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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"General International Law"”.
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The Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens) Under The Vienna Convention on The Law of Treaties
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Creating legal blackholes? Terrorism and detention without trial: towards a changing rule in international law?
… paid to another important aspect touching on general international law and international human rights law in particular: What is the effect of counter-terrorist actions on existing rules of human rights law when these actions violate these norms? Could they possibly create a new rule? The …
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Freedom of Transit and Pipeline Gas : Can The World Trade Organization Provide a Viable Legal Framework for the Development of an International Gas Market?
… Organization could promote the development of an international gas market by playing a more prominent role in regulating rights essential to effective pipeline gas transit. Gas transit is network-dependent in the sense that it cannot be established without the existence of pipeline infrastructure …
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Occupation Law and Paradigms of Control
This thesis analyses the notion of control in the law of military occupation. It addresses the following research question: what does control denote and what are its implications for military occupation? More specifically, it demonstrates that in present-day occupations, control as such occurs in …
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The Admissibility of Shareholder Claims: Standing, Causes of Action, and Damages
… and inadequate consideration of the applicable law in shareholder claims in investment treaty arbitration. It challenges the application by investment tribunals of two basic premises: i) that shareholders are entitled to claim for damages vis-à-vis measures against the company in which they hold …
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'A Reasonably Well Organized Modern State': Investment Treaty Arbitration and the Reformation of Economic Sovereignty in Customary International Law
The international arbitration of investment treaty disputes between foreign nationals and their host States is commonly supposed to restrict the exercise of sovereignty. Yet several expressions of territorial jurisdiction have been identified by investment tribunals as presumptive rights of States, …
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International Lawyers as Lawmakers
International lawyers’ participation in international lawmaking is understudied. This gap is especially poignant in the context of the discipline’s obsession with discussing sources and lawmaking. This thesis employs an eclectic methodology that draws from doctrinal methods, critically inspired …
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Domestic Courts and Global Governance: the Politics of Private International Law
… and foreign parties have filed more than 100,000 lawsuits in U.S. federal courts asking for adjudication of disputes arising from transnational activity. These lawsuits raise a fundamental question of global governance: Who governs? Should the United States assert its authority to adjudicate a …
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The Politics of Constitutional Review: Evidence from the European Court of Justice
… have the extraordinary power to strike down laws that do not conform to their own policy preferences. Their political independence is generally regarded as a normative good. In this work, I consider the microfoundations of judicial preferences and how those preferences interact with …