New Volume: Nigerian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 2018/2019) is out. Contents include:

• Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, New Reflections on Humankind as a Subject of International Law
• David Baragwanath, Can the Law Respond to Threatened Apocalypse?
• Howard Morrison, The Rule of International Law: Where Are We Going?
• Osatohanmwen O. Anastasia Eruaga, Coastal State Regulation of the Use of Arms in the Private Protection of Commercial Vessels in the Gulf of Guinea: A Nigerian Perspective
• Adaeze Okoye, Mariam Masini, & Alache Fisho, Joint Development of Transboundary Natural Resources: Lessons from the Nigeria-Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Zone
• Irekpitan Okukpon, Implementing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)-based Electronic Waste Institutions in Nigeria: Lessons from the Global North
• Amaka Vanni, The Participation of Pharmaceutical Drug Industry in Patent Governance and Law-Making: A Case Study of India and Nigeria
• Chile Eboe-Osuji, The International Criminal Court: What Has It Accomplished?
• Ivana Hrdličková, Adrian Plevin, & Amanda Fang, Improving the Efficiency of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: The Paris Declaration on the Effectiveness of International Criminal Justice
• Péter Kovács, The International Criminal Court on the Rohingyas’ Situation and the Early Scholarly Echo of the Decision
• Daniel D. Ntanda Nsereko, The Law’s Response to the Plight of Victims of Trauma in the Context of International Criminal Justice
• Caroline Omari Lichuma, TWAILing the Minimum Core Concept: Re-thinking the Minimum Core of Economic and Social Rights in the Third World
• Olasupo Owoeye, Health and Development in Africa: How Far Can the Human Rights Jurisprudence Go?
• Solomon Ukhuegbe & Alero I. Fenemigho, Determining the Termination of a Non-International Armed Conflict: An Analysis of the Boko Haram Insurgency in Northern Nigeria

Call for Submissions: Nigerian Yearbook of International Law

The Nigerian Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for sumbissions for articles with in-depth analysis, short notes, and commentaries for publication in Volume 2 of the Yearbook (2018). The closing date for submissions for Volume 2 is May 31, 2019. The call is here.

Inaugural Volume: Nigerian Yearbook of International Law

The inaugural volume of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Part I International Law and Regional Systems
• Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, Compliance with Judgments and Decisions: The Experience of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: A Reassessment
• Part II Contemporary Challenges/Emerging Issues
• David Baragwanath, Responding to Terrorism: Definition and Other Actions
• Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko, The Evolution of the Status of the Individual Under International Law
• Péter Kovács & Tamás Vince Ádány, Admission into Diplomatic Buildings As an Alternative or Substitute to Diplomatic Asylum?
• Patricia O’Brien, International Law and Daunting Contemporary Crises to Human Security and the Rule of Law
• Dakas C. J. Dakas, Interrogating Colonialism: Bakassi, the Colonial Question and the Imperative of Exorcising the Ghost of Eurocentric International Law
• Obiora Chinedu Okafor, The International Law of Secession and the Protection of the Human Rights of Oppressed Substate Groups: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
• Part III Criminal Law
• David Re, International Crimes: A Hybrid Future?
• Chile Eboe-Osuji, The ICC and the African Court and the Extended Notion of Complementarity of International Criminal Jurisdictions
• William Schabas, Fragmentation or Stabilisation? Recent Case Law on the Crime of Genocide in Light of the 2007 Judgment of the International Court of Justice
• Udoka Owie, The Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Question of Head of State Immunity in International Law: Revisiting the Decision in Prosecutor v Charles Ghankay Taylor
• Part IV Natural Resources/Environmental Law
• Rhuks Ako, Mainstreaming Environmental Justice in Developing Countries: Thinking Beyond Constitutional Environmental Rights
• Engobo Emeseh, Environmental Victims, Access to Justice and the Sustainable Development Goals
• Damilola S. Olawuyi & Temitope Tunbi Onifade, Promoting Functional Distributive Justice in the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund System: Lessons from Alaska and Norway