InhaltsangabeInhalt: Forum: Perspectives on International Law from China: B. B. Jia, A Synthesis of the Notion of Sovereignty and the Ideal of the Rule of Law: Reflections on the Contemporary Chinese Approach to International Law - Focus: Climate Change and new Challenges for International Law: A. Proelss, International Environmental Law and the Challenge of Climate Change - M. Fitzmaurice, Responsibility and Climate Change - P. Aerni / B. Boie / T. Cottier / K. Holzer / D. Jost / B. Karapinar / S. Matteotti / O. Nartova / T. Payosova / L. Rubini / A. Shingal / F. Temmerman / E. Xoplaki / S. Z. Bigdeli, Climate Change and International Law: Exploring the Linkages between Human Rights, Environment, Trade and Investment - C. Schofield, Rising Waters, Shrinking States: The Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Claims to Maritime Jurisdiction - J. McAdam / B. Saul, Displacement with Dignity: International Law and Policy Responses to Climate Change Migration and Security in Bangladesh - M. Bowman, Conserving Biological Diversity in an Era of Climate Change: Local Implementation of International Wildlife Treaties - J. Gupta, Climate Change: A GAP Analysis Based on Third World Approaches to International Law - W. Th. Douma, Legal Aspects of the European Union's Biofuels Policy: Protection or Protectionism? - General Articles: Foreword from the Editors: G. Handl, In Re South African Apartheid Litigation and Beyond: Corporate Liability for Aiding and Abetting Under the Alien Tort Statute - K. Ambos, The Crime of Aggression after Kampala - K. Odendahl, The Scope of Application of the Principle of Territorial Integrity - C. Riziki Majinge, Southern Sudan and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Contemporary Africa: Examining its Basis Under International Law - A. Gourgourinis, Lex Specialis in WTO and Investment Protection Law - A. Peters, Extraterritorial Naturalizations: Between the Human Right to Nationality, State Sovereignty and Fair Principles of Jurisdiction - P. Pustorino, Failed States and International Law: The Impact of UN Practice on Somalia in Respect of Fundamental Rules of International Law - P. Kroker, Transitional Justice Policy in Practice: Victim Participation in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal - K. Oellers-Frahm, Problematic Question or Problematic Answer? Observations on the International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion Concerning Kosovo's Unilateral Declaration of Independence - German Practice: W. Heintschel von Heinegg / P. Dreist, The 2009 Kunduz Air Attack: The Decision of the Federal Prosecutor-General on the Dismissal of Criminal Proceedings Against Members of the German Armed Forces - T. Giegerich, The Federal Constitutional Court's Non-Sustainable Role as Europe's Ultimate Arbiter: From Age Discrimination to the Saving of the Euro - T. Giegerich / O. Daum, Chechen Rebels as "Bona Fide Refugees"? The Judgment of the Federal Administrative Court of 24 November 2009 - D. Blöcher, Retraction of Definitive Administrative Acts after a Change in Case Law - P. Wennholz, Refugee Protection for a Leading War Criminal? The Judgment of the Munich Higher Administrative Court of 11 January 2010 - H. Wieduwilt, The German Federal Constitutional Court Puts the Data Retention Directive on Hold - A. Proelss, Enforcement of the Obligation to Refer to the European Court of Justice Under Article 267 (3) TFEU - M. Krivickaite / H.-C. Schröder, The New German Federal Nature Conservation Act in the Context of the International Law of the Sea - B. Schriewer, Gäfgen v. Germany Revisited - W. Staff, Germany's National Preventive Mechanism Under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture - T. Thienel, Human Rights of Biological Fathers v. Hard and Fast Rules: The Case of Anayo v. Germany - J. Siegfried / B. Schriewer / P. Braasch, The Withdrawal of Germany's Unilateral Statement on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - P. Braasch, Deportation of Foreign Nationals Under Article 12 (4) of the International Covenant on Civil a

Prof. Dr. Thomas Giegerich, LL.M. (University of Virginia) studierte Rechtswissenschaft in Mainz und Virginia (Fulbright-Stipendiat) und wurde 1991 in Mainz promoviert. Von 1990 bis 2002 war er Referent am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, unterbrochen durch eine zweijährige Tätigkeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Bundesverfassungsgericht. 2001 habilitierte er sich an der Universität Heidelberg und war von 2002 bis 2006 Professor an der Universität Bremen. 2006 erfolgte der Ruf an die Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, wo er Ko-Direktor des Walther-Schücking-Instituts für Internationales Recht war. Seit 2012 ist er Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Europarecht, Völkerrecht und Öffentliches Recht an der Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität des Saarlands. Die Forschungsschwerpunkte Giegerichs liegen im Verhältnis von Europäischem und nationalem Verfassungsrecht, im völkerrechtlichen Menschenrechtsschutz, im Völkervertragsrecht und in der Verfassungsvergleichung.

