Sentences with phrase «for international tribunals»

Laurel S. Terry, Codes of Conduct for International Tribunals and Arbitration (Prepared for the 2009 ASIL Annual Meeting)(includes, inter alia, counsel codes of conduct for the ICC, ICTY, ICTR, the U.N. Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors, and the International Prosecutors Association Standards of Professional Responsibility and Statement of the Essential Duties and Rights of Prosecutors)
Laurel S. Terry, Handout: Codes of Conduct for International Tribunals and Arbitration for Panel Session on Challenges of Transnational Legal Practice: Advocacy and Ethics at the American Society of International Law 103rd Annual Meeting, March 27, 2009, Washington, DC
Doubts may be raised, too, about social rehabilitation, the second justifying rationale for international tribunals.
Yet it is difficult for any court and much more difficult for an international tribunal — which unlike the national court does not have a natural constituency to spring to its defence — to counter accusations of political maneuvering, or even to stand up for itself generally.

Not exact matches

An international tribunal ruling against the nine - dash line goes a long way toward offering a framework for a unified front against China, and that is something that worries Beijing, experts said.
«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.»
The charters of the international tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda and of the ICC speak strongly of deterrence.
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.
He provides a clear summary of international human rights law for the general reader, including a wealth of detail on the manifold human rights operations of the UN, on U.S. human rights policies over the years, and on regional human rights tribunals in Europe and Latin America.
Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»
He is properly indignant at this abandonment of long - standing commitments: «In two centuries of national existence no more pusillanimous act was ever contemplated, much less carried forward, by American officials responsible for our relations with international tribunals
This would remove the necessity for national vengeance against Iraqi officials; they would be dealt with under international law by an impartial tribunal.
Foreign corporations will now be entitled not only to sue governments in domestic courts, but also to seek legal relief in international tribunals for alleged violations of the MAI.
Exeter City say they are «disappointed for football» after a tribunal said Chelsea should pay the League Two side up to # 2.5 m for the promising Wales international, Ethan Ampadu
76 Statute of the International Criminal tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, adopted May 25, 1993 by S / RES / 827 (1993) art. 5 (g).
29 Upon the closure of the ICTR, the ICTR Prosecutor requested referrals to Rwanda in the cases of six fugitives: Fulgence Kayishema, Charles Sikubwabo, Ladislas Ntaganzwa, Aloys Ndimbati, Charles Ryandikayo, and Pheneas Munyarugarama to be tried by the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT).
He is quickly talked into a new job as a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a war crimes tribunal.
Fleeting between London and Beirut, the Jordanian artist is fixated with the politics of sound and its constructs, with his work often entering governmental and legal spheres such as the UK asylum tribunal and Defence for Children International.
Among Bolivia's demands are the establishment of an international climate justice tribunal, a global referendum on mitigation strategies, and the ratification of legal rights for the pachamama.
Noteworthy, the G77 got language reinserted into the COP21 draft in Bonn last week that again calls for an international «climate justice tribunal» with apparent enforcement powers over developed but not developing countries.
«I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine, and disease in the decades ahead.»
Renco has sued Peru before an international investment tribunal, seeking $ 800 million in damages for the cost of complying with Peru's environmental and mining laws.
Several countries are now calling for piracy cases to be prosecuted in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa; there is even talk of setting up a special piracy tribunal there akin to the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
The arbitral tribunal was convened in 2010 pursuant to the terms of the bilateral investment treaty between Uruguay and Switzerland under the auspices of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, in Washington.
The standard of proof for showing that the constitution of the arbitral tribunal was irregular is high.876 In the words of one United States court, the burden is «substantial because the public policy in favour of international arbitration is strong.»
Courts have rejected challenges under article V (1)(d) where the parties choose institutional rules to govern their procedure that provide for flexibility concerning the manner in which the tribunal is to be composed.881 On the other hand, a German court refused recognition and enforcement where an award was rendered by two, instead of three arbitrators, as expressly required by the rules of the International Arbitration Court of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce that the parties had agreed would govern their arbitration.882
The standard included in the MFN - clause — «fair and equitable treatment» — was not considered to amount to an unconditional right for investors to have their case heard by an international arbitral tribunal.
He represents states, corporations and individuals before international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and arbitrinternational courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and arbitrInternational Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and arbitrInternational Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and arbitral tribunals.
The term of legal autonomy comprises thus for Gragl four «imperatives» that the Court has developed, with the consequence of some serious constraints imposed by the CJEU under its vigilant protection of legal autonomy on Member States choice and utilization of other international courts and tribunals and on the jurisdiction of such courts and tribunals (p. 84).
As the result of a settlement before a civil court and the ICSID tribunal (ICSID stands for International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and is a branch of the World Bank) that seized under the Energy Charter Treaty, the German authorities in question had even further watered down the environmental restrictions imposed under the 2008 water use permit.
