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This Week in Public International Law Scholarship (No. 31)

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship, a juscogens.net feature, highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments, suggestions, or omissions please contact [email protected].

Books:

Ola Engdahl, Protection of Personnel in Peace Operations: The Role of the 'Safety Convention' Against the Background of General International Law

Vitit Muntarbhorn, A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of Children

Donald Puchala, Katie Laatikainen & Roger Coate, United Nations Politics: Responding to a Challenging World

James Summers, Peoples And International Law: How Nationalism And Self-determination Shape a Contemporary Law of Nations

Articles:

Mexican Law Review (Mexico), Number 7, January-June 2007

• Jorge Ulises Carmona Tinoco, The judicial application of international human rights treaties
• Ricardo Méndez Silva, United Nations General Assembly resolutions on terrorism

Stanford Journal of International Law, Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2006

• Lawrence Jahoon Lee, BARCELONA TRACTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY: REVISITING ITS CUSTOMARY AND POLICY UNDERPINNINGS 35 YEARS LATER
• Aparna Sridhar, Note, THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA'S RESPONSE TO THE PROBLEM OF TRANSNATIONAL ABDUCTION

Georgetown Journal of International Law, Volume 37, Number 3, Spring 2006

• Stefka Kavaldjieva, JURISDICTION OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS: EXORBITANCE IN REVERSE?
• Ryan M. Scoville, TOWARD AN ACCOUNTABILITY-BASED DEFINITION OF "MERCENARY"

New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Volume 38, Number 1/2, Fall 2005 - Winter 2006

• Tarek F Maassarani, FOUR COUNTS OF CORPORATE COMPLICITY: ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF ACCOMPLICE LIABILITY UNDER THE ALIEN TORT CLAIMS ACT
• Louisa B. Childs, Note, SHADY FOUNDATIONS: CRITICISM OF RECIPROCITY AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL. LAW
• Joanna Pozen, Note, JUSTICE OBSCURED: THE NON-DISCLOSURE OF WITNESSES' IDENTITIES IN ICTR TRIALS

Journal of International Arbitration, Volume 23, Number 6, December 2006

Special Issue: Twenty-Five Years Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

• Ali Z. Marossi, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal--Claims, Counterclaims, Dual Nationality, and Enforcement
• Christopher S. Gibson and Christopher R. Drahozal, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal Precedent in Investor-State Arbitration
• Ruth Teitelbaum, Challenges of Arbitrators at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal--Defining the Role of the Appointing Authority

Michigan State Journal of International Law, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2006

FROM NUREMBERG TO ABU GHRAIB: THE RELEVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW TO THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR

• Honorable Richard J. Goldstone, Keynote Address
• John Washburn, The Formation and Nature of the International Criminal Court
• Steven R. Ratner, The War on Terrorism and International Humanitarian Law
• Ved P. Nanda, Terrorism as an "Internal Conflict" Under the 1977 Geneva Protocol: Defining "Enemy Combatant" and the International/Domestic Consequences
• Wasana Punyasena, Conflict Prevention and the International Criminal Court: Deterrence in a Changing World
• Stephen P. Marks, Branding the "War on Terrorism": Is There a "New Paradigm" of International Law?
• Christian Much, The International Criminal Court (ICC) and Terrorism as an International Crime

Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review, Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 2006

• Lucien J. Dhooge, Lohengrin Revealed: The Implications of Sosa v. Alvarez- Machain for Human Rights Litigation Pursuant to the Alien Tort Claims Act

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship (No. 30)

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship, a juscogens.net feature, highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments, suggestions, or omissions please contact [email protected].

Books:

Kelly D. Askin, Women And International Human Rights Law

Nancy Amoury Combs, Guilty Pleas in International Criminal Law: Constructing a Restorative Justice Approach

Daniel G. Partan, International Law Processes

Michael P. Scharf, The Law of International Organizations: Problems and Materials, Second Edition

Ralph G. Steinhardt, International Human Rights: Cases and Materials

Articles:

International Review of the Red Cross (Switzerland), Volume 88, Number 862, June 2006

