Baltic Yearbook Of International Law, Volume 6 (2006)

BALTIC YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Baltic Yearbook of International Law Volume 6, 2006 Baltic Yearbook of International Law Volume 6, 2006 MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBLISHERS LEIDEN/BOSTON A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Printed on acid-free paper. ISBN 90 04 15430 2 © 2006 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill Academic Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. http://www.brill.nl All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill Academic Publishers provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. Printed and bound in The Netherlands. BALTIC YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Managing Editor Carin Laurin, Publications Officer, RWI, University of Lund Editorial Board Egidijus Bieliunas, Judge, Supreme Court of Lithuania Tanel Kerikmäe, LL.M, LL.Lic, Acting Associate Dean of Estonian Law, Concordia International University, Estonia KristƯne Krnjma, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Latvia and Riga Graduate School of Law Egils Levits, Judge at the Court of Justice of the EC Rein Müllerson, Professor, Kings College, University of London Lauri Mälksoo, Dr.iur., Associate Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tartu Vilenas Vadapalas, Judge, Court of First Instance of the EC Darius Žalimas, Associate Professor, the Head of the Department of International Law and the European Union Law, Faculty of Law, Vilnius University Ineta Ziemele, Judge, European Court of Human Rights PƝteris Zilgalvis, J.D., Head of Unit on Ethics and Science at the European Commission Advisory Board Gudmundur Alfredsson, Professor, Director, RWI, University of Lund Theo van Boven, Professor of International Law, University of Maastricht James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law, Director, Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge Andrew Drzemczewski, Ph.D., Barrister-in-Law, Council of Europe Secretariat John Dugard, Professor of Public International Law, University of Leiden; Emeritus Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Member, International Law Commission Asbjørn Eide, Senior Fellow, Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, University of Oslo Thomas M. Franck, Murray and Ida Becker Professor of Law Emeritus, Director, Center for International Studies, New York University School of Law Christine Gray, PhD., Reader in International Law, University of Cambridge Mahulena Hofmann, JU Dr. (Prague), CSc. Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Göran Melander, Professor Emeritus of International Law, University of Lund Allan Rosas, Professor, Judge at the Court of Justice of the EC Bruno Simma, Judge, International Court of Justice Brigitte Stern, Professor of International Law, University of Paris I Rüdiger Wolfrum, Professor Dr. Dr. h. c., Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Contents xi Editorial Note Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the European Society of International Law, Florence, 14-15 May 2004 Bruno Simma: Introduction 1 International Law in the Shadow of Empire W. Michael Reisman: The Shadows Looming over International Law 7 Allan Pellet: Le droit international dans l’ombre de l’empire 27 International Law in Europe: Between Tradi