Sentences with phrase «most international tribunal»

Not exact matches

«It's a fight we don't want to have, though, because while these fights can drag on in international trade tribunals for years it really puts the pinch on smaller producers... In the short term, what I'm most interested in is protecting the ability of Nova Scotia forestry producers to continue to work without being subject to an unfair duty at the border.»

Patterned after the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals and then the international tribunals created for Rwanda and Yugoslavia earlier in the 1990s, it is the most ambitious expression of the international community's answer to the questions yielded by massive past injustices.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

International law involving disputes between sovereign states, unlike most kinds of law, isn't something that gets resolved definitively by a tribunal in most cases.

The most interesting point about these wide divergences between different Tribunals on rather fundamental points of EU and international law is how little they seem to matter.

In my research on general principles of law in the decisions of international criminal tribunals, I've found that the domestic legal systems that are most frequently invoked by the tribunals are, by far, those of Western Europe (in particular those of Germany, France, and England and Wales).

Some lawyers certainly get the chance to appear before international tribunals, however this is clearly unique and not something most lawyers will experience.

Most importantly, Chevron can return to the ad hoc tribunal of three international arbitrators hearing its claims against Ecuador, which are grounded in the U.S. - Ecuador investment treaty and customary international law under the supervision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

Investor - State Arbitration examines the international treaties that give investors a right to arbitration of claims, the most - commonly employed arbitration rules, and the most important elements of investor - state arbitration procedure including tribunal composition, jurisdiction, evidence, award, and challenge of annulment.

Most bilateral investment treaties concluded between the Chinese and OBOR governments allow an investor to bring investment claims against the host country before an international arbitral tribunal constituted under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules (the UNCITRAL Rules).

He also identifies what he terms «blind spots» of the existing mechanisms for settlement of international disputes by adjudication, the most notable of which are the ineffectiveness of international courts and tribunals in the context of disputes relating to the use of force and the fight against terrorism, and the continuing difficulties in enforcing judgments and awards of international courts and tribunals (pp 83 — 86).

I conclude by arguing for a more empirically - grounded approach to the study of international courts and tribunals, an approach that includes paying greater attention to the distinctive characteristics of the many regional and sub-regional courts outside of Europe whose increasing activity has been ignored by most scholars.