• Yasmin Naqvi, The right to the truth in international law: fact or fiction?
• Elizabeth Salmón., Reflections on international humanitarian law and transitional justice: lessons to be learnt from the Latin American experience
• Monique Crettol and Anne-Marie La Rosa, The missing and transitional justice: the right to know and the fight against impunity
• Toni Pfanner, Cooperation between truth commissions and the International Committee of the Red Cross
• Xavier Philippe, The principles of universal jurisdiction and complementarity: how do the two principles intermesh?
• Michael A. Newton, The Iraqi High Criminal Court: controversy and contributions

Cambridge Law Journal (United Kingdom), Volume 65, Issue 3, November 2006

• Roger O'Keefe, CRIMES, THE COURTS AND CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW
• Penelope Nevill, QUALIFYING THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT: DETENTION UNDER SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
• Jillaine Seymour, IMMUNITY FOR TORTURE: THE STATE AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES REUNITED

Oregon Review of International Law, Volume 8, Number 2, Summer 2006

• Ben Chigara, Short-Circuiting International Law
• Luz E. Nagle, Prosecuting the Use of Anti-personnel Mines By Illegal Armed Groups: The Colombian Situation
• Christopher H. Lytton, Blood for Hire: How the War in Iraq Has Reinvented the World's Second Oldest Profession

Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (Germany), Volume 10, 2006

• Schrijver, Nico J., The Future of the Charter of the United Nations
• Hilpold, Peter, The Duty to Protect and the Reform of the United Nations -- A New Step in the Development of International Law?
• Munch, Wolfgang, Wrongdoing of International Civil Servants -- Referral of Cases to National Authorities for Criminal Prosecution
• Schmitt, Michael N., International Law and Military Operations in Space
• Segura-Serrano, Antonio, Internet Regulation and the Role of International Law
• Leininger, Julia, Democracy and UN Peace-Keeping -- Conflict Resolution through State-Building and Democracy Promotion in Haiti

Human Rights Law Review (United Kingdom), Volume 6, Number 3, 2006

• David Kinley and Rachel Chambers, The UN Human Rights Norms for Corporations: The Private Implications of Public International Law
• Olympia Bekou and Sangeeta Shah, Realising the Potential of the International Criminal Court: The African Experience

Rutgers Law Journal Volume 37, Number 3, Spring 2006

• Beth Stephens, FILARTIGA V. PENA-IRALA: FROM FAMILY TRAGEDY TO HUMAN RIGHTS ACCOUNTABILITY
• William R. Casto, THE NEW FEDERAL COMMON LAW OF TORT REMEDIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• William R. Casto, REGULATING THE NEW PRIVATEERS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
• Laura A. Dickinson, FILARTIGA'S LEGACY IN AN ERA OF MILITARY PRIVATIZATION
• Richard Henry Seamon, U.S. TORTURE AS A TORT
• Ari Afilalo, LOSING CONTROL (YET AGAIN): THE GLOBALIZATION OF THE ALIEN TORT STATUTE

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship (No. 29)

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship, a juscogens.net feature, highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments, suggestions, or omissions please contact [email protected].

Books:

Council of Europe, Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights/Annuaire De La Convention Europeenne Des Droits De L'homme, 2005

Carin Laurin (ed.), Baltic Yearbook of International Law, Volume 6 (2006)

Ben Saul, Defining Terrorism in International Law

Articles:

International and Comparative Law Quarterly (United Kingdom), Volume 55, Number 4, October 2006

• Rosalyn Higgins, A BABEL OF JUDICIAL VOICES? RUMINATIONS FROM THE BENCH
• Elizabeth Wilmshurst, THE CHATHAM HOUSE PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ON THE USE OF FORCE IN SELF-DEFENCE

Nordic Journal of International Law (Sweden), Volume 75, Number 2, 2006

• Freeland, Steven, How Open Should the Door Be? Declarations by non-States Parties under Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• Stahn, Carsten, Why some Doors may be Closed Already: Second Thoughts on a 'Case-by-Case' Treatment of Article 12 (3) Declarations
• Spadi, Fabio, Bolstering the Proliferation Security Initiative at Sea: A Comparative Analysis of Ship-boarding as a Bilateral and Multilateral Implementing Mechanism
• Vermeer-Kunzli, Annemarieke, Restricting Discretion: Judicial Review of Diplomatic Protection

Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals (Netherlands), Volume 5, Number 3, 2006

• Benzing, Markus, Community Interests in the Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals
• Hall, John A., In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Domestic Trials of Nuon Paet, Chhouk Rin and Sam Bith, and the Search for Judicial Legitimacy in Cambodia
• Roscini, Marco, The Efforts to Limit the International Criminal Court's Jurisdiction Over Nationals of Non-Party States: A Comparative Study
• Muller, Daniel, Procedural Developments at the International Court of Justice

