Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Gruszczynski: Regulating Health and Environmental Risks under WTO Law

Lukasz Gruszczynski (Polish Academy of Science - Institute of Legal Studies) has published Regulating Health and Environmental Risks under WTO Law: A Critical Analysis of the SPS Agreement (Oxford Univ. Press 2010). Here's the abstract:

The last sixty years witnessed an unprecedented expansion of international trade. The system created by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and later by the World Trade Organization (WTO) has proved to be an efficient instrument for the elimination of trade and tariff barriers. This process coincided with increased national regulatory controls, which were particularly visible in the area of risk regulation. Governments, responding to the demands of their domestic constituencies, have adopted a wide range of regulatory measures aimed at protecting the environment and human health. Although, for the most part, the new regulatory initiatives served legitimate objectives, it has also turned out that internal measures might become an attractive vehicle for protectionism, taking the place that was traditionally occupied by tariff barriers. The WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) is an attempt by the international community to limit possible abuses while assuring WTO Members of an extensive margin of regulatory discretion.

The central problem that the book tackles is whether the system established by the SPS Agreement can address the existing and potential challenges of a new interdependent world. In answering this question, the author provides a comprehensive and critical examination of the substantive provisions of the Agreement and corresponding case law. In this context, the book particularly focuses on two issues: the consistency in the interpretation of the SPS Agreement and the appropriateness of its various requirements. This analysis leads the author to conclude that despite some interpretative failures of SPS case law, the system established by the SPS Agreement seems to provide an effective solution for the supervision of domestic SPS measures.

Dickson: The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland

Brice Dickson (Queen's Univ., Belfast - Law) has published The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland (Oxford Univ. Press 2010). Here's the abstract:

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the role played by the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968. Brice Dickson studies the effectiveness of the Convention in protecting human rights in a society wracked by terrorism and deep political conflict, detailing the numerous applications lodged at Strasbourg relating to the conflict and considering how they were dealt with by the enforcement bodies. The book illustrates the limitations inherent in the Convention system but also demonstrates how the European Commission and Court of Human Rights gradually developed a more interventionist approach to the applications emanating from Northern Ireland. In turn this allowed the Convention to become a more secure guarantor of basic rights and freedoms during times of extreme civil unrest and political turmoil elsewhere in Europe.

The topics examined include the right to life, the right not to be ill-treated, the right to liberty, the right to a fair trial, the right to a private life, the right to freedom of belief, the right to freedom of expression, the right to freedom of assembly, and the right not to be discriminated against. The book argues that, while eventually the European Court did use the applications from Northern Ireland to establish important human rights principles, their development was slow and arduous and some gaps in protection still remain. The book illustrates the limits of the European Convention as a tool for protecting human rights in times of crisis.

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 46, 2008) is out. Contents include:
  • Articles
    • Maureen English, Objectivity and Statutory Interpretation: End Use in the Canadian Customs Tariff
    • Pierre François Mercure, La notion de conditionnalité reconsidérée dans les relations Nord-Sud: réflexion sur une approche favorisant le plein exercice des droits économiques dans les pays en développement
    • Kristen E. Boon, The Future of the Law of Occupation
    • Frédéric Mégret, Civil Disobedience and International Law: Sketch for a Theoretical Argument
    • Verónica B. Pinero, Canadian International Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Assisted Human Reproduction
    • Karinne Coombes, Protecting Civilians during the Fight against Transnational Terrorism: Applying International Humanitarian Law to Transnational Armed Conflicts
  • Notes and Comments
    • John H. Currie, Khadr’s Twist on Hape: Tortured Determinations of the Extraterritorial Reach of the Canadian Charter
    • Charles-Emmanuel Côté, Un nouveau chantier transatlantique: l’entente France-Québec sur la reconnaissance des qualifications professionnelles
    • Jean-Gabriel Castel, Giving Effect to Out-of-Province Judgments in Class Actions
    • C. Emanuelli, Faut-il parler d’une "guerre" contre le terrorisme?

