Contents

PREFACE

GERHARD HAFNER

Biographic Summary

Bibliography

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

1 Einige persönliche Bemerkungen zu Gerhard Hafner (Hans Winlker)

2 Gerhard Hafner: Porträt eines österreichischen Völkerrechtlers (Franz Cede)

I FRAGMENTATION AND THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

3. Une relecture de la théorie des sous-systèmes en droit international (Isabelle Buffard)

4 Hierarchy in International Law within the Context of Its Fragmentation (Zdzislaw Galicki)

5 Hard Law Strikes Back – How the Recent Focus on the Rule of Law Promotes Compliance with Norms in International Relations (Axel Marschik)

6 The Concept of International Community in International Law: Theory and Reality (Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao)

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)

8 Boundaries of Justice? An International Law Approach (Daniel Thürer)

II BASIC PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

9 Rechtliche Hegung von Gewalt zwischen Theorie und Praxis (Michael Bothe)

10 The Three Cores of Aggression (Antonio Remiro Brotóns)

11 Intergenerational Equity Revisited (Malgosia Fitzmaurice)

12 Democratization: Supply-Stimulated or Demand-Induced? (Rein Müllerson)

13 The Principle of Non-Discrimination in International Economic Law: A Conceptual and Historical Sketch (Friedl Weiss)

14 The Prohibition to Use Force after Sixty Years of Abuse (Karl Zemanek)

III SOURCES INCLUDING CODIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

15 The Pacta Sunt Servanda Rule in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: A Pillar and its Safeguards (Christina Binder)

16 Variations on the Theme of ‘Soft International Law (Hanspeter Neuhold)

17 The Rule of Law, Codifi cation and the Role of Gerhard Hafner (Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff)

18 The General Assembly and the International Law Commission: What Happens to the Commission’s Work and Why? (Michael Wood)

IV SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND IMMUNITIES

19 Implications of the Independence of Kosovo for International Law (Wolfgang Benedek)

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)

21 The International Customary Law Nature of Immunity from Measures of Constraint for State Cultural Property on Loan (Andrea Gattini)

22 La création de l’Etat d’Israël à la lumière du droit international (Marcelo G. Kohen)

23 Legal Personality or not – The Recent Attempts to Improve the Status of the OSCE (Helmut Tichy & Ulrike Köhler)

24 In the Twilight Zones of the State (Christian Tomuschat)

25 Some Peculiarities of the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: a Footnote on the Codifi cation Technique (Tullio Treves)

V INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

26 Responsibility of States and Individuals for Genocide and other International Crimes (Vladimir-Djuro Degan)

27 Individuelle versus Staatenverantwortlichkeit im Zusammenhang mit Völkermord (Frank Höpfel)

28 The International Criminal Court – International Humanitarian Law at Work (Hans-Peter Kaul)

29 ‘Irrelevance of Offi cial Capacity’ – Article 27 Rome Statute Undermined by Obligations under International Law or by Agreements, Article 98? (Otto Triffterer)

30 The Crime of Aggression: Custom, Treaty and Prospects for International Prosecution (Elizabeth Wilmshurst)

VI HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW

31 L’application du droit international général par la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (Lucius Caflisch)

32 Nationality and the Protection of Property under the European Convention on Human Rights (Ursula Kriebaum)

33 Vom Weltstrafrecht zum Weltzivilrecht oder vom Internationalen Strafgerichtshof zum Internationalen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte? Überlegungen am Beispiel der Folterbekämpfung (Manfred Nowak)

34 De-Regulating Humanitarian Aid: The Need for New Norms and Interpretations (Jordan J. Paust)

35 The Concept of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ as an Emerging Norm Versus ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ (Árpád Prandler)

36 Der Einfl uss der Menschenrechte auf das Völkerrecht: ein Entwurf (Bruno Simma)

37 Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties – The Case of Israel and the Palestinian Territories Revisited (Andreas Zimmermann)

VII LAW OF THE SEA AND THE ENVIRONMENT

38 Landlocked Developing Countries and the Law of the Sea (James L. Kateka)

39 International Environmental Regulations – Is a Comprehensive Body of Law Emerging or is Fragmentation Going to Stay? (Gerhard Loibl)

40 Using Judicial Bodies for the Implementation and Enforcement of International Environmental Law (Thomas A. Mensah)

41 Liability for Environmental Damage in Antarctica: Supplement to the Rules on State Responsibility or a Lost Opportunity? (Rüdiger Wolfrum)

VIII INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT

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)

43 Argentinien vs Uruguay – Ein Mehrfrontenkampf (Waldemar Hummer)

44 The 2007 Nicaragua v. Colombia Territoral and Maritime Dispute (Preliminary Objections) Judgment: A Landmark in the Sound Administration of International Justice (Barbara Kwiatkowska)

45 Some Thoughts on Compliance with International Obligations (Markus A. Reiterer)

46 What is a Legal Dispute? (Christoph Schreuer)

47 The Judicial Functions of the International Court of Justice (Stephan Wittich)

IX EUROPEAN LAW

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)

49 Naiades and Beyond: Stand und Perspektiven der geplanten „Modernisierung der Organisationsstruktur“ für die Binnenschifffahrt in Europa (Richard Regner)

50 Struggle for Exclusiveness: The ECJ and Competing International Tribunals (Kirsten Schmalenbach)

51 Quelle est l’identité de l’Europe ? (Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum)

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS