Resolving Conflicts in the Law

Essays in Honour of Lea Brilmayer

Resolving Conflicts in the Law, edited by Chiara Giorgetti and Natalie Klein, honours the work of Professor Lea Brilmayer whose intellectual contribution and influence span scholarly debate and the practice of both public and private international law. The book’s essays are from leading international law scholars and practitioners in the field—including Michael Reisman, Stephen Schwebel, Erin O’Connor O’Hara, John Crook, Philippa Webb, Kermit Roosevelt, Harold Koh—and reflect on contemporary and cutting-edge questions of international law. Each contribution enriches and advances scholarly debate on topics of law for which Lea Brilmayer is well known, including: international dispute settlement; conflicts of law; international relations theory; secession and territorial and maritime sovereignty.

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Chiara Giorgetti, Laurea in Giurisprudenza(Bologna), MSc(LSE), LLM JSD(Yale) is Professor of Law at Richmond Law School, where she teaches and researches on international dispute settlement, international investment arbitration and state sovereignty. She authored and edited several books. She clerked at the ICJ. Natalie Klein, BA(Juris) LLB(Hons)(Adelaide) LLM JSD (Yale) is Professor at UNSW Sydney Faculty of Law where she researches and teaches in law of the sea as well as international dispute settlement. She was formerly Dean of Macquarie Law School, Australia.
Acknowledgements
Professor Lea Brilmayer: Biographical Note
Professor Lea Brilmayer: Selected Publications
Notes on Contributors

1 “This is your wake-up call”: Lea Brilmayer’s Impact as a Scholar and Teacher
 Chiara Giorgetti and Natalie Klein

2 Lea Brilmayer: How Contacts Count
 Harold Hongju Koh

3 Professor Brilmayer and the Third Restatement
 Kermit Roosevelt III

4 Choice-of-Law Rules as Geographic Scope Limitations
 Carlos M. Vázquez

5 Forum non Conveniens: Recent Developments at the Intersection of Public and Private International Law
 Philippa Webb

6 Meddling in Internal Affairs: The Boundaries of Non-Intervention in a World without Boundaries
 W. Michael Reisman

7 Jurisprudential Space Junk: Treaties and New Technologies
 Rebecca Crootof  

8 Recognition, Rewards, and Regime Change
 William J. Moon

9 Functional State Recognition and International Economic Law
 Kathleen Claussen

10 Why Sub-State Groups Are Endowed with Rights
 Laura S. Underkuffler

11 Why International Organizations are Accountable to You
 Eyal Benvenisti

12 Are International Mass Claims Commissions the Right Mechanism to Provide Redress to Individuals Injured under International Law?
 Chiara Giorgetti

13 Land and Sea: Resolving Contested Land and Disappearing Land Disputes under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
 Natalie Klein

14 Professor Lea Brilmayer and the Quest for Evidence from Space
 John Crook

15 The Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission’s Partial Awards on Eritrea’s and Ethiopia’s Diplomatic Claims
 Robert G. Volterra

16 The Misinterpretation and Misapplication of the Minimum Standard of International Law
 Stephen M. Schwebel

17 Conflict of Laws: A Recipe for Transformative Contributions
 Erin O’Hara O’Connor
Relevant to academic libraries, postgraduate students and practitioners in the areas of public international law, conflicts of law, international dispute settlement, law of the sea, territorial sovereignty, secession, laws of war.
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