Issue Archive

Melbourne Journal of International Law

Volume 9

October 2008

Issue 2

Articles  
Voluntary Human Shields, Direct Participation in Hostilities and the
International Humanitarian Law Obligations of States
Rewi Lyall

Quo Vadit Jus ad Bellum?: A Legal Analysis of Turkey’s Military
Operations against the PKK in Northern Iraq

Tom Ruys
Features

Torture Team: The Responsibility of Lawyers for Abusive Interrogation

Philippe Sands QC

Torture Team: Human Rights, Lawyers, Interrogations and the
‘War on Terror’ — A Response to Philippe Sands

Malcolm Fraser AC CH
Case Note
R (on the Application of Al-Jedda) v Secretary of State for Defence:
Human Rights in a Multi-Level System of Governance and the
Internment of Suspected Terrorists
Christian Tomuschat
Commentaries

The Sinking of the Strait: The Implications of Climate Change
for Torres Strait Islanders’ Human Rights Protected by the ICCPR

Owen Cordes-Holland
Indigenous Struggles in Standard-Setting: The United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Megan Davis

Corporate Accountability under the Alien Tort Claims Act

Hugh King

Climate Change and Peak Oil As Threats to International Peace
and Security: Is It Time for the Security Council to Legislate?

Shirley V Scott
Book Review

Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks by Leigh Sales

Sir Anthony Mason and Geoffrey Lindell

Foreign Investment, Human Rights and the Environment:
A Perspective from South Asia on the Role of Public International
Law for Development by Shyami Fernando Puvimanasinghe

Priscilla Schwartz

New Publications in International Law