Wednesday, September 14, 2016

New Volume: The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence

The latest volume of The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (Vol. 2015) is out. Contents include:
  • Editorial
    • Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, Global Law as a Constitutional Phenomenon
  • Articles
    • Jean d’Aspremont, The Decay of Modern Customary International Law in Spite of Scholarly Heroism
    • Frank J. Garcia, Globalization’s Law: Transnational, Global or Both?
    • Rafael Nieto- Navia, Are Those Norms Truly Peremptory? With Special Reference to Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law
    • Dan Plesch, Thomas G. Weiss, & Leah Owen, UN War Crimes Commission and International Law: Revisiting World War II Precedents and Practice
  • Notes and Comments
    • Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez, From Totus Orbis to Global Law
    • Karen C. Sokol, East Meets West in Civil Disobedience Theory and Beyond: Lessons From Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • In Focus: Global Policies and Law
    • Jeffrey Haynes, Human Rights and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Europe
    • Vesselin Popovski, Win-Win Formula for Reforming the UN Security Council
    • Ramesh Thakur, Balancing Competing Interests and Values: Drone Strikes as National Policy but International Crime?
  • Forum - Jurisprudential Cross-Fertilization: An Annual Overview
    • Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, Contemporary International Tribunals: Jurisprudential Cross-Fertilization in Their Common Mission of Realization of Justice
    • Malgosia Fitzmaurice, A Human Right to a Clean Environment: A Reappraisal
    • Francesco Seatzu, Enhancing a Principled Justificatory Model of Adjudication for the Protection of Human Rights in the Socio- Economic Sphere: The Impact of the European Social Charter on the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights
    • Joanna Jemielniak, Pressure for Transparency and the Use of Arbitration Mechanisms in International Economic Dispute Resolution,
    • Cedric Ryngaert, Universal Jurisdiction over International Crimes and Gross Human Rights Violations: The Role of the Principle of Subsidiarity