International Law for the 21st Century

This book brings together contributions from leading international lawyers from different generations, countries, and substantive areas of specializationfrom public international law generalists to regional experts, reflecting on topics currently shaping the future of international law towards which Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade made an enduring contribution.

A generalist, Cançado Trindade is arguably the highest exponent of public international lawyer to emerge so far from Latin America. A seating judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the time of his passing, he was a Member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law (since 2004) and a Member of the prestigious Institute of International Law (since 1997). He was a judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for many years, and its president (elected 1999, re-elected 2002). During that time he contributed to some of the most important jurisprudence delivered by the Inter-American Court, which became clearly influential in the development of international law as we know it today.

While at the ICJ, Cançado Trindade was what Justice Bader Ginsburg was to the US Supreme Court: the Great Dissenter. He wrote for future generations of international law scholars and his Dissenting Opinions aspired to one day become the dominant view. He delivered the General Course on Public International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2005, International Law for Humankind: Towards a New Jus Gentium . His critical thinking has made an important contribution to the field of international law and inspired new generations of international law practitioners and scholars.

This book will be an important reference for practitioners, academics, researchers, university students and international law specialists working in international courts and tribunals with issues of international justice.

Monica Feria-Tinta is a barrister at Twenty Essex in London, United Kingdom.

Collates authoritative views of sitting judges, professors and leading advocates in international law Tackles several cutting-edge topics in international law, i.a. climate change and enforcement of erga omnes obligations The contributors reflect a diversity of perspective both in terms of gender and region

Autorentext

Monica Feria-Tinta is a barrister at Twenty Essex in London, United Kingdom.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. A.A. Cançado Trindade: The Great Dissenter.- Chapter 2. The Pursuit of a Universal Juridical Conscience and an International Law for Humankind - An Interview with A.A. Cançado Trindade.- Chapter 3. The Legacy of Cançado Trindade: Revisiting Tradition to Accommodate the Future of International Law?.- Chapter 4. The Idea of Progress in International Law: Grotius and Human Conscience as a Source of International Law.- Chapter 5. Obligations Erga Omnes: Their March towards the Institutions.- Chapter 6. Third-party Interventions in the International Court of Justice.- Chapter 7. The Interpretation of Human Rights Treaties by the International Court of Justice.- Chapter 8. The International Court of Justice and Climate Change.- Chapter 9. The Entitlement of Victims to Compensation for Their Injury.- Chapter 10. Compensation in Congo v. Uganda.- Chapter 11. Literature in the Separate Reasoned Votes of Cançado Trindade in the Inter- American Courtof Human Rights: From violence, Oblivion and Formalism to Memory, Justice and Law.- Chapter 12. Title to be confirmed.- Chapter 13. Title to be confirmed.- Chapter 14. Title to be confirmed.- Chapter 15. Title to be confirmed.- Chapter 16. Title to be confirmed.- Chapter 17. Title to be confirmed.- Bibliography.