International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Netherlands), Volume 21, Number 3, 2006

• Elferink, Alex G., Article 76 of the LOSC on the Definition of the Continental Shelf: Questions concerning its Interpretation from a Legal Perspective Oude
• Carleton, Chris, Article 76 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: Implementation Problems from the Technical Perspective
• Macnab, Ron, Continental Shelf Submissions: The Record to Date
• Lodge, Michael W., The International Seabed Authority and Article 82 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Rangel, Vicente Marotta, Settlement of Disputes Relating to the Delimitation of the Outer Continental Shelf: The Role of International Courts and Arbitral Tribunals
• Treves, Tullio, Remarks on Submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in Response to Judge Marotta's Report

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Volume 13, Number 2, Summer 2006

• Antenor Hallo de Wolf, Modern Condottieri in Iraq: Privatizing War from the Perspective of International and Human Rights Law

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship (No. 28)

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship, a juscogens.net feature, highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments, suggestions, or omissions please contact [email protected].

Books:

Helena Cobban, Amnesty After Atrocity?: Healing Nations After Genocide And War Crimes

Jeremie Gilbert, Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights Under International Law: From Victors to Actors

Oren Gross & Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Law in Times of Crisis: Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law)

Peter N. E. Nedergaard, European Union Administration: Legitimacy and Efficiency

Michael Schmitt & Jelena Pejic (eds.), International Law And Armed Conflict: Exploring the Faultlines: Essays in Honour of Yoram Dinstein

Articles:

Journal of Space Law, Volume 32, Number 1, Summer 2006

• Marc M. Harrold, Asylum-Seekers in Outer Space, a Perspective on the Intersection between International Space Law and U.S. Immigration Law
• LaToya Tate, The Status of the Outer Space Treaty at International Law During 'War" and "Those Measures Short of War"

South African Journal on Human Rights (South Africa), Volume 22, PART l, 2006

• Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa, THE LONG MARCH TO BINDING OBLIGATIONS OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

European Journal of International law (United Kingdom), Volume 17, Number 4, September 2006

• Christine Gray, The Eritrea/Ethiopia Claims Commission Oversteps Its Boundaries: A Partial Award?
• Nathaniel Berman, Intervention in a 'Divided World': Axes of Legitimacy
• Tawhida Ahmed and Israel de Jesús Butler, The European Union and Human Rights: An International Law Perspective
• August Reinisch, European Court Practice Concerning State Immunity from Enforcement Measures

ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, Volume 12, Number 3, Summer 2006

• Shawkat Alam, The United Nations' Approach to Trade, the Environment and Sustainable Development
• Heather R. Demner, The Nuclear Terrorism Convention: Will Detainees Be Classified as "Enemy Combatants" by the United States

Harvard Law Review, Volume 120, Number 1, November 2006

• Neal Kumar Katyal, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The Legal Academy Goes to Practice

Seton Hall Law Review, Volume 37, Number 1, 2006

• A. John Radsan, A MORE REGULAR PROCESS FOR IRREGULAR RENDITION

Asia Pacific Law Review (Hong Kong), Volume 14, Number 1, 2006

• Stephen P Marks, International Law and the 'War on Terrorism': Post 9/11 Responses by the United States and Asia Pacific Countries

Law, Culture and the Humanities (United Kingdom), Volume 2, Issue 3, October 2006

• Mednicoff, David M., Humane wars? International law, Just War theory and contemporary armed humanitarian intervention

Journal of International Aging, Law & Policy, Volume 1, Fall 2005

• Israel Doron, From National to International Elder Law

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship (No. 27)

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship, a juscogens.net feature, highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments, suggestions, or omissions please contact [email protected].

