Yearbook of International Disaster Law

Giulio Bartolini, Department of Law, Roma Tre University, is a professor of international law, lecturer of “International Disaster Law” at the Geneva Academy of IHL and HRL, 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, has over 10 years’ practice in humanitarian action, and 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., is a Professor at Cal Poly and 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. 4 (2021)

Acknowledgments



Thematic Section: Regionalisation and Localisation of International Disaster Law



YIDL Dialogues with Practitioners: Ms Adelina Kamal – Former Executive Director of the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA Centre)

 A Dialogue with Tommaso Natoli and Dug Cubie



Regionalism and Disaster Law

 Christy Shucksmith-Wesley and Nigel D. White



International Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Law Made in the Arctic

 Stefan Kirchner and Federica Cristani



The EU Approach towards Disaster Management: A Critical Appraisal in the Light of the Action Put in Place to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic

 Federico Casolari



Perspectives of Solidarity within the EU Legal Order in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic

 Susanna Villani



Legal Preparedness for International Disaster Assistance in the SADC Region

An Analysis of the Incorporation of International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL) in Domestic Disaster Risk Management Legal and Policy Frameworks

 Jeanique Andrea De Sousa Serradinho, Stella Njieri Ngugi and Reece Da Costa



SAARC Regional Disaster Law: Need for Progressive Development

 Priyanka Vaidyanath and Chhaya Bhardwaj



‘As the Island Choirs Gather’: Tracing a Regional Approach to Disaster and Climate Resilience in Pacific Island Countries

 W. John Hopkins, Tommaso Natoli and Leanne Avila



The Relevance of International Disaster Law Frameworks to a Pacific Island State: Insights on Localized DDR Governance from Palau

 Luke Potter



Strategic Litigation at the Domestic and International Levels as a Tool to Advance Climate Change Adaptation? Challenges and Prospects

 Riccardo Luporini



Forging Global Rule of Law through Climate Litigation against the United States and the Fossil Fuel Industry

 Karen C. Sokol



General Section



Statehood, Human Rights and Sea-Level Rise: A Response to the International Law Commission’s Second Issues Paper on Sea-Level Rise in Relation to International Law

 Bruce Burson, Walter Kälin and Jane McAdam



Using International Law to Address the Effects of Climate Change: A Matter for the International Court of Justice?

 Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Agnes Viktoria Rydberg



The WHO’s Mixed Human Rights Messages

 José E. Alvarez



One Health and the Prevention of Pathogens’ Spillover

 Ginevra Le Moli



Towards Integrated Early Warning Systems

Review of Disaster Risk Reduction and One Health Approaches in Light of Pandemic Treaty Negotiations

 Adam Strobeyko and Gian Luca Burci



The Glasgow Climate Pact: Is It All Just ‘Blah, Blah, Blah?’

 Rosemary Lyster



UN Human Rights Bodies and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change: All Hands on Deck

 Annalisa Savaresi



The Racial Dimension of Disasters through the Prism of International Law

 Michał Balcerzak



Ensuring a Disability Perspective in Disaster Law: The Contribution of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

 Kris Gledhill and Natalie Baird



International Disaster Law in Practice



Developments on the Draft Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters (2021)

 Arnold N. Pronto



Developments within the UN System (2021)

 Emanuele Sommario



UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (2021)

 Marie Aronsson-Storrier



Non-State Humanitarian Actors (2021)

 Tommaso Natoli



Asia (2021)

 Emika Tokunaga



Africa and MENA Regions (2021)

 Nicholas Wasonga Orago



North America, Central America and the Caribbean (2021)

 Kirsten Nakjavani Bookmiller



South America (2021)

 Hugo Cahueñas and Felipe Idrovo



Pacific (2021)

 W. John Hopkins and Leanne Avila



International Human Rights Law (2021)

 Marlies Hesselman



International Cultural Heritage Law (2021)

 Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani



International Economic Law (2021)

 Giovanna Adinolfi



Towards an Enhanced Policy Framework for Incoming Disaster Relief in Honduras (2021)

 Sophie Teyssier



International Environmental Law (2021)

 Sophie Gambardella



International Health Law (2021)

 Stefania Negri



Law of the Sea (2021)

 Anastasia Telesetsky



Migration/Refugee Law (2021)

 Matthew Scott



Space Law (2021)

 Diego Zannoni



Sources of International Disaster Law

Focus on Case Law (2021)

 Dug Cubie



Review of Books

 Edited by Tommaso Natoli



Shinya Murase and Suzanne Zhou (eds), Epidemics and International Law

 Giulia Bosi



Irmgard Marboe (ed), Legal Aspects of Planetary Defence

 Anne-Sophie Martin



Alexandra Birchler, Climate change, resulting natural disasters and the legal responsibility of States: An International Law Perspective

 Ronan McDermott



Ivano Algona, Christina Bakker, and Jean-Pierre Gauci (eds), Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives

 Geert van Calster



Bibliographical Index of International Disaster Law (2021)

 Edited by Giulio Bartolini



Index