Mar 18, 2022 | Book Reviews, Edition 27
Anyone who has researched, studied or practised in the field of international criminal law will be familiar with Triffterer’s Commentary on the Rome Statute. First published in 1999, the volume is now in its fourth edition, and is the first with Kai Ambos as sole...
Dec 19, 2021 | Edition 26, Editions, Editorials
Many of our readers are winding down for the year with their summer reading. We hope that this edition’s Perspectives will become valued additions to your lists. This month we have Monique Cormier, John Morss and Alberto Alvarez-Jimenez. ANZSIL Perspectives has grown...
Dec 19, 2021 | AUKUS, Edition 26, Editions, Perspectives
We don’t yet know very much about the AUKUS trilateral security partnership beyond the announcement that its ‘first major initiative… will be to deliver a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Australia’. This news triggered a wave of commentary on the diplomatic,...
Dec 19, 2021 | Book Reviews, Edition 26, Editions
At some 1100 pages plus, Uttermost Parts is a heavyweight contribution in several senses of the word. This review will broach the following questions: What is Koskenniemi trying to achieve, and has he succeeded? What do writers and teachers of international law...
Dec 19, 2021 | Edition 26, Editions, Perspectives, Treaty Interpretation
“The written word is unalterable”. F. Kafka. The Trial The New Zealand Supreme Court (NZSC) in Bathurst Resources Limited v L & M Coal Holdings Limited recently explored the issue of evidence of subsequent conduct in the interpretation of contracts. Generally, the...
Nov 10, 2021 | Edition 25, Perspectives
Caroline and Alberto join the editorial reviewers Dr. Caroline Foster is Acting Director at the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law (NZCEL) at the University of Auckland Law Faculty. She recently completed a new monograph Global...