To honour Michael Kirby's legacy tonight, I want to explore just how far the world has come - and how far we still have to go - in ridding the world of the worst of all human rights violations: the ...mass atrocity crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, other crimes against humanity and major war crimes. 2018 Annual Michael Kirby Justice Oration by Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC, Chancellor of the Australian National University, College of Law and Justice, Victoria University, Melbourne, 26 September 2018.
By examining high level statements by states at the past four sessions of the Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2013-16) and the UN General ...Assembly over the past decade, this article seeks to provide insights into the meaning of responsibility sharing, international cooperation, and common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in international environmental law from the perspective of individual states. Its purpose is to elucidate more fully how these precepts might inform deliberations on responsibility sharing for international refugee protection. This article complements a recent piece by the same authors examining the concepts of 'international cooperation' and 'responsibility sharing' in international refugee law. Since these principles are at a more advanced stage in international environmental law (most notably through their inclusion in binding international agreements on climate change), the present article compares and contrasts how states understand and apply them in that context. While there are some fundamental differences between responsibility sharing in the two regimes, it is clear that no state alone can respond to the protection needs of the world's refugees nor address the global impacts of climate change. The need for international cooperation and responsibility sharing in both cases is clear; indeed, it is a humanitarian imperative. Yet, the article shows that, ultimately, national interests tend to prevail when states determine how such global issues should be addressed.
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La responsabilite de proteger est un concept issu des travaux de la Commission internationale de l'intervention et de la souverainete des Etats (CIISE). Etablie en 2000 a l'initiative du Canada, elle ...a recherche a depasser les controverses inherentes aux debats relatifs au droit d'intervention humanitaire Aux fins d'atteindre cet objectif, la Commission a forge un nouveau concept, la responsabilite de proteger qui permit de concilier, plutot qu'opposer, les notions de souverainete et d'intervention.Depuis lors, la responsabilite de proteger a fait l'objet de vives controverses en droit international. Integree dans une resolution de l'Assemblee generale de l'ONU en septembre 2005, appliquee par le Conseil de securite lors des crises en Cote d'Ivoire et en Libye de mars 2011, le concept se trouve, aujourd'hui, au centre des debats se rapportant au cadre juridique de la protection des populations civiles.Le present ouvrage entend examiner les differentes implications juridiques de la responsabilite de proteger, en optant pour une demarche resolument positiviste. La reflexion proposee tente d'en embrasser les differents aspects, tant conceptuels qu'operationnels, aux fins d'aboutir a une etude globale, synthetique et actualisee du concept. Partant, une interrogation commandera l'ensemble de la reflexion : l'emergence de la responsabilite de proteger a-t-elle, en droit international, permis une amelioration de la protection des populations civiles ?L'ouvrage se destine aux etudiants en droit et en sciences politiques ainsi qu'aux universitaires dont les recherches portent sur le droit international public, le droit humanitaire et le droit de la securite internationale. Il pourra egalement interesser toute personne (diplomate, journaliste, candidats aux concours de la fonction publique, etc.) s'interessant a un concept clef des relations internationales contemporaines.
Arms and Influence explores the complex relationship between technology, policymaking, and international norms. Modern technological innovations such as the atomic bomb, armed unmanned aerial ...vehicles (UAVs), and advanced reconnaissance satellites have fostered debates about the boundaries of international norms and legitimate standards of behavior. These advances allow governments new opportunities for action around the world and have, in turn, prompted a broader effort to redefine international standards in areas such as self-defense, sovereignty, and preemptive strikes. In this book, Jeffrey S. Lantis develops a new theory of norm change and identifies its stages, including redefinition (involving domestic political deliberations) and constructive norm substitution (in multilateral institutions). He deftly takes some of the most controversial new developments in military technologies and embeds them in international relations theory. The case evidence he presents suggests that periods of change are underway across numerous different issue areas.
International Law Silverburg, Sanford
2011, 20180419, 2018-04-19, 2011-03-22
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Featuring original contributions from well-established scholars and emerging stars in law and politics, this cutting-edge reader provides students with a succinct overview of the key issues facing ...international law today. The authors range from political science and law school instructors to professional researchers and lawyers in private practice, and they offer diverse, multinational perspectives on traditional and emergent issues in the practice and study of international law. Topics include R2P (Responsibility to Protect) and universal jurisdiction, noterritorial subjects of international law, international political economics (IPE), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), international humanitarian law (IHL), the environment, political violence and terrorism, and post-colonialism. A concluding section on international political interaction covers a wide range of issues that link international politics to international law. Offering the most inclusive and contemporary body of material available, International Law: Contemporary Issues and Future Developments is an essential resource for courses on politics and international law.
This book explores the scope and limits of Article 4(h) of the African Union Constitutive Act (AU Act). The goal is to generate new thinking on, and contribute a fresh legal approach to, the ...implementation of the right to intervene under Article 4 (h) of the AU Act in the face of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
This is the second book in the series Shared Responsibility in International Law, which examines the problem of distribution of responsibilities among multiple states and other actors. In its work on ...the responsibility of states and international organisations, the International Law Commission recognised that attribution of acts to one actor does not exclude possible attribution of the same act to another state or organisation. However, it provided limited guidance for the often complex question of how responsibility is to be distributed among wrongdoing actors. This study fills that gap by shedding light on principles of distribution from extra-legal perspectives. Drawing on disciplines such as political theory, moral philosophy, and economics, this volume enquires into the bases and justifications for apportionment of responsibilities that can support a critique of current international law, offers insight into the justification of alternative interpretations, and provides inspiration for reform and further development of international law.