Inhalt: Forum: Perspectives on International Law from China: B. B. Jia, A Synthesis of the Notion of Sovereignty and the Ideal of the Rule of Law: Reflections on the Contemporary Chinese Approach to International Law - Focus: Climate Change and new Challenges for International Law: A. Proelss, International Environmental Law and the Challenge of Climate Change - M. Fitzmaurice, Responsibility and Climate Change - P. Aerni / B. Boie / T. Cottier / K. Holzer / D. Jost / B. Karapinar / S. Matteotti / O. Nartova / T. Payosova / L. Rubini / A. Shingal / F. Temmerman / E. Xoplaki / S. Z. Bigdeli, Climate Change and International Law: Exploring the Linkages between Human Rights, Environment, Trade and Investment - C. Schofield, Rising Waters, Shrinking States: The Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Claims to Maritime Jurisdiction - J. McAdam / B. Saul, Displacement with Dignity: International Law and Policy Responses to Climate Change Migration and Security in Bangladesh - M. Bowman, Conserving Biological Diversity in an Era of Climate Change: Local Implementation of International Wildlife Treaties - J. Gupta, Climate Change: A GAP Analysis Based on Third World Approaches to International Law - W. Th. Douma, Legal Aspects of the European Union's Biofuels Policy: Protection or Protectionism? - General Articles: Foreword from the Editors: G. Handl, In Re South African Apartheid Litigation and Beyond: Corporate Liability for Aiding and Abetting Under the Alien Tort Statute - K. Ambos, The Crime of Aggression after Kampala - K. Odendahl, The Scope of Application of the Principle of Territorial Integrity - C. Riziki Majinge, Southern Sudan and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Contemporary Africa: Examining its Basis Under International Law - A. Gourgourinis, Lex Specialis in WTO and Investment Protection Law - A. Peters, Extraterritorial Naturalizations: Between the Human Right to Nationality, State Sovereignty and Fair Principles of Jurisdiction - P. Pustorino, Failed States and International Law: The Impact of UN Practice on Somalia in Respect of Fundamental Rules of International Law - P. Kroker, Transitional Justice Policy in Practice: Victim Participation in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal - K. Oellers-Frahm, Problematic Question or Problematic Answer? Observations on the International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion Concerning Kosovo's Unilateral Declaration of Independence - German Practice: W. Heintschel von Heinegg / P. Dreist, The 2009 Kunduz Air Attack: The Decision of the Federal Prosecutor-General on the Dismissal of Criminal Proceedings Against Members of the German Armed Forces - T. Giegerich, The Federal Constitutional Court's Non-Sustainable Role as Europe's Ultimate Arbiter: From Age Discrimination to the Saving of the Euro - T. Giegerich / O. Daum, Chechen Rebels as "Bona Fide Refugees"? The Judgment of the Federal Administrative Court of 24 November 2009 - D. Blöcher, Retraction of Definitive Administrative Acts after a Change in Case Law - P. Wennholz, Refugee Protection for a Leading War Criminal? The Judgment of the Munich Higher Administrative Court of 11 January 2010 - H. Wieduwilt, The German Federal Constitutional Court Puts the Data Retention Directive on Hold - A. Proelss, Enforcement of the Obligation to Refer to the European Court of Justice Under Article 267 (3) TFEU - M. Krivickaite / H.-C. Schröder, The New German Federal Nature Conservation Act in the Context of the International Law of the Sea - B. Schriewer, Gäfgen v. Germany Revisited - W. Staff, Germany's National Preventive Mechanism Under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture - T. Thienel, Human Rights of Biological Fathers v. Hard and Fast Rules: The Case of Anayo v. Germany - J. Siegfried / B. Schriewer / P. Braasch, The Withdrawal of Germany's Unilateral Statement on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - P. Braasch, Deportation of Foreign Nationals Under Article 12 (4) of the Internationa ...