South African Yearbook of International Law

South African Yearbook of International Law

ISSN: 0379-8895

Historical content up to September 2015. For the updated content subscribe to the Juta’s Law Journals collection.

Published by VerLoren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies, University of South Africa.

Publisher	Juta Law Publishing (Historical content up to Sept 2015)
Frequency	Annually
Coverage	Vol 29 2004 - Vol 38 2013
Accreditation(s)	Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)
Language	English
Journal Status	Not Active
Collection(s)	Law

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- 'Armed Attack' and article 51 of the UN charter : evolutions in customary law and practice, Tom Ruys : book review
  
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  The use of force by states in the pursuit of policy objectives remains a salient issue of the international system in our day and age, the legality of which continues to tax the minds of law advisers to states and international organisations, and of academics. The NATO intervention in Kosovo in 1999and the attack against Iraq by a United States-led coalition in 2003, resulted in a deep and rich debate on the legality of the use of force in academic circles and public fora. Belgian legal practitioner and academic Tom Ruys uses an equally seismic event, the 9/11 attacks on the United States, as point of departure for this work, based on his doctoral thesis. He looks at the use of force through the prism of article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which provides for the 'inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs.' The work aims to address the vexing questions of what constitutes an armed attack, and the relationship between article 51 and the general prohibition of inter-state use of force in article 2(4), and the relationship between article 51 and the right to self-defence in customary international law.
- International liability regime for biodiversity damage : the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur supplementary protocol, Akiho Shibata : book review
  
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  A landmark event that coincided with the adoption of the United Nations 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development was the signing ceremony for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) which entered into force on 29 December 1993. Considered an historic commitment by the international community to bring into operation an international legal instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of the earth's biological diversity and for the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the use of genetic resources, the convention's field of application was expanded, over time, by two additional protocols. In 2000 the Cartagena Protocol on Biodiversity was adopted and entered into force in 2003 with the aim of ensuring the safe handling, transport and use of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology. Article 27 of this Protocol instructed the Conference of the Parties (COP) under the CBD, and serving as the Meeting of the Parties (MOP) under the Protocol, to develop an international liability and redress regime for damage resulting from the transboundary movement of LMOs. The adoption of the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol to the CBD followed in 2010 to realise the instruction in article 27 of the Cartagena Protocol.
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South African Yearbook of International Law

Latest Articles

Literature

Multilateral treaties

Treaties and literature

'Armed Attack' and article 51 of the UN charter : evolutions in customary law and practice, Tom Ruys : book review

International liability regime for biodiversity damage : the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur supplementary protocol, Akiho Shibata : book review

Southern African events of international significance - 2012