Sentences with phrase «of an international court»

First, quite simply, the record of international courts in securing convictions has been thin.

We should support the recent decision to bring up to date our dues to the UN, which are several years in arrears, and we should place ourselves once again under the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice.

The Statute of the International Court of Justice — the closest thing modern international law has to a constitution — identifies as sources of international law not just treaties and customs, but also the «general principles of law recognized by civilized nations.»

The government of Ghana is compelled to comply with the rulings of the international courts according to their international obligations».

The President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Hisashi OWADA (2010): «International law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence.»

President Mohammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja told Cameroonian President Paul Biya that Nigeria will not go against the ruling of the International Court of Justice that ceded Bakassi Peninsulla to his country's region.

In its statement, IWC points out its reviews and reports «have been widely debated and referenced by parties on all sides of the [scientific whaling] debate including the 2014 ruling of the International Court of Justice,» which found that Japan's whaling program was not about science.

Judgment of International Court of Justice, General List, no. 91, 26 February 2007: case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

61 Judgment of International Court of Justice, General List, no. 91, 26 February 2007: case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro):

Enjoy the city of the seat of the Dutch Government and home of the International Court of Justice from a self - catering The Hague apartment in the heart of the city!

In a news release, C.G. Weeramantry, a member of the council and former vice president of the International Court of Justice, described the group's goal this way:

Encouraging IWC Commissioners to take all necessary steps to prevent Japan from further whaling in light of the International Court of Justice's March 2014 judgment that Japan's Antarctic whaling did not qualify as scientific research and thus undermined the moratorium; and

The consequences of this decision for Sea Shepherd and Watson and of the decision of the International Court of Justice for the Japanese whalers and the whales remain to be seen.

Urging IWC Commissioners to strongly criticize Japan for its continued «scientific» whaling, in light of the International Court of Justice's March 2014 judgment that Japan's previous Antarctic whaling did not qualify as scientific research;

Other members of the panel include Sir Roger Buckley, who spent 15 years as a High Court judge in the Queen's Bench Division, John Beechey, a past President of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC, and John Potts, formerly head of the dispute resolution team at Clifford Chance.

Served on a committee of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, in a dispute between a Québec and an Italian company.

At a special session of tributes, organized in his honour by NIALS in collaboration with the faculty of law, University of Lagos (UNILAG), former judge of the international court of justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, Vice chancellor, UNILAG, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe and NIALS director general, Prof. Adedeji Adekunle (SAN) described the late don as a quintessential scholar.

Professor Paulsson is also former President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, immediate past President of the LCIA, a former Vice-President of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, a board member of the American Arbitration Association, and a member of the Singapore International Arbitration Court.

In particular, as part of a more qualitative approach, one needs to have a look whether the current perceived «turbulences» have also by now reached the more fundamental layers of international law, i.e. meta - rules such as the ones on sources, State responsibility, State immunity, treaty interpretation, or res judicata effect of international court decisions must be abided by the parties involved, to name but a few, the general acceptance of which is indispensable for a functioning international legal system.

Focused on international law, cooperation and trade, it includes decisions of international courts and tribunals, treaties and international agreements, international law journals, and law reform materials.

He was happy to use the concept of proportionality to redirect part of Israel's massive West Bank Wall, resisting the argument of the International Court of Justice that declared the wall itself unlawful and» tantamount to annexation».

Secretary General of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC and Director of the Legal Department of the ICC

In addition to her experience representing clients in international arbitration and litigation cases, Analía has served as an arbitrator in a commercial arbitration under the auspices of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC.

Serving as arbitrator in an arbitration under the auspices of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC, concerning a contractual dispute between a State - owned entity and private entities in the energy sector.

D'Argent, a law professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands and the University of Louvain in Belgium, most recently served as first secretary of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Fribourg University: course on the internal judicial practice of the International Court of Justice (April 2013)

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court, by a 6 - 3 ruling in Medellin v. Texas, held that the President does not have the authority to order states to relax their criminal procedures to obey a ruling of the International Court of Justice.

