Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Indigenous Peoples' Right to Land -- I. Introduction -- II. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- 1. Article 1 -- 2. Article 27 -- III. ILO Convention No. 169 Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological Issues -- 3. Right of Participation -- 4. Land Rights -- IV. Sami Land Rights and the Proposed Finnmark Act -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Article 14 -- 3. Article 34 -- 4. Case Law -- 5. Consent of the Sami Parliament -- V. Conclusions -- Fact-Finding by UN Human Rights Complaints Bodies &amp -- #8211 -- Analysis and Suggested Reforms -- I. Introduction -- II. Forms of Human Rights Fact-Finding -- 1. Investigative Fact-Finding -- 2. Indirect Fact-Finding through the Examination of State Reports -- 3. Complaints-Based Fact-Finding -- III. Fact-Finding under the Treaty-Based Complaints Procedure -- 1. Pre-Admissibility Phase -- 2. Admissibility Phase -- 3. Merits -- IV. Fact-Finding by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention as Complaints Body -- V. Some Implications of Current Complaints-Based Fact-Finding -- 1. Fundamental Contradiction between Greater Judicialisation and Written Fact-Finding -- 2. Domestic Remedies: Between Usurpation and Deference -- 3. Delays due to Written Procedures -- 4. Defensive Strategies adopted by Complaints Bodies -- VI. Some Suggested Solutions -- 1. Intra-Institutional Solutions -- 2. Inter-Institutional Solutions -- VII. Conclusion -- Access to Medication as a Human Right -- I. Background -- 1. International Human Rights -- 2. Health and Human Rights -- II. The Interpretation of Human Rights Conventions -- III. Justiciability -- 1. Terminology -- 2. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Justiciable Rights -- IV. Conventions -- 1. ICESCR -- 2. The WHO -- 3. ICCPR.

4. Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- 5. Other Agreements -- V. General International Law -- 1. Customary International Law -- 2. General Principles -- VI. Conclusion -- U.S. Bilateral Non-Surrender Agreements and Article 98 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court: An Exercise in the Law of Treaties -- I. Introduction -- II. U.S. Objections to the International Criminal Court and Efforts to Prevent the Exercise of Jurisdiction by the Court over U.S. nationals -- 1. U.S. Objections to the ICC -- 2. Activities undertaken by the U.S. to exempt U.S. Nationals from the Jurisdiction of the Court -- III. The Consistency of Bilateral Non-Surrender Agreements with the ICC Statute -- 1. Article 98 in the Context of the ICC Statute -- 2. Article 98 (1): State or Diplomatic Immunity -- 3. Article 98 (2): Requirement of Consent of a Sending State -- 4. Preliminary Conclusions -- IV. Consequences of the Inconsistency in the Light of General International Law -- 1. Questions of the Law of Treaties concerning Conflicting Obligations -- 2. Questions of State Responsibility -- V. Concluding Remarks -- The True Challenge to the United Nations System of the Use of Force: The Failures of Kosovo and Iraq and the Emergence of the African Union -- I. Introduction -- II. Established Parameters of the Use of Force -- 1. Self-Defence (Article 51) -- 2. Security Council Mandate (Article 42) -- 3. Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter -- III. Ad Hoc Use of Force beyond the United Nations System -- 1. Kosovo &amp -- #8211 -- Humanitarian Intervention -- 2. Iraq &amp -- #8211 -- Pre-emptive Self-Defence -- IV. Decisive Factors in the African move away from the United Nations System -- 1. ECOWAS in Liberia and Sierra Leone -- 2. Rwanda and the Failure of the UN Security Council -- V. The African Union Regime for Peace and Security.

1. The Peace and Security Council -- 2. The Peace and Security Council in Conjunction with … -- VI. Institutionalized Use of Force beyond the United Nations System -- 1. Article 4 (h) &amp -- #8211 -- Interventions in Respect of Grave Circumstances -- 2. Article 4 (j) &amp -- #8211 -- Intervention in Order to Restore Peace and Security -- VII. Relationship between the African Union and the United Nations -- VIII. Conclusion -- The Direct Administration of Territories by the United Nations and its Member States in the Post Cold War Era: Legal Bases and Implications for National Law -- I. Introduction -- II. United Nations-Authorized Administrations in the Post Cold War Era -- 1. The Direct Co-Administration of Territories by the United Nations -- 2. The Direct Administration of Territories by the United Nations -- 3. The Direct Administration of Territories by United Nations Member States -- III. Legal Basis for Direct (Co-) Administrations -- 1. The Nature of the Implied and Customary Powers of the United Nations -- 2. Implied and Customary Powers as a Basis for the (Co-) Administration of Territories? -- IV. Additional Legal Bases for the Direct Administrations of Territories -- 1. Automatic Succession of Human Rights Treaties? -- 2. The Law of Occupation? -- V. The Implications of the (Co-) Administrations for the Domestic Legal Order -- 1. The Dual Character of Directly Applicable Decisions -- 2. The Potential Inalterability of Directly Applicable Decisions -- VI. Conclusion -- Of Contracts and Treaties in the Global Market -- I. The Paradoxes of Global Change in the Law -- II. The Internationalization of Private Contracts -- III. The Internationalization of State Contracts -- IV. The Globalization of Foreign Investment Law -- V. "Umbrella Clauses" as a Mechanism of Further Integration between Contracts and Treaties.

VI. The Increasing Interaction of Public Law and Private Rights in the Light of Legitimate Expectation -- VII. Global Protection under International Law -- Organizing for Influence: Developing Countries, Non-Traditional Intellectual Property Rights and the World Intellectual Property Organization -- I. Introduction -- II. International Trade, Institutional Convergence and Poverty Reduction -- III. Working Typology of Successful Developing Country Negotiating Strategies -- IV. WIPO, Developing Countries and Intellectual Property -- V. WIPO and Non-Traditional Intellectual Property Rights -- VI. Conclusion -- Old Laws, New Wars: Jus ad Bellum in an Age of Terrorism -- I. Introduction -- II. The Basics: The U.N. Charter and Jus ad Bellum prior to 9/11 -- III. Operation Enduring Freedom -- 1. Anticipatory Self-Defense -- 2. Reprisal -- 3. State Responsibility and Vicarious Liability -- 4. Toward a New Concept for Self-Defense&amp -- #8212 -- Additional Factors -- IV. Operation Iraqi Freedom -- 1. Legal Authority for Operation Iraqi Freedom&amp -- #8212 -- the Technical Argument -- 2. Operation Iraqi Freedom and Self-Defense -- V. The U.S. 2002 National Security Strategy and the Preemption Doctrine -- VI. Humanitarian Interventions -- VII. Moving Forward -- VIII. Conclusion -- Book Reviews.

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