This book is the inaugural edition of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law. The Yearbook is a necessary and timely publication that provides a forum for critical discourse on developments in international law, particularly where this has relevance for Nigeria, Africa and its people including those in the diaspora.
The articles in this first volume explore topics under the following themes: International Law and Regional Systems, Contemporary Challenges/Emerging Issues, Criminal Law and Natural Resources/Environmental Law. There is also a section, which provides a comprehensive review of key decisions in African and International Courts/Tribunals.
Contributors to this edition are international law jurists from across the world, including eminent judges of international tribunals, leading academics and an international diplomat.
Part I: International Law and Regional Systems: Compliance With Judgments And Decisions The Experience of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: A Reassessment by Ant?nio Augusto Can?ado Trindade.- Part II: Contemporary Challenges/Emerging Issues: Responding to Terrorism: Definition And Other Action by David Baragwanath.- The Evolution of The Status of the Individual Under International Law by Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko.- Admission into Diplomatic Buildings as an Alternative or Substitute to Diplomatic Asylum? by P?ter Kov?cs and Tam?s ?d?ny.- International Law and Daunting Contemporary Crises to Human Security and the Rule of Law by Patricia OBrien.- Interrogating Colonialism: Bakassi, the Colonial Question and the Imperative of Exorcising the Ghost of EurocentrlĂL