Preface and acknowledgements; Notes on the contributors; Table of cases; Table of treaties and other international instruments; Introduction Geir Ulfstein, Thilo Marauhn and Andreas Zimmermann; Part I. International Human Rights: 1. Dispute resolution, compliance control and enforcement in human rights law Andreas Zimmerman; 2. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Martin Scheinin; 3. The European Convention on Human Rights Mark E. Villiger; 4. The European Convention on the Prevention of Torture compared with the United Nations Convention against Torture and its Optional Protocol Renate Kicker; Part II. International Environmental Law: 5. Dispute resolution, compliance control and enforcement in international environmental law Geir Ulfstein; 6. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Rosalind Reeve; 7. The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Tuomas Kuokkanen; 8. The Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) Veit Koester; 9. The Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention): international arms control law Timo Koivurova; Part III. International Arms Control: 10. Dispute resolution, compliance control and enforcement of international arms control law Thilo Marauhn; 11. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (Chemical Weapons Convention) Lisa Tabassi; 12. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the IAEA Safeguards Agreements Laura Rockwood; 13. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (Ottawa Convention) Kathleen Lawand; Part IV. General Comments: 14. Dispute resolution Andreas L. Paulus; 15. Compliance control Jutta Brunnée; 16. Enforcement Christian J. Tams; Index.