Books:

Seyla Benhabib, Robert Post (ed.), Another Cosmopolitanism: Hospitality, Sovereignty, and Democratic Iterations

Richard Caplan, International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction

P. R. Ghandhi, Blackstone's International Human Rights Documents (5th ed.)

Jennifer A. Zerk, Multinationals and Corporate Social Responsibility: Limitations and Opportunities in International Law

Articles:

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Volume 39, Number 3, May 2006

• Michael J. Frank, U.S. Military Courts and the War in Iraq
• Michael Schoiswohl, Linking the International Legal Framework to Building the Formal Foundations of a "State at Risk": Constitution-Making and International Law in Post-Conflict Afghanistan
• Joshua Michael Goodwin, Note, Universal Jurisdiction and the Pirate: Time for an Old Couple to Part

Southern California Law Review, Volume 79, Number 6, September 2006

• Duncan B. Hollis, EXECUTIVE FEDERALISM: FORGING NEW FEDERALIST CONSTRAINTS ON THE TREATY POWER

Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 28, Number 4

• Manfred Nowak, What Practices Constitute Torture?: US and UN Standards
• Payam Akhavan, Report on the Work of the Office of the Special Adviser of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide

New York University Law Review, Volume 81, Number 5, November 2006

• Ari S. Bassin, Note, "DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES": RULE 92 BIS--HOW THE AD HOC INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS UNNECESSARILY SILENCE THE DEAD

American Review of International Arbitration, Volume 16, Number 1, 2005

• Stavros Brekoulakis, THE EFFECT OF AN ARBITRAL AWARD AND THIRD PARTIES IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: RESJUDJCATA REVISITED

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship (No. 26)

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship, a juscogens.net feature, highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments or suggestions, please contact [email protected].

Books:

Catherine Brolmann, The Institutional Veil in Public International Law: International Organisations And the Law of Treaties

Richard Burchill, The European Union, International Law And The Promotion And Protection Of Democracy

C. Chatterjee, International Law and Diplomacy

Matthew Craven, Malgosia Fitzmaurice & Maria Vogiatzi (eds.), Time, History and International Law

Wolfgang Kaleck, Michael Ratner, Tobias Singelnstein & Peter Weiss (eds.), International Prosecution of Human Rights Crimes

Adam LeBor, "Complicity With Evil": The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide

Karen Lee (ed.), Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal Reports

Oliver James Lissitzyn, The International Court of Justice: Its Role in the Maintenance of International Peace And Security

Vaughan Lowe, International Law

Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Global Justice: The Politics of War Crimes Trials

Richard Plender (ed.), Basic Documents on International Migration Law: Third Revised Edition

Martin Reichard, The Eu-nato Relationship: A Legal And Political Perspective

Stephen Tierney & Colin Warbrick (eds.), Towards an International Legal Community?: The Sovereignty of States And the Sovereignty of International Law

Zoe Wilson, The United Nations and Democracy in Africa

Articles:

International Journal of Human Rights (United Kingdom), Volume 10, Number 4, December 2006

• Andrea Boggio, The Global Enforcement of Human Rights: The Unintended Consequences of Transnational Litigation
• Michael Levine and Saul Newman, Sacred Cows and the Changing Face of Discourse on Terrorism: Cranking it Up a Notch
• Omer Elagab, Fighting with the Enemy: The Case of Three British Muslims in Afghanistan

Boston University Public Interest Law Journal, Volume 15, Number 2, Spring 2006

• Berta Hernández-Truyol and Justin Luna, CHILDREN AND IMMIGRATION: INTERNATIONAL, LOCAL, AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Journal of International Law and International Relations (Canada), Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2006

• David Malone and James Cockayne, The UN Security Council: 10 Lessons From Iraq on Regulation and Accountability
• Adrian Di Giovanni, The Prospect of ICC Reparations in the Case Concerning Northern Uganda: On a Collision Course With Incoherence?

Human Rights Law Review (United Kingdom), Volume 6, Number 2, 2006

• M. Cherif Bassiouni, International Recognition of Victims' Rights
• Jo M. Pasqualucci, The Evolution of International Indigenous Rights in the Inter-American Human Rights System
• Brian D. Tittemore, Guantanamo Bay and the Precautionary Measures of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: A Case for International Oversight in the Struggle Against Terrorism

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship (No. 25)

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship, a juscogens.net feature, highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments or suggestions, please contact [email protected].

Books:

Armin Von Bogdandy, Rudiger Wolfrum & Christiane E. Philipp (eds.), Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, 2006

Anthony Clark Arend & Robert J. Beck, International Law and the Use of Force (2d Rev.Ed.)

