The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence is a one-stop resource for all researchers studying international law generally or international tribunals specifically. The Yearbook is based on a cutting-edge project, unique in the panorama of international law yearbooks. Its project moves from a global perspective rather than a sectoral perspective or a spatial, national, or regional one. Its scope is that of annually monitoring the changes of international law and the transition to a global community, exploring its law (global constitutional principles), governance, and justice through a meaningful global jurisprudence.
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Yearbook has established itself as an authoritative source of reference on global legal issues and international jurisprudence. It includes analysis of the most significant global trends in a way that allows readers to monitor the development of the global legal order from several perspectives. The
Yearbook publishes annually in a volume of carefully chosen primary source material and corresponding expert commentary. The general editor, Professor Emeritus Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, employs her vast expertise in international law to select excerpts from important court opinions and to choose experts from around the world to contribute essay-guides, which illuminate those cases. Although the main focus is recent case law from the major international tribunals and regional courts, the first four parts of each year's edition feature expert articles by renowned scholars who address broader themes in current and future developments in international law and global policy.
The Global Community Yearbook has thus become not just an indispensable window to recent jurisprudence; the series also serves to prepare researchers for the issues facing emerging global law.
The 2022 edition both updates readers on the important work of longstanding international tribunals and introduces readers to more novel topics in international law. The
Yearbook continues to provide expert coverage of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) and diverse tribunals from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), to criminal tribunals such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT), to economically based tribunals such as ICSID and the WTO Dispute Resolution panel, to courts of human rights (ECtHR, IACtHR, ACtHPR). This edition also examines developments in the War in Ukraine and the consequences of the proliferation of disinformation, as well as international efforts to protect the cultural heritage of vulnerable populations. Scholars also explore the evidentiary value of reports drafted by NGOs and developments in reparations modalities, among other topics.
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Yearbook provides students, scholars, and practitioners alike a valuable combination of expert discussion and direct quotes from the court opinions to which that discussion relates, as well as an annual overview of the process of cross-fertilization between international courts and tribunals.
Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, Emeritus Professor of International Law, University of Salerno, is internationally renowned as a pioneer of global law and global community. As the architect of the integrative approach to global governance, she has offered creative solutions on the legal aspects of integrated decision-making processes. In her book The Pillars of Global Law (2008) she pioneered her vision of global constitutionalism based on the idea of securing globally shared governance in terms of a constitutional democracy, as well as global constitutional principles within the human community as a whole. In addition to her impressive Repertory of Decisions of the International Court of Justice (1947-1992), published in 1995, she is the author or editor of some 49 books and numerous academic journal articles. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Criminal Law Series and is included among the prominent internationalists who gave significant contributions to the matter in Who's Who in Public International Law. Her proudest accomplishment is having founded in 2001 The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence, of which she is General Editor.