New Issue: Die Friedens-Warte

The latest issue of Die Friedens-Warte (Sonderheft 2010) is out. Contents include:
  • Nils Petter Gleditsch & Ragnhild Nordås, Climate Change and Conflict: A Critical Overview
  • Helmut Breitmeier, Klimawandel und Gewaltkonfl ikte: Das unsichere Wissen über den Kausalzusammenhang und die Notwendigkeit von Maßnahmen zur Anpassung und Gewaltprävention
  • Volker Röben, Der völkerrechtliche Rahmen für die Sezession einer Minderheit aus dem Staatsverband: Kosovo als Präzedenzfall?
  • Conrad Schetter & Katja Mielke, Staatlichkeit und Intervention in Afghanistan

Monday, March 15, 2010

Stone Sweet: Constitutionalism, Legal Pluralism, and International Regimes

Alec Stone Sweet (Yale Univ. - Law and Political Science) has posted Constitutionalism, Legal Pluralism, and International Regimes (Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Vol. 16, pp. 621-45, 2009). Here's the abstract:
The international legal order, although pluralist in structure, is in the process of being constitutionalized. This article supports this claim in several different ways. In the Part I, I argue that most accepted understandings of “constitution” would readily apply to at least some international regimes. In Part II, I discuss different notions of “constitutional pluralism,” and demonstrate that legal pluralism is not necessarily antithetical to constitutionalism. In fact, one finds a great deal of constitutional pluralism within national legal orders in Europe. Part III puts forward an argument that the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization are constitutional jurisdictions. In the Conclusion, I respond what I take to be the most important objections to these claims.

New Issue: Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé

The latest issue of the Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé (Vol. 86, no. 4, 2009) is out. Contents include:
  • X. Dijon, Les masques du droit en Afrique: Une lecture européenne des sources de la norme
  • F. Quilleré-Majzoub, Le droit international des réfugiés et les changements climatiques: vers une acceptation de l'"ecoprofugus"?

New Issue: Stockholm International Arbitration Review

The latest issue of the Stockholm International Arbitration Review (Vol. 2009, no. 1) is out. Contents include:
  • Christopher R. Drahοzal, The Future of Manifest Disregard
  • Elie Kleiman, The SNF v. International Chamber of Commerce Case and the Obligation to Conduct Arbitration Proceedings with "Expected Dispatch"

New Issue: International Arbitration Law Review

The latest issue of the International Arbitration Law Review (Vol. 13, no. 1, 2010) is out. Contents include:
  • Peter Megens & Beth Cubitt, Arbitrators' Perspective: The Evolving Face of International Arbitration—The Past, The Present and The Future
  • Marcia A. Wiss & Charles B. Rosenberg, Avoiding Waiving a Right to ICSID Arbitration in the Negotiation of a Concession Agreement
  • Theresa Isele, The Principle Tura Novit Curia in International Commercial Arbitration

New Issue: European Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (2010, no. 1) is out. Contents include:
  • Lord Steyn, The Legality of the Invasion of Iraq
  • Jim Murdoch, Unfulfilled Expectations: the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  • A. Van Pachtenbeke & Y. Haeck, From De Becker to Varnava: the State of Continuing Situations in the Strasbourg Case Law
  • Helen Wildbore, The Equality and Human Rights Commission's Human Rights Inquiry: an Opportunity for Change
  • Catherine Harby, The Changing Nature of Interim Measures before the European Court of Human Rights

Schabas: The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute

William Schabas (National Univ. of Ireland, Galway - Law) has published The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute (Oxford Univ. Press 2010). Here's the abstract:
The International Criminal Court has been operational since mid-2003, following the entry into force of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 1 July 2002. The Rome Statute is among the most complex international treaties, a combination of public international law, international humanitarian law and criminal law, both international and domestic. The Commentary provides an article-by-article analysis of the Statute. Each of the 128 articles is presented accompanied by a bibliography of academic literature relevant to that provision, an overview of the drafting history of the provision and an analysis of the text. The analytical portion of each chapter draws upon relevant case law from the Court itself, as well as from other international and national criminal tribunals, academic commentary, and the related instruments such as the Elements of Crimes, the Rules of Procedure and Evidence and the Relationship Agreement with the United Nations. Written by a single author, the Commentary avoids duplication and inconsistency, providing a comprehensive presentation to assist those who must understand, interpret and apply the complex provisions of the Rome Statute.

Workshop: Breau

Susan Breau (Univ. of Surrey - Law) will give a talk today at the University of Exeter School of Law and International Law Association (British Branch) Current Issues in International Law Seminar Series on "The Gaza Report: Implications for International Law."

