Contemporary Developments in International Law: Essays in Honour of Budislav Vukas

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Contents

Introduction

Bibliography of Budislav Vukas

PART 1: Subjects of International Law

1: La Ville libre de Dantzig devant la Cour permanente de Justice internationale

2: Macedonian-Greek Relations and the ICJ Judgment of 5 December 2011

3: When Can Property of a State be Attached to Enforce a Foreign Judgment Given against It in Another Country? Some Guidance in the ICJ Judgment in the Jurisdictional Immunities Case

4: Controversial Subjects of Contemporary International Law: IGO-like Entities as Participants in International Legal Relations – Do We Need a ‘Reparation Case II’?

5: La controverse sur le statut de la Palestine

6: The Treaty-Making Capacity of International Organizations: Practice vs. Codification Efforts

7: Suspension of a Member State in an International Integration Organization: Mercosur

8: Due Diligence: Fault-Based Responsibility or Autonomous Standard?

PART 2: Law of the Sea

9: A Succinct Historical Overview of the Status of Straits in International Law

10: Modern Piracy off the Coast of Somalia: A Test-Bed for Old and New International Prevention and Repression Instruments

11: Le régime des baies et des golfes dans la Mer Méditerranée

12: ITLOS’S Approach to the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf beyond 200 Nautical Miles in the Bangladesh/Myanmar Case: Theoretical and Practical Difficulties

13: The Status of Islands in the International Law of the Sea: Megisti Island

14: Theorizing about Conventional Environmental Sea Regimes as International Trusts: The Case of the Barcelona Convention System

15: Harlequin and the Mediterranean

16: The 24-Mile Archaeological Zone: Abandoned or Confirmed?

17: Fisheries Disputes: Judicial and Arbitral Practice since the Entry into Force of UNCLOS

18: Forgotten Rights? Landlocked States and the Law of the Sea

19: Military Vessel Protection Detachments under National and International Law

20: En Route to the Final Shape of the UNCLOS Dispute Settlement System: Some Pivotal Negotiating Procedural Steps Worthy of Consideration by Future Treaty-Makers and Leaders in Treaty-Making

PART 3: Protection of Human Rights

21: Minority Protection and the Prohibition of Discrimination

22: Precarious Times, Precarious Work: Lessons from Flexicurity

23: The Iraqi Cases: Further Elements and Thoughts concerning ‘Jurisdiction’ under Article 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights

24: Some Reflections on the Right of Access to Justice in Its Wide Dimension

25: Nation et minorités en Europe

26: Protection of Croatian as a Minority Language in Europe

27: Some Considerations on the Legal Role of the Sentences and Recommendations of International Bodies Created for the Protection of Human Rights

28: Doctrinal Views versus State Views on Humanitarian Assistance in the Event of Disasters: Comparing the Work of the Institut de Droit International with That of the International Law Commission

29: Application of Article 20 of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Republic of Croatia

30: Social Rights and International Law

31: Les droits de l’homme aujourd’hui

32: Sovereignty of State v. Protection of Persons in the Case of Disasters

33: Avoiding Plurality of International Proceedings in the European Court of Human Rights

34: The Role of Provisions on Human Rights Protection in Constructing Croatian-Italian (Formerly Yugoslav-Italian) Relations

35: The Role of the Committee of Experts in the ILO’S Supervisory Mechanism: Reflections on Ten Years’ Experience as a Member

PART 4: Settlement of Disputes

36: International Arbitration: A Judicial Function?

37: Flexibility in the Award of Reparation: The Role of the Parties and the Tribunal

38: The International Court of Justice and Diplomatic Settlement of Disputes: Could ICJ Judgments Play an Effective Role in the Negotiation of Interstate Disputes?

39: Wrong Address? Advisory Opinion of the ICJ on the Judgment No. 2867 of the ILOAT upon a Complaint Filed against the International Fund for Agricultural Development

40: Asia and Dispute Settlement: The Law of the Sea

41: The State as a Party in Arbitral Proceedings on Settlement of Private Law Disputes – Miscellaneous

42: Of Courts and Competition: Dispute Settlement under Part XV of UNCLOS

PART 5: Miscellaneous

43: Le prétendu caractère « primitif » du droit international public

44: The United Nations Charter, Chapter vii, Non-Use-of-Force and Non-Intervention in Contemporary International Law: The Sisyphean Labours of the Institut de Droit International on Defining and Controlling ‘Use of Force’ Today

45: Some Remarks on Soft Law and Some Specific Forms of Treaty Making

46: The Ancient Origins of General Principles in International Law

47: Fraudulent Treaties: The Covenant with the Gibeonites in the Biblical Book of Joshua

48: The Notion of Sources of International Criminal Law

49: Passage from Natural Resources Law to Environmental Law to Sustainable Development Law