Launched in 1965, the Australian Year Book of International Law (AYBIL) is Australiaâs longest standing and most prestigious dedicated international law publication.
The Year Book aims to uniquely combine scholarly commentary with contributions from Australian government officials. Each volume contains a mix of scholarly articles, invited lectures, book reviews, notes of decisions by Australian and international courts, recent legislation, and collected Australian international law state practice.
It is a valuable resource for those working in the field of international law, including government officials, international organisation officials, non-government and community organisations, legal practitioners, academics and other researchers, as well as students studying international law, international relations, human rights and international affairs.
It focuses on Australian practice in international law and general international law, across a broad range of sub-fields including human rights, environmental law and legal theory, which are of interest to international lawyers worldwide. This special issue of the Australian Year Book of International Law is a collection of essays providing commentary on how international law relates to the different dimensions of situations unfolding around us. Written during school shut-downs, campus closure, border restrictions, rising global infection rates and ongoing uncertainty as to what would happen next, they are also valuable reflections in a time of great crisis: fitting perhaps for a discipline famously critiqued by Hilary Charlesworth as one of crisis, rather than situated in the everyday. At root, this collection go some way in analysing and answering the question of how, exactly, COVID-19 will impact on international law more generally.
Supply Chains, COVID-19 and the GATT Security Exception: Legal Limits of âPandemic Exceptionalismâ
âDavid Chieng
COVID-19 Border Closures: A Violation of Non-Refoulment Obligations in International Refugee and Human Rights Law?
âKate Ogg and Chanelle Taoi
International Refugee Law in Crisis: Islands, Incarceration and Neo-Refoulement during COVID-19
âJessica Hambly
The âInfodemicâ: Is International Law Ready to Combat Fake News in the Age of Information Disorder?
âHitoshi Nasu
Law of the Sea and the PandemicâHumanitarian Principles under Siege?
âJoanna Mossop
Seismic Shifts: The COVID-19 Pandemicâs Gendered Fault Lines and Implications for International Law
âShruti Rana
International Law of State Responsibility and COVID-19: An Ideology Critique
âRobert Knox and Ntina Tzouvala
State Responsibility, International Law and the COVID-19 Crisis
âSarah Heathcote
Does International Law Need a Conscience? Evaluating the IndiaâSouth Africa Proposal to Suspend Trips Obligations and the COVID-19 Vaccines
âDilan Thampapillai and Sam Wall
International Human Rights Law and the Protection of Medical Scientists against State Inference during COVID-19
âJonathan Liljeblad
Human Rights and Structural Inequality in the Shadow of COVID-19âA New Chapter in the Culture Wars?
âMatthew Zagor
COVID-19, International Human Rights Law and the State-Corporate Complex
âProfessor Jolyon Ford
The UN Security Councilâs Response to COVID-19: From the Centre to the Periphery?
âJeremy Farrall and Christopher Michaelsen
Articles
Drawing Lines at Sea: Australiaâs Five Decades of Maritime Boundary Delimitation
âAndreas Ãsthagen
Notes
Navigating Chinaâs â3Dâ Backlash against the International Legal Order: Adapting to Displacement, Disablement and Diversion
âDaniel Kang
Book Reviews: Edited by Amy Maguire
A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: The UN Human Rights Committeeâs Monitoring of ICCPR Rights
âPaul M Taylor (Dr Maria OâSullivan)
War and Peace: Alberico Gentili and the Early Modern Law of Nations
âValentina Vadi (Samuel Berhanu Woldemariam)
Freedom of Navigation and the Law of the Sea: Warships, States and the Use of Force
âCameron Moore (Donald R Rothwell)
Bringing International Fugitives to Justice: Extradition and Its Alternatives
âDavid A Sadoff (Lieutenant Colonel Joanna Guilfoyle)
Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Investment Law
âChristophe Geiger (ed) (Luke Hawthorne)
Fossil Fuel Subsidy ReformâAn International Law Response
âVernon JC Rive (Rafaela Oliari)
Regular Features
Cases before Australian Courts and Tribunals Concerning Questions of Public International Law 2020
âMary Crock, Rosemary Grey, Freya Appleford, Wendy Chen, Sarah Charak, Christian Cieplik, Anisha Gunawardhana, Jake Jerogin, Adam Liskowski, Jessica Mitchell, Olivia Morris, Anh-Tuan Nguyen, Bianca Tini-Brunozzi, Alexandra Touw and Kevin Zou
Cases before International Courts and Tribunals Concerning Questions of Public International Law Involving Australia 2020
âMary Crock, Rosemary Grey, Freya Appleford, Anisha Gunawardhana, Miranda Hutchesson, Jake Jerogin, Emma Kench, Maxine Lucy McHugh, Olivia Morris, Alexandra Touw and Kevin Zou
Australian Legislation Concerning Matters of International Law 2020
âKate OâConnell, Nish Perera, Keilin Anderson, Monique Andreatta, Chiara Angeloni, Asha Belkin, Loretta Benson, Dominica Condon, Simon Guthrie, Luke Hazleton, Hayley Keen, Guy Kelleher, Rhiannon Kerr, Annabelle LâEstrange, Alex Lia, Philip Matthews, Caitlin OâRourke, Laura Paavola, Emily Rowbotham, Jordan Tsirimokos, Lavanya Vasan and Fiona Yeh
Australian Practice in International Law 2020
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Treaty Action 2020 Table of Cases Table of Statutes Table of International Instruments
Those working in the field of international law, including government officials, international organisation officials, non-government and community organisations, legal practitioners, academics and other researchers, as well as students studying international law, international relations, human rights and international affairs.