Vol. 60 (2017)
Description
The German Yearbook of International Law, founded as the Jahrbuch für Internationales Recht, provides an annual report on new developments in international law and is edited by the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the Kiel University. Since its inception in 1948, the Yearbook has endeavored to make a significant academic contribution to the ongoing development of international law. Over many decades the Yearbook has moved beyond its origins as a forum for German scholars to publish their research and has become a highly-regarded international forum for innovative scholarship in international law. In 1976, the Yearbook adopted its current title and began to publish contributions written in English in order to reach the largest possible international audience. This editorial decision has enabled the Yearbook to successfully overcome traditional language barriers and inform an international readership about current research in German academic institutions and, at the same time, to present international viewpoints to ist German audience. Fully aware of the paramount importance of international practice, the Yearbook publishes contributions from active practitioners of international law on a regular basis. The Yearbook also includes critical comments on German state practice relating to international law, as well as international reactions to that practice.
Overview
OBITUARY
Ingo Winkelmann
Antonius »Tono« Eitel † (1933–2017)
FORUM: The Relationship between African States and the International Criminal Court
Gerhard Werle and Moritz Vormbaum
African States, the African Union, and the International Criminal Court: A Continuing Story
Dire Tladi
Of Heroes and Villains, Angels and Demons: The ICC-AU Tension Revisited
FOCUS: International Law and the Dehumanisation of Activities
Helmut Philipp Aust
»The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness«: The Future of Human Rights Law in the Light of Algorithmic Authority
Thomas Burri
International Law and Artificial Intelligence
Aldo Chircop
Testing International Legal Regimes: The Advent of Automated Commercial Vessels
Stephan Hobe and Benjamyn I. Scott
International Civil Aviation and the Dehumanisation of Activities
Stefan A. Kaiser
Legal Challenges of Automated and Autonomous Systems
Nicholas Tsagourias and Russell Buchan
Automatic Cyber Defence and the Laws of War
Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
Artifical Agents and General Principles of Law
WALTHER SCHÜCKING LECTURE
Philip Allott
Beyond War and Diplomacy: A Giant Step for Mankind
SPECIAL SECTION: Towards Utopia – Rethinking International Law
Jens T. Theilen, Isabelle Hassfurther, and Wiebke Staff
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Towards Utopia – Rethinking
International Law
Jens T. Theilen
Of Wonder and Changing the World: Philip Allott’s Legal Utopianism
Ka Lok Yip
What is Human? Reading Social Idealism against the Reality of Blackman and Azaria
Radhika Jagtap
Resistance through Utopia: Reflections on the Niyamgiri Anti-Mining Movement and International Law
Wiebke Staff
Customary International Law: A Vehicle on the Road from Istopia to Eutopia?
Isabelle Hassfurther
Transforming the »International Unsociety«: Towards Eutopia by Means of International Recognition of Peoples’ Representatives
Dorothy Makaza
Towards Afrotopia. The AU Withdrawal Strategy Document, the ICC, and the Possibility of Pluralistic Utopias
Severin Meier
The Influence of Utopian Projects on the Interpretation of International Law and the Healthy Myth of Objectivity
Marnie Lloydd
Persistent Tensions? International Legal Perspectives on ›Other‹ Foreign Fighters
Michelle Staggs Kelsall
From a Stark Utopia to Everyday Utopias
Rossana Deplano
Building Pragmatic Utopias: The »Other« Security Council, International Law, and the United Nations Dream
GENERAL ARTICLES
Peter Lawrence and Lukas Köhler
Representation of Future Generations through International Climate Litigation: A Normative Framework
Anja Seibert-Fohr
From Complicity to Due Diligence: When Do States Incur Responsibility for Their Involvement in Serious International Wrongdoing?
GERMAN PRACTICE
Avril Rushe
Same-Sex Marriage under the Grundgesetz and the European Convention on Human Rights
Isabelle Hassfurther
Will There Be »Justice for Syria«? The Assad Regime in German Courts
Felix Würkert
The German Past between Collectives and Individuals
Tobias Thienel
Application and Repeal of the Offence of Insulting Foreign Heads of State: The Böhmermann Affair
Alena Kunstreich
Prohibition or Non-Proliferation? Germany’s Point of View Concerning the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and Effective Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament
Markus Gentzsch and Marc Becker
PSPP – Curtain Up for a New Act in the Drama »German Federal Constitutional Court versus European Court of Justice«
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