Sunday, March 14, 2010

White & Collins: International Organisations and the Idea of Autonomy

Nigel D. White (Univ. of Sheffield - Law) & Richard Collins (Univ. of Sheffield - Law) have published International Organisations and the Idea of Autonomy (Routledge 2010). Contents include:
  • José E. Alvarez, Foreword
  • Nigel D. White & Richard Collins, Introduction
  • Richard Collins, Between Autonomy and Instrumentality: International Institutions in the History of International Law
  • Patrick Capps, Legal Autonomy in Kant’s Philosophy of International Law
  • Jan Klabbers, Constitutionalizing Virtue in International Institutional Law
  • Bob Reinalda & Bertjan Verbeek, Theories of Autonomy: Perspectives from International Relations
  • Garrett W. Brown, Theories of Autonomy: An Examination of Institutional Autonomy in Global Governance from a Cosmopolitan Perspective
  • Catherine Brölmann, International Institutions and the Rule of Law
  • Ramses A. Wessel, International Organisations as Autonomous International Law-Makers?
  • John Merrills, International Adjudication and Autonomy
  • Frédéric Dopagne, Institutional Enforcement of International Law
  • Tarcisio Gazzini, The Relationship between International Legal Personality and Institutional Autonomy
  • Ralph Wilde, Autonomy as a problem of accountability for international organisations?
  • Eric De Brabandere, Privileges and immunities as institutional autonomy
  • Viljam Engstrom, Implied powers as a manifestation of institutional autonomy?
  • Jean d’Aspremont, Relativizing the Concept of Autonomy of International Organizations
  • Nigel D. White, Autonomy in the UN Legal Order
  • James Muiruri, Regional Organisations & the UN Legal Order: Interdependence or Independence? A Case Study on the African Union
  • Nicholas Tsagourias, Autonomy of International Organisations: the European Union
  • Paul Cardwell, Autonomy in terms of European Governance
  • Duncan French, Autonomy in International Environmental Law & Governance - A Case Study of the Actual (somewhere between the fable and the threat)
  • Mary Footer, Future Imperfect: Institutional Autonomy and the WTO
  • Jan Wouters, The possibility of institutional autonomy in the context of international trade?
  • Nico Krisch, Institutional Autonomy in the Context of Human Rights Law
  • David Freestone, Idea of Institutional Autonomy in the context of the International Financial Institutions
  • Nigel D. White & Richard Collins, Conclusion

Saturday, March 13, 2010

New Issue: Journal of World Intellectual Property

The latest issue of the Journal of World Intellectual Property (Vol. 13, no. 2, March 2010) is out. Contents include:
  • Dwijen Rangnekar, The Law and Economics of Geographical Indications: Introduction to Special Issue of The Journal of World Intellectual Property
  • Anselm Kamperman Sanders, Incentives for and Protection of Cultural Expression: Art, Trade and Geographical Indications
  • Daniele Giovannucci, Elizabeth Barham, & Richard Pirog, Defining and Marketing "Local" Foods: Geographical Indications for US Products
  • Delphine Marie-Vivien, The Role of the State in the Protection of Geographical Indications: From Disengagement in France/Europe to Significant Involvement in India
  • Kasturi Das, Prospects and Challenges of Geographical Indications in India
  • Dwijen Rangnekar & Sanjay Kumar, Another Look at Basmati: Genericity and the Problems of a Transborder Geographical Indication
  • Sarah Bowen, Development from Within? The Potential for Geographical Indications in the Global South
  • Geneviève Teil, The French Wine "Appellations d'Origine Contrôlée" and the Virtues of Suspicion
  • Irina Kireeva & Bernard O'Connor, Geographical Indications and the TRIPS Agreement: What Protection is Provided to Geographical Indications in WTO Members?
  • Massimo Vittori, The International Debate on Geographical Indications (GIs): The Point of View of the Global Coalition of GI Producers—oriGIn

Friday, March 12, 2010

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 24, no. 1, Spring 2010) is out. Contents include:
  • Anthony F. Lang Jr., The Politics of Punishing Terrorists
  • Symposium on Global Democracy
    • Terry Macdonald & Raffaele Marchetti, Introduction
    • Kate Macdonald & Terry Macdonald, Democracy in a Pluralist Global Order: Corporate Power and Stakeholder Representation
    • Jens Steffek, Public Accountability and the Public Sphere of International Governance
    • John Gastil, Colin J. Lingle, & Eugene P. Deess, Deliberation and Global Criminal Justice: Juries in the International Criminal Court

de Londras: International Human Rights Law and Constitutional Rights: In Favour of Synergy

