Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Lawson & Wessel: Unity in Diversity: Perspectives on the Law of International Organizations – Liber Amicorum for Niels M. Blokker

Rick Lawson
(Leiden Univ. - Law) & Ramses A. Wessel (Univ. of Groningen - Law) have published Unity in Diversity: Perspectives on the Law of International Organizations – Liber Amicorum for Niels M. Blokker (Brill | Nijhoff 2025). Contents include:
  • Rick Lawson & Ramses A. Wessel, Introduction: Niels Blokker’s Contribution to International Institutional Law
  • Roeland Böcker, Restoring Justice Step 1: The Register of Damage for Ukraine
  • Thomas Henquet, The UN Liability Rules and General International Law: Lex Specialis?
  • Ian Johnstone, Security Council Oversight of Non-UN Operations: Law, Policy and Practice
  • Giserd Marqeshi & Nigel D. White, Operational Lawmaking within the UN: The Origins of the Legal: Framework for Peacekeeping
  • Michael Ramsden, ‘Uniting against Impunity’ in the New Cold War: Will the UN General Assembly Come of Age?
  • Alfred van Staden, The Amazing Resurrection of NATO: Problems and Prospects
  • Gian Luca Burci, Regime Complexity in Global Health: The Search for Multilateral Pandemic Governance
  • Daniëlla Dam-de Jong, The UN Security Council and a Warming World: Coming to Terms with the Security Implications of Climate Change
  • Jan Klabbers, Inter-organizational Collaboration: The World Organization for Animal Health and the One Health Initiative
  • Brian McGarry, Weathering a Perfect Storm: Fundamental Questions of Institutional Law in Ocean Governance
  • André Nollkaemper, The Quadripartite: Building Alliances between the WHO, the FAO, WOAH and UNEP
  • Meagan S. Wong, The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the Meeting of States Parties to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: Mare Ignotum for the Law of International Organizations?
  • Eric De Brabandere & Jason Rudall, The Contribution of International Organizations to the Settlement of International Disputes
  • Mielle Bulterman & Larissa van den Herik, The EU’s Foreign and Security Policy and Legal Remedies: Three Remarkable Cases before the EU Courts
  • Jacob Katz Cogan, Statement Decisions as Institutional Authority
  • Helen Duffy & Giulia Pinzauti, The International Court of Justice in Conflict: Reflections on the Role and Impact of the Palestine Litigation
  • Huw Llewellyn, The United Nations Criminal Tribunals: Terminable Yet Independent?
  • Carsten Stahn, When the Whole Becomes More than the Sum of Its Parts: How the ICC Re-Invented Itself through Complementarity
  • Sergey Vasiliev, Governing International Justice: Whence the Unified Principles?
  • Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Pieter Jan Kuijper, Relations between ‘European Courts’: Towards Civilized Dialogue?
  • Edward Kwakwa & Irina Chicu, The World Intellectual Property Organization’s New Strategic Direction: Serving Underserved Communities and Helping Transform IP into a Tool That Works for Building a More Sustainable Future
  • Gabrielle Marceau & Maria George, The New Roles of the WTO
  • Pierre Klein, Between Restraint and Enthusiasm: International Organizations’ Participation in Advisory Proceedings before the ICJ and ITLOS
  • Liesbeth Lijnzaad, Anticipation, or the People That Make the Law of the Sea Convention Work
  • René Urueña, Falling through the Cracks: Exploring the Role of Law in the Interaction between International Organizations
  • Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst & Jaap Hoeksma, The European Union as a Democratic International Organization
  • Helena Loutas-Paraskeva & Anmol Gulecha, Unity within Diversity: The Continuing Rise of Consensus
  • Paolo Palchetti, Attaching Member State’s Financial Contribution to the Organization to Circumvent the Organization’s Immunity from Execution Let the State Pay?
  • August Reinisch, The Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations and Equality: Some Reflections on Their Justifications from an Egalitarian Perspective
  • Dan Sarooshi, The Personality and Responsibility of International Organizations
  • Kirsten Schmalenbach, The Great Unknown General Principles Governing the Law of International Organizations
  • Nico Schrijver, We the Peoples in International Organizations: An Unfinished Agenda
  • Jean d’Aspremont, International Institutional Lawyers as Masters of Modern Philosophy
  • Catherine Brölmann, Reading International Organizations: Between Legal Construction and Social Existence
  • Edward Chukwuemeke Okeke, Law and Lawyering in International Organizations