Chapter 4 turns to the impact of the somewhat «isolationist» approach found in the Court's case law on international law; it does so by scrutinizing the relationship of the CJEU with a number of other international courts and tribunals, recalling for this purpose in particular the MOX plant controversy and the legal controversy surrounding the creation of the European Economic Area and the EFTA Court.
«The Adjudication of Claims Concerning Environmental Impact Assessment Before International Courts and Tribunals,» June 22, 2016 (International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium, Oslo, Norway)
Mr. Figueroa represents foreign governments and corporate clients before U.S. federal courts and international arbitral tribunals, including the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the International Center for Dispute Resolinternational arbitral tribunals, including the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the International Center for Dispute ResolInternational Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the International Center for Dispute ResolInternational Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the International Center for Dispute ResolInternational Center for Dispute Resolution (ICDR).
In brief, the approach conceives of investment treaty arbitration as a form of public law, and calls for tribunals to draw on comparative domestic constitutional and administrative law, as well as other regimes of international public law such as WTO law and human rights law, to give content to the often vaguely - worded standards of typical investment treaties.
Successfully handling a number of high value and sensitive sex / race discrimination tribunal claims for a FTSE 100 international bank.
Chairman or member of Arbitral Tribunals in more than 150 commercial or investment arbitrations carried out under the rules of the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, SCC, LCIA, AAA, Vienna Arbitral Chamber, Milan Arbitral Chamber and the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.
International arbitration is a Shearman trademark, and during the time of our research it was fighting for the largest potential award in arbitral tribunal history, a whopping $ 50 billion from Russia on behalf of former controlling shareholders of bankrupt oil giant Yukos.
In applying the criteria laid out by the Court, the AG pays little attention to the fact that the tribunals are set up by an international agreement rather than through domestic law, to the ad - hoc nature of ISDS, and to the long - held criticism that ISDS arbitrators lack the basic judicial safeguards for judicial independence.
The Montreal native and Companion of the Order of Canada was previously the United Nations high commissioner for human rights as well as the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
Such training would assist young lawyers in appearing before international tribunals, for example.
These include domestic courts utilizing universal jurisdiction, the establishment by the Security Council of an ad hoc international criminal tribunal, use of the International Criminal Court for any crimes committed after July 2002, and the International Courinternational criminal tribunal, use of the International Criminal Court for any crimes committed after July 2002, and the International CourInternational Criminal Court for any crimes committed after July 2002, and the International CourInternational Court of Justice.
Our team fought and won an eight - year battle before an international arbitral tribunal to secure compensation for Econet and to protect its rights.
In a unanimous decision, the tribunal - which had been constituted under the auspices of the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Additional Facility Rules (the Additional Facility)- ruled that it lacked jurisdiction over NSPI's claims because NSPI was not an «investor» who had made a qualifying «investment» in Venezuela as called for by the Canada - Venezuela Bilateral Investment Treaty (Canada - Venezuela Treaty).
Upfront fees payable to arbitral institutions and the deposit for the tribunal's costs are usually shared by the parties in international arbitrations.
On April 4, 2016, a tribunal constituted under the Additional Facility to the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) upheld Crystallex's claims that Venezuela failed to accord fair and equitable treatment to the Vancouver - based company's investment in the Las Cristinas mining project and unlawfully expropriated the company's investments without compensation.
He acts for a range of local and international corporations as well as UAE government entities with a specialist focus on arbitration and all types of commercial and rental disputes before courts and tribunals.
Orrick's Paris International Arbitration team has obtained a key victory for the Republic of Guinea in a USD 91 million ICSID arbitration against Société Civile Immobilière de Gaëta, after the tribunal found that it did not have jurisdiction to hear the case.
Diego Cadena is an Ecuadorian lawyer with the international arbitration and litigation group in Washington, D.C.. His practice focuses on comparative law and international dispute resolution, especially in cases involving the representation of clients before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationinternational arbitration and litigation group in Washington, D.C.. His practice focuses on comparative law and international dispute resolution, especially in cases involving the representation of clients before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationinternational dispute resolution, especially in cases involving the representation of clients before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationInternational Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationInternational Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationInternational Chamber of Commerce (ICC) among other internationalinternational tribunals.
At Foley Hoag, he will be defending sovereign State clients against claims by investors before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and other arbitral tribunals.
Furthermore, tribunals have a deeply rooted perception of the need for consistency, and perceive their own mission as involving the development of a coherent system of international investment protection and a jurisprudence constante.
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