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International law holds a paradoxical position with territory. Most rules of international law are traditionally based on the notion of State territory, and territoriality still significantly shapes our contemporary legal system. At the same time, new developments have challenged territory as the main organising principle in international relations. Three trends in particular have affected the role of territoriality in international law: the move towards functional regimes, the rise of cosmopolitan projects claiming to transgress state boundaries, and the development of technologies resulting in the need to address intangible, non-territorial, phenomena. Yet, notwithstanding some profound changes, it remains impossible to think of international law without a territorial locus. If international law is undergoing changes, this implies a reconfiguration of territory, but not a move beyond it. The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law was first published in 1970. It offers a forum for the publication of scholarly articles of a conceptual nature in a varying thematic area of public international law.--

In all major fields of international law—e.g. environmental law, economic law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, health law, peace-and-security law—demands for more transparency have recently been voiced by civil-society actors, by states, and within the international institutions themselves—or transparency has been brought about by illegal means. In response, much more transparency has been created in international institutions and procedures in the last 10 years. This paper diagnoses a genuine "transparency turn" in international law, it analyses the functions and drawbacks of increased transparency in global governance (especially for the well-functioning of negotiations and deliberations); it asks whether a cross-cutting legal principle of transparency is emerging, and what this might mean for international law as a whole. It concludes that from a governance perspective, transparency is only a necessary, and not a sufficient condition for bringing about participation, accountability, and possibly democracy in the global sphere.

"This is a collection of international law materials relating to the Philippines: excerpts of treaties and declarations; international judicial and arbitral decisions; and Philippine constitutional clauses, statutes and Supreme Court decisions. Today new theories abound, calling for comparative perspectives that look at international law through the lens of national and regional practice. This book engages that challenge at a concrete level, e.g., how Marcos's human rights abuses were litigated abroad but never in Philippine courts, and how victim claims for reparations are, ironically, blocked by the Philippine Government citing the Filipino people's competing claims over Marcos's ill-gotten wealth. It retells Philippine history using international law, and re-examines international law using the Philippine experience"--

Chapter 1. The Phenomenon of Yearbooks in International Law: An Introduction -- Part I. General reflections on yearbooks of international law -- Chapter 2. The 'Turn to History' and the Year of the Yearbook of International Law -- Chapter 3. A Case in the Politics of Form – Yearbooks of International Law -- Chapter 4. Archiving Legality: The Imperial Emergence of the International Law Yearbook -- Chapter 5. On Yearbooks -- Part II. Contributions by Yearbooks of International Law -- Chapter 6. African Yearbook of International Law: A Quarter-Century of Contribution to the Development and Dissemination of International Law -- Chapter 7. Australian Yearbook of International Law -- Chapter 8. Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire Canadien de droit international: Founding, Function, Future -- Chapter 9. The Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs: Contributing to the Grotian Moment in Asia -- Chapter 10. Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law on the Occasion of its 10th Anniversary: Achievements and Perspectives -- Chapter 11. Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law: Towards Diversifying and Democratizing Voices in the Making and Development of International Law -- Chapter 12. Finnish Yearbook of International Law – Past, Present and Future -- Chapter 13. Annuaire Francais de Droit International -- Chapter 14. German Yearbook of International Law: Origins, Development, Prospects -- Chapter 15. The Past, Present and Future of the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law – An Evolving Story -- Chapter 16. Indonesia and the Absence of a Yearbook on International Law -- Chapter 17. Italian Yearbook of International Law: Genesis, Development and Prospects -- Chapter 18. The Development and Future of the Japanese Yearbook of International Law: From Japanese Perspectives to International Academic Forums -- Chapter 19. Mexican Yearbook of International Law as a Concept for Researching, Disseminating, and Teaching International Law -- Chapter 20. 'There was an idealism that this information is useful' - The Origins and Evolution of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law -- Chapter 21. Palestine Yearbook of International Law – A Medium for a Principled International Law on Palestine and the Palestinian People -- Chapter 22. The Polish Yearbook of International Law: A History of Constant Change and Adaptation -- Chapter 23. Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional: History, Functions and Future -- Part III. Dutch Practice -- Chapter 24. Fundamental Rights in Digital Welfare States: The Case of SyRI in the Netherlands -- Chapter 25. The Continuing Saga of State Responsibility for the Conduct of Peacekeeping Forces: Recent Practice of Dutch and Belgian Courts -- Chapter 26. The Enemy of My Enemy: Dutch Non-Lethal Assistance for 'Moderate' Syrian Rebels and the Multilevel Violation of International Law -- Table of Cases -- Index. .

AbstractThe author critically analyses in this article the status of incitement in international criminal law. After a discussion of the relevant judgments by the Nuremberg Tribunal and related courts, including German de-Nazification courts, the travaux préparatoires of the Genocide Convention and the case-law of the International Criminal Tribunals, the international approach is criticized, particularly its practice of regarding only direct and public incitement to genocide as inchoate, whilst instigation generally is treated as not inchoate. The author recommends the adoption of an approach modelled on German and Swiss domestic law and argues that instigation per se should also be regarded as an inchoate crime.

Environmental Biotechnology is an emerging field of scientific and technological investigations that is truly global. People around the world are now joined together by a common technical bond. Furthermore, popular recognition is high for the environmental problems being faced and solved by biotechnology methods. With a feeling of winning, but recognizing there is much work to be done, workers with in-depth experience in solving one problem in environmental biotechnology meet to learn from the background of other workers how they, too, are addressing and solving environmental problems. This text includes papers from the third biennial meeting of the International Society for Environmental Biotechnology, the ISEB, held in Boston, Massachusetts, on the campus of Northeastern University. Technical oral presentations of state-of-the-art research were integrated with tutorials and workshops by practising technologists in the broad field of environmental biotechnology. This meeting was in every respect truly global. For example, presentations were heard from technical workers in Southeast Asia, Russia, China, Europe, North Africa, India, and the United States. By having these selected presenters, all participants benefited from this interactive symposium. Various persons of political stature were the keynote, banquet, and luncheon speakers; these social events further promoted informal exchange of ideas, discussions of technical problems, and exploration of new applications. This international symposium on environmental biotechnology was held on the campus of Northeastern University, but all Boston area universities were included and participated as conference Co-Chairs. This symposium was considered a success because workers with experience in one area of environmental biotechnology learned from the wealth of established backgrounds of those in other areas of environmental biotechnology. To formally disseminate conference results, all technical presentations were reviewed for formal publication

This book focuses on maritime employment from a private international law perspective. The first chapter analyzes the background against which international jurisdiction and conflict of laws rules are drawn up and examines uniform law in this context, in particular the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention and the 2007 ILO Convention No. 188 on Work in Fishing. The second chapter addresses international jurisdiction issues as regards individual employment contracts, while also exploring other issues (e.g. insolvency-related and social security matters) that are subsequently revisited in the third chapter while discussing conflict of laws issues related to said contracts. In turn, chapter four focuses on collective labour relations and private international law, i.e. collective agreements, strikes and other forms of collective action and information, and on the participation rights of employees in business matters