Hierarchy in International Law The Place of Human Rights

Erika de Wet is Co-Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa and Professor of International Law at the University of Pretoria. Between 2004 and 2010, she was a full-time (tenured) Professor of Constitutional Law at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam, a position which she still holds part-time. She further lectures in international law at the University of Zurich and the University of Bonn on a regular basis. Between 2007 and 2010 she served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Issues of Public International Law of the Netherlands (CAVV).

Jure Vidmar is an Anglo-German Fellow in the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Previously, Jure worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam. He is a member of the editorial board of the Hague Yearbook of International Law. Jure's main research and teaching interests lie within public international law, human rights, European law, and political theory. In recent years, Jure's publications have mainly covered topics such as the creation, recognition and delimitation of states; human rights and democracy; the right of self-determination; the right to political participation and democratisation theory. Jure holds a doctorate in politics from the University of Salzburg as well as an LLM and PhD in law from the University of Nottingham.

1: Erika de Wet and Jure Vidmar: Introduction
2: Jure Vidmar: Norm Conflicts and Hierarchy in International Law: Towards a Vertical International Legal System?
3: Antonios Tzanakopoulos: Human Rights and United Nations Security Council Measures
4: Riccardo Pavoni: Human Rights and the Immunities of Foreign States and International Organizations
5: Philippa Webb: Human Rights and the Immunities of State Officials
6: Harmen van der Wilt: On the Hierarchy between Extradition and Human Rights
7: Geoff Gilbert: Human Rights, Refugees and Other Displaced Persons in International Law
8: Dinah Shelton: Resolving Conflicts between Human Rights and Environmental Protection: Is there a Hierarchy?
9: Susan Karamanian: Human Rights Dimensions of Investment Law
10: Andreas Ziegler and Bertram Boie: The Relationship between International Trade Law and International Human Rights Law
11: Erika de Wet and Jure Vidmar: Conclusions
1. Introduction, Erika de Wet and Jure Vidmar
2. Norm Conflicts and Hierarchy in International Law: Towards a Vertical International Legal System?, Jure Vidmar
3. Human Rights and United Nations Security Council Measures, Antonios Tzanakopoulos
4. Human Rights and the Immunities of Foreign States and International Organizations, Riccardo Pavoni
5. Human Rights and the Immunities of State Officials, Philippa Webb
6. On the Hierarchy between Extradition and Human Rights, Harmen van der Wilt
7. Human Rights, Refugees and Other Displaced Persons in International Law, Geoff Gilbert
8. Resolving Conflicts between Human Rights and Environmental Protection: Is there a Hierarchy?, Dinah Shelton
9. Human Rights Dimensions of Investment Law, Susan Karamanian
10. The Relationship between International Trade Law and International Human Rights Law, Andreas Ziegler and Bertram Boie
11. Conclusions, Erika de Wet and Jure Vidmar