During law school, she interned with the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs where she drafted reports, guidelines and memoranda pertaining to the law and practice of registration and depositary functions
of multilateral treaties.
However, this could be an opportune moment to start discussions
of a multilateral treaty.
Then there's a legal connection, because the site's in aid
of a multilateral treaty.
Pursuant to article 9
of this multilateral treaty, disappearances violate the right to liberty and security of the person.
Not exact matches
Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror
of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use
of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern
of trusting the efficacy
of international
treaties,
multilateral strategies and the perspectives
of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application
of just war criteria; and a claim
of common ground with Christian pacifists.
Hague Convention An abbreviation
of Hague Convention on Protection
of Children and Cooperation in Respect
of Intercountry Adoption, a
multilateral treaty concluded on May 29, 1993 in The Hague, Netherlands.
It is because
of this lack
of multilateral coordination that international rules governing foreign investment have been established through a myriad
of international investment agreements (IIAs) negotiated and concluded either as bilateral investment
treaties (BITs) between two countries, or through
multilateral negotiations.
The right to science is articulated both in a
multilateral treaty — the 1966 Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights — and the 1948 Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, which first recognized the right internationally.
The Peoples» Sustainability
Treaties (PST) were initiated by civil society organizations to develop collective agreements for sustainable futures beyond Rio +20 and a post 2015 agenda
of the
multilateral system.
Montreal IGSD names «that other» climate
treaty, 1987's Montreal Protocol «one
of the world's most successful
multilateral environmental agreements, having phased out 97 percent
of almost 100 ozone - depleting substances — placing the ozone layer on a path to recovery later this century».
• The Montreal Protocol is hailed as the most successful
multilateral environmental
treaty having rid the world
of 97 %
of ozone depleting chemicals while providing extra time and technical and financial assistance to developing countries.
The Montreal Protocol is hailed as the most successful
multilateral environmental
treaty having rid the world
of 97 percent
of ozone - depleting chemicals.
Particularly in today's grim international context, the ratification
of even this weakened first - generation climate
treaty must be counted as a major victory for democratic,
multilateral environmental governance.
The
multilateral treaty handling all aspects
of biological diversity, including genetic resources, species and ecosystems, is one
of the three U.N. conventions aimed at protecting the environment along with the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention to Combat Desertification.
Despite the exercise in direct democracy, the answer
of whether the United Kingdom must now withdraw is not clear from the country's constitution because there is no precedent for the withdrawal from a
multilateral treaty regime which creates directly effective legal rights for citizens.
The appropriate remedy is often seen in the, as yet, unattainable goal
of a grand
multilateral treaty.
Pacific Islands Regional
Treaties being bilateral or multilateral treaties that are contracted to or on behalf of the Pacific Island st
Treaties being bilateral or
multilateral treaties that are contracted to or on behalf of the Pacific Island st
treaties that are contracted to or on behalf
of the Pacific Island state (s).
The proliferation
of bilateral investment
treaties (BITs), the dramatic increase in the invocation
of multilateral investment
treaties (MITs) and the growing inter-play between investment and international commercial arbitration in recent years all mean that it is imperative for practitioners
of international arbitration to have a clear understanding
of the fundamental elements
of a BIT and the issues that arise with BIT claims.
The Institute
of Advanced Legal Studies in the United Kingdom recently launched the FLARE Index to
Treaties, a searchable database of basic information on over 1,500 of the most significant multilateral treaties from 1856 to the
Treaties, a searchable database
of basic information on over 1,500
of the most significant
multilateral treaties from 1856 to the
treaties from 1856 to the present.
Jessica Gladstone has direct experience
of negotiating
multilateral treaties, and has represented the UK at the UN and other international institutions.
This arises from the likes
of multinational ventures, such as energy projects, and can be instigated in two ways: investors and host states either consent in contracts to use international arbitration to resolve disputes, or investors make claims under bilateral (or
multilateral) investment
treaties (BITs).
Investment
treaty cases, has acted for a number
of investors in the protection
of their investment under bilateral and
multilateral investment
treaties.
I also use the Fletcher Multilaterals Project, which is good for
multilateral instruments I hope you'll tell us where the UN service falls down and what the weaknesses
of the CTS series are Dupras is useful on what Canada actually does in both French and English to supplement the dangerous dated works by Allan Gotlieb, Canadian
treaty - making, and Anne - Marie Jacomy - Millette, L'introduction et l'application des traités internationaux au Canada.
