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In the two hundred years of the existence of the Mexican State, the Mexican Yearbook of International Law (MYIL) is the first publication of its kind. Created by the Institute of Legal Research of UNAM, it has been published since the year two thousand. It is the product of its international geopolitical historical environment, a response to the post-Cold War period at a time when the Mexican State was inserted into the phenomenon of globalization and in which there was in Mexico an increase in the value of international law. The MYIL was the starting point for the creation of a system of research, teaching and dissemination of international law not only in Mexico but also in Latin America. Indeed, since its first publication, a Latin American seminar of annual operation, as well as a network of journals on international law in the region, have been organized. The MYIL is published in English, French, Portuguese and, for the most part, in Spanish. Occasionally, articles from Mexican authors are translated into English in order to widen their dissemination.
Manuel Becerra-Ramirez is the Director of the Mexican Yearbook of International Law.
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During the 1970s and early 1980s, twentieth century “… military dictatorships, which applied the “national security doctrines”, experienced territorial disputes reaching even wars, or at least pre-war situations. For example, Argentina and Chile, in the late 1978; Chile, Peru and Bolivia, between 1977 and 1979; Guatemala and the United Kingdom, in Belize, in 1972, and, as a culmination, the war adventure of the Argentine Military Junta in the South Atlantic, in 1982”. See: Cairo and Lois 2014, at 45–67.
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In his Dissenting Opinion at the International Court of Justice in Colombian—Peruvian Asylum case, Judge Alvarez, stated: “This expression “American international law” has been accepted in various ways which need not be mentioned here. This expression does not mean, as may appear at first sight and as many would have us believe, an international law which is peculiar to the New World and entirely distinct from universal international law, but rather the complex of principles, conventions, customs, practices, institutions and doctrines which are peculiar to the Republics of the New World”; see Asylum (Colombia v. Peru), ICJ, Counter-claims, Judgment, 20 November 1950 (‘Asylum’).
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It is recommended to see: Separate opinion of Judge Cançado Trindade, at Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean (Bolivia v. Chile), ICJ, Preliminary Objections, Judgment, 24 September 2015 (‘Obligation to Negotiate’).
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See: Gómez-Robledo 2001.
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See: Becerra-Ramírez 2000.
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See: Becerra-Ramírez 2012.
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Manuel Becerra-Ramirez is a lawyer specialized in public international law who was educated in international law at the Moscow State University, where he earned his PhD under the direction of Professor Grigory I. Tunkin. There, Professor Becerra-Ramirez understood the importance of periodicals on international law and the gap that existed in the country by not having a specialized publication. Especially at the time of the Mexico's integration into globalization.
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For example, Jean Michel Arrighi (OAS), Luis Benavides (Mexico), Michael Byers (Canada), Carlos Bernal (Mexico), Vaughan Lowe (UK) Rein Mullerson (Estonia), Simon Chesterman (Australia), Beatriz Pallarés (Argentina), Loretta Ortíz (Mexico) Gabriela Rodríguez (Mexico), Elizabeth Salmon( Peru); Juan Carlos Velázquez (Mexico); Rodolfo Cruz Miramontes (Mexico), Ricardo Méndez-Silva (Mexico); Stefan Talmon (Germany) Yoram Dinstein (Israel), Kuen-chen Fu (China), Soledad Torrecuadrada (Spain), Andreas Paulus (Germany), Nuria González (Mexico), Luiz Quadros (Brazil), Tatiana Ribeiro (Brazil), Luis Peraza (Spain); Alberto Szekely (Mexico), José Luis Vallarta (Mexico), Jorge Witker (Mexico); Judge of The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Alonso Gómez-Robledo; Judge of the International Court of Justice, Antonio Cançado Trindade; members of the International Law Commission Georg Nolte and Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo; former judges of the International Court of Justice, Thomas Buergenthal, Bernado Sepúlveda and so on.
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The technical secretaries are young students who have contributed a lot to the MYIL; in addition to managing the reception of articles, they contribute ideas of dissemination. In the history of the MYIL the names of the technical secretaries are: Leyda Castillo, Ingrid Berlanga, Zuily Zarate, Evelyn Tellez, Andrea Hernández, Evelyn Tellez, Xavier Ramírez, Mónica Núño, Raúl Eugenio.
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The MYIL has a list of arbitrators performing their function on a pro bono basis. They are mostly academics from different universities, many of them being authors of the Yearbook´s papers.
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Article 3 of the Mexican Constitution states: “All education provided by the State shall be free”.
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See: Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000 (Democratic Republic of the Congo vs Belgium), ICJ, Joint separate opinion of judges Higgins, Kooijmans and Buergenthal, 14 February 2002 (‘Arrest Warrant’), para 44; where Luis Benavides (see Benavides 2001) is quoted.
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Becerra-Ramirez, M. (2021). Mexican Yearbook of International Law: A Concept for Researching, Disseminating, and Teaching International Law. In: Spijkers, O., Werner, W.G., Wessel, R.A. (eds) Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2019. Netherlands Yearbook of International Law, vol 50. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-403-7_19
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