PART Ⅰ Trends and perspectives 3
1 Shifting paradigms of international law and world order in an era of historical transition&EDWARD MCWHINNEY 3
2 Towards an international law of co-progressiveness&SIENHO YEE 18
PART Ⅱ Sources of international law 43
3 The contribution of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to the ascertainment of general principles of law recognized by the community of nations&ANTONIO CASSESE 43
4 Opinio juris: a key concept in international law that is much misunderstood&BINCHENG 56
5 Judicial decisions as a source of international law and the defence of duress in murder or other cases arising from armed conflict&BING BING JIA 77
PART Ⅲ Substance and theories of international law 99
6 The concept of “war crimes”&GEORGES ABI-SAAB 99
7 A new area of international law: the protection of maritime cultural property&KAARE BANGERT 119
8 IMF governance, the Asian financial crisis, and the new international financial architecture&BARTRAM S.BROWN 131
9 Passing the baton: the delegation of Security Council enforcement powers from Kuwait to Kosovo&SIMON CHESTERMAN 148
10 State responsibility for violations of human rights&WLADYSLAW CZAPLINSKI 171
11 Russia and international human rights&GENNADY M.DANILENKO 182
12 Responsibility of states and individuals for international crimes&VLADIMIR-DJURO DEGAN 202
13 China and the principle of sovereign equality in the 21st century&GAO FENG 224
14 The legality of NATO's military action in Kosovo: is there a right of humanitarian intervention?&CHRISTINE GRAY 240
15 Immunity and “Double criminality”: General Augusto Pinochet before the House of Lords&JOHN R.W.D.JONES 254
16 The use of the term “（Public） Morality” in the European Convention on Human Rights:a brief history&SANTIAGO LEGARRE 268
17 International legal issues arising in the Kosovo crisis&VAUGHAN LOWE 278
18 Content and contours of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes&JORDAN J.PAUST 289
19 The legal qualification of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia: double standards or new horizons for international humanitarian law?&MARCO SASSOLI 307
20 Monitoring the convention against racial discrimination in the post-Cold War context&THEO VAN BOVEN 334
21 General principles of law regarding the protection of minorities&BUDISLAV VUKAS 348
22 Sovereignty in global economic integration:a Chinese perspective&GUIGUO WANG 357
23 The doctrine of command responsibility as applied to civilian leaders: the ICTR and the Kayishema case&ZHU WENQI 373
PART Ⅳ Courts and adjudication 387
24 The international protection of human rights:experiences ywith the European Court of Human Rights&RUDOLF BERNHARDT 387
25 The International Court of Justice and human rights in the 1990s - linking peace and justice through the right to life&ROSS GARLAND 398
26 The supervision of the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights&RONALD ST.J.MACDONALD 409
27 Judicial procedures and the protection of human rights:the European context&PETER MALANCZUK 423
28 Challenges to indictments in international criminal trials&RICHARD MAY 433
29 Contributions of the International Criminal Tribunals to the development of substantive international humanitarian law&GABRIELLE KIRK MCDONALD 446
30 The competence of a tribunal to deny its existence&MOHAMED SHAHABUDDEEN 473
31 The ICJ's jurisdiction in the Legality of Use of Force cases&JIANMING SHEN 480
Appendix Jus cogens and international law&LI HAOPEI 499
Index 523