Yearbook of International Disaster Law

Giulio Bartolini, Department of Law, Roma Tre University. Associate professor of international law, lecturer of “International Disaster Law” at the Geneva Academy of IHL and HRL, responsible of the Jean Monnet Module “Disseminating Disaster Law for Europe” and Director of courses on “International Disaster Law” in cooperation with the IFRC and the Sanremo International Institute of Humanitarian Law. Dug Cubie, School of Law, University College Cork. Building on over 10 years’ practice in humanitarian action, Dug has written widely on disaster law, climate migration and the law of humanitarian assistance (The International Legal Protection of Persons in Humanitarian Crises, Hart, 2017). Marlies Hesselman, LL.M./Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law, Department of Transboundary Legal Studies, University of Groningen is a lecturer in international law with a wide publication record in the area of international human rights law, disaster management, climate change and essential public services access. Anastasia Telesetsky, J.D. University of California Berkeley, former chair of American Society of International Law’s Disaster Law Interest Group with a research focus on environmental disaster risk reduction (International Law of Disaster Relief, Cambridge, 2014).

Editorial: Issue no. 3 (2020)


Acknowledgments





Thematic Section: Health and International Disaster Law





Global Obligations to Ensure the Right to Health: Strengthening Global Health Governance to Realise Human Rights in Global Health


 Benjamin Mason Meier, Judith Bueno de Mesquita, and Caitlin R. Williams





Regulating Digital and AI Technologies: Lessons from the Digitisation of Contact-Tracing during the Covid-19 Pandemic


 Lorna McGregor





Africa and Pandemics: Towards a Regional Health Security Regime


 Mutoy Mubiala





Regime Interaction and the Protection of Refugees during COVID-19


 Thomas Mulder, Gabrielle Simm and Sarah Williams





Realising the Right to Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Antidote to the Pandemic and the Catalyst for Fulfilling a Long-Neglected Social Right?


 Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton





Pandemic Risk and International Law: Laying the Foundations for Proactive State Obligations


 Pedro A. Villarreal





On Sea Monsters and Sandcastles: Revisiting International Legal Frameworks Regarding Public Health and Human Rights in Global Health Emergencies


 Alicia Ely Yamin, Stefania Negri and Roojin Habibi





General Section





International Cooperation and the Protection of Persons Affected by Sea-Level Rise: Drawing the Contours of the Duties of Non-Affected States


 Patrícia Galvão Teles, Claire Duval and Victor Tozetto da Veiga





Vessel for Drowning Persons? The Standard-Setting Potential of International Human Rights Litigation in Addressing Climate Displacement


 Margaretha Wewerinke and Melina Antoniadis





The International Labour Organisation and Disasters. The Contribution of ILO Recommendation No. 205 on ‘Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience’ to International Disaster Law


 Claire La Hovary





Technological Hazards During Armed Conflicts: The Case of the SAFER Oil Tanker in Yemen


 Mara Tignino





Rising from the Ashes, Once Again? The Beirut Port Explosion and International Disaster Law


 Silvia Venier





Vulnerability, Arctic Indigenous Groups and Oil Spills: Potential Contributions to the Work of the Arctic Council


 Giovanna Maria Frisso





The Role of Disasters in Investment Arbitration


 Rhys Carvosso





International Disaster Law in Practice





United Nation Bodies (2020)


 Emanuele Sommario





UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (2020)


 Marie Aronsson-Storrier





Global Non-State Actors (2020)


 Tommaso Natoli





Asia (2020)


 Emika Tokunaga





Africa and MENA Regions (2020)


 Nicholas Wasonga Orago





Europe (2020)


 Federico Casolari





North America, Central America and the Caribbean (2020)


 Kirsten Nakjavani Bookmiller





South America (2020)


 Hugo Cahueñas





Pacific (2020)


 Laura Braid and W. John Hopkins





Polar Regions (2020)


 Stefan Kirchner





International Disaster Law at the Domestic Level: The Philippines


 Pauline Agatha Caspellan





Climate Change Law (2020)


 Rosemary Lyster





International Human Rights Law (2020)


 Marlies Hesselman





Regional Human Rights Bodies (2020)


 Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani





International Cultural Heritage Law (2020)


 Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani





International Economic Law (2020)


 Giovanna Adinolfi and Giulio Bartolini





International Environmental Law (2020)


 Sophie Gambardella





International Health Law (2020)


 Stefania Negri





Law of the Sea (2020)


 Anastasia Telesetsky





Migration/Refugee Law (2020)


 Matthew Scott





Space Law (2020)


 Diego Zannoni





Sources of IDL: The New IFRC Disaster Law Database


 Dug Cubie





Review of Books (2020) (Edited by Tommaso Natoli)





Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani, ‘International Law in Disaster Scenarios – Applicable Rules and Principles’ (Springer 2021)


 Lucia Bakošová





Matthew Scott, ‘Climate Change, Disasters, and the Refugee Convention’ (Cambridge University Press 2020)


 Jean-François Durieux





Lavanya Rajamani, ‘Innovation and Experimentation in the International Climate Change Regime’ (Brill 2020)


 Feja Lesniewska





Stefania Negri (ed), ‘Environmental Health in International and EU Law: Current Challenges and Legal Responses’ (Routledge-Giappichelli, 2019)


 Margherita Melillo





Jan McDonald, Jeffery McGee and Richard Barnes (eds), ‘Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts’ (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2020)


 Nengye Liu





Bibliographical Index of International Disaster Law (2020)


 Edited by Giulio Bartolini


Index