Wednesday, May 29, 2013

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 12, 2012) is out. The theme is "After the Empire: International Law and the Post-Soviet Space." Contents include:
  • Rima Tkatova, Russian Spirit, Soviet Heritage and Western Temptation: “Un-‘Peaceful Coexistence’” in Russia’s International Doctrine and Practice
  • Sergei Yu. Marochkin, Contemporary Approaches of the Russian Doctrine to International Law: Identical to Western Ones?
  • Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Legislative Regulation of Trans-boundary Use of Armed Force: Russian Case Study
  • Levan Alexidze, Kosovo and South Ossetia: Similar or Different? Consequences for International Law
  • Milena Sterio, A Tale of Two States: Territoriality and Minority Rights in Kosovo and Georgia
  • Alena Douhan, CIS, CSTO and the United Nations: Could an Active Regional System of Collective Security Be Established?
  • Massimo Starita, Entre contrôle du respect de la légalité conventionnelle et promotion de la légitimité démocratique : la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme face aux transitions démocratiques
  • James A. Sweeney, Transitional Criminal Justice at the ECtHR: Implications for the Universality of Human Rights
  • Christina M. Cerna, Comparing the Performance of the Russian Federation and the United States as regards Human Rights on the Regional and Universal Level
  • Anton Burkov, Motivation for Direct Application of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Russian Courts
  • Jénya Grigorova, Dévéloppements récents en matière de transport et de commerce de gaz en mers Noire et Baltique – un jeu de société de nouvelle génération
  • Khagani Guliyev, La mer Caspienne : un espace aquatique semi-délimité?
  • Anna Marhold, In Too Deep – Russia, the Energy Charter Treaty and the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline