International Law between Universalism and Fragmentation

Contents......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 12
Biographic Summary......Page 14
Bibliography......Page 20
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 34
INTRODUCTION......Page 48
1 Einige persönliche Bemerkungen zu Gerhard Hafner (Hans Winlker)......Page 50
2 Gerhard Hafner: Porträt eines österreichischen Völkerrechtlers (Franz Cede)......Page 52
I FRAGMENTATION AND THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW......Page 58
3. Une relecture de la théorie des sous-systèmes en droit international (Isabelle Buffard)......Page 60
4 Hierarchy in International Law within the Context of Its Fragmentation (Zdzislaw Galicki)......Page 88
5 Hard Law Strikes Back – How the Recent Focus on the Rule of
Law Promotes Compliance with Norms in International Relations (Axel Marschik)......Page 108
6 The Concept of International Community in International Law:
Theory and Reality (Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao)......Page 132
7 The Proliferation of International Dispute Settlement Mechanisms:
The Threat of Fragmentation vs. the Promise of a More Effective System?
Some Refl ections From the Perspective of Investment Arbitration (August Reinisch)......Page 154
8 Boundaries of Justice? An International Law Approach (Daniel Thürer)......Page 174
II BASIC PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW......Page 186
9 Rechtliche Hegung von Gewalt zwischen Theorie und Praxis (Michael Bothe)......Page 188
10 The Three Cores of Aggression (Antonio Remiro Brotóns)......Page 218
11 Intergenerational Equity Revisited (Malgosia Fitzmaurice)......Page 242
12 Democratization: Supply-Stimulated or Demand-Induced? (Rein Müllerson)......Page 278
13 The Principle of Non-Discrimination in International Economic Law:
A Conceptual and Historical Sketch (Friedl Weiss)......Page 316
14 The Prohibition to Use Force after Sixty Years of Abuse (Karl Zemanek)......Page 334
III SOURCES INCLUDING CODIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW......Page 362
15 The Pacta Sunt Servanda Rule in the Vienna Convention on the
Law of Treaties: A Pillar and its Safeguards (Christina Binder)......Page 364
16 Variations on the Theme of ‘Soft International Law (Hanspeter Neuhold)......Page 390
17 The Rule of Law, Codifi cation and the Role of Gerhard Hafner (Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff)......Page 408
18 The General Assembly and the International Law Commission:
What Happens to the Commission’s Work and Why? (Michael Wood)......Page 420
IV SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND IMMUNITIES......Page 436
19 Implications of the Independence of Kosovo for International Law (Wolfgang Benedek)......Page 438
20 The Merits and Defects of the 2004 UN Convention on State Immunity:
Gerhard Hafner’s Contribution to its Adoption by the United Nations (Hazel Fox)......Page 460
21 The International Customary Law Nature of Immunity from Measures of Constraint for State Cultural Property on Loan (Andrea Gattini)......Page 468
22 La création de l’Etat d’Israël à la lumière du droit international (Marcelo G. Kohen)......Page 488
23 Legal Personality or not – The Recent Attempts to Improve the Status of the OSCE (Helmut Tichy & Ulrike Köhler)......Page 502
24 In the Twilight Zones of the State (Christian Tomuschat)......Page 526
25 Some Peculiarities of the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: a Footnote on the Codifi cation Technique (Tullio Treves)......Page 550
V INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW......Page 556
26 Responsibility of States and Individuals for Genocide and other International Crimes (Vladimir-Djuro Degan)......Page 558
27 Individuelle versus Staatenverantwortlichkeit im Zusammenhang mit Völkermord (Frank Höpfel)......Page 582
28 The International Criminal Court – International Humanitarian Law at Work (Hans-Peter Kaul)......Page 600
29 ‘Irrelevance of Offi cial Capacity’ – Article 27 Rome Statute Undermined by Obligations under International Law or by
Agreements, Article 98? (Otto Triffterer)......Page 618
30 The Crime of Aggression: Custom, Treaty and Prospects for International Prosecution (Elizabeth Wilmshurst)......Page 650
VI HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW......Page 672
31 L’application du droit international général par la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (Lucius Caflisch)......Page 674
32 Nationality and the Protection of Property under the European Convention on Human Rights (Ursula Kriebaum)......Page 696
33 Vom Weltstrafrecht zum Weltzivilrecht oder vom Internationalen Strafgerichtshof zum Internationalen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte? Überlegungen am Beispiel der Folterbekämpfung (Manfred Nowak)......Page 714
34 De-Regulating Humanitarian Aid: The Need for New Norms and Interpretations (Jordan J. Paust)......Page 748
35 The Concept of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ as an Emerging Norm Versus ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ (Árpád Prandler)......Page 758
36 Der Einfl uss der Menschenrechte auf das Völkerrecht: ein Entwurf (Bruno Simma)......Page 776
37 Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties – The Case of Israel and the Palestinian Territories Revisited (Andreas Zimmermann)......Page 794
VII LAW OF THE SEA AND THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 814
38 Landlocked Developing Countries and the Law of the Sea (James L. Kateka)......Page 816
39 International Environmental Regulations – Is a Comprehensive Body of Law Emerging or is Fragmentation Going to Stay? (Gerhard Loibl)......Page 830
40 Using Judicial Bodies for the Implementation and Enforcement
of International Environmental Law (Thomas A. Mensah)......Page 844
41 Liability for Environmental Damage in Antarctica: Supplement to the Rules on State Responsibility or a Lost Opportunity?
(Rüdiger Wolfrum)......Page 864
VIII INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT......Page 876
42 Anglo Saxon and Continental Approaches to Pleading Before the ICJ
Aspects des modes continentaux et Anglo-Saxons de plaidoiries devant la C.I.J.
(James Crawford & Alain Pellet)......Page 878
43 Argentinien vs Uruguay – Ein Mehrfrontenkampf (Waldemar Hummer)......Page 916
44 The 2007 Nicaragua v. Colombia Territoral and Maritime Dispute (Preliminary Objections) Judgment: A Landmark in the Sound Administration of International Justice (Barbara Kwiatkowska)......Page 956
45 Some Thoughts on Compliance with International Obligations (Markus A. Reiterer)......Page 990
46 What is a Legal Dispute? (Christoph Schreuer)......Page 1006
47 The Judicial Functions of the International Court of Justice (Stephan Wittich)......Page 1028
IX EUROPEAN LAW......Page 1048
48 The ‘Second Pillar’ in a Union without Pillars – A New Quality of the Common Foreign and Security Policy with the
Treaty of Lisbon? (Hubert Isak)......Page 1050
49 Naiades and Beyond: Stand und Perspektiven der geplanten
„Modernisierung der Organisationsstruktur“ für die Binnenschifffahrt in Europa (Richard Regner)......Page 1074
50 Struggle for Exclusiveness: The ECJ and Competing International Tribunals (Kirsten Schmalenbach)......Page 1092
51 Quelle est l’identité de l’Europe ? (Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum)......Page 1116
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 1124