Jacques Hartmann is Reader in Law at the University of Dundee.Urfan Khaliq is Professor of International Law at Cardiff University.

• PART IGENERAL INTERNATIONAL LAW1. Less is More: Rules and Principles in International Law-Making Vaughan Lowe, University of Oxford, UK2. An Amodernist Approach to International Law: The Law of the Sea in the Amarna Letters Erdem Denk, Ankara University, Turkey3. The Sources of Public International Law Historically Considered Dino Kritsiotis, University of Nottingham, UKPART IIHUMAN RIGHTS LAW4. The United Nations and Human Rights: Reform through Review? Malcolm Evans, University of Bristol, UK5. United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Universality and National Implementation Geir Ulfstein, University of Oslo, Norway6. International Parental Child Abduction and the Need for Alternative Regimes? Urfan Khaliq, Cardiff University, UKPART IIITHE LAW OF THE SEA AND FISHERIES7. Coastal State Jurisdiction in Ice-Covered Areas: The Impacts of Climate Change and the Polar Code Tore Henriksen, Arctic University of Norway8. The Responsibility and Liability of Flag States in the Context of Fisheries Daniel Owen, Fenners Chambers, Cambridge, UK9. Compulsory Inter-State Adjudication in the Anthropocene: Achieving the Paradoxical? Duncan French, University of Lincoln, UKPART IVINTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW10. The Challenge of Effective Compliance and Enforcement with International Environmental Law Catherine Redgwell, University of Oxford, UK11. Where’s the Catch? Shifting Stocks, International Fisheries Management and the Climate Change Conundrum Richard Caddell, Cardiff University, UKPART VINTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COOPERATION12. The Influence of Jus Cogens on International Crimes: Have they made any Difference? Robert Cryer, formerly University of Birmingham, UK and University of the Free State, South Africa13. The Achievements and Limits of Global Counter-terrorism Cooperation Jacques Hartmann, Dundee University, UK