Contents -- Foreword by the Editors -- Foreword -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- The Constitutional Dimension of the Charter of the United Nations Revisited -- Bringing the Security Council into a New Era -- Unlawful Resolutions of the Security Council and their Legal Consequences -- We the Peoples of the United Nations -- Security Council Control over Regional Action -- Civil War, Humanitarian Law and the United Nations -- Participation of Former Yugoslav States in the United Nations and in Multilateral Treaties -- The Protection of Regional or Other Interests as Structural Element of the Decision-Making Process of International Organizations -- The ILC Adopts the Draft Code of Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Mankind -- The Relationship Between the International Court of Justice and the Newly Created International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg -- Book Reviews -- Documents -- Investigating Powers of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia vis-à-vis States and High Government Officials: Amicus Curiae Brief Submitted… -- Subpoena Duces Tecum of 15 January 1997: The Prosecutor v. Tihomir Blaskic -- Draft Articles on the Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind -- Concluding Observations adopted in 1996 by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Concluding Observations adopted in 1996 by the Human Rights Committee -- Concluding Observations adopted in 1996 by the Committee on the Elimination of RaciaI Discrimination -- Decisions/Resolutions adopted in 1996 by the Committee on the Elimination of RaciaI Discrimination -- General Recommendations adopted in 1996 by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.