We advise, principally multinational, clients on all aspects
of international law, including rights under the bilateral and
multilateral investment
treaties.
Advising Hapag Lloyd on its acquisition
of the United Arab Shipping Company, which was an entity established by
multilateral treaty.
Notwithstanding its narrow focus, the Mauritius Convention pursues a systematic reform approach and confronts the fragmented structure
of the international investment regime by proposing a legal principle (transparency) that applies to all existing bilateral, regional, and
multilateral investment
treaties, and in all available arbitral fora.
Enforcement and sanctions imposed by the Greek authorities are not effective in other jurisdictions unless they meet the requirements
of mutual assistance in criminal matters and mutual recognition
of judgments through bilateral and
multilateral treaties.
A foreign investment promotion and protection agreement (and a bilateral investment
treaty) is a bilateral or
multilateral treaty that establishes the terms and conditions for private investment by businesses
of one state in another state.
Pacific Islands Treaty Series (PITS) The Pacific Islands Treaty Series focuses on publishing, in both French and English, the bilateral and
multilateral treaties and Conventions that 21 Pacific Island states have entered into, in a wide - range
of categories.
Investor State Disputes: Thousands
of bilateral and
multilateral investment
treaties, including many recent free trade agreements, give those doing business outside their home country important substantive rights vis - à - vis the States hosting their investments.
Legal claims brought against a Sovereign State or its instrumentalities by a foreign investor under a bilateral or
multilateral investment
treaty, or a contract or a domestic investment law, require a legal team
of the highest international caliber: with great expertise in international law, a deep understanding
of the civil and common law systems, extensive experience in the various fora and rules under which claims are raised, an enhanced capability to analyze complex facts and industries, broad language abilities, and sensitivity to political and cultural issues in the various regions
of the world.
A termination
of additional BITs by Indonesia would ironically come at a time when many
of Indonesia's neighbours such as Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand are negotiating the Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement, a 12 - country
multilateral trade and investment
treaty which it is understood will likely include an Investment Chapter providing for recourse to arbitration.
The BEPS TP Reports call for changes to domestic law and to
treaty provisions and for the negotiation
of a
multilateral instrument to be finalized in 2016.
Other than the IMAC, Switzerland has also adhered to a wide range
of bilateral and
multilateral treaties in matters
of mutual legal assistance in criminal matters (see question 13).
Globalization and the recognition
of human rights and constitutionalism by all UN member states entail that also international courts increasingly interpret their judicial mandates and
multilateral treaties in conformity...
A plethora
of Bilateral Investment
Treaties (BITs) and
multilateral agreements, European Court
of Human Rights (ECtHR) precedents and EU «acquis», all place Romania now firmly on a «dual» foundation
of locally - crafted, as well as internationally - designed, regulation impacting businesses in all sectors and walks
of life.
Haiti's bilateral and
multilateral agreements can be found in the United Nations
Treaty Series (UNTS) and other online
treaty sources from jurisdictions such as the U.S., Canada, and France (Base Pacte), Haiti has joined the Organization
of American States (OAS), the United Nations (UN), and other international organizations, which means that the digital law collections
of those organizations will cover Haiti.
, Duncan Hollis, one
of the law professor authors
of the international law and politics blog Opinio Juris, reports that (after a big nudge from Congress), the Department
of State has added almost 1500 bilateral and
multilateral treaties and other international agreements to its web site.
If it continues to grow and more states accede, some are suggesting that the Convention could serve as a template for a further
treaty introducing a
multilateral investment court system for resolution
of investor - state disputes under existing investment
treaties.
The
multilateral treaty is in place to protect children from the harmful effects
of cross-border abduction and retention by providing a procedure to bring about their prompt return.
n light
of the current state
of international law in respect
of the rights
of Indigenous peoples, and Australia's international legal obligations arising from both customary international law and ratified
multilateral treaties, it is incumbent upon Australia to provide positive legal recognition and protection
of sea rights for Indigenous Australians.
[41] It submits, however, that in the development
of the common law
of native title, the Court ought strive to the extent possible to ensure conformity between the common law and the onerous obligations which Australia has assumed by becoming a party to
multilateral human rights
treaties.