International Law Today: New Challenges and the Need for Reform?

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: König, Doris (Editor), Stoll, Peter-Tobias (Editor), Röben, Volker (Editor), Matz-Lück, Nele (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, 193
• Subjects: Law.; Political science.; Public international law.; Public International Law.; Political Science.

th Rüdiger Wolfrum celebrated his 65 birthday on 13 December 2006. On this special occasion, current and former members of the large circle of his PhD and post-doctorate students (Doktoranden und Habilit- den) organized a symposium on the subject of “International Law - day: New Challenges and the N...

Table of Contents:

• 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 Council’s New-found Role Post Iraq
• Comment on the Contribution by Volker Röben
• 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.