3RD ESIL RESEARCH FORUM
‘CHANGING FUTURES? SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW’
HELSINKI, 2-3 October 2009

The following papers have been published in the Finnish Yearbook of International Law, Volume 20 (2009):

– Jan Klabbers, Introduction to Special Theme: Changing Futures? Science and International Law 

– Allan Rosas, The Death of International Law? 

– Anna Riddel, Scientific Evidence in the International Court of Justice – Problems and Possibilities 

– Céline Lévesque, Science in the Hands of International Investment Tribunals: A Case for ‘Scientific due Process’ 

– Maria Weimer, Policy Choice versus Science in Regulating Animal Cloning under the WTO Law

– Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya, A.S. v. Hungary: A Case-Study in Adjucating Reproductive Health Claims and the Challenges posed by Interpreting Existent Human Rights Treaties 

– Lisa Clarke, Global Health Public-Private Partnerships: Better Protecting Against Disease but Creating a Gap in Responsibility under International Law 

– Sophie Gambardella, The Role of Scientific Committees Within Regional Fishing Commissions 

– Caroline E. Foster, The Consultation of Independent Experts by International Courts and Tribunals in Health and Environment Case


2ND ESIL RESEARCH FORUM
‘THE POWER OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN TIMES OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION’
BUDAPEST, 28-29 SEPTEMBER 2007

– Dessislava Cheytanova, Separatism or Legitimate Aspirations to Independence?

– Théodore Christakis, La Sécession: Une Question de Simple Fait?

– Jean d’Aspremont, Transfer of Values Through International Law: The Hobbesian Lessons from Eastern European Legal Scholars

– Barbara Delcourt, L’UE Face au Défi du Kosovo: Le Droit International à l’Epreuve de l’Intégration Européenne

– Fernanda Fernandez Jankov & Vesna Coric, The Legality of Uti Possidetis in the Definition of Kosovo’s Legal Status

– Tarcisio Gazzini, Junior Partners or Real Actors: Participation of Central and Eastern Europe in Military Interventions and Peacekeeping Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq

– Peter Kovacs, A propos de la légitimité des relations directes entre l’Etat-parent et la minorité voisine

– Mercedes Guinea Llorente, Tales of ‘Civilisation’: Transfer of Values Through the Eastern Neighbourhood Policy

– Enrico Milano, The Doctrine(s) of Non-Recognition: Theoretical Underpinnings and Policy Implications in Dealing with De Facto Regimes

Zoran Oklopcic, Eight Theses on Self-Determination: From Self-Determination of Peoples to Principles of Polity-Formation?

– Efthymios Papastavridis, Interception of Human Beings on the High Seas Under the Law of the Sea Convention

– Ann Pauwels, The New Peacekeepers: Central and Eastern Europe in UN and NATO Actions Beyond Europe

– Aniko Raisz, Transfer of Values as to the Regional Human Rights Tribunals

– Daphné Richemond, The New Peacekeepers? Private Military Companies and the Future of Peacekeeping Operations

– Rene Uruena, Beyond a Matter of Rights: The UN’s 1267 Committee and the Hidden Role of international Law in Anti-Terrorist Policy

 


BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
PARIS, 18 – 20 MAY 2006

INTERNATIONAL LAW: DO WE NEED IT?

– Christina Arion, Chasser l’incertitude par l’incertitude ? Le principe de précaution et l’état de nécessite

– Rémi Bachand: L’interprétation en droit international: Une analyse par les contraintes

– Régis Bismuth, Le cadre juridique international de promotion de la stabilité financière

– Sonia Boutillon, Une dimension du développement à l’OMC : pourquoi et comment ?

– Ferran Izquierdo Brichs: The “Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses” (1997) and the Negotiations over Water Resources in Occupied Territories of Palestine

– Ignacio De la Rasilla, The Boy Who Cried Wolf! The Dimensions of Emergence of the Right to Democratic Governance and the Fundamentals of International Law: An Introductory Overview

– Gabriele Della Morte, L’Amnistie en Droit International

– Anne-Charlotte Martineau, La fragmentation du droit international : un renouvellement répété de la pensée ?

– Sabrina Robert: La Protection du Pouvoir de Réglementation Environnementale de l’Etat dans le Cadre du Contentieux de l’Expropriation Indirecte. Investissement International et Protection de l’Environnement

– Birgit Schlütter, Constitutionalisation at its best or at its worst? Lessons from the development of customary international criminal law

Jordi Sellarés Serra, Applause as a Unilateral Act (Is an image worth a thousand words?)

– Egle Svilpaite, Non-State Actors and Law-Making: Refreshing the Development of International Law?

