Wednesday, April 25, 2018

New Volume: South African Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the South African Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 41, 2016) is out. Contents include:
  • Articles
    • Alabo Ozubide, How the Use of Force against Non-State Actors Transformed the Law of Self-defence after 9/11
    • Olufemi Oluyeju & Michael Mafu, The African Growth and Opportunity Act: A Poisoned Chalice Handed to South Africa?
    • James Fowkes, Armed Conflicts and the Lex Specialis Debate in Africa: lmplications of the Emerging Women’s and Children’s-rights Regimes
    • Patrick Vrancken, Africa’s Integrated Maritime Strategy and the Law of the Sea
    • Emma Charlene Lubaale, The First Cultural-Property Conviction at the ICC: An Analysis of the Al Mahdi Judgement
  • International Law in Practice
    • Dire Tladi, Progressively Developing and Codifying International Law: The Work of the International Law Commission in its 68th Session
    • Sandea de Wet, Highlights from the Office of the Chief State Law Advisor (International Law)
  • Notes and Comments
    • George Barrie, A Synopsis of the International Law Commission’s Final Report on the Obligation to Extradite or Prosecute
  • Comments on the Al Bashir cases
    • Mia Swart & Chelsea Ramsden, A Shrewd Awakening: The Mobilisation of South African Civil Society in the Al Bashir Matter
    • Hendrik Johannes Lubbe, Democratic Alliance v Minister of International Relations and Cooperation 2017 (3) SA 212 (GP)