The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.

Part 1 Articles: The environment and the law of conventional warfare; Legal aspects of targeting in the law of naval warfare; Extradition in the USSR's treaties on legal assistance with non-socialist states; The Canadian Laws Offshore Application Act: the legislative incorporation of rights over the continental shelf; Reflexions sur la validite des operations contre l'Iraq en regarde de la Charte des Nations Unies et du droit Canadien; L'examen des rapports periodiques du Canada en application du Pacte relatif aux droits economiques, sociaux et culturels; Visit, search, and capture in naval warfare, part I - the traditional law; John P. Humphrey and the development of the international law of human rights. Part 2 Notes and comments: Canadian investment promotion and protection treaties; Self-defence as a justification for disregarding diplomatic immunity; International arbitration and international adjudication: the different contemporary lots of the two Hague tribunals. (Part contents).