Geoff Gilbert, Responding to International Crime

Marcelo G. Kohen (ed.), Promoting Justice, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution through International Law

Ben Saul, Defining Terrorism in International Law

Spanish Yearbook of International Law, 2004

Jane Stromseth, David Wippman & Rosa Brooks, Can Might Make Rights?: Building the Rule of Law after Military Interventions

Christian L. Wiktor, Treaties Submitted to the United States Senate: Legislative History, 1989-2004

Alexander Zahar & Goran Sluiter, International Criminal Law: A Critical Restatement

Articles:

Texas International Law Journal, Volume 41, Number 3, Summer 2006

REPRESENTING CULTURE, TRANSLATING HUMAN RIGHTS SYMPOSIUM

• Philippe Sands, LAWLESS WORLD: THE CULTURES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• Florian F. Hoffmann, "Shooting into the Dark": Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Human Rights (Activism)
• Derek Jinks, Translation of Global Human Rights Norms: The Empirical Dimension
• Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Culture, Resistance, and the Problems of Translating Human Rights
• Srinivas Aravamudan, Sovereignty: Between Embodiment and Detranscendentalization
• Antony Anghie, Nationalism, Development and the Postcolonial State: The Legacies of the League of Nations
• David Kennedy, Sovereignty: Responding to Anghie and Aravamudan
• Ranjana Khanna, Asylum
• Gregor Noll, Asylum Claims and the Translation of Culture into Politics
• Charles Piot, Asylum and Culture: Comments on Khanna and Noll
• Gaurav Desai, Isn't Multiculturalism Bad for Asylum?
• Surakiart Sathirathai, PEACE AND SECURITY: THE CHALLENGE AND THE PROMISE

Natural Resources Journal, Volume 46, Number 1, Winter 2006

• Owen McIntyre, The Role of Customary Rules and Principles of International Environmental Law in the Protection of Shared International Freshwater Resources

American Journal of International Law, Volume 100, Number 3, July 2006

Centennial Essays In honor of the 100th anniversary of the AJIL and the ASIL

• W Michael Reisman and Andrea Armstrong, The Past and Future of the Claim of Preemptive Self-Defense
• Theodor Meron, Reflections on the Prosecution of War Crimes by International Tribunals
• Adam Roberts, Transformative Military Occupation: Applying the Laws of War and Human Rights

Current Developments

• Stephen Mathias, The 2005 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice

International Criminal Law Review (Netherlands), Volume 6, Number 3, 2006

• Badar, Mohamed Elewa, Drawing the Boundaries of Mens Rea in the Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
• Abass, Ademola, The International Criminal Court and Universal Jurisdiction
• Knowles, Phoebe, The Power to Prosecute: the Special Court for Sierra Leone from a Defence Perspective
• Maged, Adel, Withdrawal of Referrals A Serious Challenge to the Function of the ICC

Indian Journal of International Law (India), Volume 46, Number 2, April-June 2006

• Talat Fatima, Cyber Terrorism: The International Menace -- Concept and Responses
• Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, Is the United Nations Relevant in the Contemporary World?

Journal of Conflict Studies (Canada), Volume 25, Number 2, Winter 2005

• ANN FITZ-GERALD, Facing the Facts: Peacekeeping's Place Within a Broader Approach to Security
• SARA L. ZEIGLER AND GREGORY G. GUNDERSON, Pernicious Patriarchy or Prosecutorial Progress?: Confronting Culture, War, and Rape in International Law

Leiden Journal of International Law (Netherlands), Volume 19, Number 3, October 2006

• ANNE PETERS, Compensatory Constitutionalism: The Function and Potential of Fundamental International Norms and Structures
• ERIKA DE WET, The Emergence of International and Regional Value Systems as a Manifestation of the Emerging International Constitutional Order
• RONALD JANSE, The Legitimacy of Humanitarian Interventions
• MOHAMED M. EL ZEIDY, Some Remarks on the Question of the Admissibility of a Case during Arrest Warrant Proceedings before the International Criminal Court

Melbourne Journal of International Law (Australia), Volume 7, Number 1, May 2006

• Tarik Kochi, Terror in the Name of Human Rights
• 'Dejo Olowu, The United Nations Human Rights Treaty System and the Challenge of Commitment and Compliance in the South Pacific
• Philip Alston, Reconceiving the UN Human Rights Regime: Challenges confronting the New UN Human Rights Council

Journal of International Criminal Justice (United Kingdom), Volume 4, Number 3, July 2006

