Nigerian Yearbook of International Law 2017

Part I: International Law and Regional Systems: Compliance With Judgments And Decisions - The Experience of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: A Reassessment by Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade.- Part II: Contemporary Challenges/Emerging Issues: Responding to Terrorism: Definition And Other Action by David Baragwanath.- The Evolution of The Status of the Individual Under International Law by Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko.- Admission into Diplomatic Buildings as an Alternative or Substitute to Diplomatic Asylum? by Péter Kovács and Tamás Ádány.- International Law and Daunting Contemporary Crises to Human Security and the Rule of Law by Patricia O'Brien.- Interrogating Colonialism: Bakassi, the Colonial Question and the Imperative of Exorcising the Ghost of Eurocentric International Law by Dakas C.J. Dakas.- The International Law of Secession and the Protection of the Human Rights of Oppressed Sub-State Groups: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Obiora Chinedu Okafor.- Part III: Criminal Law: International crimes: a hybrid future? by David Re.- Extending Notions of Criminal Jurisdictions - The Added Value of the African Court by Chile Eboe-Osuji.- Fragmentation or Stabilization? Recent Case Law on the Crime of Genocide in light of the 2007 Judgment of the International Court of Justice by William Schabas OC MRIA.- The Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Question of Head of State Immunity in International Law: Revisiting the Decision in Prosecutor v Charles Ghankay Taylor by Udoka Owie.- Part IV: Natural Resources/Environmental Law: Mainstreaming Environmental Justice in Developing Countries: Thinking Beyond Constitutional Environmental Rights by Rhuks Ako.- Environmental Victims, Access to Justice and the Sustainable Development Goals by Engobo Emeseh.- Promoting Functional Distributive Justice in the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund System: Lessons from Alaska and Norway by Damilola S. Olawuyi and Temitope Tunbi Onifade.-