Encyclopedia of Public International Law update in the United States

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law.

The March 2012 update adds over 200 new articles. Highlights include highly-anticipated contributions on such central topics as Foreign Relations, International Co-operation, International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, bringing the total number of live articles to 1618.

Latest Articles added:

• Act of State Doctrine

• Agenda for Peace

• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (1994)

• Antarctica

• Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Armed Conflict, Effect on Treaties

• Armed Conflict, Non-International

• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

• Atmosphere, International Protection

• Autonomy

• Belgian Decolonization

• Belligerency

• Berlin Congress (1878)

• Biological Safety

• Biological Weapons and Warfare

• Black Sea

• Bogotá Pact (1948)

• Boundary Disputes in Latin America

• Central American Court of Justice (1907-18)

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000)

• Chechnya

• Civil Society

• Civilized Nations

• Clean Development Mechanism

• Climate, International Protection

• Collective Punishment

• Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)

• Commonwealth

• Compensation for Personal Damages Suffered during World War II

• Compliance, Theory of

• Côte d’Ivoire

• Criminal Jurisdiction of States under International Law

• Croatia

• Customs Unions

• Debts

• Decolonization

• Dispute regarding Navigational and Related Rights Case (Costa Rica v Nicaragua)

• Distress

• Divided States

• Doha Round

• Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (2004)

• Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States

• Economic Integration, Comparative Analysis

• Emblems, Internationally Protected

• Ems-Dollard

• Environment, International Protection

• Environment, Multilateral Agreements

• Environment, Protection in Armed Conflict

• Environment, Role of Non-Governmental Organizations

• Environmentally Sound Economic Activity, International Law

• Equator Principles

• Ethnic Cleansing

• Ethos, Ethics and Morality in International Relations

• European Administrative Law

• European Citizenship

• European Common Foreign and Security Policy

• European Community and Union Law and Domestic (Municipal) Law

• European Community and Union, Association of Overseas Countries and Territories

• European Community and Union, Party to International Agreements

• European Community Security and Defence Policy

• European Integration

• European Union, Court of Justice and General Court

• Fair and Equitable Treatment

• Final Act

• Financial Assistance

• Fisheries, Commissions and Organizations

• Force majeure

• Foreign Relations Law

• Forests, International Protection

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947 and 1994)

• General International Law (Principles, Rules and Standards)

• Genetically Modified Organisms

• Geneva Conventions Additional Protocol I (1977)

• Geneva Conventions Additional Protocol II (1977)

• Geneva Conventions I–IV (1949)

• Germany, Occupation after World War II

• Global Compact

• Global Environment Facility (GEF)

• Great Lakes Region, Africa

• Gross and Systematic Human Rights Violations

• Group of 77 (G77)

• Group Rights

• Guyana v Suriname Maritime Boundary Arbitration

• Hague Conventions on Private International Law and on International Civil Procedure

• Hegemony

• Helsinki Final Act (1975)

• Honorary Consuls

• Human Rights, Domestic Implementation

• Human Rights, Role of Non-Governmental Organizations

• Human Shields

• Humanitarian Law, International

• Indigenous Peoples

• Indiscriminate Attack

• Industrial Property, International Protection

• Information and Communication, Freedom of, International Protection

• Institut de Droit international

• Insurgency

• Inter-American Juridical Committee

• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)

• International Civil Litigation

• International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG)

• International Law

• International Law and Domestic (Municipal) Law

• International Law, Regional Developments: Africa

• International Maritime Organization (IMO)

• International Monetary Fund (IMF)

• International Monetary Fund, Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP)

• International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds

• International Organization for Migration (IOM)

• International Organizations or Institutions, History of

• International Organizations or Institutions, Responsibility and Liability

• Internet

• Investment Codes

• Investments, International Protection

• Islamic Approach to International Law

• Joint Exploitation Areas

• Judicial Settlement of International Disputes

• Kashmir

• Kimberley Process

• Kuril Islands

• Laos

• Legal Positivism

• Legitimacy in International Law

• Lex mercatoria

• Liability for Lawful Acts

• Like Products

• Lisbon Treaty

• London Agreement on German External Debts (1953)

• Lusitania, The

• Manuals on the Law of Armed Conflict

• Marine Environment, International Protection

• Maritime Safety Regulations

• Mass Media, Influence on International Relations

• Medellin v Texas Case

• Merchant Ships

• Military Government

• Military I (Bagosora and others) Case

• Military Tribunals

• Missile Warfare

• Monetary Law, European

• Monetary Law, International

• Nahimana and Others Case

• Nationality

• Necessity, State of

• Neutrality in Naval Warfare

• Neutralization

• Nile River

• Non-Recognition

• Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Nuclear Waste Disposal

• Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinions

• Oil for Food Programme

• Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

• Palmas Island Arbitration

• Paris Peace Treaty (1856)

• Peace Settlements after World War II

• Peace Treaties (1947)

• Peace Treaties after World War I

• Peacebuilding

• Peleus, The

• Perfidy

• Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

• Plant Genetic Resources, International Protection

• Prisoner Transfer

• Proportionality

• Protectorates and Protected States

• Psychological Warfare

• Railway Stations and Airports on Foreign Territory and Transborder Railway Traffic

• Recognition

• Referendum

• Regional Seas, Environmental Protection

• Remote Sensing

• Resistance Movements

• Responsibility of States for Private Actors

• Retorsion

• Rhine River

• Rhine-Main-Danube Waterway

• Russian Indemnity Arbitration

• Sanctions

• Security

• Serbia

• Services, Trade in

• Servitudes

• Ships, Visit and Search

• Slovenia

• Small Arms, International Restrictions on the Trade in

• Solidarity, Principle of

• Somalia, Conflict

• Sources of International Law

• South African Bantustan Policy

• South Ossetia

• Sovereignty

• Special Rapporteurs of Human Rights Bodies

• State

• State Ships

• Sudan

• Summit Meetings

• Supranational Law

• Suspension of Hostilities

• Targeted Killing

• Taxation, International

• Technology Transfer

• Territorial Change, Effects of

• Territorial Dispute Case (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Chad)

• Territory, Acquisition

• International Congress of Women (1915)

• Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963),

• The International Tin Council (ITC)

• Trade and Labour Standards

• Trading with the Enemy

• Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Situations

• Uniform Sales Law

• Unilateralism/Multilateralism

• United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC)

• United Nations Peacebuilding Commission

• United Nations, Secretary-General

• Universality

• Use of Force, Prohibition of

• Uti possidetis Doctrine

• Verification of Facts

• Westphalia Peace of (1648)

• World Customs Organization (WCO)

• World Medical Association

• World Natural Heritage

• World Trade Organization, Enforcement System

• Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked

• Yugoslavia, Cases and Proceedings before the ICJ

• Yugoslavia, Dissolution of