– Svetlana Zasova, Cohérence des normes guidant l’action des forces de paix internationales


ESIL RESEARCH FORUM
GENEVA, MAY 2005
INTERNATIONAL LAW: CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS

– Jessica Almqvist, Rethinking Security and Human Rights in the Struggle against Terrorism

– Noah Birkhäuser, Sanctions of the Security Council against Individuals – Some Human Rights Problems

– Jean d’Aspremont, Les administrations internationales de territoire et la creation internationale d’etats democratiques

– Shujie Feng, La mise en œuvre des décisions de l’ORD en matière de propriété intellectuelle par les pays en développement

– Agnes Hurwitz, Toward Enhanced Legitimacy of Rule of Law Programs in Multidimensional Peace Operations

– Jörg Kammerhofer, Unearthing structural uncertainty through neo-Kelsenian consistency: Conflicts of norms in international law

– Haroldo Machado Filho, Looking for Adequate Tools for the Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms

– Owen McIntyre, The Role of Customary Rules and Principles in the Environmental Protection of Shared International Freshwater Resources

– Georg Nolte, The ICJ Advisory Opinion and Its Wider Implications for International Law

– Karsten Nowrot, New Approaches to the International Legal Personality of Multinational Corporations. Towards a Rebuttable Presumption of Normative Responsibilities

– Luis Peral, EU Protection Scheme for Refugees in the Region of Origin: Problems of Conditionality and Coherence

– Ana Peyró Llopis, Le mécanisme d’observance du Protocole de Kyoto : un mécanisme de contrôle dur au sein d’un instrument flexible

– Catherine Phuong, Identifying States’ Responsibilities towards Refugees and Asylum Seekers

– Emanuele Rebasti, Luisa Vierucci, A Legal Status for NGOs in Contemporary International Law?

– Carsten Stahn, Accountability And Legitimacy In Practice: Lawmaking By Transitional Administrations

– Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, Minorities, Cultural Rights and the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage


INAUGURAL CONFERENCE
FLORENCE, 2004

– Milagros Álvarez, European Security and Defence Policy in the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe : Some New Events

– Nicole Bjerler, Do Europeans have a right to environment?

– Ivan Boev, Droit Europeen des minorites et evolution des principes generaux du droit international

– Basak Cali, >How would you like your ‘legal change’ done today, Madam?

– Aristotle Constantinides, An Overview of Legal Restraints on Security Council Chapter VII Action with a Focus on Post-Conflict Iraq

– Gabriele Della Morte, Les Tribunaux penaux internationaux et les references a leur propre jurisprudence : autoritas rerum similiter judicarum?

– Katharina Gamharter, Access to Affordable Medicines and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic – Facing a New Challenge in International Security Law

– Chiara Giorgetti, Fulfilling International Obligations by International Organizations in the Absence of State Control

– Lorenzo Gradoni, Nullem Crimen Sine Consuetudine: A Few Observations on how the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has been Identifying Custom

– Klara Kañska, The Normative Force of Decisions of International Organizations

– Elena Katselli, Countermeasures by Non-Injured States in the Law on State Responsibility

– Vittorio Mainetti, Des crimes contre le patrimoine culturel? Reflexions a propos de la criminalisationinternationale des atteinte aux biensculturels

– Balázs Majtényi, Where are they heading? The situation of the Roma minority in Hungarian and International law

– Enrico Milano, State Responsibility in Territorial Disputes before the ICJ

– Gjylbehare Murati, The Independence of the Judiciary and its Role in the Protection of Human Rights under UN Administration Using the Case of Kosovo

– Natalia Ochoa-Ruiz, Esther Salamanca-Aguado, The contribution of the ICJ judgement of 6 November 2003 in the case concerning OIL PLATFORMS (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN V UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) to international law on the use of force in self-defence

– Catrin Pekari, Human Rights in the Information Society

– Carmela Pérez Bernárdez, Changes and Developments in the Law of International Organisations as a Consequence of the Appearance of the European Community and the European Union as Subjects of International Law : the Right of Participation

– Maria Fernanda Pérez Solla, The Notion of international responsibility : a ‘classic’ in times of change?

– Dirk Pulkowski, Narratives of Fragmentation International Law between Unity and Multiplicity

– Akbar Rasulov, The Structure of the International Legal Discourse

– Lilian Richieri Hanania, International commercial rules on the exchange of cultural goods and services

– Nils Rosemann, New perspectives of accountability – the merging concept of corporate responsibilities with regard to human rights

– Ben Saul, Three Reasons for Defining and Criminalizing Terrorism

– Francesco Sindico, Unravelling the Trade and Environment Debate through Sustainable Development Law Principles

– Mirko Sossai, UN SC RES. 1373(2001) and international law-making : a transformation in nature of the legal obligations for the fight against terrorism

– Carsten Stahn, Jus ad Bellum – Jus in Bello…Jus Post Bellum : Towards a tripartite conception of armed conflict

– Ruth Abril Stoffels, Le rôle des Tribunaux pénaux internationaux pour le Rwanda et pour l’ex-Yougoslavie dans la sanction du viol et d’autres aggressions sexuelles graves comme crimes internationaux

– Pavel Sturma, International Criminal Court at a Crossroads or in an Impasse? Some Obstacles Related to the Jurisdiction and Cooperation

– Tijana Surlan, Ne bis in idem in conjunction with the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute

– Vincent Tomkiewicz, Regards au-delà de la fonction juridictionnelle de l’Organe d’appel de l’OMC : l’apport à la légitimité du mécanisme de règlement des différends

– Christina Voigt, Conflicts and Convergence in Climate Change and Trade Law : The Role of the Principle of Sustainable Development

– Ales Weingerl, Definition of Unilateral Acts of States

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