Fiona de Londras (Univ. College Dublin - Law) has posted International Human Rights Law and Constitutional Rights: In Favour of Synergy (International Review of Constitutionalism, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:
This paper is concerned with demonstrating the capacity of international human rights law and domestic constitutional law to have a synergistic relationship that is focused on the ways in which the two sets of standards can be harmonised rather than on questions of ‘superiority’ and ‘inferiority’. Conceiving of the relationship between the two bodies of law in this way requires us to recognise their shared dignitary core and the optimal effect of international human rights law, namely effective rights-protection at the domestic level with international law playing a subsidiary role. This paper uses the example of LGBT rights in European Convention on Human Rights jurisprudence to demonstrate such a synergistic relationship and argues that such a relationship is possible as between US constitutional law and international human rights law notwithstanding some prima facie barriers thereto.

New Issue: Review of International Organizations

The latest issue of the Review of International Organizations (Vol. 5, no. 1, March 2010) is out. Contents include:
  • Jeffry Frieden, David Leblang & Neven Valev, The political economy of exchange rate regimes in transition economies
  • Garima Vasishtha & Robert Lavigne, Assessing the implementation of the IMF’s 2007 surveillance decision
  • Nathaniel Gest & Alexandru Grigorescu, Interactions among intergovernmental organizations in the anti-corruption realm
  • Glen Biglaiser & Karl DeRouen, The effects of IMF programs on U.S. foreign direct investment in the developing world

Call for Submissions: Goettingen Journal of International Law Student Essay Competition

The Goettingen Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its annual student essay competition. This year's topic is "The Rise of Self-Determination." Here's the call:

The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) is the first student-run journal in the field of International Law in Germany. Our object is to publish a journal that fosters debate among scholars of diverse fields in International Law and related disciplines. Since 2009 the journal has already published three issues.

The backbone of GoJIL is formed by the Editorial Board, a group of enthusiastic students and scholars from various academic disciplines. As we are students ourselves, we want to give young scholars the chance to gain practical experience and make their own professional scientific publication with GoJIL.

To make this possible, the GoJIL hosts an annual International Law Essay Competition on a current topic in International Law. The best article submitted will be published in an upcoming issue. Examples for winning contributions in the past you can find in the recent GoJIL issue Vol 1 No 3 (Marco Benatar: "The Use of Cyber Force: Need for Legal Justification?") as well as in GoJIL Vol 1 No 1 (Evelyne Schmid: "The Right to a Fair Trial in Times of Terrorism: A Method to Identify the Non-Derogable Aspects of Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights").

We strongly encourage you to take advantage of this great opportunity and hand in your submissions on the topic:

‘The Rise of Self-Determination’

The deadline for your submission is 15 June 2010.

For further details, please see our website: http://www.gojil.eu/

We are looking forward to your submission.

Workshops: Guilfoyle, Kreß

Douglas Guilfoyle (UCL - Law) will give a talk today at the University of Exeter School of Law and International Law Association (British Branch) Current Issues in International Law Seminar Series on "Piracy Off Somalia: The Emerging Legal Framework."

Claus Kreß (Univ. of Cologne - Law) will give a talk today at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law Friday Lunchtime Lecture Series on "The Immediate Future of the Crime of Aggression."

