Furthering the Frontiers of International Law: Sovereignty, Human Rights, Sustainable Development

Niels Blokker is Professor of International Institutional Law at Leiden University (Schermers Chair) and was previously Deputy Legal Adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. Together with the late Henry Schermers, he has published International Institutional Law (Brill/Nijhoff, 6th ed. 2018). Together with Nico Schrijver, he has edited The Security Council and the Use of Force (Brill/Nijhoff, 2005), Immunities of International Organizations (Brill/Nijhoff, 2015) and Elected Members of the Security Council (Brill/Nijhoff, 2020). His most recent publication is Saving Future Generations from the Scourge of War (Brill/Nijhoff, 2021). He is co-founder and co-editor in chief of the journal International Organizations Law Review (Brill/Nijhoff).Daniëlla Dam-de Jong is Associate professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University and Academic Director of its LL.M. Reg. programme in Public International Law. She wrote her PhD dissertation under the supervision of Professor Nico Schrijver and Professor Larissa van den Herik (Leiden University, 2013). Her monograph International Law and Governance of Natural Resources in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations (CUP, 2015) has received a research prize by the Foundation Praemium Erasmianum.Vid Prislan is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), Amsterdam Law School, where he also teaches in the Master’s programme in International and European Law. Vid conducts research in the areas of foreign investment law and investment arbitration, and has a particular interest in the interactions between domestic courts and investment tribunals. Prior to joining ACIL, Vid was a doctoral researcher at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. His dissertation, which addresses the role of domestic courts in investment arbitration, was supervised by Nico Schrijver.

• PrefaceNotes on Contributors1 Withdrawing from International OrganizationsNiels Blokker2 Sovereignty as ResponsibilityExercising Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources in the Interest of Current and Future GenerationsDaniëlla Dam-de Jong3 Non-State Actors and Human Rights ObligationsPerspectives from International Investment Law and ArbitrationEric De Brabandere and Larissa van den Herik4 Global Threats and Fragmented ResponsesClimate Change and the Extra-Territorial Scope of Human Rights ObligationsHelen Duffy5 What Is a State in International Law? How Is This to Be Determined?John Dugard6 The Role of Customary International Law as a Tool for the Progressive Development of International Criminal LawUndermining the Sovereignty of States for the Sake of Humanity?Robert Heinsch7 The Responsibility of the Netherlands for Its Nationals AbroadErik Koppe8 How about Consolidating the Frontiers but Furthering the Effectiveness of Human Rights?Rick Lawson9 Shifting the Frontiers of International Human Rights LawTitia Loenen10 Waters RisingPossible Effects of Sea Level Rise on the Legal Regime of Baselines and Delineation of Maritime ZonesXuechan Ma11 The International Criminal Court and human SecurityLooking Ahead Complementarity?Andrea Marrone12 The Establishment of Flight Information Regions and Air Defence Identification ZonesAir Law Is Air Law and Maritime Law Is Maritime Law; Shall the Twain Ever Meet?Pablo Mendes De Leon13 Maritime Security and Sustainable Development and the Coastal Communities of IndiaAn Empirical AnalysisBimal N. Patel14 To Speculate or Not? On Determining Adequate Remedies for Denial of Justice and Other Judicial WrongsVid Prislan15 Human Rights Law and the Return of Stolen AssetsCecily Rose16 Principles for the Sustainable Governance of shared Natural ResourcesNadia Sánchez Castillo-Winckels17 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Customary International LawWilliam A. Schabas18 World Law’s Modern Master BuildersOtto Spijkers19 The World in Disarray. Great-Power Competition and the Decline of MultilateralismAlfred van Staden20 How Can We Justify International Criminal Justice?Carsten Stahn21 China’s Perception of State Sovereignty in International Dispute SettlementLinlin Sun22 Public Administration and Ordinary VirtuesThe Venice Principles on the Ombudsman InstitutionLuc Verhey23 The Right to Marry as a Right to Equality About Same-Sex Couples, the Phrase “men and women”, and the travaux préparatoires of the Universal DeclarationKees Waaldijk