Sentences with phrase «other international tribunals»

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.

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.

Though criminal prosecutions remain available and immunity is completely excluded by the International Criminal Court and all other international tribunals, the ECtHR and some English judges cling to an outdated relic of nationalism.

Not exact matches

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, 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.»

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.

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

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.

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).

I recently came across Jus in Bello, a blog from Pace University School of Law that covers the International Criminal Court, other international criminal tribunals and the law of international criminalInternational Criminal Court, other international criminal tribunals and the law of international criminalinternational criminal tribunals and the law of international criminalinternational criminal prosectuion.

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.

His 50 - year career in international law and diplomacy has spanned a wide and varied field, including settlement of disputes; the law of treaties; State responsibility; diplomatic and State immunity; maritime delimitation; the law of the Continental shelf; outer space and nuclear energy; the law of international organisations; the UN Security Council; the laws of war and neutrality; international criminal tribunals; and numerous other areas.

«Representing Sovereign States in Public International Law Disputes Before the International Court of Justice and Other Inter-State Courts and Tribunals,» April 7, 2016 (Harvard Law School)

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.

Beyond child custody, other legal issues with potential international or comparative components concern the legal status of marriage or divorce, or the enforceability of domestic relations orders by foreign tribunals.

Pierre d'Argent is special counsel at Foley Hoag and specializes in representing States before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and other international courts aInternational Court of Justice (ICJ) and other international courts ainternational courts and 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.

Vaughan Lowe is a practising Barrister at Essex Court Chambers, mainly in the field of international law, with cases in the International Court of Justice, the ECJ, the ECHR, the ITLOS, the Iran - US Claims Tribunal, ad hoc Arbitral Tribunals and courts in England and Hong Kong, international law, with cases in the International Court of Justice, the ECJ, the ECHR, the ITLOS, the Iran - US Claims Tribunal, ad hoc Arbitral Tribunals and courts in England and Hong Kong, International Court of Justice, the ECJ, the ECHR, the ITLOS, the Iran - US Claims Tribunal, ad hoc Arbitral Tribunals and courts in England and Hong Kong, among others.

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.

Sheila has appeared as counsel at all levels of court in Canada and before international arbitrations and other tribunals.

But the great difficulty in international arbitration is that, as the rules on legal privilege and professional confidentiality vary from country to country and the Sealed Offer is unknown outside England and a few other countries, a party or its lawyer can not be confident that its adversary, its lawyer and the individual members of the tribunal will respect the confidentiality of a Sealed Offer.

For example, ALI's current «Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the US» has been cited not only by US courts (including the US Supreme Court), but also by an impressive range of foreign and international courts and tribunals — including the ICJ, the international Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes («ICSID»), and UNCITRAL, as well as national courts in Canada, the UK, and Australia, among other countries.

In an earlier phase of international investment, when investors were more likely to challenge outright expropriations or other forms of bad - faith conduct, the availability of impartial tribunals was seen as a valuable check on host state abuse.

The conference will take up such issues as the nature of domestic and international crimes committed; which high - level Bush officials, including Federal judges and Members of Congress, are chargeable with war crimes; which foreign and domestic tribunals can be used to prosecute them; and the setting up of an umbrella coordinating committee with representatives of legal groups concerned about the war crimes such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, ACLU, among others.

The UN's AVL Library and «International Law» page link to the webpages of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the international criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR), the Permanent Court for International Justice (PCIJ), the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT), and other spInternational Law» page link to the webpages of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the international criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR), the Permanent Court for International Justice (PCIJ), the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT), and other spInternational Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the international criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR), the Permanent Court for International Justice (PCIJ), the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT), and other spInternational Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the international criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR), the Permanent Court for International Justice (PCIJ), the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT), and other spInternational Criminal Court (ICC), the international criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR), the Permanent Court for International Justice (PCIJ), the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT), and other spinternational criminal tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR), the Permanent Court for International Justice (PCIJ), the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT), and other spInternational Justice (PCIJ), the United Nations Administrative Tribunal (UNAT), and other special courts.

In addition to publishing widely cited books and articles, our professors are often involved in litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court, international tribunals, and other courts.

(a) the guarantees of equality before the law and racial non-discrimination [34] in article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights («ICCPR») and articles 2 and 5 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination («CERD»), in particular the obligation in article 5 of CERD to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination and to guarantee the right of everyone to equality before the law, including in the enjoyment of (a) the right to equal treatment before the tribunals and all other organs administering justice, (d)(v) the right to own property alone as well as in association with others [35], and (d)(vii) the right to freedom of religion [36];

The suspension decision potentially limits the right of Sri Lankan and Afghan nationals to equality before the law including equal treatment before tribunals and other organs administering justice (protected under article 5 of ICERD), and the right to freedom from arbitrary detention (protected under article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights).