25 septembre 2021

OUVRAGE : D. Tladi (ed.), Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens): Disquisitions and Dispositions

Dire TLADI

Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens): Disquisitions and Dispositions brings together an impressive collection of authors addressing both conceptual issues and challenges relating to peremptory norms of general international. Covered themes in the edited collection include concepts relating to the identification of peremptory norms, consequences of peremptory norms, critiques of peremptory norms, the relationship between peremptory norms and particular areas of international law as well as the peremptory status of particular norms of international law. The contributions are presented from an array of scholars and experts with different perspective, thus providing an interesting mosaic of thoughts on peremptory norms. Written against the backdrop of the ongoing work of the International Law Commission, it exposes some tensions inherent in the jus cogens.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Notes on Editor and Contributors

Chapter 1. Dire Tladi, Disquisitions and Disputations
PART 1. CONCEPTUAL ISSUES

Chapter 2. Robert Kolb, Peremptory Norms as a Legal Technique Rather than Substantive Super-Norms
Chapter 3. Patrícia Galvão Teles, Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens) and the Fundamental Values of the International Community
Chapter 4. Jean Allain, Jus Cogens and the International Community “of States” as a Whole
Chapter 5. Mehrdad Payandeh, Modification of Peremptory Norms of General International Law
Chapter 6. Sâ Benjamin Traoré, Peremptory Norms and Interpretation in International Law
Chapter 7. Gentian Zyberi, Aspects of the Invalidity of Treaties on Account of Conflict with Jus Cogens
Chapter 8. Martha M. Bradley, Jus Cogens’ Preferred Sister Obligations Erga Omnes and the International Court of Justice – Fifty Years after the Barcelona Traction Case
Chapter 9. Helmut Philipp Aust, Legal Consequences of Serious Breaches of Peremptory Norms in the Law of State Responsibility. Observations in the Light of the Recent Work of the International Law Commission
PART 2. INSTITUTIONS AND PEREMPTORY NORMS
Chapter 10. Tiyanjana Maluwa, African State Practice and the Formation of Some Peremptory Norms of General International Law
Chapter 11. Pavel Šturma, Is There Any Regional Jus Cogens in Europe? The Case of the European Convention on Human Rights
Chapter 12. Juan José Ruda Santolaria, The Treatment of Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens) in the Inter-American Human Rights System
Chapter 13. Catherine Maia, Jus Cogens and (In)Application of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice
Chapter 14. Michael Wood, The Unilateral Invocation of Jus Cogens Norms
Chapter 15. Julia Sebutinde, Is the Right to Self-Determination Jus Cogens Reflections on the Chagos Advisory Opinion
Chapter 16. Rosalind Elphick, John Dugard, Jus Cogens and Compensation
Chapter 17. Daniel Costelloe, Peremptory Norms and Resolutions of the United Nations Security Council
PART 3. PARTICULAR RULES AND SETS OF RULES
Chapter 18. Mary H. Hansel, “Magic” or Smoke and Mirrors? The Gendered Illusion of Jus Cogens
Chapter 19. Makane Moïse Mbengue, Apollin Koagne Zouapet, Ending the Splendid Isolation — Jus Cogens and International Economic Law
Chapter 20. Nilufer Oral, Environmental Protection as a Peremptory Norm of General International Law Is It Time?
Chapter 21. Aniel de Beer, The Prohibition of Terrorism as Jus Cogens
Chapter 22. Olivier Corten, Vaios Koutroulis, The Jus Cogens Status of the Prohibition on the Use of Force. What Is Its Scope and Why Does It Matter?
Chapter 23. Jorge E. Viñuales, The Friendly Relations Declaration and Peremptory Norms
Chapter 24. Ki-Gab Park, The Right to Self-Determination and Peremptory Norms
Chapter 25. Hannah Woolaver, Sovereign Equality as a Peremptory Norm of General International Law
Chapter 26. Kobina Egyir Daniel, A Jus Cogens Human Rights Exception to Head of State Immunity. Fact, Fiction or Wishful Thinking?

Index


Dire TLADI (ed.), Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens), Leiden, Brill/Nijhoff, 2021 (808 pp.)

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