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'What's wrong with international law?'
This is the question Professor A.H.A. Soons provocatively posed to his colleagues around the world when leaving his chair in public international law at Utrecht University. Meant to provoke discussion about what actually is wrong with international law as well as act in defence of the discipline, his conclusion was a resounding 'nothing!'
Honouring Professor Soons's achievements throughout his long career as a scholar and a practitioner of international law, this Liber Amicorum exmaines whether, indeed, there is something wrong with international law. The contributors identify gaps or 'wrong norms' in specific fields of international law, and assess whether there is something wrong with the regulatory function of international law as a system for creating global public order.
Contents
International Law as We Know It
Patricia Jimenez Kwast
Part I: Introductory Observations
1 Introduction
Cedric Ryngaert, Erik J. Molenaar, Sarah M.H. Nouwen
2 Fred Soons: A Pragmatic Trust in International Law
André Nollkaemper
3 An Appreciation of Fred Soons
John Gamble
Part II: What's Wrong with International Law - Specialised Areas
Section A: Law of the Sea
4 Some Reflections on What's Wrong with the Law of the Sea
Rosemary Rayfuse
5 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
6 A Sketch of the Concept of Ocean Governance and its Relationship with the Law of the Sea
Yoshinobu Takei
7 Is There Something Wrong with the Increasing Role of Private Actors?
Seline Trevisanut
8 Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims and Politics: Curse or Cure?
Vivian van der Kuil
Section B: Dispute Settlement
9 Bad Law and a Hard Case? The Impact of the Wall Advisory Opinion
Matthijs de Blois
10 International Human Rights Implementation: Strengthen Existing Mechanisms, Establish a World Court for Human Rights, or Both?
Jenny E. Goldschmidt
11 Prohibitions on Dissenting Opinions in International Arbitration
Patricia Jimenez Kwast
12 Transnational Human Rights Litigation against Multinational Corporations post-Kiobel
Menno T. Kamminga
13 What is Wrong with International Standards on Social Protection?
Frans Pennings
14 Corporate Social Responsibility: A New Framework for International Standard Setting
Teun Jaspers
Section C: International Environmental Law
15 Caught Napping by (Sea) Wolves: International Wilflife Law and Unforeseen Circumstances Involving the Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) and the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
Arie Trouwborst)
16 What is Wrong with International Environmental Law?
Johan G. Lammers
Section D: Law of Treaties
17 A Critical Look at the Law of Treaties: Giving Recognition to Informal Means of Treaty Adaptation
Irina Buga
18 Absolute Validity, Absolute Immunity: Is There Something Wrong With Article 103 of the UN Charter?
Guide den Dekker
19 Aspects ofthe Law of Treaties
Kenneth J. Keith
Section E: Miscellaneous
20 Good Governance: A Principle of International Law
Henk Addink
21 The Right to Peace: A Mischevious Declaration
Peter van Kriekan
22 Self-determination and Regional Human Rights Bodies: The Case of Southern Cameroons and the African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights
Brianne McGonigle Leyh
23 What's Wrong with the Relationship between the International Court of Justice and the Security Council?
Otto Spijkers
Part III: What's Wrong with International Law as a Regulatory System?
24 What's Wrong with International Law?
M.C.W. Pinto
25 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
26 How and to Whom Do We Explain International Law?
John Gamble
27 Fragmentation in International Law and Governance: Understanding the Sum of the Parts
Charlotte Ku
28 Whither Territoriality? The European Union's Use of Territoriality to Set Norms with Universal Effects
Cedric Ryngaert
29 Revealing the Publicness of International Law
Ramses A. Wessel
30 What is Wrong with International Lawyers?
John Dugard
