OUVRAGE : C. Ryngaert, E.J. Molenaar, S. Nouwen (eds.), What's Wrong with International Law? Liber Amicorum A.H.A. Soons

Catherine MAIA

This is the question Professor A.H.A. Soons provocatively posed to his colleagues around the world when leaving his chair in public international law at Utrecht University. Meant to provoke discussion about what actually is wrong with international law as well as act in defence of the discipline, his conclusion was a resounding 'nothing!'

Honouring Professor Soons's achievements throughout his long career as a scholar and a practitioner of international law, this Liber Amicorum exmaines whether, indeed, there is something wrong with international law. The contributors identify gaps or 'wrong norms' in specific fields of international law, and assess whether there is something wrong with the regulatory function of international law as a system for creating global public order.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

International Law as We Know It, Patricia Jimenez Kwast

Part I: INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS

1. Introduction, Cedric Ryngaert, Erik J. Molenaar, Sarah M.H. Nouwen
2. Fred Soons: A Pragmatic Trust in International Law, André Nollkaemper
3. An Appreciation of Fred Soons, John Gamble

Part II: WHAT'S WRONG WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW - SPECIALISED AREAS

Section A: Law of the Sea

4. Some Reflections on What's Wrong with the Law of the Sea, Rosemary Rayfuse
5. Responsibility for Human Rights Violations Arising from the Use of Privately Contracted Armed Security Personnel Against Piracy: Re- emphasizing the Primary Role and Obligations of Flag States, Jessica N.M. Schechinger
6. A Sketch of the Concept of Ocean Governance and its Relationship with the Law of the Sea, Yoshinobu Takei
7. Is There Something Wrong with the Increasing Role of Private Actors?, Seline Trevisanut
8. Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims and Politics: Curse or Cure?, Vivian van der Kuil

Section B: Dispute Settlement

9. Bad Law and a Hard Case? The Impact of the Wall Advisory Opinion, Matthijs de Blois
10. International Human Rights Implementation: Strengthen Existing Mechanisms, Establish a World Court for Human Rights, or Both?, Jenny E. Goldschmidt
11. Prohibitions on Dissenting Opinions in International Arbitration, Patricia Jimenez Kwast
12. Transnational Human Rights Litigation against Multinational Corporations post-Kiobel, Menno T. Kamminga
13. What is Wrong with International Standards on Social Protection?, Frans Pennings
14. Corporate Social Responsibility: A New Framework for International Standard Setting, Teun Jaspers

Section C: International Environmental Law

15 Caught Napping by (Sea) Wolves: International Wilflife Law and Unforeseen Circumstances Involving the Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) and the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus), Arie Trouwborst
16 What is Wrong with International Environmental Law?, Johan G. Lammers

Section D: Law of Treaties

17. A Critical Look at the Law of Treaties: Giving Recognition to Informal Means of Treaty Adaptation, Irina Buga
18. Absolute Validity, Absolute Immunity: Is There Something Wrong With Article 103 of the UN Charter?, Guide den Dekker
19. Aspects ofthe Law of Treaties, Kenneth J. Keith

Section E: Miscellaneous

20. Good Governance: A Principle of International Law, Henk Addink
21. The Right to Peace: A Mischevious Declaration, Peter van Kriekan
22. Self-determination and Regional Human Rights Bodies: The Case of Southern Cameroons and the African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights, Brianne McGonigle Leyh
23. What's Wrong with the Relationship between the International Court of Justice and the Security Council?, Otto Spijkers

Part III: WHAT'S WRONG WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW AS A REGULATORY SYSTEM?

24. What's Wrong with International Law?, M.C.W. Pinto
25. The Under-appreciated Role of Curial Settlement in International Law Norm-making: Using Transnational Law and Diffusion Studies to Re-Assess the Status of Prior Decisions, Pieter Bekker and Thomas Innes
26. How and to Whom Do We Explain International Law?, John Gamble
27. Fragmentation in International Law and Governance: Understanding the Sum of the Parts, Charlotte Ku
28. Whither Territoriality? The European Union's Use of Territoriality to Set Norms with Universal Effects, Cedric Ryngaert
29. Revealing the Publicness of International Law, Ramses A. Wessel
30. What is Wrong with International Lawyers?, John Dugard

Cedric RYNGAERT Erik J. MOLENAAR, Sarah NOUWEN (eds.), What's Wrong with International Law? Liber Amicorum A.H.A. Soons, Leiden, Brill/Nijhoff, 2015

Editors
Cedric Ryngaert, Ph.D. (Leuven, 2007) is Chair of Public International Law at Utrecht University and has published widely on various questions of international law. His most recent book is Jurisdiction in International Law (OUP 2015, 2nd ed.).

Erik J. Molenaar, Ph.D. (Utrecht, 1998) is Deputy Director, Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, Utrecht University and Professor, K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, University of Tromsø. His research focuses mainly on marine pullution, fisheries and the polar regions.

Sarah M.H. Nouwen, Ph.D. (Cambridge, 2010) is Lecturer in Law and Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and fellow of Pembroke College. She is the author of Complementarity in the Line of Fire (CUP, 2013).

Contributors
Henk Addink, Pieter Bekker, Matthijs de Blois, Irina Buga, Guido den Dekker, John Dugard, John Gamble, Jenny E. Goldschmidt, Thomas Innes, Teun Gaspers, Vivian van der Kuil, Patricia Jimenez Kwast, Kenneth J. Keith, Peter van Krieken, Charlotte Ku, Johan G. Lammers, Brianne McGonigle Leyh, André Nollkaemper, Frans Pennings, M.C.W. Pinto, Rosemary Rayfuse, Jessica N.M. Schechinger, Otto Spijkers, Yoshinobu Takei, Seline Trevisanut, Arie Trouwborst, Ramses A. Wessel