The president of the United States may be the most powerful person in the world, but as the Supreme Court made clear in Medellin v. United States, even the president wasn't powerful enough to force a state to conform its criminal procedures to the rules of the International Court of Justice.

It would be fatally damaging to the credibility of the international court if [Ugandan President] Museveni was allowed to get away with granting amnesty.

During her time at law school Lisa won the prestigious James Crawford Prize for her co-authored article, «Enforcing Judgments of International Courts in National Courts», which was published in the Oxford Journal of International Dispute Settlement.

During the discussion there has been some fear as to the ability and the possibility of an international court to solve the different interests between the capital - importing and the capital - exporting states... This proves as a matter of fact that there exist some common interests between the capital importing and exporting states.

SCC Vice Chairperson Patricia Shaughnessy was in Bishkek last week to take part in the 15th anniversary celebration of the International Court of Arbitration in affiliation with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Kyrgyz Republic (ICA CCI).

«70 Years of the International Court of Justice: The Advisory Function of the Principal Judicial Organ of the United Nations» (a BIICL event chaired by Dame Rosalyn Higgins DBE QC).

I am a very, very lucky lawyer, and I have been mentored and inspired by a great many lawyers, too many to list but among them: my late uncle, Daniel Golden, a solo practitioner in my hometown much respected in his jurisdiction, who rose in his career to be elected President of his State Bar and was still practicing at 90; the first partner to whom I was assigned, the late Robert Rosenman, then Managing Partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and a legendary US securities lawyer and practice leader, who taught me to think critically and the importance of attention to detail; Dame Rosalyn Higgins, later President of the International Court of Justice but long before that I was in the first class that she taught at the London School of Economics, whom I found inspiring both for her achievements and her person; and latterly Lord Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice, who has provided inspiration and encouragement for our P.R.I.M.E. Finance project consistent with so many other inspiring contributions he has tirelessly made to the profession.

Between 2000 and 2003, he also served as a Commissioner of the United Nations Compensation Commission and currently acts as Vice Chairman of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce.

The framework for the enforcement of ADGM Court judgments is increasingly comprehensive, with the new MoU governing local enforcement within the Emirate and a series of Memoranda of Guidance setting out the enforcement procedure in a range of international courts.

The LaGrand judgment of the International Court also provides some guidance on the criteria for identifying the presence of individual rights in treaty instruments -LRB-[2001] ICJ Rep 466 [77]-RRB-.

Eurocentric analysis of international courts assumes that non-European international courts are reproductions of European courts with an adjustment here or there to ensure that they are a fit with local conditions.

-- Stephen M. Schwebel, Former President of the International Court of Justice

The Universe of International Courts

«Article 38» in A Zimmermann et al (eds), The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary, 3rd edn (forthcoming)

April 1, 2015: Stephen M. Schwebel, former U.S. judge and president of the International Court of Justice, on «The High Tide of International Adjudication and Arbitration,» held at the University of Miami School of Law.

They are the World the World Trade Organization's ruling upholding the EU law banning seal products, and the decision of the International Court of Justice that Japan's Antarctic whale hunt is not exempt from the international moratorium on commercial whaling because it does not qualify for the scientific research exemption under international whaling law.

The ESA comprises oral histories (audio files), written transcripts thereof, summary biographies, bibliographies of published works, lists of significant cases, photos (and obituaries if deceased) for about 20 scholars, including two former Presidents of the International Court of Justice, Judge Stephen M. Schwebel and Dame Rosalyn Higgins.

that we finally had certainty on the relationship between state immunity and human rights with the issuance of the International Court of Justice's decision in Germany v Italy (Greece Intervening).

on Symposium: Alter and Helfer's Liberal Theory of International Courts — Interlocutors, Context, Backlash

The decision delves in great detail into the concept of inherent powers of international courts and tribunals, and is strongly reminiscent of the ICTY Appeals Chamber's first decision in Tadic, over which Judge Cassese obviously also presided.

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