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The
Finnish Yearbook of International Law publishes theoretically informed,
high-quality contributions on all aspects of public international law -
in-depth articles, shorter notes, commentaries on current developments, book
reviews and overviews of Finland's state practice. The Finnish Yearbook
characterizes itself as firmly grounded in traditional legal scholarship but
open for new approaches to international law and for interdisciplinary analyses.
Volume
25 of the Finnish Yearbook addresses a general topic - autonomy for minorities,
and the special topics - “law, war and new technology” and “the ideal of the
international - principles, backlash and resistance’. The context of this
selection has, on the one hand, been connected with transformations in warfare
due to scientific and technological evolvement and, on the other hand, with the
rise of nationalism and populism in liberal democracies. The calls for Papers
for the 25th Volume and the 26th Volume (merged with Vol. 25) were waiting for
contributions discussing how could international law deal with such
transformations at the time where the core principles of international law (solidarity,
humanitarianism, cooperation, trusteeship, and responsible leadership) seemed
to be under attack.
Volume
25 contains also book reviews and introduces the recent doctoral dissertations
in international law defended at the University of Helsinki. Vol. 25 can be
accessed here. https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/finnish-yearbook-of-international-law-volume-25-2015-9781509927166
Table of Contents:
General
Section
Athanasios
Yupsanis, Autonomy for Minorities: Definitions, Types and Status in
International Law
Special
Section One: Law, War and New Technology
Sia
Spiliopoulou Akermark, Old Rules and New Technology: Drones and the
Demilitarisation and Neutralisation of the Aland Islands
Isabella
Brunner, Marija Dobric and Verena Pirker, Proving a State's Involvement in a
Cyber-Attack: Evidentiary Standards before the ICJ
Natalia
Jevglevskaja, Legal Review of New Weapons: Origins of Article 36 of AP I
Kenneth
Kraszewski, Classification of Cyber Operations under International Law
Special
Section Two: The Ideal of the International – Principles, Backlash and
Resistance
Nikolay
Marin and Bilyana Manova, The Rise of Nationalism and Populism in Liberal
Democracies as a Challenge for Public International Law
Book
Reviews
Edited
by Tuomas Tiittala
Jaanika
Erne
Martti
Koskenniemi, Walter Rech and Manuel Jiménez Fonseca (eds), International Law
and Empire. Historical Explorations [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, xvi
+ 395pp., h/b. ISBN 9780198795575“: different embodiements of power and
techniques of empire have been contextualized in historical events from early
modernity to late modernity, while the main concern lies with the relationship
between naturalism, positivism and leadership.]
Yihong
Zhang
Wenhua
Shan and Jinyuan Su (eds), China and International Investment Law: Twenty Years
of ICSID Membership
David
M Scott
Wayne
Sandholtz and Christopher A Whytock (eds), Research Handbook on the Politics of
nternational Law
Tuomas
Tiittala
William
A Schabas and Shannonbrooke Murphy (eds), Research Handbook on International
Courts and Tribunals
New
Finnish Doctoral Dissertations in International Law
Paolo
Amorosa
The
American Project and the Politics of History: James Brown Scott and the Origins
of International Law
Karen
Knop
The
American Project and the Politics of History: James Brown Scott and the Origins
of International Law by Paolo Amorosa, Doctoral Dissertation, University of
Helsinki, 2018
Maija
Dahlberg
Developing
the Reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights Would Improve its Judicial
Legitimacy
Julia
Jansson
The
Death of the Freedom Fighter – How the Threat of Terrorism is Suffocating the
Protection of Political Criminals
Saskia
Hufnagel and Christopher L Blakesley
The
Death of the Freedom Fighter – How the Threat of Terrorism is Suffocating the
Protection of Political Criminals by Julia Jansson, Doctoral Dissertation,
University of Helsinki, 2018
Jens
Kremer
The
End of Freedom in Public Places? Privacy Problems Arising from Surveillance of
the European Public Space
Iain
Cameron
The
End of Freedom in Public Spaces? Privacy Problems Arising from Surveillance of
the European Public Space by Jens Kremer, Doctoral Dissertation, University of
Helsinki, 2017
Taina
Tuori
From
League of Nations Mandates to Decolonization: A History of the Language of
Rights in International Law
Jochen
von Bernstorff
From
League of Nations Mandates to Decolonization. A History of Rights by Taina
Tuori, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Helsinki, 2016
The
Call for Papers for the Volume 26 discussing issues of international
environmental law can be accessed here.
(source: Jaanika Erne)