• M. Cherif Bassiouni, The ICC -- Quo Vadis?
• George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin, The ICC -- Two Courts in One?
• Antonio Cassese, Is the ICC Still Having Teething Problems?
• George P. Fletcher, The Hamdan Case and Conspiracy as a War Crime: A New Beginning for International Law in the US
• Mohamed M. El Zeidy, Critical Thoughts on Article 59(2) of the ICC Statute
• Ilias Bantekas, Corruption as an International Crime and Crime against Humanity: An Outline of Supplementary Criminal Justice Policies
• Carla Del Ponte, Investigation and Prosecution of Large-scale Crimes at the International Level: The Experience of the ICTY
• Claus Kreß, Universal Jurisdiction over International Crimes and the Institut de Droit international

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship (No. 24)

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship, a juscogens.net feature, highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments or suggestions, please contact [email protected].

Books:

Gerhard Loibl (ed.), Austrian Review of International and European Law : Volume 9, 2004

Herdis Thorgeirsdottir, Article 13: The Right to Freedom of Expression (Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child)

Articles:

Human Rights Brief, Volume 13, Issue 2, Winter 2006

• Jean-Mariehenckaerts, Assessing the Laws and Customs of War: The Publication of CustomaryInternational Humanitarian Law
• Sabrinab Algamwalla, Review of Conference: "The Reaffirmation of Custom as an Important Source of International Humanitarian Law"

Journal of Migration and Refugee Issues (Australia), Volume 1, Number 4, 2005

• Sonja Grover, The Systemic Persecution of Street Children as a Crime against Humanity: Implications for their Right to Asylum

Netherlands International Law Review (Netherlands), Volume 53, Issue 2, August 2006

• Edwin Odhiambo Abuya and George Mukundi Wachira, ASSESSING ASYLUM CLAIMS IN AFRICA: MISSING OR MEETING STANDARDS?
• Mathilde K. van Haren, THE REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON DARFUR & GENOCIDAL INTENT - A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
• Bjørn Kunoy, THE RISE OF THE SUN: LEGAL ARGUMENTS IN OUTER CONTINENTAL MARGIN DELIMITATIONS

Notre Dame Law Review, Volume 81, Number 4, May 2006

• David B. Kopel, Paul Gallant, Joanne D. Eisen, Is Resisting Genocide a Human Right?

Sri Lanka Journal of International Law (Sri Lanka), Volume 18, 2006

• Gabriele Olivi, The Role of National Courts in Prosecuting International Crimes: New Perspectives
• Carlo Tiribelli, The 1988 Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation
• Nsongurua J. Udombana, An Escape from Reason: Genocide and the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur
• Noel Dias & Roger Gamble, Fair Trial Protections Under International Law : Too Narrow a Canvas?

Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy, Volume 15, Number 2, Spring, 2006

• Christopher Linde, The U.S. Constitution and International Law: Finding the Balance

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship (No. 23)

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship, a juscogens.net feature, highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments or suggestions, please contact [email protected].

Books:

Biersteker, T.J., International Law and International Relations

Richard Clayton & Hugh Tomlinson, The Law of Human Rights

H. c. Von Sponeck, A Different Kind of War: The UN Sanction Regime in Iraq

Articles:

Lesotho Law Journal (South Africa), Volume 16, Number 1, 2006

• Taiwo, L.O., The Imperatives of Reforming the United Nations Security Council in the Post Cold War Era

Polish Yearbook of International Law (Poland), Volume 27, 2004-2005

• JERZY ZAJADLO, Humanitarian Intervention: Threat to International Order, Moral Imperative, or Customary Norm in statu nascendi?
• WLADYSLAW CZAPLINSKI, International Responsibility of International Organisations -- An Outline
• ROMAN KWIECIEN, In Defence of the Idea of State Sovereignty in International Law
• AGNIESZKA SZPAK, Granting Judicial Protection to the Guantanamo Detainees by the American Courts
• MICHAL BALCERZAK, The Doctrine of Precedent in the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights

Vanderbilt Law Review Volume 59, Number 3, April 2006

• Laurence R. Helfer, UNDERSTANDING CHANGE IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: GLOBALIZATION AND INNOVATION IN THE ILO

Stetson Law Review, Volume 35, Number 3, Spring 2006

• Geoffrey Corn, Taking the Bitter with the Sweet: A Law of War Based Analysis of the Military Commission
• Stanislav L. Tkachenko, An International Perspective on Terrorism

