This Week in Public International Law Scholarship (No. 31)

This Week in Public International Law Scholarship, a juscogens.net feature, highlights new and notable books and articles concerning public international law. For comments, suggestions, or omissions please contact editor@juscogens.net.

Books:

Ola Engdahl, Protection of Personnel in Peace Operations: The Role of the 'Safety Convention' Against the Background of General International Law

Vitit Muntarbhorn, A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of Children

Donald Puchala, Katie Laatikainen & Roger Coate, United Nations Politics: Responding to a Challenging World

James Summers, Peoples And International Law: How Nationalism And Self-determination Shape a Contemporary Law of Nations

Articles:

Mexican Law Review (Mexico), Number 7, January-June 2007

• Jorge Ulises Carmona Tinoco, The judicial application of international human rights treaties
• Ricardo Méndez Silva, United Nations General Assembly resolutions on terrorism

Stanford Journal of International Law, Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2006

• Lawrence Jahoon Lee, BARCELONA TRACTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY: REVISITING ITS CUSTOMARY AND POLICY UNDERPINNINGS 35 YEARS LATER
• Aparna Sridhar, Note, THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA'S RESPONSE TO THE PROBLEM OF TRANSNATIONAL ABDUCTION

Georgetown Journal of International Law, Volume 37, Number 3, Spring 2006

• Stefka Kavaldjieva, JURISDICTION OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS: EXORBITANCE IN REVERSE?
• Ryan M. Scoville, TOWARD AN ACCOUNTABILITY-BASED DEFINITION OF "MERCENARY"

New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Volume 38, Number 1/2, Fall 2005 - Winter 2006

• Tarek F Maassarani, FOUR COUNTS OF CORPORATE COMPLICITY: ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF ACCOMPLICE LIABILITY UNDER THE ALIEN TORT CLAIMS ACT
• Louisa B. Childs, Note, SHADY FOUNDATIONS: CRITICISM OF RECIPROCITY AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL. LAW
• Joanna Pozen, Note, JUSTICE OBSCURED: THE NON-DISCLOSURE OF WITNESSES' IDENTITIES IN ICTR TRIALS

Journal of International Arbitration, Volume 23, Number 6, December 2006

Special Issue: Twenty-Five Years Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

• Ali Z. Marossi, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal--Claims, Counterclaims, Dual Nationality, and Enforcement
• Christopher S. Gibson and Christopher R. Drahozal, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal Precedent in Investor-State Arbitration
• Ruth Teitelbaum, Challenges of Arbitrators at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal--Defining the Role of the Appointing Authority

Michigan State Journal of International Law, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2006

FROM NUREMBERG TO ABU GHRAIB: THE RELEVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW TO THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR

• Honorable Richard J. Goldstone, Keynote Address
• John Washburn, The Formation and Nature of the International Criminal Court
• Steven R. Ratner, The War on Terrorism and International Humanitarian Law
• Ved P. Nanda, Terrorism as an "Internal Conflict" Under the 1977 Geneva Protocol: Defining "Enemy Combatant" and the International/Domestic Consequences
• Wasana Punyasena, Conflict Prevention and the International Criminal Court: Deterrence in a Changing World
• Stephen P. Marks, Branding the "War on Terrorism": Is There a "New Paradigm" of International Law?
• Christian Much, The International Criminal Court (ICC) and Terrorism as an International Crime

Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review, Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 2006

• Lucien J. Dhooge, Lohengrin Revealed: The Implications of Sosa v. Alvarez- Machain for Human Rights Litigation Pursuant to the Alien Tort Claims Act