Listing 1 - 4 of 4 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
Amicus curiae participation in international courts is steadily growing since the late 1990 despite lack of clarity on the concept's nature, function and utility in international dispute settlement. Does amicus curiae infuse international judicial proceedings with alternative views, including the public interest in a case, as often advocated by NGOs? Does it increase the legitimacy and transparency of international dispute settlement, or the coherence of international law? Or is it an unhelpful impostor that impedes negotiated solutions and derails the proceedings at the expense of the parties to advance its own agenda? By way of an empirical-comparative analysis of the laws and practices of the ICJ, the ITLOS, the ECtHR, the IACtHR, the IACtHPR, WTO panels and the Appellate Body, and investment arbitration the dissertation examines the status quo of amicus curiae before international courts and tribunals to determine if the current amicus curiae practice is of added value to international proceedings and international dispute settlement in general. The dissertation shows that there is no common concept of international amicus curiae, but that amicus curiae before the international courts examined share a few characteristics. A proposed functional systematization highlights overlaps and diverging uses of the concept before international courts and helps scholars and practitioners to assess the opportunities and limits of the concept. Analysis of the concept's current regulatory framework and its substantive effectiveness reveals a hesitation in particular by courts with a strong adversarial tradition to take into account the views of a non-party despite the positive experience with the concept in regional human rights courts. The dissertation concludes that neither the expectations nor the concerns attached to amicus curiae participation in international proceedings have materialized. It argues that the concept can contribute to improved decisions and decision-making in international dispute settlement if regulated and used properly.
Amici curiae. --- International courts --- International tribunals --- Tribunals, International --- Courts --- Jurisdiction (International law) --- Amici curiae --- Friends of the court --- Parties to actions --- Law and legislation --- Law --- General
Choose an application
Greening International Jurisprudence: Environmental NGOs before International Courts, Tribunals, and Compliance Committees examines how international judicial and quasi-judicial bodies enforce international environmental law, with particular consideration to the role of environmental NGOs. The analytical structure of the study is based on four aspects of discussion and research: the enforcement deficit in environmental law; global environmental governance and sustainable development; the proliferation of international judicial and quasi-judicial bodies; and deliberation and democratic global governance. Author Cathrin Zengerling analyses the institutional structure, as well as the environmental case law from a total of fourteen international courts, arbitral tribunals, and compliance committees with special focus on accessibility, comprehensiveness, and transparency. Underlying this analysis is the fundamental question of whether the respective body appropriately contributes to the realization of democratic governance for sustainable development. After presenting her core findings, the author provides concrete recommendations for future best practices and discusses the need for a new World Environment Court. Researchers, practitioners, and students of international environmental law will find an important, thought-provoking and timely new text in Greening International Jurisprudence: Environmental NGOs before International Courts, Tribunals, and Compliance Committees .
Choose an application
L'ouvrage de Bertha Santoscoy donne une image très complète de l'organe principal du système interaméricain des droits de l'homme : La Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme. Il en analyse son évolution au cours des années et souligne son caractère original, ses fonctions multiples et l'impact de son activité sur les réalités politiques du Continent américain. L'auteur attache ici une grande importance à la question de la double compétence de la Commission, qui permet la coexistence de deux systèmes : celui de la Déclaration américaine des droits et devoirs de l'homme; et celui de la Convention américaine relative aux droits de l'homme. Ce cumul des fonctions fait de la Commission un organe sui generis, sans parallèle, qui assure à la conception des droits de l'homme une unité aussi bien politique que juridique. Mais pour l'essentiel, l'ouvrage consiste en un examen approfondi du système des pétitions individuelles. La familiarité de l'auteur avec la procédure de la Commission confère à cette étude un intérêt tout particulier, car elle s'y attache à démontrer comment, par le biais du traitement des pétitions individuelles, et particulièrement en évitant de se prononcer d'entrée de cause sur la recevabilité, la Commission a su étendre sa compétence aussi bien du point de vue personnel que materiel. À cela s'ajoute que l'auteur ne se contente pas d'analyser le système interaméricain, mais qu'elle le compare avec les autres systèmes existants, spécialement avec le système européen, qui a exercé une influence certaine sur le développement du système interaméricain, mais dont celui-ci se distingue sur des points significatifs. L'auteur souligne l'importance et les faiblesses du système interaméricain des pétitions individuelles, ainsi que les difficultés que rencontre la réalisation des droits de l'homme dans le cadre des plusieurs États du continent américain. Cette étude apporte une série des réponses quant au fonctionnement de la Commission et devient de…
Droits de l'homme
---
Commission interaméricaine des droits de l'homme
---
Human rights
---
International courts.
---
342.72/.73 <7>
---
-International courts
---
International tribunals
---
Tribunals, International
---
Courts
---
Jurisdiction (International law)
---
Basic rights
---
Civil rights (International law)
---
Rights, Human
---
Rights of man
---
Human security
---
Transitional justice
---
Truth commissions
---
Mensenrechten. Amnesty International. Euthanasie--
Choose an application
In the late twentieth century, as the United Nations struggled to come up with a new legal system for the oceans, one woman saw the opportunity to promote radical new ideas of justice and internationalism. Ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) spent decades working with the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention. Throughout this sprawling series of global conferences, she navigated allegiances and enmities, intrigues and setbacks, fighting determinedly to develop a just ocean order. Featuring extensive research and new interviews with Mann Borgese's colleagues and family, this book explores timeless questions of justice and international collaboration and asks whether the extraordinary drive and vision of a single person can influence the course of international law.
Law of the sea. --- International Court of Justice. --- International courts. --- International tribunals --- Tribunals, International --- Courts --- Jurisdiction (International law) --- High seas, Jurisdiction over --- Marine law --- Ocean --- Ocean law --- Sea, Law of the --- International law --- Maritime law --- Territorial waters --- Law and legislation --- CIJ --- Cour internationale de justice --- M.T.S. --- MTS --- Mǐędzynarodowy Trybunał Sprawiedliwości --- Milletlerarası Adalet Divanı --- I.C.J. --- ICJ --- Hague. --- Corte Internacional de Justicia --- Internationaler Gerichtshof --- Dīvān-i Bayn al-Milalī-i Dādgustarī --- Dīvān-i Lāhah --- Corte internazionale di giustizia --- Kokusai Shihō Saibansho --- Sān Yuttitham rawāng Prathēt --- Maḥkamat al-ʻAdl al-Dawlīyah --- Diethnes Dikastērion --- United Nations. --- C.I.J. --- World Court --- Tribunal Internacional de Justicia --- Mezhdunarodnyĭ Sud OON --- Curtea Internațională de Justiție --- Gjykata Ndërkombëtare e Drejtësisë --- GJND --- Meǵunarodniot sud na pravdata --- Nemzetközi Bíróság --- Permanent Court of International Justice --- Permanent Court of Arbitration --- Olon Ulsyn Shu̇u̇kh --- Nėgdsėn U̇ndėstniĭ Shu̇u̇kh --- Borgese, Elisabeth Mann --- Influence. --- Borgese, Elisabeth M. --- Mann-Borgese, Elisabeth --- Law of the sea --- History
Listing 1 - 4 of 4 |
Sort by
|