International Law Between Universalism and Fragmentation : Festschrift in Honour of Gerhard Hafner

This Festschrift is published on the occasion of Gerhard Hafner's 65th birthday and his retirement as a professor at the University of Vienna. It assembles a great number of renowned friends and colleagues in international law honouring Gerhard Hafner's outstanding career as scholar, diplomat, legal adviser and arbitrator. The diversity of areas selected for this Festschrift reflects the generalist approach of Gerhard Hafner towards international law. Among the topics on which his contribution was particularly influential are the fragmentation of international law, the law of State immunity and international criminal law, which feature prominently in the Festschrift. Other areas covered are the theory of international law (including sources), basic principles of international law, codification of international law, subjects of international law, international dispute settlement, the law of the sea and international environmental law, human rights and humanitarian law and the law of the European Union. Contents......Page 6 PREFACE......Page 12 Biographic Summary......Page 14 Bibliography......Page 20 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 34 INTRODUCTION......Page 48 1 Einige persönliche Bemerkungen zu Gerhard Hafner (Hans Winlker)......Page 50 2 Gerhard Hafner: Porträt eines österreichischen Völkerrechtlers (Franz Cede)......Page 52 I FRAGMENTATION AND THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW......Page 58 3. Une relecture de la théorie des sous-systèmes en droit international (Isabelle Buffard)......Page 60 4 Hierarchy in International Law within the Context of Its Fragmentation (Zdzislaw Galicki)......Page 88 5 Hard Law Strikes Back – How the Recent Focus on the Rule of Law Promotes Compliance with Norms in International Relations (Axel Marschik)......Page 108 6 The Concept of International Community in International Law: Theory and Reality (Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao)......Page 132 7 The Proliferation of International Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: The Threat of Fragmentation vs. the Promise of a More Effective System? Some Refl ections From the Perspective of Investment Arbitration (August Reinisch)......Page 154 8 Boundaries of Justice? An International Law Approach (Daniel Thürer)......Page 174 II BASIC PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW......Page 186 9 Rechtliche Hegung von Gewalt zwischen Theorie und Praxis (Michael Bothe)......Page 188 10 The Three Cores of Aggression (Antonio Remiro Brotóns)......Page 218 11 Intergenerational Equity Revisited (Malgosia Fitzmaurice)......Page 242 12 Democratization: Supply-Stimulated or Demand-Induced? (Rein Müllerson)......Page 278 13 The Principle of Non-Discrimination in International Economic Law: A Conceptual and Historical Sketch (Friedl Weiss)......Page 316 14 The Prohibition to Use Force after Sixty Years of Abuse (Karl Zemanek)......Page 334 III SOURCES INCLUDING CODIFICATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW......Page 362 15 The Pacta Sunt Servanda Rule in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: A Pillar and its Safeguards (Christina Binder)......Page 364 16 Variations on the Theme of ‘Soft International Law (Hanspeter Neuhold)......Page 390 17 The Rule of Law, Codifi cation and the Role of Gerhard Hafner (Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff)......Page 408 18 The General Assembly and the International Law Commission: What Happens to the Commission’s Work and Why? (Michael Wood)......Page 420 IV SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND IMMUNITIES......Page 436 19 Implications of the Independence of Kosovo for International Law (Wolfgang Benedek)......Page 438 20 The Merits and Defects of the 2004 UN Convention on State Immunity: Gerhard Hafner’s Contribution to its Adoption by the United Nations (Hazel Fox)......Page 460 21 The International Customary Law Nature of Immunity from Measures of Constraint for State Cultural Property on Loan (Andrea Gattini)......Page 468 22 La création de l’Etat d’Israël à la lumière du droit international (Marcelo G. Kohen)......Page 488 23 Legal Personality or not – The Recent Attempts to Improve the Status of the OSCE (Helmut Tichy & Ulrike Köhler)......Page 502 24 In the Twilight Zones of the State (Christian Tomuschat)......Page 526 25 Some Peculiarities of