Betsy Baker

Published

• Betsy Röben, Johann Caspar Bluntschli, Francis Lieber und das moderne Völkerrecht 1861–1881, Nomos Press, Baden-Baden 2002, vol. 4 in the series Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts, (Studies on the history of international law), Michael Stolleis (ed.), with English summary: Johann Caspar Bluntschli, Francis Lieber and Modern International Law, 1861-1881. [Reviewed by Karl-Heinz Ziegler in 123. Bd., Savigny Zeitschrift – Germanistische Abteilung 664 (2006); manuscript cited extensively in Martti Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations, The rise and fall of international law 1870-1960, Cambridge University Press 2002, Chapter 1].

In Progress

• Uncommon Heritage: Elisabeth Mann Borgese. A biography of the scholarly work of the international oceans law activist, architect of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, contributor to the University of Chicago’s 1940s project on a World Constitution, only female fellow at Robert Maynard Hutchins’ Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and daughter of Nobel prize winning author Thomas Mann.

Book Reviews, Editorial Work, Shorter Pieces

• Forthcoming - Book Review: Syma Ebbin, Sea Change: The EEZ and Governance Institutions for Living Marine Resources, in: Ocean and Coastal Law Journal, publication expected November 2009.
• Forthcoming - "The Hague Peace Conferences", and "Regional Seas", two entries in R. Bernhardt, R. Wolfrum / Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and Public International Law (eds), Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Elsevier Science Ltd), publication expected 2009.
• Review of Yoshifumi Tanaka, A Dual Approach to Ocean Governance: The Cases of Zonal and Integrated Management in International Law of the Sea, in: 14 Ocean and Coastal Law Journal (2008) 147-154.
• Review of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Geschichte Der Rechts - Und Staatsphilosophie Antike Und Mittelalter, Mohr Siebeck 2002, in 3 German Law Journal, No. 12 - December 2002.
• Editor for Legal Culture, an English language online journal on legal developments in German, international and European law, established in 2000.
• Assistant General Editor, Liber Amicorum For Judge Shigeru Oda, (N. Ando, R. Wolfrum, E. McWhinney eds. 2002), Kluwer Law International, 2 volumes honoring the ICJ judge.
• Transboundary Environmental Cooperation. Prior Information/ Consultation/Environmental Impact Assessment, in: G. Händl (ed. 1996)/J. Brunnée & E. Hey (eds. 1997-2002), Yearbook of International Environmental Law, volumes 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, Oxford 1996-2002.
• Liberating Taiwan: Peaceful Offensive or Armed Might (with Kong Qingjiang), Harvard Asian Law Journal 2000, 32-35.
• East Germany’s Reckoning with the Past, Wall Street Journal Europe, 10 November 1999.
• Artic Mapping and the Law of the Sea, weblog, An ongoing look at the law-science interface in shaping arctic policy, the mapping of the arctic continental shelf and the development of norms for effective governance of the arctic and its natural resources.
• "United Nations Volunteers," note for United Nations Handbook (R. Wolfrum ed. 1995)
• NAFTA and Freshwater, U.S. Water News, October 1994.
• Book review, The Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements (P. Sand ed. 1992), 87 Am.J.Int'l L. 198 (1994).
• Book review of Frederic L. Kirgis, Jr., International Organizations in Their Legal Setting, 2d ed. (1993), in Am. Soc. Int'l L. Interest Group on Int’l Organizations Newsletter, No. 1 (1994).
• Assistant Editor, volumes 34 (1992) and 35 (1993), German Yearbook of International Law.

