Sentences with phrase «of international tribunals»

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.

Professor Ziadé has extensive experience in the administration of international legal proceedings and in the management and development of international tribunals.

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?

He has also acted before a great variety of international tribunals, including the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Rehabilitation here means not that of individual criminals but of entire societies that have suffered war or dictatorship, as when supporters of international tribunals describe punishment as «overcoming a culture of impunity.»

The charters of the international tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda and of the ICC speak strongly of deterrence.

In essence, the students learn how to litigate a case in front of an international tribunal doing what an attorney does in real life.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.»

Even if international tribunals, especially the ICC, were to meet with greater success in arresting arch-human-rights violators, deterring future violators, and bolstering the rule of law, they would remain morally unsatisfying as a response to massive evil.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.»

Another way is to increase the power of international human rights tribunals.

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.»

When interpreting the Bill of Rights, a court, tribunal or forum must promote the values that underlie an open and democratic society based on human dignity, equality and freedom; must consider international law; and may consider foreign law.

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

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.

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.

[43] The tribunal referred their findings to the chief prosecutor at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

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.

«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.

EMBL is forced to pay retroactive pay increases because the administrative tribunal of the Geneva - based International Labour Organization (ILO) recently ruled that the lab had violated its own staff guidelines by setting 1995 salaries too low (ScienceNOW, 3 November).

76 Statute of the International Criminal tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, adopted May 25, 1993 by S / RES / 827 (1993) art. 5 (g).

An international tribunal of reputable historians and international lawyers, including equal representatives of Israel and Palestine, will determine the level of compensation.

It is therefore not surprising thatOHCHR, after a thorough inquiry, came to the conclusion that the above - mentioned barbaric acts against refugees constituted war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly crimes of genocide, subject to confirmation by a competent international criminal court or tribunal.34 So far, no charge has been brought forward.

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).

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.

«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.

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

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.

This deference is present whether the board in question is a «statutory» or a private tribunal (on the distinction in the labour relations context, see Roberval Express Ltée v. Transport Drivers, Warehousemen and General Workers Union, Local 106, [1982] 2 S.C.R. 888, Howe Sound Co. v. International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Canada), Local 663, [1962] S.C.R. 318, affirming (1961), 29 D.L.R. (2d) 76, Re International Nickel Co. of Canada and Rivando, [1956] O.R. 379 (C.A.)-RRB- It is based on the idea that if the courts are available to the parties as an alternative forum, violence is done to a comprehensive statutory scheme designed to govern all aspects of the relationship of the parties in a labour relations setting.

«Should it ever be determined that there existed an inconsistency between the ECT and EU Law», observed the Tribunal in RREEF Infrastructure, «the unqualified obligation in public international law of any arbitration tribunal constituted under the ECT would be to apply the former.

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.

First, with regard to the judicial avenues foreign investors have against host - states, three come to mind: (a) bringing a claim before an investor - state tribunal; (b) bringing a claim before a domestic court, based on domestic and / or international standards of protection; and (c) private commercial arbitration based on a contract between the investor and the host ‑ State.

Moreover, as the relevant BIT remains in force, and as the contracting states have not taken any other relevant action either, the tribunal can not work from the premise that Achmea renders the BIT void or inapplicable as a matter of international law.

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.

This authentic exercise requires students to act as advocates, analyzing and arguing both sides of a hypothetical legal dispute, using procedures modeled after those employed before real - life international arbitration tribunals.

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).

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.»

In determining the scope of a right or obligation, Tribunals have often looked as a benchmark to international or comparative standards.

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

She has appeared before all levels of Ontario court, the British Columbia Court of Appeal, and before domestic and international arbitral tribunals.

Helping to align investment arbitration with the functioning and the results of other systems of public law adjudication can contribute to forming an emerging consensus on the many contested issues in international investment law and afford legitimacy to the dispute settlement activity of investor - State arbitral tribunals.