International Law in the Post-Cold War World Essays in memory of Li Haopei Edited by Sienho Yee and Wang Tieya London and New York Contents Préface and acknowkdgements xi List of abbreviations xiii List of contributon xv A eulogy for Judge Li Haopei xx ANTONIO CASSESE My friend Ii Haopei xxii WANG TIEYA Li Haopei: a biography xxv Li Haopei: a bibliography xxvii LING YAN PARTI Trends and perspectives 1 Shifting paradigms of international law and world order in an era of historical transition 3 EDWARD MCWHINNEY 2 Tovvards an international law of co-progressiveness 18 SIENHO YEE PART II Sources of international law 3 The contribution of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to the ascertainment of gênerai principles of law recognized by the community of nations 43 ANTONIO CASSESE viii Contents 4 Opiniojuris: a key concept in international law that is much misunderstood 56 BIN CHENG 5 Judicial décisions as a source of international law and the defence of duress in murder or other cases arising from armed conflict 77 BING BING JIA PART III Substance and théories of international law 6 The concept of "war crimes" 99 GEORGES ABI-SAAB 7 A new area of international law: the protection of maritime cultural property 119 KAARE BANGERT 8 IMF governance, the Asian fînancial crisis, and the new international fînancial architecture 131 BARTRAM S. BROWN 9 Passing the bâton: the délégation of Security Council enforcement powers from Kuwait to Kosovo 148 SIMON CHESTERMAN 10 State responsibility for violations of human rights 171 WtADYSLAW CZAPLINSKI 11 Russia and international human rights 182 GENNADY M. DANILENKO 12 Responsibility of states and individuals for international crimes 202 VLADIMIR-DJURO DEGAN 13 China and the principle of sovereign equality in the 21st century 224 GAO FENG Contents ix 14 The legality of NATO's military action in Kosovo: is there a right of humanitarian intervention? 240 CHRISTINE GRAY 15 Immunity and "Double criminality": General Augusto Pinochet before the House of Lords 254 JOHN R.W.D. JONES 16 The use of the term "(Public) Morality" in the European Convention on Human Rights: a brief history 268 SANTIAGO LEGARRE 17 International légal issues arising in the Kosovo crisis 278 VAUGHAN LOWE 18 Content and contours of génocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes 289 JORDAN J. PAUST 19 The légal qualification of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia: double standards or new horizons for international humanitarian law? 307 MARCO SASSÔLI 20 Monitoring the convention against racial discrimination in the post-Cold War context 334 THEO VAN BOVEN 21 General principles of law regarding the protection of minorities 348 BUDISLAV VUK.AS 22 Sovereignty in global économie intégration: a Chinese perspective 357 GUIGUO WANG 23 The doctrine of command responsibility as applied to civilian leaders: the ICTR and the Kayishetna case 373 ZHU WENQI x Contents PART IV Courts and adjudication 24 The international protection of human rights: expériences with the European Court of Human Rights 387 RUDOLF BERNHARDT 25 The International Court of Justice and human rights in the 1990s - linking peace and justice through the righttolife 398 ROSS GARLAND 26 The supervision of the exécution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights 409 RONALD ST. J. MACDONALD 27 Judicial procédures and the protection of human rights: the European context 423 PETER MALANCZUK 28 Challenges to indictments in international criminal trials 433 RICHARD MAY 29 Contributions of the International Criminal Tribunals to the development pf substantive international humanitarian law 446 GABRIELLE KIRK MCDONALD 30 The compétence of a tribunal to deny its existence 473 MOHAMED SHAHABUDDEEN 31 The ICJ's jurisdiction in the Legality of Use of Force cases 480 JIANMING SHEN Appendix Jus cogens and international law 499 LI HAOPEI Index 523.