Bücher der Reihe Beitrage zum auslandischen oeffentlichen Recht und Voelkerrecht

The volume contains the papers submitted to the International Symposium on "The Right to a Fair Trial" held at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.

Over the past two decades new international courts have entered the scene of international law and existing institutions have started to play more significant roles.

The interrelation between different fields of public international law has particular relevance for the systematic understanding of international law. The book contains a collection of essays on the law of the sea and its interdependencies with other current legal issues of global importance.

Based on these country-reports the volume traces new developments in the definition of international terrorism, deals with the issue of human rights protection under new anti-terrorist legislation and examines the recent developments towards international military action against terrorism.

This volume is an important contribution to both theoretical and practical approaches to solving contradictions and conflicts between the approaches, principles, objectives and regulations of international environmental agreements.

This book examines the mechanisms of debt relief for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries coordinated by the IMF and the World Bank. It includes a case study that illustrates the process and provides insight into the collaboration between creditors and debtors.

Young lawyers from different academic centres in Germany and Poland comment on the ongoing constitutional debate in the EU. Similarities as well as differences in the perspectives of an old EU Member State on the one hand and an EU Member State-to-be on the other hand are revealed.

The book provides an in-depth study of the legal aspects concerning the limits of the outer continental shelf. It addresses the interpretation and application of the respective rules and formulas.

Presents a discussion on whether the concept of solidarity functions as a structural principle of international law and to what extent it has become a full-fledged legal principle.

This book offers diverse perspectives on the Palestinian refugee problem and the possible ways to facilitate its resolution. The book provides a comprehensive picture of the various aspects of the problem and of the possible means of its resolution.

The contributions cover a wide range of contemporary issues of international law, including state responsibility, crisis management, unity of law, deep sea genetic resources, liability for environmental damage in Antarctica, human rights and intellectual property, and the protection of minorities.

How closely connected should church and state be? This book addresses these questions and more through a portrayal and comparison of the legal systems of Germany, Israel, France, and the United States. This thought-provoking book brings the often opposing demands of religious and secular freedoms into clear focus.

Presents a high-level scholarly discussion on whether the concept of solidarity functions as a structural principle of international law and to what extent it has become a full-fledged legal principle. This book examines normative operations of the principle of solidarity in different branches of international law.

The European Court of Human Rights is faced with a huge and ev- growing workload. This enormous caseload is both a testimony to the Court's success and of the considerable threat posed to the eff- tiveness of the protection of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights and its Protocols.

Professor Hermann Mosler, former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, former Judge and Vice President of the European Court of Human Rights, Judge of the Interna tional Court of Justice from 1976 to 1985, celebrated his 80th birthday at the end of the year 1992.

There are a plethora of international institutions, legal rules and global norms for the purpose of the international governance of science. The institutions and rules are to be interpreted in light of this freedom to guarantee the continuous existence of the knowledge-based society by means of a global administrative law of science.

This book collects the contributions to a conference of a group of young Polish and German public law scholars on the Constitutional Law of the European Union.

This volume contains the German National Reports on Public Law presented at the XVIIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Utrecht 2006.

Existing international law is capable to govern the "war on terror" also in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Contrary to the Israeli Supreme Court's view, international humanitarian law is not complemented by human rights law, but human rights law is - to some degree - complemented by international humanitarian law.

The book analyses how subsequent agreements and subsequent practice as defined in articles 31 and 32 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties have been applied in interpretative reality.

This volume contains the papers submitted to the interdisciplinary symposium Enforcing Environmental Standards: Economic Mechanisms as Viable Means? organized by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.

The International Association of Legal Science organized, in 1985, a col loquium on the International Enforcement of Human Rights. That fact cannot, however, be al lowed to prevent it from containing an acknowledgment of a debt of grati tude owed by the International Association of Legal Science.