Select proceedings of the European Society of International Law. Volume 2. 2008 / edited by Hélène Ruiz-Fabri, Rüdiger Wolfrum and Jana Gogolin.

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Prelims; Preface; Avant-propos; Contents; Universality of International Law from the Perspective of a Practitioner; Democracy after the Fall of the Berlin Wall; Part 1 International Law and Religions: How States Cope with Increasing Pluralism Within their Societies; Jurisdictional Colonisation in the Spanish and British Empires: Some Reflections on a Global Public Order and the Sacred; Of Headscarves, Mosques and Occidental Values; Coping with Multiculturalism through Cosmopolitan Law; Le Rôle du Droit International Privé Face au 'Nouveau' Modèle de Migration 'Temporaire ou Circulaire'

International Law and the Right to Have RightsPart 2 History of International Law; La Théorie Politique de l'État en Droit International; Réception et Application du Droit International Moderne par le Japon: Son Attitude Évolutive de 1858 à 1945; Part 3 International Organisations, Institutions and Administration; Legal Problems Arising from the Dissolution of International Organisations; Countermeasures by International Organisations: The Decentralised Society in the Heart of the Institutionalised Society; Meeting the Challenges of Global Governance; Part 4 Legitimacy of International Law.

The Rapprochement between the Supremacy of International Law at International and National LevelsNatural Law and the Possibility of Universal Normative Foundations; Legitimacy, Blind Spots and Paradoxes of Personality; Part 5 The Multiplicity of Law-Making Processes; The Doctrinal Illusion of the Heterogeneity of International Law-Making Processes; Gap-Filling as Law-Making: The Examples of the Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals; Norm Conflict in International Law: Whither Human Rights?; Strategic Use of Litigation to Influence Negotiations: The WTO, the EU and the UN.

Part 6 Heterogeneity Reflected in International Legal TraditionsLe Droit International Post-Sovietique en Quête de son Identité dans un Monde Hétérogène; L'hétérogénéité dans la Justice Internationale; On Multilingualism and the International Legal Process; Part 7 International Law and the Millennium Development Goals; Governing by Measuring:The Millennium Development Goals in Global Governance; The MDGs, Archeology, Institutional Fragmentation and International Law.

Untying Aid and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Enhancing Aid Effectiveness through the Legal Framework for International TradePart 8 Refocusing the Rules On Warfare; Application of International Humanitarian Law to Contemporary Peace Operations: Mapping the 'Grey Areas'; Military Necessity: A Fundamental 'Principle' Fallen Into Oblivion; The 'Civilianisation' of Contemporary Armed Conflicts; L'attribution aux États des Actes des Sociétés Militaires Privées et de leurs Employés à la Lumière de l'article 4 du Projet d'articles sur la Responsabilité Internationale des États de 2001.

Part 9 International Environmental Law.

This book continues the series Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law, containing the proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference organised by ESIL and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in 2008. The conference was entitled 'International Law in a Heterogeneous World', reflecting an idea which is central to the ESIL philosophy. Heterogeneity is considered one of the pillars upon which Europe's contribution to international law is built and the subject was considered in a number of panels, including such diverse topics as migratio.

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