Sentences with phrase «international tribunals»

If necessary, replace it with «violates X», «actionable in international tribunal Y» or as otherwise appropriate.

This lesson also includes a set of simulations that allow students to apply the issues discussed in the readings and lecture to two real life issues that have come before international tribunals.

It is claimed by some that terrorist attacks are not acts of war but crimes to be punished by international tribunals.

We also represent clients before ad hoc and institutional international tribunals.

Most international tribunal publications, reports, documents, decisions are online.

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

He has appeared before a wide range of international tribunals including arbitral tribunals established under bilateral investment treaties, WTO panels and the WTO's Appellate Body.

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

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 international tribunals.

He has given evidence in a broad variety of civil courts and both domestic and international tribunals on more than 20 occasions over a period of 30 years as a testifying expert and has sat as an arbitrator, adjudicator or mediator on over 80 occasions.

Why would the EU itself be able to decide exceptions to the principle of legal autonomy, which all countries that accept the jurisdiction of international tribunals do?

She has acted as counsel before a range of international tribunals including the European Court of Human Rights, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and in ICSID arbitrations.

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.»

As a litigator, he argued cases in most common law provinces and before the Supreme Court of Canada as well as appearing before the International Court of Justice and various international tribunals.

No, if he does so, he would be a war criminal on international scale who could be tried in another country or by a special international tribunal.

Several International Tribunals have come to the conclusion that «he requirements of independence and impartiality serve the purpose of protecting the parties against...

This is primarily because of the specific characteristics of arbitration, which avoids local courts in favour of international tribunals whose awards can be enforced in other states that are party to the New York Convention.

Yet this year's report identifies as a barrier Mexico's hydrocarbons law because it requires foreign companies to use the domestic court system in Mexico to arbitrate certain government disputes — rather than allowing foreign firms to use unaccountable international tribunals.

He is regularly instructed by Governments in international cases and has appeared before numerous international tribunals including the International Court of Justice and Tribunals constituted with respect to the Law of the Sea.

«United States and international tribunals already have taken steps to bar enforcement of the Ecuadorian ruling.

Courts and tribunals Browse alphabetical lists of cases before each of the courts in The Hague and international tribunals all over the world.

Courts can take shortcuts by focusing their research on salient indicia of state practice in the form of treaties and important decisions from international tribunals, but those examples usually seem to tell only part of the story.

Today, however, many of the existing specialised international tribunals have been created in the context of a particular regime, such as one which promotes, for example, the liberalisation of international trade rules, the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, or the economic integration of a regional organisation.

We also represent the interests of sovereign governments and their leaders before the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and various other international tribunals.

Certainly since other States, not uniquely the EU, also have to accept that their laws are applied or interpreted by international tribunals, such as by the WTO Appellate Body.

Based on the model of past U.S. trade agreements, statements by officials, and published documents including a U.S. - E.U. «High Level Working Group» report outlining the objectives for negotiations, it appears that the goal is to grant transnational corporations and governments expanded «rights» under the Trans Atlantic agreement to challenge government regulations before international tribunals.

A dual Lebanese and Chilean national, Ziadé has extensive experience in the administration of international legal proceedings and in the management and development of international tribunals.

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.

An international tribunal in The Hague ruled in favor of the Philippines in a landmark case in July, finding that China had violated international law in the South China Sea.

Now an international tribunal has also been included, posing more threat to the integrity of China's maritime and territorial sovereignty,» the Global Times said in a recent editorial.

It may be inevitable that impersonal forces of technology and changing global economic circumstances have profound effects, but it adds insult to injury when governments reach agreements that further cede control to international tribunals.

This criterion legitimates the resort to arms after other feasible means of addressing the injustice in question (such as mediation, negotiation, arbitration or referral to international tribunals — but not compromise or appeasement) have failed.

Let a human rights organization or an international tribunal come and convict these prisoners and they'll all be freed on the basis that they are resisting (whether violently or peacefully) the occupation of their country.

Among them an international tribunal on violations of the Charter's rights.

Twenty - two companies — mainly private equity firms — are suing Spain at an international tribunal level.

«From a legal perspective, it's wonderful to have an international tribunal recognize that environmental damage is a significant component of armed conflict,» says Carl Bruch of the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C.

In 1948, a series of trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany, by an international tribunal, headed by American legal and military officials, with the intent of bringing to justice those guilty of crimes against humanity.

A screening of DʼArusha à Arusha (From Arusha to Arusha, 114 min., France / Canada / Rwanda 2008) by French filmmaker Christophe Gargot, which looks at the international tribunal of the major offenders in the genocide and civil war in Rwanda that took place in Arusha, Tanzania from 1995.

Mark has practised before every level of Court in England and Wales and has also practised abroad and before international tribunals and courts.