Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2013

1. Front Matter

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2. Crisis and International Law: Decoy or Catalyst?

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Crises: Concern and Fuel for International Law and International Lawyers

      • Willem van Genugten, Mielle Bulterman

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   3. The Crisis and the Quotidian in International Human Rights Law

      • Benjamin Authers, Hilary Charlesworth

      Pages 19-39

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   4. The Crisis of International Human Rights Law in the Global Market Economy

      • Daniel Augenstein

      Pages 41-64

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   5. International Refugees and Irregular Migrants: Caught in the Mundane Shadow of Crisis

      • Juan M. Amaya-Castro

      Pages 65-88

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   6. Saving Humanity from Hell: International Criminal Law and Permanent Crisis

      • Edwin Bikundo

      Pages 89-109

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   7. Warming to Crisis: The Climate Change Law of Unintended Opportunity

      • Tomer Broude

      Pages 111-138

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   8. Between Crisis and Complacency: Seeking Commitment in International Environmental Law

      • Karin Mickelson

      Pages 139-159

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   9. The WTO and the Doha Negotiation in Crisis?

      • Alexia Herwig

      Pages 161-185

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   10. The EU in Crisis: Crisis Discourse as a Technique of Government

       • Jessica C. Lawrence

       Pages 187-202

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3. Dutch Practice in International Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. The Thin Line Between Deference and Indifference: The Supreme Court of The Netherlands and the Iranian Sanctions Case

      • Marjolein Busstra

      Pages 205-219

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4. Back Matter

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The combination of the words ‘international law’ and ‘crisis’ is intriguing and leads to a number of questions. How does international law react to crises and what are the typical conditions under which the term ‘crisis’ is invoked? Is international law a vivid field of law due to and thanks to crises? Are parts of international law maybe in crisis themselves? To what extent has the focus on crises taken away attention from important legal questions in the day-to-day application of international law? And does the focus on crisis undermine analytic progress amongst scholars, who might think about crises as being something completely new, asking for new answers while ignoring the relevance of the existing ‘international law acquis’? This volume includes eight articles, in the domains of human rights law, migration law, environmental law, international criminal law, WTO law and European law, reflecting upon these pertinent questions, basically asking: do international lawyers do the things right or do they the right things? The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (NYIL) was first published in 1970. It offers a forum for the publication of scholarly articles of a more general nature in the area of public international law including the law of the European Union.

• Environmental Law
• Human Rights Law
• International Criminal Law
• Migration Law
• WTO Law

• Legal Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands

  Mielle K. Bulterman

• University of Tilburg Tilburg Law School, Tilburg, The Netherlands

  Willem J.M. Genugten

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