Selected Material 2004 -

 

 

Selected Speeches and Articles After March 2004

 

With respect to earlier material reference is made to "Material on UN Website" and to Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography under "Biography"

 

 

Antarctica

 

Address at the opening of the 28th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Stockholm 2005

 

Concluding Remarks at the 28^th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting

 

 

The Arctic

 

The Arctic: An opportunity to Cooperate and to Demonstrate Statesmanship. In: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 42:1065 (p. 1065-1079) 

 

Conclusions by the Chairman of the Conference “Common Concern for the Arctic”, organised by the Nordic Council of Ministers on 9-10 September 2008 at Ilulissat, Greenland. -- The full Conference Report is available here.

 

The North is not the wild West. In: The Globe and Mail, 28 April 2008

 

Reflections on the possibilities and limitations of a binding legal regime for the Arctic. In: Environmental Policy and Law, Vol. 37 (2007) No. 4 (p. 321-324)

 

Climate

 

See "The Arctic" and "Rule of Law in International Relations".

 

 

Disarmament

 

The Role of Public International Law and the lCJ in a Changing World. In: Freedom from Nuclear Weapons through Legal Accountability and Good Faith. Ed. George Farebrother for the World Court Coalition. Russell Press Ltd. (2007) (p. 12-22)

 

 

Global Compact

 

The Global Compact. In: Corporate Social Responsibility – The Corporate Governance of the 21^st Century. Ed. Ramon Mullerat. Kluwer Law International (2005) (p. 235-242). More easily readable form available here

 

 

Human Rights

 

See also under "Material on UN Website" and "Global Compact".

 

Protecting Human Rights: The Role of the United Nations – Major Challenges. Address at the Human Rights Week 2010, organised by Amnesty International, Law Students’ Network at Oslo University, on 19 February 2010

 

Human Rights Should Be Protected by the Rule of Law.  Address at a Celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights organised by the American Bar Association's Section of International Law on the topic Human Rights, the Just Rule of Law and the Role of Lawyers, held in New York on 14 Nobember 2008  

 

 

International Criminal Court

 

International Criminal Law – How Long Will Some Miss the Missing Link? In: Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 37 No. 1 (2005) (p. 11-20)

 

 

International Criminal Law

 

International Prosecution of Heads of State for Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. The Dean Fred F. Herzog Memorial Lecture delivered at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago on 16 September 2009

 

Addressing impunity – How united are the nations? In: Development Dialogue no. 53 Responses to Mass Violence – Mediation, Protection, and Prosecution. Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (November 2009) (p. 11-25)

 

Also included here for ease of reference: Proposal for an International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia by Rapporteurs (Corell-Türk-Thune) under the CSCE Moscow Human Dimension Mechanism to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia of 9 February 1993

 

 

Internet

 

Educational Material to Assist the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Deciding What Status The Corporation Should Aim for as A Private International Entity in Its Host Country. August 2006

 

 

Law of the Sea

 

See also "The Arctic"

 

Baltic Sea: Gas pipeline – international law for geostrategic issues. Address at a conference organised by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute on the topic The World Ocean in Globalization: Challenges for Marine Regions, held on 21 August 2008 at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo

 

Contribution to the debate about a possible gasline through the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone. In: Svenska Dagbladet, 21 December 2007

 

 

Legal Adviser – The Role of

 

The Role of a Legal Adviser of an International Organization. Presentations for the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law. 

 

     Link to the Audiovisual Presentations

 

      Text of First Audiovisual Presentation

 

      Text of Second Audiovisual Presentation

 

 

The Role of the Legal Adviser - List of Literature

 

 

Public International Law

 

Reflections on the Responsibility to Protect. Keynote Address delivered at a Workshop on Humanitarian Intervention organised by Malmö University within the framework of the International Network of Universities on 4 March 2010

 

A few words at a manifestation for peace between Israel and Palestine on 10 January 2009

 

Klimat och rätt. Advokaten Nr 5 - 2008

 

Rättspositivismen i folkrätten i ett praktiskt perspektiv. En kommentar. In: Svensk Juristtidning, Vol. 1, 2008: 30-36

 

Sovereignty and Humanity: Reality and Possibility. Address at a meeting on 29 September 2007 at Oriel College, Oxford. In: Denver Journal of International Law & Policy, Vol. 36.1, 2007: 1- 8

 

