Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law: Third Volume: International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal: Cambridge, 2-4 September 2010

This third volume of the series Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law contains the proceedings of the fourth biennial conference organized by the European Society of International Law and the University of Cambridge in 2010. The title of the conference was "International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal." The highlights published in Volume 3 cover a wide spectrum of topics in international law. Cover 1 Prelims 2 Foreword 6 Foreword 8 Table of Contents 10 Introduction 14 Part I: 1989-2010: The World and International Law 16 1. International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal 18 Comments on Hurrell: The End of Geography? 36 Comments on Hurrell 42 2. The Impact of the East-West Divide on International Law: Patterns of Discourse and the Waves of 1989 46 3. The End of the Cold War: An Epochal Event in the History of International Law? 60 4. 1989-2010: The Rise and Fall of Democratic Governance in International Law 76 5. Persisting and Developing between Hope and Threat: International Law during the Past Two Decades and Beyond 90 Part II: 1989-2010: Legalisation and Law-Making 94 6. Less is More: International Law of the 21st Century - Law without Faith 96 7. The Process of Legalisation After 1989 and its Contribution to the International Rule of Law 104 8. Typologie des Resolutions de L'ONU Creatrices de Droit International General 118 9. Law-making by Scholarship? The Dark Side of 21st Century International Legal 'Methodology' 130 10. Judicial Law-making in International Criminal Law: The Legitimacy Conundrum 142 11. Revisiting Monism's Ethical Dimension 156 12. Domestic Courts as the 'Natural Judge' of International Law: A Change in Physiognomy 170 Part III: 1989-2010: International Law and the State 184 13. Statehood after 1989: 'Effectivites' between Legality and Virtuality 186 14. From the National Border to the National Eleven: A (Partial and Partisan) Appraisal of the State System's Performance since the End of the Cold War 200 15. A Comment on Peters and Nagy: The State in Critical Perspective 214 Part IV: 1989-2010: International Law and International Institutions 220 16. Paradise Lost? De-formalisation, Control and Trust in International Institutions 222 17. Panels, Mediateurs et Mecanismes Informels de Controle des Activites des Organisations Internationales: Entre Accountability et Responsibility 232 18. Compliance with Decisions of International Courts as Indicative of their Effectiveness: A Goal-based Analysis 244 19. The Security Council as Dispenser of (or with) International Law 258 20. Systemic Integration and Interantional Investment Law 272 21. The Limits of Depoliticisation in Contemporary Investor-State Arbitration 286 Part V: 1989-2010: International Law and the Regions 298 22. La Cooperation Regionale dans le Monde Post-sovietique: Bilans et Perspectives 300 23. Universalisme et Regionalisme en Matiere d'Echanges Commerciaux Internationaux 316 24. Co-adaptation in the International Legal Order: The EU and the WTO 326 Part VI: 1989-2010: International Law and the Challenges of 2010 342 25. Prosecuting Environmental Damage under International Criminal Law 344 26. La Convention d'Arhus: 'Avancee Majeure du Droit International'? 354 27. Two Decades Lost: Reinvigorating the Weak Cousin of WTO Law 368 28. The Poverty of Development and the Development of Poverty in International Law 380 Part VII: Appraisal 390 29. Pouring Away the Sweet Milk of Concord: A Call for Argument and Debate 392 30. Reflections on the Asymmetric Rule of Law in International Relations 396 31. Quelques Reflexions en Guise de Conclusion 400 32. Post-1989 as a Narrative 404 33. A Call for Conceptual Clarity 410 Epilogue: 1989-2010: The Black Hole 414 34. Once Upon a Time There Was a Gap... 416 "This book continues the series Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law, containing the proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Conference organised by ESIL and the University of Cambridge in 2010. The title of the conference was 'International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal'. The highlights, selected for publication in this volume, cover a wide spectrum of topics in international law."--Bloomsbury Publishing. This book contains the proceedings of the conference was "International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal", organised by ESIL and the University of Cambridge in 2010. The highlights, selected for publication in this volume, cover a wide spectrum of topics in international law.