The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2015

The Global Community Yearbook is a one-stop resource for all researchers studying international law generally or international tribunals specifically. The Yearbook has established itself as an authoritative source of reference on global legal issues and international jurisprudence. It includes analysis of the most significant global trends in a way that allows readers to monitor the development of the global legal order from several perspectives. The Global Community Yearbook publishes annually in a volume of carefully chosen primary source material and corresponding expert commentary. The general editor, Professor Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, employs her vast expertise in international law to select excerpts from important court opinions and to choose experts from around the world to contribute essay-guides, which illuminate those cases. Although the main focus is recent case law from the major international tribunals and regional courts, the first four parts of each year’s edition features expert articles by renowned scholars who address broader themes in current and future developments in international law and global policy, themes that appear throughout the case law of the many courts covered by the series as a whole. The Global Community Yearbook has thus become not just an indispensable window to recent jurisprudence: the series now also serves to prepare researchers for the issues facing emerging global law.

The 2015 edition of The Global Community Yearbook both updates readers on the important work of long-standing international tribunals and introduces readers to more novel topics in international law. The Yearbook has established itself as an authoritative resource for research and guidance on the jurisprudence of both U.N.-based tribunals and regional courts. The 2015 edition continues to provide expert coverage of the Court of Justice of the European Union, and diverse tribunals from the criminal tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, to economically based tribunals such as ICSID and the WTO Dispute Resolution panel. This edition includes expert introductory essays by prominent scholars in the realm of international law, on topics as diverse and current as the fusion of eastern and western civil disobedience to the concept of jus cogens. Included in the 2015 edition, researchers will find detailed guidance on a rich diversity of legal topics, from the concept of universal jurisdiction over international crimes and the increased push for transparency in resolution of international economic disputes to the issue of religion and multiculturalism in Europe through a focus on Islam. This edition also provides students, scholars, and practitioners alike a valuable combination of expert discussion and direct quotes from the court opinions to which that discussion relates.

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Emeritus Professor Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo is an internationally recognized expert in international law generally and in international criminal law specifically. She is included among the prominent internationalists, who gave significant contributions to the matter, in Who’s Who in PublicInternational Law. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Criminal Law Series. In addition to her work as professor at the University of Salerno and as General Editor of The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence, she has edited a Repertory of Decisionsof the International Court of Justice (1947-1992) and has authored numerous articles and books, among them a monograph whose English title, in translation, would be International Terrorism & Collective Security. She is a key figure in the field of Global Law in which she is regarded as a pioneer of numerous creative and innovative solutions, above all in her book The Pillars of Global Law. In other writings, Professor Ziccardi has made influential insights into the increasingly accepted principle of Customary International Law, such as the principle of legality, in her book UnlawfulTerritorial Situation in International Law (English title, in translation).