Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2015 Jus Cogens: Quo Vadis

Jus cogens is a formidable yet elusive concept of international law. Since its incorporation in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties some 35 years ago, it has made tentative inroads into international legal practice. But its role in international

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Netherlands Yearbook of International Law Volume 46

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Maarten den Heijer · Harmen van der Wilt Volume Editors

Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2015 Jus Cogens: Quo Vadis?

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Volume Editors Maarten den Heijer Department of Public International Law Faculty of Law University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands

Harmen van der Wilt Department of Criminal Law Faculty of Law University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands

ISSN  0167-6768 ISSN  1574-0951  (electronic) Netherlands Yearbook of International Law ISBN 978-94-6265-113-5 ISBN 978-94-6265-114-2  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-6265-114-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016934961 Published by t.m.c. asser press, The Hague, The Netherlands www.asserpress.nl Produced and distributed for t.m.c. asser press by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg © t.m.c. asser press and the authors 2016 No part of this work 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, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Dordrecht

Board of Editors F. Amtenbrink Erasmus University Rotterdam

H.G. van der Wilt University of Amsterdam

W.J.M. van Genugten (General Editor) Tilburg University

M. den Heijer University of Amsterdam

J.E. Nijman University of Amsterdam Asser Institute, The Hague

M. Kuijer VU University, Amsterdam D. Prévost Maastricht University

W.G. Werner VU University, Amsterdam R.A. Wessel (General Editor) University of Twente

Managing Editor M. Ambrus Institute of Legal Sciences Hungarian Academy of Science Orszaghaz utca 30 H-1014 Budapest Hungary

Aims and Scope The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (NYIL) was first published in 1970. As a double-blind peer-reviewed publication, the NYIL offers a forum for the publication of scholarly articles of a conceptual nature in a varying thematic area of public international law. In addition, each Yearbook includes a section Dutch Practice in International Law. The NYIL is published under the auspices of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut.

T.M.C. Asser Instituut Located in the ‘international zone’ of The Hague—the City of Justice, Peace and Security, The T.M.C. Asser Instituut is a leading, inter-university research institute operating in the broad field of international law. Founded in 1965, the Institute’s international co