and Human Rights
  • Michael Lysander Fremuth & Konstantina Stavrou, The Future We Want? Reflections on the Exercise of the United Nations Security Council Members’ Veto Powers towards the International Criminal Court
  • Rosana Garciandia & Philippa Webb, The UN’s Work on Racial Discrimination: Achievements and Challenges
  • Rainer Grote, The Human Rights Council at 15: How (Not) to Promote Human Rights in Times of Growing Political Polarization
  • Tomas Hamilton & Göran Sluiter, Principles of Reparations at the International Criminal Court: Assessing Alternative Approaches
  • Elena Ivanova, Intervention in Inter-State Arbitration, including the Case of UNCLOS Annex VII Arbitration
  • Gerd Oberleitner, The United Nations and International Humanitarian Law: The Past 75 Years
  • Sara Palacios-Arapiles, The Interpretation of Slavery before the International Criminal Court: Reconciling Legal Borders?
  • Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, The UN Sustainable Development Agenda and Rule of Law: Global Governance Failures Require Democratic and Judicial Restraints
  • Yann Prisner-Levyne, Wildlife Crime: Story of an International Law Lacuna
  • Anni Pues, The UN General Assembly as a Security Actor: Appraising the Investigative Mechanism for Syria
  • Chie Sato, The Necessity of a Global Legal Framework for Protection of Marine Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction: Could the BBNJ Agreement Provide the Basis for an Integrated Framework?
  • William Schabas, Race, Human Rights and the Global South at the First Session of the UN General Assembly
  • Omri Sender & Michael Wood, The Work of the International Law Commission between 1997 and 2022: A Positive Assessment
  • Dinah Shelton, The Development of Human Rights Law and Challenges Faced by UN Treaty Bodies 1969–2022
  • Tommaso Soave, Digital Humanitarians and International Lawyers: Worlds apart or Two Sides of the Same Coin?
  • Paulina Starski & Friedrich Arndt, The Russian Aggression against Ukraine – Putin and His ‘Legality Claims’
  • Ramona Vijeyarasa, Three Decades of CEDAW Committee General Recommendations: A Roadmap for Domestication, Reporting and Stronger Accountability for Women’s Rights