The progression of international law : : four decades of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights : an anniversary volume / / editor, Yoram Dinstein ; associate editor, Fania Domb.

• TeilnehmendeR: Dinstein, Yoram.; Domb, Fania.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (657 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume was produced to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights. Forty years have yielded an impressive forty annual volumes. When it was started in 1971, the Yearbook was the first of its kind anywhere in the world. It has always understood its mandate as transcending the narrow borders of the discipline of either national or international human rights. From the outset, international humanitarian law and international criminal law were understood as coming within the proper framework of the Yearbook, as were on occasion articles on diverse freedoms that may seem out of bounds to a strict interpreter of the phrase “human rights”. The present volume brings to the fore only one dimension of the Yearbook, namely essays. Twenty-five of them are collected here: twelve originally appeared in the first twenty issues of the Yearbook, and thirteen in the last twenty volumes, offering a fair cross-section of the literally hundreds of articles in the Yearbook over time, produced by authors from all over the world. Those chosen for inclusion in this Anniversary volume were felt to most impressively tap the rich lode of legal research; present insightful theses for intellectual discourse and argument; and enhance the readers’ knowledge and understanding.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Yoram Dinstein and Fania Domb -- On the Meaning of Human Dignity / Haim Cohn -- The Right of Return in International Law, with Special Reference to the Palestinian Refugees / Ruth Lapidoth -- The Definition of Minorities in International Law / Malcolm Shaw -- International Protection of Minorities: A Global View / Jacob Robinson -- From Protection of Minorities to Group Rights / Natan Lerner -- The Jewish Question at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1818 / Nathan Feinberg -- World War II: Jews as Prisoners of War / Joseph Lador-Lederer -- How to Save Democracy from Itself? / Jochen A. Frowein -- Democracy, Rule of Law and Admission to the Council of Europe / Theodor Meron and Jeremy S. Sloan -- Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions and Customary International Law / Fausto Pocar -- The Relationship between the Human Rights Regime and the Law of Armed Conflict / G.I.A.D. Draper -- The Red Cross, Red Crescent, Red Lion and Sun and the Red Shield of David / Shabtai Rosenne -- International Humanitarian Law and the Disintegration of States / Dino Kritsiotis -- Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict / Rüdiger Wolfrum -- Human Shields in International Humanitarian Law / Michael N. Schmitt -- The International Law of Mine Warfare at Sea / Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg -- Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon: Three Occupations under International Law / Nicholas Rostow -- The Observance of International Law in the Administered Territories / Meir Shamgar -- Non-Belligerent Occupation / Michael J. Kelly -- Defining International Terrorism: A Way Out of the Quagmire / John Murphy -- The Laws of War in the War on Terror / Adam Roberts -- Jus ad Bellum and International Terrorism / Rein Müllerson -- Rescue at Entebbe – Legal Aspects / Leslie C. Green -- The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg / Yoram Dinstein -- Treatment of War Crimes in Peace Settlements – Prosecution or Amnesty? / Fania Domb.