the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: a Footnote on the Codifi cation Technique (Tullio Treves)......Page 550 V INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW......Page 556 26 Responsibility of States and Individuals for Genocide and other International Crimes (Vladimir-Djuro Degan)......Page 558 27 Individuelle versus Staatenverantwortlichkeit im Zusammenhang mit Völkermord (Frank Höpfel)......Page 582 28 The International Criminal Court – International Humanitarian Law at Work (Hans-Peter Kaul)......Page 600 29 ‘Irrelevance of Offi cial Capacity’ – Article 27 Rome Statute Undermined by Obligations under International Law or by Agreements, Article 98? (Otto Triffterer)......Page 618 30 The Crime of Aggression: Custom, Treaty and Prospects for International Prosecution (Elizabeth Wilmshurst)......Page 650 VI HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW......Page 672 31 L’application du droit international général par la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (Lucius Caflisch)......Page 674 32 Nationality and the Protection of Property under the European Convention on Human Rights (Ursula Kriebaum)......Page 696 33 Vom Weltstrafrecht zum Weltzivilrecht oder vom Internationalen Strafgerichtshof zum Internationalen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte? Überlegungen am Beispiel der Folterbekämpfung (Manfred Nowak)......Page 714 34 De-Regulating Humanitarian Aid: The Need for New Norms and Interpretations (Jordan J. Paust)......Page 748 35 The Concept of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ as an Emerging Norm Versus ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ (Árpád Prandler)......Page 758 36 Der Einfl uss der Menschenrechte auf das Völkerrecht: ein Entwurf (Bruno Simma)......Page 776 37 Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties – The Case of Israel and the Palestinian Territories Revisited (Andreas Zimmermann)......Page 794 VII LAW OF THE SEA AND THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 814 38 Landlocked Developing Countries and the Law of the Sea (James L. Kateka)......Page 816 39 International Environmental Regulations – Is a Comprehensive Body of Law Emerging or is Fragmentation Going to Stay? (Gerhard Loibl)......Page 830 40 Using Judicial Bodies for the Implementation and Enforcement of International Environmental Law (Thomas A. Mensah)......Page 844 41 Liability for Environmental Damage in Antarctica: Supplement to the Rules on State Responsibility or a Lost Opportunity? (Rüdiger Wolfrum)......Page 864 VIII INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT......Page 876 42 Anglo Saxon and Continental Approaches to Pleading Before the ICJ Aspects des modes continentaux et Anglo-Saxons de plaidoiries devant la C.I.J. (James Crawford & Alain Pellet)......Page 878 43 Argentinien vs Uruguay – Ein Mehrfrontenkampf (Waldemar Hummer)......Page 916 44 The 2007 Nicaragua v. Colombia Territoral and Maritime Dispute (Preliminary Objections) Judgment: A Landmark in the Sound Administration of International Justice (Barbara Kwiatkowska)......Page 956 45 Some Thoughts on Compliance with International Obligations (Markus A. Reiterer)......Page 990 46 What is a Legal Dispute? (Christoph Schreuer)......Page 1006 47 The Judicial Functions of the International Court of Justice (Stephan Wittich)......Page 1028 IX EUROPEAN LAW......Page 1048 48 The ‘Second Pillar’ in a Union without Pillars – A New Quality of the Common Foreign and Security Policy with the Treaty of Lisbon? (Hubert Isak)......Page 1050 49 Naiades and Beyond: Stand und Perspektiven der geplanten „Modernisierung der Organisationsstruktur“ für die Binnenschifffahrt in Europa (Richard Regner)......Page 1074 50 Struggle for Exclusiveness: The ECJ and Competing International Tribunals (Kirsten Schmalenbach)......Page 1092 51 Quelle est l’identité de l’Europe ? (Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum)......Page 1116 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 1124 Fragmentation And Theory Of International Law -- Basic Principles Of International Law -- Sources Including Codification Of International Law -- Subjects Of International Law And Immunities -- International Criminal Law -- Human Rights And Humanitarian Law -- Law Of The Sea And The Environment -- International Dispute Settlement -- European Law. Edited By Isabelle Buffard ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [xix]-xxxi). Text In English, French And German.