New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

Dr David J Jefferson is a Senior Lecturer Above the Bar at the University of Canterbury School of Law, where he teaches Environmental Law, Land Law, and Intellectual Property. David is a legal anthropologist whose research covers a range of issues related to biodiversity conservation, biotechnology regulation, intellectual property in the agricultural and food sectors, ecosystem rights laws, and the protection of Indigenous knowledge systems. The field sites where David works are in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and the Andean Community of South America. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Queensland (2019) and a JD from the University of California, Davis (2014). David has been the recipient of several competitive research awards, including a United States Fulbright fellowship (2016) for work in Ecuador. Christian Riffel, PhD (2014), Bern, is Professor of International Economic Law at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is editor of the WTO TRIPS Commentary (Brill) and contributor to the Encyclopedia of Public International Law. In addition, he is Co-Chair of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law and a member of the International Law Association Committee on Rule of Law and International Investment Law. Chris is on the list of suitable arbitrators for EU trade agreements and also serves as the Honorary Consul of Germany in the South Island of New Zealand.

Preface


List of Tables


Part 1

Articles and Commentaries

1 Preserving Statehood through Population and Government: Safeguarding Nationality and Franchise in the Context of Sea-Level Rise and Mobility

  Jane McAdam



2 “Equal in Status, in No Way Subordinate”: Interwar New Zealand, Imperial Internationalism, and the Acquisition of International Legal Personality

  Taran Molloy



3 Braiding Boomerangs: A Reappraisal of the Law of Conquest in 1788

  Samuel White



4 A Lost Generation: Children Detained in Al-Hol and Their Repatriation under International Law

  Kendall Mead



Part 2

The South Pacific

5 Pacific Islands Forum – 2022

  Tony Angelo and Sarina Theys



Part 3

The Year in Review

6 International Human Rights Law 2022

  Cassandra Mudgway and Lida Ayoubi



7 Indigenous Peoples’ Rights under International Law: 2021 and 2022

  Tracey Whare



8 International Economic Law

  An Hertogen



9 International Environmental Law

  Vernon Rive



10 Law of the Sea and Fisheries

  Joanna Mossop



11 The Antarctic Treaty System

  Alan D Hemmings



12 International Criminal Law and Humanitarian Law

  Treasa Dunworth



13 International Law and Security

  Anna Hood



14 New Zealand State Conduct, Treaty Action and Implementation

  Mark Gobbi