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International law today : new challenges and the need for reform?

Responsibility, Sovereignty and Cooperation - Reflections on the Responsibility to Protect.- Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect in International Criminal Law.- Managing Risks to Global Stability: the UN Security Councils New-found Role Post Iraq.- Comment on the Contribution by Volker Roben.- Promoting the Unity of International Law: Standard-Setting by International Tribunals.- Where Unity Is at Risk: When International Tribunals Proliferate.- Genetic Resources of the Deep Sea - How Can They Be Preserved?.- The Liability Annex to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.- The Strange Case of Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Is There a Way to Reconcile Dr. Jekyll with Mr. Hyde?.- The Struggle for Minority Rights and Human Rights: Current Trends and Challenges.- Minority Rights as Group-Protective Rights: A Challenge for the International Law of Human Rights.

The Benefits of Positivism: The ILC’s Contribution to the Peaceful Sharing of Transboundary Groundwater

The first part of this paper briefly discusses the relationship between environmental law and international security, the notion of shared resources as a potential cause for international conflicts and international law applicable to the management of shared groundwater resources (II.). As a second step two core questions relating to the ILC Draft Law on Transboundary Aquifers2 and peace through law are elaborated upon (III.): Why legal regulation? Why the legal regulation the ILC has adopted? Furthermore, this paper goes on to examine two topics excluded from the ILC’s draft: water resources which are “not-shared” between States and dispute settlement (IV.). Finally, some conclusions on the effectiveness of a framework for peace concerning transboundary aquifers are drawn (V.).

Sustainable Ocean Resource Governance

Sustainable Ocean Resource Governance offers perspectives on the legal interface between sustainable economic growth, effective marine resource management and environmental protection of the sea.

Europäische Rechtsakte und nationaler Grundrechtsschutz

Mit fortschreitender europaischer Integration geht eine Verlagerung der Rechtsetzungstatigkeit von den Mitgliedstaaten auf die Ebene der Europaischen Union (EU) einher. Auch wenn es sich bei Zahlen, die voneinem unionsrechtlichen Anteil von 80% an der gesamten deutschen oder jedenfalls der Wirtschaftsgesetzgebung ausgehen, um einen Mythos handeln soll,lasst sich doch ein stetig wachsender Bestandteil der in Deutschland geltenden gesetzlichen Regelungen auf supranationale Rechtsetzungsakte der Organe der EU – im Wesentlichen auf Verordnungen und Richtlinien – zuruckfuhren.

Law of the sea in dialogue

Global Warming: C. Tomuschat: Global Warming and State Responsibility.- M. Bothe: Measures to Fight Climate Change - A Role for the Law of the Sea?- J. Brunnee: An Agreement in Principle? The Copenhagen Accord and the Post-2012 Climate Regime.- F.L. Morrison: The Reluctance of the United States to Ratify Treaties.- Exploitation and Use of the Global Commons: G. Hafner: The Division of the Commons? The Myth of the Commons: Divide or Perish.- T. Treves: Judical Action for the Common Heritage.- Law of the Sea and Security: M.H. Arsanjani, W.M. Reisman: East African Piracy and the Defense of World Public Order.- T.A. Mensah: Piracy at Sea - a New Approach to an Old Menace.- J.A. Frowein: The Security Council and the Security on the Seas.