The Irish Yearbook of International Law (IYIL) supports research into Ireland's practice in international affairs and foreign policy, filling a gap in existing legal scholarship and assisting in the dissemination of Irish thinking and practice on matters of international law. On an annual basis, the Yearbook presents peer-reviewed academic articles and book reviews on general issues of international law. Designated correspondents provide reports on international law developments in Ireland, Irish practice in international bodies, Ireland and the Law of the Sea and the law of the European Union as relevant to developments in Ireland. In addition, the Yearbook reproduces key documents that reflect Irish practice on contemporary issues of international law.

Publication of the Irish Yearbook of International Law makes Irish practice and opinio juris more readily available to governments, academics and international bodies when determining the content of international law. In providing a forum for the documentation and analysis of North-South relations the Yearbook also makes an important contribution to post-conflict and transitional justice studies internationally.

As a matter of editorial policy, the Yearbook seeks to promote a multilateral approach to international affairs, reflecting and reinforcing Ireland's long-standing commitment to multilateralism as a core element of foreign policy.

Table of Contents
Editorial

Articles

Nicholas Koumjian and Cóman Kenny Specific Direction: The ICTY's 'Novel' Attempt to Regulate State Action

Ray Murphy Problems confronting any international peacekeeping force in the Israel-Palestine conflict

Darren O'Donovan 'The Way of the World', International Economic Law and National Constitutions: Irish Constitutional Sovereignty and the Eurozone Crisis

Correspondent Reports

Fiona O'Regan, Human Rights in Ireland in 2013

Dug Cubie, Ireland and International Law in 2013

Roderic O'Gorman, Ireland and the European Union in 2013

Brice Dixon, Human Rights in Northern Ireland in 2013

Ronán Long, Irish State Practice on the Law of the Sea in 2013

Book Reviews
Human Rights and Public Finance: Budgets & the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights, by Aoife Nolan, Rory O'Connell and Colin Harvey (eds)
[Ben T.C. Warwick]

International Humanitarian Law and the Changing Technology of War, by Dan Saxon (ed)
[Peter Gallagher]

Incitement in International Law, by Wiebke K. Timmermann
[Claire Constant]

What is a Fair International Society? International Law Between Development and Recognition, by Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet
[Henry Jones]

Judges, Law and War: The Judicial Development of International Humanitarian Law by Shane Darcy
[Darragh Murray]

Documents
Statement by the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, T.D., condemning North Korean nuclear test, 12 February 2013


Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, Addendum, Mission to Ireland (19 – 23 November 2012) UN Doc. A/HRC/22/47/Add.3 (26 February 2013)

Statement by Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore TD
on behalf of HR/VP Catherine Ashton, Geneva, 27 February 2013, UN Human Rights Council, 22nd session, (25 February to 22 March 2013), EU Statement.

Statement by the Tánaiste and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland, Mr. Eamon Gilmore T.D., to the Conference on Disarmament Geneva, 27 February 2013

Conclusions of the Inter-Parliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defence Policy, Dublin 24 & 25 March 2013

Address by the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore T.D., to Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice Conference, 15 April 2013

Statement by Minister Costello at the signature ceremony of the Arms Trade Treaty, 3 June 2013

Launch of the Irish Human Rights Commission Follow-Up Report on State Involvement with Magdalene Laundries 18 June 2013

Address by the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore T.D., to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, 18 September 2013

Address by the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore T.D., to the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 28 September 2013