TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The Kosovo Opinion of 22 July 2010: historical, political and legal pre-requisites, Peter Hilpold
 

2. Recognition of New States – The Case of Premature Recognition, Christian Tomuschat
 

3. Secession in International Law: Does the Kosovo Opinion require a re-assessment of this concept?, Peter Hilpold
 

4. Some Remarks on the Relationship between Secession and General International Law in the Light of the ICJ´s Kosovo Advisory Opinion, Antonello Tancredi
 

5. Secession, Territorial Integrity and the Role of the Security Council, Stefan Oeter
 

6. The OSCE and Kosovo, Matthias Niedobitek
 

7. The European Union and Kosovo in the Light of the Territorial Issue, Isabel Lirola Delgado
 

8. Drawing borders as a means to restore and maintain peace: from Palestine to Kosovo and back, Michael Bothe
 

9. Decisions of the UN Security Council of Indefinite Duration: How to Define the Limits of Their Valildity, Andrea Gioia
 

10. The Kosovo Opinion and Issues of International Responsibility, Helmut Philipp Aust
 

11. “You Say You´ll Change the Constitution” – The ICJ and Non-state Entities in the Kosovo Advisory Opinion, Andrea Gattini
 

12. The Structure and Content of the Austrian Statements in the ICJ Advisory Proceedings Concerning Kosovo, Gerhard Hafner/Nadia Kalb
 

13. The political future of Kosovo after the ICJ Opinion: Status question (un-)resolved?, Solveig Richter



Peter HILPOLD, Kosovo and International Law: the ICJ Advisory Opinion of 22 July 2010, Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff, 2012 (245 pp.)