Full Description
The Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (UNYB), founded in 1997, appears under the auspices of the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law. It has a three-tier structure: The first part, 'The Law and Practice of the United Nations', concentrates on the legal fundamentals of the UN, its Specialized Agencies and Programmes. The second part, 'Legal Issues Related to the Goals of the United Nations', analyses achievements with regard to fulfilling the main objectives of the UN. The third part consists of an overview of the key developments at the UN for the reporting year. The UNYB addresses both scholars and practitioners, giving them insights into the workings, challenges and evolution of the UN.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Part 1
The Law and Practice of the United Nations
1 Ideological Warfare against Cultural Property: UN Strategies and Dilemmas
Kirsten Schmalenbach
2 UN Security Council Resolutions before UK Courts
Alexander Orakhelashvili
3 The Role of the Security Council in the Use of Force against the 'Islamic State'
Priya Urs
4 The Slippery Slope of un Peacekeeping: Offensive Peacekeeping in Congo and Beyond
Diana Kearney
5 Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court as Quasi-Legislative Acts
Alexandre Skander Galand
6 Ratifying the Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on the Crime of Aggression
Meagan S. Wong
7 United Nations Convention against Corruption (uncac) - After Ten Years of Being in Force
A. Katarina Weilert
8 United Nations and Regional Organizations: Complementarity v. Subsidiarity
Alena F. Douhan
9 Modernizing the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners - A Human Rights Perspective
Katrin Tiroch
Part 2
Legal Issues Related to the Goals of the United Nations
10 The Right to Asylum between Islamic Shari'ah and International Refugee Law: Consequences for the Present Refugee Crisis
Ahmed Abou-El-Wafa
11 The United Nations Prosecution Support Cell Programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo - A Strategy to Combat Impunity for Serious Crimes
Charles Briefel and Ignacio Tredici
12 Concepts of the Legal Status of the Arctic
Elvira Pushkareva
13 Discrepancies between Civil Law and Common Law Federations
Thomas Fleiner
14 Self-Determination during the Cold War: UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (1960), the Prohibition of Partition, and the Establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory (1965)
Victor Kattan
15 Evaluating 'Access to Justice' in Informal Justice Systems: A Suggestive Framework
Siddharth Peter de Souza
Part 3
Report on Key Legal Developments at the United Nations in 2015
16 Key Legal and Political Developments at the United Nations in 2015
Tilmann J. Röder and Maximilian Spohr
Book Reviews
1 Andrea Carcano: The Transformation of Occupied Territory in International Law
2 Andreas von Arnauld, Nele Matz-Lück and Kerstin Odendahl (eds)
Years of Peace through Law: Past and Future