Albany Law Review, Volume 69, Number 3, 2006

SYMPOSIUM: "OUTSOURCING AUTHORITY?" CITATION TO FOREIGN COURT PRECEDENT IN DOMESTIC JURISPRUDENCE

• John S. Baker, Jr., Citing Foreign and International Law to Interpret the Constitution: What's the Point?
• Susan L. Karamanian, Briefly Resuscitating the Great Writ: The International Court of Justice and the U.S. Death Penalty
• John O. McGinnis, Contemporary Foreign and International Law in Constitutional Construction
• Lawrence R. Walders, Citation by U.S. Courts to Decisions of International Tribunals in International Trade Cases

Austrian Review of International and European Law (Austria), Volume 9, 2004

• Andras Jakab, Kelsen's Doctrine of International Law: Between Epistemology and Politics
• Gerhard Hafner & Christina Binder, The Interpretation of Article 21 (3) ICC Statute Opinion Reviewed
• Ulrike Kohler, Contracts of Employment under the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property
• Alexander Breitegger, Leonore Lange, Stephan Wittich & Jakob Wurm, Austrian Judicial Decisions Involving Questions of International Law/ Osterreichische Judikatur zum internationalen Recht

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship (No. 22)

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship, a juscogens.net feature, highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments or suggestions, please contact [email protected].

Books:

Mahasen Mohammad Aljaghoub, The Advisory Function of the International Court of Justice 1946 - 2005

Richard Jaques, Issues in International Law and Military Operations

Renee Jeffery, Hugo Grotius in International Thought

Wolfgang Kaleck, Michael Ratner, Tobias Singelnstein & Peter Weiss (eds.), International Prosecution of Human Rights Crimes

Katie Verlin Laatikainen & Karen E. Smith (eds.), The European Union at the United Nations: Intersecting Multilateralisms

Articles:

Maine Law Review, Volume 58, Number 2, 2006

Symposium: French and American Perspectives Towards International Law and International Institutions

• Emmanuelle Jouannet, FRENCH AND AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW: LEGAL CULTURES AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
• Dana Zartner Falstrom, THOUGHT VERSUS ACTION: THE INFLUENCE OF LEGAL TRADITION ON FRENCH AND AMERICAN APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL LAW
• Martin A. Rogoff, APPLICATION OF TREATIES AND THE DECISIONS OF INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS IN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE: REFLECTIONS ON RECENT PRACTICE
• Stephanie Bellier, UNILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL PREVENTIVE SELF-DEFENSE
• Ana Peyro Llopis, COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND THE INTERNATIONAL ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: FRENCH AND AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
• Sophie Clavier, CONTRASTING PERSPECTIVES ON PREEMPTIVE STRIKE: THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, AND THE WAR ON TERROR

German Yearbook of International Law (Germany), Volume 48, 2005

• Thomas Giegerich, "A Fork in the Road" -- Constitutional Challenges, Chances and Lacunae of UN Reform
• Robin R. Churchill, 10 Years of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea -- Towards a Global Ocean Regime? A General Appraisal
• Erik Franckx, The 200-mile Limit: Between Creeping Jurisdiction and Creeping Common Heritage?
• Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Maritime Security Operations
• Susanne Wasum-Rainer and Daniela Schlegel, The UNCLOS Dispute Settlement System -- Between Hamburg and The Hague
• Uwe Jenisch, The European Union as an Actor in the Law of the Sea: The Emergence of Regionalism in Maritime Safety, Transportation and Ports

Yale Journal of International Law, Volume 31, Number 2, Summer 2006 (Full-Text )

• Edward T. Swaine, Reserving
• Laurence R. Helfer, Response, Not Fully Committed? Reservations, Risk, and Treaty Design
• Laura A. Dickinson, Public Law Values in a Privatized World
• Laura Moranchek, Protecting National Security Evidence While Prosecuting War Crimes: Problems and Lessons for International Justice from the ICTY
• William H. Taft, VI, A View From the Top: American Perspectives on International Law After the Cold War

European Human Rights Law Review (United Kingdom), Issue 4, 2006

• Loukis Loucaides, Determining the Extra-territorial Effect of the European Convention: Facts, Jurisprudence and the Bankovic Case
• Philippe Sands, The International Rule of Law: Extraordinary Rendition, Complicity and its Consequences