Thursday, March 11, 2010

New Issue: Journal of International Criminal Justice

The latest issue of the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Vol. 8, no. 1, March 2010) is out. Contents include:
  • Yaël Ronen, ICC Jurisdiction over Acts Committed in the Gaza Strip: Article 12(3) of the ICC Statute and Non-state Entities
  • Shane Darcy, Prosecuting the War Crime of Collective Punishment: Is It Time to Amend the Rome Statute?
  • Andrew Hudson & Alexandra W. Taylor The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala: A New Model for International Criminal Justice Mechanisms
  • Symposium: Victims' Participation in International Criminal Law
    • Guénaël Mettraux, Foreword
    • Liesbeth Zegveld, Victims’ Reparations Claims and International Criminal Courts: Incompatible Values?
    • Refik Hodzic, Living the Legacy of Mass Atrocities: Victims’ Perspectives on War Crimes Trials
    • Salvatore Zappalà, The Rights of Victims v. the Rights of the Accused
    • Jérôme de Hemptinne, Challenges Raised by Victims’ Participation in the Proceedings of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
  • Cases before International Courts and Tribunals
    • Guido Acquaviva & Laurel Baig, Foreword
    • Valentina Spiga, Indirect Victims’ Participation in the Lubanga Trial
    • Giulia Pinzauti, Protecting Prisoners of War: The Mrki et al. Appeal Judgment
    • Sara Luzzati On the Admissibility of Statements Made by the Defendant Prior to Trial: Remarks on the ICTY Appeals Chamber’s Decisions in Halilovi and Prli et al.
  • National Prosecution of International Crimes: Cases and Legislation
    • Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi, Steps Taken in Rwanda’s Efforts to Qualify for the Transfer of Accused from the ICTR
    • Antonios Tzanakopoulos, United Nations Sanctions in Domestic Courts: From Interpretation to Defiance in Abdelrazik v. Canada
    • Fannie Lafontaine, Canada’s Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act on Trial: An Analysis of the Munyaneza Case
    • Mark A. Drumbl, Prosecution of Genocide v. the Fair Trial Principle: Comments on Brown and others v. The Government of Rwanda and the UK Secretary of State for the Home Department

Conferences: 2010 Hague Joint Conference and ILA Annual Conference

The 2010 Hague Joint Conference on International Law, sponsored by the American Society of International Law, the Netherlands Society of International Law, and the T.M.C. Asser Institute, will take place in The Hague on August 19, in conjunction with the annual conference of the International Law Association. The theme for the joint conference is "Multiple Perspectives on International Law: In Search of Common Ground"; the theme for the ILA conference, which runs from August 15-20, is "De Iure Humanitatis: Peace, Justice and International Law." Conference programs are not yet available.

New Issue: Chicago Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chicago Journal of International Law (Vol. 10, no. 2, Winter 2010) is out. Contents include:
  • Symposium: The Philosophy of International Law
    • Diane P. Wood, Constitutions and Capabilities: A (Necessarily) Pragmatic Approach
    • Martha Nussbuam, Reply to Diane Wood, Constitutions and Capabilities: A (Necessarily) Pragmatic Approach
    • Robert J. Delahunty & John Yoo, Kant, Habermas and Democratic Peace
  • Symposium: International Law and the Economic Crisis
    • David Zaring, International Institutional Performance in Crisis
    • Yaal Rotem, The Problem of Selective or Sporadic Recognition: A New Economic Rationale for the Law of Foreign Currency Judgments
    • Barbara C. Matthews, Emerging Public Banking Law? Lessons from the Law of the Sea Experience
    • Kenneth W. Dam, The Subprime Crisis and Financial Regulation: International and Comparative Perspectives
    • Anupam Chander & Randall Costa, Clearing Credit Default Swaps: A Case Study in Global Legal Convergences
  • Jenia Iontcheva Turner, Legal Ethics in International Criminal Defense

New Volume: Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional

The latest volume of the Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional (Vol. 25, 2009) is out. Contents include:
  • Estudios Doctrinales
    • Carlos R. Fernández de Casadevante y Romaní, Las víctimas y el Derecho internacional
    • Manuel Hinojo Rojas, El principio de protección jurisdiccional de los funcionarios de Naciones Unidas: una lectura estatutaria
    • José Manuel Cortés Martín, El estado de necesidad en materia económica y financiera
    • José B. Acosta Estévez, La tipificación del delito internacional en el Estatuto de la Corte Penal Internacional
    • Carlos R. Fernández Liesa, Evolución jurídica de la protección internacional de los bienes culturales en los conflictos armados
    • Millán Requena Casanova, De nuevo el asunto Avena ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ): los límites de la jurisdicción de la CIJ para determinar en un proceso de interpretación el incumplimiento de sus sentencias (y de sus consecuencias jurídicas)
  • Notas
    • Antonio Blanc Altemir, Algunas reflexiones sobre el programa MEDA: ambiciosos objetivos frente a modestos resultados
    • Natividad Fernández Sola, Una respuesta multilateral a la proliferación nuclear: las perspectivas de la conferenica de revisión de 2010 del Tratado de no proliferación nuclear
    • Cesáreo Gutiérrez Espada, "Los nuevos pensadores del Islam" (Una reflexión personal al hilo de un buen libro)
    • Hans Morten Haugen, The UN and Western Sahara - reviving the UN Charter
    • Eugenia López-Jacoiste Díaz, Violencia doméstica y malos tratos en el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos
    • Fernando Lozano Contreras, El Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos ante la ilegalización de partidos políticos y la anulación de candidaturas en España
    • Ana Salinas de Frías, La obra convencional del Consejo de Europa en la prevención y lucha contra el terrorismo internacional
    • Francesco Seatzu, On some general theoretical and practical questions arising from the application of the European Convention on Human Rights in Asylum cases
    • Gonzalo Villalta Puig & Cédric Darcis, The development of European Union implied external competence: the Court of Justice and Opinion 1/03

