The German Yearbook of International Law was founded in 1948 by Rudolph Laun and Hermann von Mangoldt as the "Jahrbuch für Internationales Recht". The Yearbook is currently edited by the Walther-Schücking-Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel, and it continues to follow in its tradition of offering learned contributions to the development of international law. Although German scholars were once the primary contributors to the Yearbook, today authors from throughout the world are welcomed to publish their English language, and occasionally French language, articles. This trend has helped the Yearbook further open itself to new readers. It is the goal of the Yearbook's editors to create a free forum for the discussion of international law that is available to the largest possible international audience. To this end, the Yearbook has remained progressive by discussing timely topics of interest and concern to international legal academics and practitioners. Its editors have also modified the Yearbook's approach to the field in recent years by offering a focus section in each volume that considers issues of particular importance to the further development of international law. The Yearbook has also been successful in informing the international law community with regard to research done in German academic institutions and in presenting international viewpoints on various topics to the German community. In addition, the Yearbook publishes annual reports on the work of international organizations that make significant contributions to international law. These reports are, for the most part, published in German and review the current activities of bodies such as the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Contributors to the Yearbook include the full spectrum of individuals involved in the discussion of international law, including academics, practitioners, and students of the subject. The editors, in compiling each volume of the Yearbook, recognize the importance of allowing for discussion of the full range of opinions on international legal issues and especially encourage the expression of new ideas and legal theories that encourage further growth in the field of international law.

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Professor Andreas Zimmermann is Professor of Law, University of Potsdam and Director Potsdam Centre of Human Rights; Dr. jur. (Heidelberg), LL.M. (Harvard); former Member of the German delegation to the Preparatory Committee and the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court; member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration; counsel in various cases before the ICJ; judge ad hoc in various cases before the European Court of Human Rights; arbitrator under the annex to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; member of the advisory board on UN issues of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Inhalt: C.-A. Fleischhauer, The United Nations at Fifty - A. Bleckmann, General Theory of Obligations under Public International Law - S. C. Neff, The Prerogatives of Violence. In Search of the Conceptual Foundations of Belligerents' Rights - S. Oeter, State Succession and the Struggle over Equity: Some Observations on the Laws of State Succession with Respect to State Property and Debts in Cases of Separation and Dissolution of States - D. König, Putting an End to an Endless Constitutional Debate? The Decision of the Federal Constitutional Court on the 'Out of Area' Deployment of German Armed Forces - E. Spiry, From 'Self-Determination' to a Right to 'Self-Development' for Indigenous Groups - M. A. Convery, The Privacy of Telephone Conversations under German Law and Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights: Improving Human Rights Enforcement through Domestic Decisions - U. Bernitz, The Incorporation of the European Human Rights Convention into Swedish Law. A Half Measure - R. Wolfrum, International Law on Migration Reconsidered Under the Challenge of New Population Movements - M. Hasenau, Changing Features of Economic Migration and International Law - O. Kimminich, The Conventions for the Prevention of Double Citizenship and their Meaning for Germany and Europe in an Era of Migration - K. Oellers-Frahm / A. Zimmermann, France's and Germany's Constitutional Changes and their Impact on Migration Law. Policy and Practice - G. L. Neuman, Recent Trends in United States Migration Control - A. C. Helton, The Legal Dimensions of Forced Migration in the Former Soviet Union - A. Böhmer, One Hundred Years: The Kiel Canal in International Law - D. Pardo López, Die Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshofes für Menschenrechte im Jahre 1994 - C. Feist, Die Tätigkeit der International Law Commission in den Jahren 1993 und 1994 - B. Buchenau / A. Stein, Die Tätigkeit des Ministerkomitees und der Parlamentarischen Versammlung des Europarates in den Jahren 1993 und 1994