The Palestine Yearbook of International Law, 1999-2000This well-established and widely-respected "Yearbook," is a primary source of information on significant and topical legal issues relating to the Palestinian territories. It provides, in a single annual volume, not only leading articles on topics of major interest to the international legal community, but also key legislation, court decisions, legal cases, treaties, reslolutions, special reports, and other relevant legal material translated from the original Arabic or Hebrew into English. The 11th volume of "The Palestine Yearbook of International Law" is devoted specifically to the question of Palestine refugees and includes: - a comparison of the international legal framework designed to protect refugees with the framework already established for the protection of Palestinian Refugees, - an examination of the various pieces of legislation enacted to 'legally' confiscate Palestinian lands, - raising the question as to how the plight of Palestinian refugees may be addressed in the international legal system, - legal precedents regarding refugees, includiing the Dayton accord and UN Resolutions, -various agreements signed over the course of the past year, - a detailed bibliography of books, monographs and articles, - a comprehensive index. This new volume, as with its predecessors, will be an invaluable source of reference and record on the complex legal issues relating to the Palestinian territories, and will be of prime interest to legal practitioners, researchers, scholars and anyone involved in law, politics, human rights or international relations who has an interest in this region. |
Contents
ARTICLES | 12 |
Durable Solutions and Palestinian Refugees | 27 |
Recommendations for Durable Solutions Based on a Reinterpretation | 65 |
Akram and Terry Rempel 1 | 73 |
Akram is Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law She thanks | 106 |
The Palestine Yearbook of International Law Vol XI 20002001 pp 171 | 131 |
Perspective Michael Lynk | 155 |
MONOGRAPHS | 185 |
Agreement between the State of Israel and the Holy See | 323 |
General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia | 331 |
The Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum on the Implementation | 339 |
Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices | 351 |
Letter from the U N SecretaryGeneral to the President of | 377 |
SELECTED UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS | 383 |
G A Res 36146 United Nations Relief and Works Agency | 389 |
A Concise History of the ArabIsraeli | 391 |
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