New Volume: Finnish Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Finnish Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 18, 2007) is out. Contents include:
  • Symposium: International Post-Conflict Governance
    • Outi Korhonen, Introduction to the Special Theme: International Post-Conflict Governance
    • Katja Keinänen, International Law and the Interests of Liberal Market Economy: The Non-Issue of Environmental Protection in the Kosovo International Administration
    • Diane Otto, The Sexual Tensions of UN Peace Support Operations: A Plea for ‘Sexual Positivity’
    • Barbara Delcourt & Nina Wilén, International Administration of Foreign Territories and Sovereignty: AnImpossible Equation
    • Jörn Müller & Andreas Paulus Survival Through Law: Is there a Law Against Nuclear Proliferation?
    • Tuomas Forsberg, Post-Conflict Justice and the Finnish Civil War 1918: Reconciliation Without Truth?
    • Bernhard Knoll, Kosovo’s Endgame and Its Wider Implications in Public International Law
    • Tiina Pajuste, Legality of International Territorial Administration by the United Nations
  • Jean D’Aspremont, The Foundation of the International Legal Order
  • Miia Halme, From the Periphery to the Centre: Emergence of the Human Rights Phenomenon in Finland
  • Daniel Joyce, Fact-Finding and Evidence at the International Court of Justice: Systemic Crisis, Change or More of the Same?
  • Pekka Niemelä, Law and Universalism, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
  • Fouad Zarbiev, Les politiques des vérités juridiques en droit international: Propos autour d’une controverse interjurisdictionelles

Malone: The Responsibility to Protect Haiti

Linda A. Malone (William & Mary - Law) has posted an ASIL Insight on The Responsibility to Protect Haiti.

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 6, 2008) is out. Contents include:
  • Colloquium: Responding to Contemporary Challenges and Threats to Antarctic Security: Legal and Policy Perspectives
    • Donald R. Rothwell & Hitoshi Nasu, Antarctica and International Security Discourse: A Primer
    • Christopher C. Joyner, Challenges to the Antarctic Treaty: Looking Back to See Ahead
    • Duncan French, Global Principles, Universal Values and the ATS: Regime Integrity as Antarctic Security
    • Alan D. Hemmings, Beyond Claims: Towards a Non-Territorial Antarctic Security Prism for Australia and New Zealand
    • Julia Jabour, ‘Safe Ships and Clean Seas’: Evading a Mandatory Shipping Code for Antarctic Waters
    • Karen N. Scott, Marine Scientific Research and the Southern Ocean: Balancing Rights and Obligations in a Security-Related Context
  • Colloquium: International Aggression as Crime: Implications for International and Domestic Law
    • Neil Boister, New Zealand and the ‘Supreme International Crime’: Vengeance or Hypocrisy?
    • James Potter, The Threshold in the Proposed Definition of the Crime of Aggression
    • Netta Goussac, Territoriality and the Crime of Aggression
    • Sascha Mueller, The Crime of Aggression under German Law
    • Kennedy Graham, Stage-Fright in “Godsown”: The New Zealand Parliament and the International Non-Aggression and Lawful Use of Force Bill
  • Roger S. Clark, Elements of Crimes in Early Confirmation Decisions of Pre-Trial Chambers of the International Criminal Court
  • Erica Leaney, Assignment of Counsel of Choice to Indigent Accused at the ICTR: An Analysis of a Threat to Fair Trial Rights and What May Be Done About It
  • Alan D. Hemmings & Tim Stephens, Reconciling Regional and Global Dispensations: The Implications of Subantarctic Extended Continental Shelf Penetration of the Antarctic Treaty Area