REVUE : Nigerian Yearbook of International Law (vol. 2017)

Catherine MAIA

The inaugural volume of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law (vol. 2017) is out.

Part I. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND REGIONAL SYSTEMS

Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, Compliance with Judgments and Decisions: The Experience of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: A Reassessment

Part II. CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES/EMERGING ISSUES

David Baragwanath, Responding to Terrorism: Definition and Other Actions
Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko, The Evolution of the Status of the Individual Under International Law
Péter Kovács & Tamás Vince Ádány, Admission into Diplomatic Buildings as an Alternative or Substitute to Diplomatic Asylum?
Patricia O’Brien, International Law and Daunting Contemporary Crises to Human Security and the Rule of Law
Dakas C. J. Dakas, Interrogating Colonialism: Bakassi, the Colonial Question and the Imperative of Exorcising the Ghost of Eurocentric International Law
Obiora Chinedu Okafor, The International Law of Secession and the Protection of the Human Rights of Oppressed Substate Groups: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Part III. CRIMINAL LAW

David Re, International Crimes: A Hybrid Future?
Chile Eboe-Osuji, The ICC and the African Court and the Extended Notion of Complementarity of International Criminal Jurisdictions
William Schabas, Fragmentation or Stabilisation? Recent Case Law on the Crime of Genocide in Light of the 2007 Judgment of the International Court of Justice
Udoka Owie, The Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Question of Head of State Immunity in International Law: Revisiting the Decision in Prosecutor v. Charles Ghankay Taylor

Part IV. NATURAL RESOURCES/ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Rhuks Ako, Mainstreaming Environmental Justice in Developing Countries: Thinking Beyond Constitutional Environmental Rights
Engobo Emeseh, Environmental Victims, Access to Justice and the Sustainable Development Goals
Damilola S. Olawuyi & Temitope Tunbi Onifade, Promoting Functional Distributive Justice in the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund System: Lessons from Alaska and Norway