Sentences with phrase «whether international treaties»

The project will provide an inventory of methods of transposition used in Ireland and other jurisdictions, which will include whether some international treaties may be incorporated into the law of the State by secondary legislation or by endorsement by resolution of the Oireachtas.

One also has to wonder whether the international treaties and organizations needed to agree on and execute a geoengineering scheme are significantly easier to realize than the agreements needed to decarbonize the energy future, which would offer safer and more durable climate protection.

But behind the scenes, another crisis is unfolding: the first ever test of whether the international treaty banning these weapons can be used in a world for which it wasn't designed.

Not exact matches

Assertions, whether from treaty - monitoring bodies, or abortion - promoting organizations, that abortion is a part of health do not reflect the law, nor that they are not the authors of international law.

American foreign policy has long put its sovereignty first, whether by not joining the League of Nations, the International Criminal Court or various international treaties on human rights and environmenInternational Criminal Court or various international treaties on human rights and environmeninternational treaties on human rights and environmental controls.

As the Avengers and their newfound allies take sides on the issue of whether to sign a treaty agreeing to international oversight or continue with their current strategy of world - saving, no matter the cost, it's fascinating to see who falls where.

Participants wondered whether the U.N. Security Council or a new international treaty might eventually regulate geoengineering, but to cover experiments on the shorter term, scientific societies, national science academies, or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were each proposed as possible venues for some sort of geoengineering accord.

From the Greens, «Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Wednesday that Britain would cut emissions 34 per cent below 1990 by 2020, regardless of whether a new international climate treaty was signed this year.

In some circumstances, other international treaties, or the domestic law of the country where enforcement is sought, will also apply to the question of whether a foreign arbitral award should be recognized and enforced.

Whether a French corporation is seeking assistance in foreign investment opportunities in France, French trade relations, French investment abroad, French relations with the administration, Paris international treaties or transfer pricing, a Paris international business lawyer can provide guidance for the legal proceedings with the European Commission and other institutions.

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.

To show the existence of a rule of customary international law, a lawyer musters examples of state practice, whether manifested in treaties, national legislation and court cases, diplomatic correspondence, or other miscellany.»

However, as I discuss below, despite the treaty context of the claim, it is unclear whether the Saar Papier tribunal considered itself to be applying international law.

7 Art. 103, General Organic Code of Processes (2015): The court judgments, arbitral awards and acts of mediation issued abroad, whether or not they have been homologated and issued in an adversarial proceedings, will have in Ecuador the same treatment as they have in the current international treaties and conventions -LRB-...).

On November 12th, 1913 the first International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, more commonly known as SOLAS, was signed, which through revisions in 1929, 1948, 1960, 1974 and 1980, exists to this day as the most significant treaty regulating safety in ocean going vessels and thus ensuring that whether they are near or far, hearts will go on for both kings of the world and paupers alike whilst they are at sea.

[s] ome of the topics for discussion include an analysis of the UGC [user - generated content] exception under Canadian copyright law, the interaction of the UGC exception with fair dealing, specific legal aspects of fan fiction and appropriation art, and whether the UGC exception is in conformity with international treaty standards.

This decision has been the subject of considerable discussion among arbitration practitioners: as was discussed several months ago on Slaw, the case raises a number of difficult questions about how international arbitration and Canada's treaty obligations in that respect interact with local procedural law — specifically limitation of actions — when seeking to enforce the award, and more generally whether foreign judgments and arbitral awards should continue to be treated, for limitations purposes, as mere contract debts.

The question for the court is whether any obligations arising from international law treaties take effect at domestic level until Parliament chooses to incorporate all or part of the international law into the domestic sphere, or whether the Royal Prerogative applies.

This blog discusses the compliance of the ASEAN instruments on children's rights with international standards, their capability in addressing current regional issues and whether an ASEAN children's rights treaty is needed.

Where an international obligation does exist, whether under a treaty or a rule of customary international law, a State is barred from invoking its internal law including its constitution.

Any lawyer who needs to consider international matters, and increasingly any lawyer whose work involves domestic legislation with any international connection, is at risk of encountering a treaty provision which requires interpretation, whether the treaty provision is explicitly in issue or is the source of the relevant domestic legislation.

NYU School of Law professor Linda Silberman agrees that more global coordination is clearly warranted, whether in the form of greater regulatory cooperation or «perhaps even an international treaty.»

With this judgment the Court gave a definitive answer to a long - awaited controversial issue as to whether international investment treaties between EU Member States are compatible with EU law.

Advised on whether an EU Member State had competence to conclude an international treaty relating to an energy project.

Known as investor - state dispute settlement, or ISDS, it is written into a vast network of treaties that govern international trade and investment, including NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, which Congress must soon decide whether to ratify.

The MIC proposed by the EU would be a permanent international court empowered to hear disputes about investments between investors and states that have accepted its jurisdiction to decide whether there has been a breach of the obligations guaranteed in investment treaties.

Nakamitsu says that states should decide «what they consider to be the acceptable degree of human control over the lethal functions of a weapon system, and whether a specific international treaty or instrument is required to ensure that control is maintained.»

She says states must discuss a range of issues relating to the weapons, particularly «what they consider to be the acceptable degree of human control over the lethal functions of a weapon system, and whether a specific international treaty or instrument is required to ensure that control is maintained.»

Recommendation 3: That the Government provide formal legislative recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law in the Sentencing Act by inserting a new section into the Act which requires magistrates and judges to determine in all matters whether Aboriginal Customary Law is a relevant consideration and if so, to provide appropriate weight to customary law in sentencing decisions and to apply it consistently with human rights standards (as defined in the six human rights treaties to which Australia is a party and through the instruments of the United Nations and under international law).