*Unless otherwise indicated, works published between 1996 and 2004 appear under the name Betsy Baker Röben, all others are published under the name Betsy Baker

Forthcoming Articles and Chapters

• "Science-driven cooperation and policy: Addressing Canadian/US diplomatic concerns in the Arctic" in: The Law and Politics of Canadian Jurisdiction on the Arctic Ocean Seabed Segment of Vermont Law Review, volume 34, expected January 2010.
• "Mapping for Advocacy - Using Marine Geophysical Data to Establish the Limits of the Extended Continental Shelves under the Convention on the Law of the Sea" with B. Coakley, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Abstract # GC33B-0780, December 17, 2008, San Francisco, CA.
• The Precedential Judge Manley O. Hudson : Rivers, Oceans and Equity, in International Law (R. Bratspies, R. Miller eds.) 2007 (Martinus Nijhoff).
• States Parties and the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, in Festschrift for Judge Thomas A. Mensah, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (R. Wolfrum ed.), 2007 (Martinus Nijhoff).
• Civilizing Nations: Bluntschli and 19th century concepts of Inter-Nationalism, in Macht und Moral - Politisches Denken im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, hrsg. von Hans-Richard Reuter und Markus Kremer, Stuttgart, publication expected 2007 (Kohlhammer).
• The Hague Peace Conferences, and Regional Seas entries in Encyclopedia of Public International Law, (R. Bernhardt, Max-Planck-Institute for comparative and public international law eds.), publication expected 2008 (Elsevier Science Ltd).

Published Articles and Chapters

• Environmental Liability Legislation in the United States, in Environmental Liability in International Law: Towards a Coherent Conception, Berichte des Bundesumwetamtes (Reports of the German Federal Environmental Agency), vol. 2/05, Erich Schmidt Verlag Berlin (C. Langenfeld, R. Wolfrum eds. 2005).
• The New Partnership for African Economic Development, 63 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht/Heidelberg Journal of International Law 1063 (2003).
• International Law and the Institutions for Financing Sustainable Development after the Johannesburg Summit of 2002, with Volker Röben, in U. Beyerlin (ed.), 63 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht/Heidelberg Journal of International Law 551 (2003).
• The Method behind Bluntschli’s ‘Modern’ International Law, 4 Journal of the History of International Law 249 (2002).
• Judge Shigeru Oda and the Making of International Law, in Liber Amicorum for Judge Shigeru Oda, (N. Ando, R. Wolfrum, E. McWhinney eds. 2002), Kluwer Law International, 213.
• Protection of Global Atmospheric Components, International Freshwaters, National Enforcement of Global Atmospheric Treaties, and Civil Liability as a Control Mechanism for Environmental Protection at the International Level, four chapters in International, Regional and National Environmental Law (F. Morrison, R. Wolfrum eds. 2000) Kluwer Law International, 201, 285, 603 and 821.
• US-Amerikanisches Umwelthaftungsrecht, in Umweltschutz durch internationales Haftungsrecht, Forschungsbericht im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes, Band 7/98, Erich Schmidt Verlag Berlin (C. Langenfeld, R. Wolfrum eds. 1999).
• Environmental Liability Legislation in the United States, in Environmental Protection by Means of International Liability Law, Berichte des Bundesumwestamtes (Reports of the German Federal Environment Agency), vol. 6/99, Erich Schmidt Verlag Berlin (C. Langenfeld, R. Wolfrum eds. 1999), 261.
• Protection, Not Protectionism: Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the GATT, 26 Vanderbilt J. Transnat'l L. 437 (1993).
• (with Volker Röben) To Abduct or To Extradite: Does a Treaty Beg the Question? The Alvarez-Machain Decision in U.S. Domestic Law and International Law, 53 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht/Heidelberg Journal of International Law 657 (1993), cited by the German Constitutional Court (3. Kammer des 2. Senats), Ent. v. 19.10.1994 - 2BvR 435/87.
• Legal Protections for the Environment in Times of Armed Conflict, 33Va. J. Int'l L. 352 (1993).
• Eliciting Non-Party Compliance with Multilateral Environmental Treaties: U.S. Legislation and the Jurisdictional Bases for Compliance Incentives in the Montreal Ozone Protocol, 35 Germ. Y.B. Int'l L. 333 (1992).
• Minding the Earth: Global Standards and Domestic Law, 49 Bench & Bar. Minn., May-June 14 (1992).
• Constructing Justice: Theories of the Subject in Law and Literature, 75 Minn. L. Rev. 3 (1991).