From Bilateralism to Community Interest: Essays in Honour of Bruno Simma
Ulrich Fastenrath, Rudolf Geiger, Daniel-Erasmus Khan, Andreas Paulus, Sabine von Schorlemer, and Christoph Vedder
Abstract
This Festschrift, dedicated to Judge Bruno Simma, traces the development of international law from regulating bilateral state-to-state relationships towards strengthening the entire international community by protecting human security, the global environment, and human rights. It provides both theoretical and practical insights into these sometimes conflicting goals, their basis in international law, and the role played by international institutions charged with upholding these values and interests. The work thus examines the mechanism by which international law contributes to the realization ... More
This Festschrift, dedicated to Judge Bruno Simma, traces the development of international law from regulating bilateral state-to-state relationships towards strengthening the entire international community by protecting human security, the global environment, and human rights. It provides both theoretical and practical insights into these sometimes conflicting goals, their basis in international law, and the role played by international institutions charged with upholding these values and interests. The work thus examines the mechanism by which international law contributes to the realization not only of individual State interests, but the interests of the international community as a whole. From this vantage point, it looks at the various functions that international law fulfils in the international community, from law-making and institution-building towards adjudication and the securing of human rights. Taken together, the chapters paint a detailed, but nevertheless comprehensive picture of the realization of community interest in contemporary international law. As professor and judge, Bruno Simma has contributed to all of these tasks: providing ground-breaking theoretical work, serving in the International Law Commission and in the Committee for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, and finally, as a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Keywords:
Judge Bruno Simma,
international law,
human security,
global environment,
human rights,
international community,
International Law Commission
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199588817 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2011 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199588817.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Ulrich Fastenrath, Editor
Professor of Public Law, European Union Law, and Public International Law, Technische Universitat Dresden
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Rudolf Geiger, Editor
Professor Emeritus of Public, European, and International Law, University of Leipzig
Daniel-Erasmus Khan, Editor
Professor of Public Law, European Law, and International Law, University of Bundeswehr, Munich
Andreas Paulus, Editor
Judge, Germany's Constitutional Court
Sabine von Schorlemer, Editor
Professor of Public International Law, European Law, and International Relations, Technische Universitat Dresden
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Christoph Vedder, Editor
Professor of Public Law, Public International, and European Law, University of Augsburg
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