A juscogens.net feature, This Week in Public International Law Scholarship highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments or suggestions, please contact [email protected].
Books:
Ulrich Beyerlin, Peter-tobias Stoll, and Rudiger Wolfrum (eds.), Ensuring Compliance With Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Damian Chalmers, Christos Hadjiemmanuil, Giorgio Monti, and Adam Tomkins, European Union Law : Text and Materials
Piet Eeckhout and Takis Tridimas, The Yearbook of European Law 2005 : Volume 24
Jochen Prantl, The UN Security Council and Informal Groups of States
Shirley V. Scott, International Law And Politics: Key Documents
Andreas Zimmermann, Christian Tomuschat, Karin Oellers-Frahm, Christian J. Tams, and Tobias Thienel, The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary
Articles:
Vanderbilt Law Review, Volume 59, Number 1, January 2006
- Allison Marston Danner, WHEN COURTS MAKE LAW: HOW THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS RECAST THE LAWS OF WAR
Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 28, Number 1, February 2006
- Hurst Hannum, Human Rights in Conflict Resolution: The Role of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in UN Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
- Rachel Lorna Johnstone, Feminist Influences on the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies
- Jan Klabbers, The Right to be Taken Seriously: Self-Determination in International Law
- Clay Collins, The Human Rights of Stateless Persons David Weissbrodt
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 2006
LECTURES
- Jillaine Seymour, The Earl Snyder Lecture in International Law The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: A Great Mistake?
- Cheryl Saunders, The George P. Smith Lecture in International Law The Use and Misuse of Comparative Constitutional Law
Fordham International Law Journal, Volume 29, Number 3, February 2006
"TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY AND PRACTICE"
- Martin S. Flaherty, "EXTERNAL" VERSUS "INTERNAL" IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
- Chandra Lekha Sriram, WRONG-SIZING INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE? THE HYBRID TRIBUNAL IN SIERRA LEONE
- Donald J. Kochan, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE AMERICAN COURTS AT THE COCKTAIL PARTY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE DANGERS OF DOMESTIC JUDICIAL INVOCATIONS OF FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
- John B. Quigley, TOWARD MORE EFFECTIVE JUDICIAL IMPLEMENTATION OF TREATY-BASED RIGHTS
European Human Rights Law Review (United Kingdom), Issue 2, 2006
- Sir Nigel Rodley and Matt Pollard, Criminalisation of Torture: State Obligations under the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- Hazel Fox, Q.C., State Immunity and the International Crime of Torture
- Jim Murdoch, The Impact of the Council of Europe's "Torture Committee" and the Evolution of Standard-setting in Relation to Places of Detention
- Danny Friedman, Torture and the Common Law
ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, Volume 12, Number 1, Fall 2005
- Ida L. Bostian, Cultural Relativism in International War Crimes Prosecutions: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Obasi Okafor-Obasi, The International Criminal Court and Human Rights Enforcement in Africa
- Alexandra R. Harrington, Victims of Peace: Current Abuse Allegations Against U.N. Peacekeepers and the Role of Law In Preventing Them in the Future
- Jeffrey Loan, Note, Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain: Extraterritorial Abduction and the Rights of Individuals Under International Law
Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Volume 31, Number 2, 2006
- Yuval Shany, How Supreme is the Supreme Law of the Land? Comparative Analysis of the Influence of International Human Rights Treaties Upon the Interpretation of Constitutional Texts by Domestic Courts
- Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto, Walking an International Law Tightrope: Use of Military Force to Counter Terrorism--Willing the Ends
- Mark A. Summers, Immunity or Impunity? The Potential Effect of Prosecutions of State Officials for Core International Crimes in States Like the United States that Are Not Parties to the Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Daniel Moeckli, The Selective "War on Terror": Executive Detention of Foreign Nationals and the Principle of Non-Discrimination