What's wrong with international law? liber amicorum A.H.A. Soons / edited by Cedric Ryngaert, Erik J. Molenaar, Sarah M.H. Nouwen.

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Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2015]
Descriptionxxiv, 482 pages ; 25 cm.
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Other author/creatorRyngaert, Cedric.
Other author/creatorMolenaar, Erik Jaap.
Other author/creatorNouwen, Sarah M. H.
Other author/creatorSoons, Alfred H. A.
SeriesNova et vetera iuris gentium, 1871-6725 ; volume 27
Contents International law as we know it / Patricia Jimenez Kwast -- Introduction : "what is wrong with international law?" / Cedric Ryngaert, Erik J. Molenaar and Sarah M.H. Nouwen -- Fred soons : a pragmatic trust in international law / Andre Nollkaemper -- An appreciation of Fred Soons / John K. Gamble -- Some reflections on what's wrong with the law of the sea / Rosemary Rayfuse -- Responsibility for human rights violations arising from the use of privately contracted armed security personnel against piracy : re-emphasizing the primary role and obligations of flag states / Jessica N.M. Schechinger -- A sketch of the concept of ocean governance and its relationship with the law of the sea / Yoshinobu Takei -- Is there something wrong with the increasing role of private actors? The case of the offshore energy sector / Seline Trevisanut -- Limitation of liability for maritime claims and politics : curse or cure? / Vivian van der Kuil -- Bad law and a hard case? : the impact of the wall advisory 0pinion of the ICJ / Matthijs de Blois.
Contents International human rights implementation : strengthen existing mechanisms, establish a world court for human rights, or both? -- Jenny E. Goldschmidt -- Prohibitions on dissenting opinions in international arbitration / Patricia Jimenez Kwast -- Transnational human rights litigation against multinational corporations post-kiobel / Menno T. Kamminga -- What is wrong with international standards on social protection? / Frans Pennings -- Corporate social responsibility : a new framework for international standard setting? / Teun Jaspers -- Caught napping by (sea) wolves : international wildlife law and unforeseen circumstances involving the killer whale (orcinus orca) and the gray wolf (canis lupus) / Arie Trouwborst -- What is wrong with international environmental law? / Johan G. Lammers -- A critical look at the law of treaties : giving recognition to informal means of treaty adaptation / Irina Buga.
Contents Absolute validity, absolute immunity : is there something wrong with article 103 of the UN Charter? / Guido den Dekker -- Aspects of the law of treaties / Kenneth J. Keith -- Good governance : a principle of international law / Henk Addink -- The right to peace : a mischievous declaration / Peter van Krieken -- Self-determination and regional human rights bodies : the case of Southern Cameroons and the African commission for human and peoples' rights / Brianne McGonigle Leyh -- What's wrong with the relationship between the international court of justice and the security council? / Otto Spijkers -- What's wrong with international law? / M.C. W. Pinto -- The under-appreciated role of curial settlement in international law norm-making : using transnational law and diffusion studies to re-assess the status of prior decisions / Pieter Bekker and Thomas Innes -- How and to whom do we explain international law? / John Gamble -- Fragmentation in international law and governance : understanding the sum of the parts / Charlotte Ku -- Whither territoriality? : the European Union's use of territoriality to set norms with universal effects / Cedric Ryngaert -- Revealing the publicness of international law / Ramses A. Wessel -- What's wrong with international lawyers? / John Dugard.
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LCCN 2015008274
ISBN9789004259089 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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