Sentences with phrase «under treaties like»

No, says a major pressure group, which thinks that autonomous offensive weapons should be banned under treaties like those against landmines and cluster weapons.

Not exact matches

Under the Constitution, a treaty, like a Federal statute, is part of the «supreme Law of the Land.»

Under the treaty, the word «adaptation» is restricted to adaptation to adverse effects of warming from human - generated greenhouse gases (and to economic harm in, for example, places like Saudi Arabia that pump oil; they'll be standing in line for some of the cash).

[ANDY REVKIN notes: China and India, under the terms of the 1992 treaty and Kyoto, are developing countries along with the likes of Lesotho and, yes, Saudi Arabia.

With a global climate treaty under negotiation and legislation pending in the United States, the climate panel has found itself in the political cross hairs, its judgments provoking passions normally reserved for issues like abortion and guns.

Eli Lilly would like to put an end to this, using Canada's international treaty obligations under NAFTA.

(2) Regarding the termination of TSCG, which was, like in the TESM, not directly foreseen by the treaty, the court argued that a change of circumstances would certainly allow a termination through Art. 62 VCLT and it even considered the termination under Art. 56 (1)(b) VCLT possible out of democratic reasons.

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).

My underlying concern is that a purist public law approach could constitute a break in the legal order, if you like a revolution imposed by intellectual persuasion, that could «pull the constitutional rug» from under the feet of investment treaty law.

To a foreign investor affected by such judicial measures, it is not always clear, however, what judicial measures (especially in countries like India with one of the most activist Supreme Courts in the world) can be subject to a claim under investment treaty law; which theory of liability is appropriate for a state's liability arising out of judiciary's conduct (or omissions); and which policy issues these different theories of liability raise.