The combination of the words 'international law' and 'crisis' is
intriguing and leads to a number of questions. How does international
law react to crises and what are the typical conditions under which the
term 'crisis' is invoked? Is international law a vivid field of law due
to and thanks to crises? Are parts of international law maybe in crisis
themselves? To what extent has the focus on crises taken away attention
from important legal questions in the day-to-day application of
international law? And does the focus on crisis undermine analytic
progress amongst scholars, who might think about crises as being
something completely new, asking for new answers while ignoring the
relevance of the existing 'international law acquis'? This volume
includes eight articles, in the domains of human rights law, migration
law, environmental law, international criminal law, WTO law and European
law, reflecting upon these pertinent questions, basically asking: do
international lawyers do the things right or do they the right things?
The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (NYIL) was first published
in 1970. It offers a forum for the publication of scholarly articles of
a more general nature in the area of public international law including
the law of the European Union.