Remarks at the opening of a Colloquium on the Topicality of the 1907 Hague Conference, the second Peace Conference   In: The Hague Academy of international Law. Ed. Yves Daudet. Martinus Nijhoff  Publishers, Leiden/London (2008) (p. 19-24)

 

International Law in Flux. In: 14. Forum Globale Fragen: Völkerrecht im Wandel. Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin. Bonifacius GmBH, Paderborn (2006) (p. 101-110)

 

Weapons do not create democracy. In: Svenska Dagbladet, 12 november 2006

 

Mot nya horisonter. Anförande hållet vid Kungl. Örlogsmanna-sällskapets högtidssammanträde den 15 november 2004. In: Tidskrift i Sjöväsendet, N:r 4 2004 (p. 398-404)

 

FN, folkrätten och framtiden. In: Svensk Juristtidning, Vol. 4, 2004: 333-350

 

 

Rule of Law in International Relations

 

See also under "Rule of Law"

 

Ethics, Rule of Law and Human Rights. Address at the 2008 Seasonal Meeting of the International Law and Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association on 20 September 2008 in Stockholm

 

The Right Climate for the Rule of Law. In: International Bar News April 2008

 

 

International Law and Changing Climate. In: The World Rule of Law Movement and Russian Legal Reform. Ed. Francis Neate and Holly Nielsen. Justitsinform, Moscow (2007) (p. 208-218)

 

 

The Meaning of an International Society under the Rule of Law. International Law Forum 2006 in Vientiane, Laos, 1 November 2006

 

 

A Challenge to the United Nations and the World: Developing the Rule of Law. In: Temple International & Comparative Law Journal, Vol. 18, Number 2 Fall 2004 (p. 391-402)

 

 

Terrorism

 

Legal Responses to Terrorism. In: Towards a Democratic Response. The Club de Madrid Series on Democracy and Terrorism, Vol. III (2005) (p. 13-19)

 

 

United Nations

 

See also under "Rule of Law"

 

The Incapacity of the United Nations Affects Civilians. In: Svenska Dagbladet, 7 January 2009

 

Reflections on the Security Council and Its Mandate to Maintain International Peace and Security. In: Law at War – The Law as it was and the Law as it Should Be. Ed. O. Engdahl and P. Wrange. Koninklijke Brill BV. The Netherlands (2008) (p. 61-74)

 

Who Needs Reforming the Most – the UN or its Members? In: Nordic Journal of International Law, Vol. 76 (2007) No. 2-3 (p. 265-279)

 

Reforming the United Nations. In: International Organizations Law Review, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2005) (p. 373-390)

 

Reflektioner om FN:s framtid. In: FN Globalt Uppdrag. Ed. Lars Eriksson, Berith Granath, Birger Halldén. FN-forbundet (2005) (p. 443-447)

 

Sweden has a Special Responsibility for an Effective United Nations

In: Dagens Nyheter, 9 September 2005. Also as Responsabilidad de Suecia en la ONU. In: Agenda Internacional.  Año 2 No. 6 (2005) (p. 50-53)

 

FN, folkrätten och framtiden. In: Svensk Juristtidning, Vol. 4, 2004: 333-350

 

Bush’s War Damaged the United Nations. In: Svenska Dagbladet, 23 September 2004. Also in: Swords into Plowshares : Building Peace through the United Nations, Leiden [etc.] Nijhoff (2006) (p. 11-15)

 

 

Western Sahara

 

The legality of exploring and exploiting natural resources in Western Sahara. Address at a Conference on Multilateralism and International Law with Western Sahara as a Case Study. Pretoria, 5 December 2008

 

Link to Letter dated 29 January 2002 from the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, the Legal Counsel, addressed to the President of the Security Council

 

 

Addresses on Special Occasions

 

A few word of thanks to Dr Shirin Ebadi for delivering the 2009 Anna Lindh Lecture at Lund University (Sweden) on 29 September 2009. Link to Dr Ebadi's Lecture Barriers to the Advancement of Human Rights in the World and in Iran

 

Lecture delivered at Uppsala on 18 September 2009 at a Commemorative Event organised by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation on the 48th Anniversary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s Death

 

A few word of thanks to Dr Kofi A. Annan for delivering the 2008 Anna Lindh Lecture at Lund University (Sweden) on 2 October 2008. Link to Dr Annan's Lecture Establishing a Culture of Prevention 

 

Celebrating the centennial of the birth of Dag Hammarsjkold. 

Speech held at Sammilsdal, Leksand, on 29 July 2005