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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"International courts."”.
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Legitimate Interpretation: Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals
The interaction between domestic law and international law is a topic of perennial interest for international lawyers. Domestic law has long been recognised as a source of international law, an inspiration for legal developments, or the benchmark against which a legal system is to be assessed. More …
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The Limitations on the Judicial Function of International Courts and Tribunals
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared in the Northern Cameroons case that ‘[t]here are inherent limitations on the exercise of the judicial function which the Court, as a court of justice, can never ignore’. On this basis, the ICJ and other international courts and tribunals have …
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The Application of the Democratic Dialogue Model to the Relationship between Domestic Legislatures and International Courts
… relationship between domestic legislatures and international courts. The thesis hypothesises that, at a descriptive level, domestic legislatures and international courts engage in democratic dialogue because each time an international court decides on a rights issue, domestic legislatures can …
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The contribution of customary international law to the development of international crimes: the role of international courts and tribunals
The development of international crimes rightly touches the statement, ‘desperate ills need desperate medicines’, made by Mr C.B. Burdekin, a representative from New Zealand, during the thirty-sixth meeting of the United Nations War Crimes Commission on 17 October 1944. The thesis is intrigued by …
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Įrodymų leistinumas /
… in Lithuanian criminal law cases; 3) to reveal international courts’ (the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights) and other countries’ (USA, England, Denmark and Belgium) judicial decisions applying admissibility of evidence requirements in criminal process and to make …
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Breaking the Silence: Women's Experiences With Sexual Violence During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
… by military organizations, media outlets, and international courts. Existing literature has illustrated how wartime rape was accepted or dismissed in the past, and how today, while this practice continues, international courts are beginning to identify the harm being done to women, making …
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A Vision for the Future of Private International Law in the States of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Why is it Necessary for the GCC to Move Towards Private International Law Harmonisation?
… focused on substantive law rather than private international law. Since the establishment of the GCC, in addition to several non-binding model laws that include some private international law provisions, only one private international law instrument was adopted, the GCC Agreement on the …
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ROBUST CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS—ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL TOOLS TO COUNTERACT RUSSIAN HYBRID WARFARE: THE CASE OF UKRAINE
… and continue pursuing lawsuits against Russia in international courts. Additionally, NATO and the EU should extend and expand sanctions against Russia, increase resilience, and intensify cooperation in the information, energy, and cybersecurity areas. Beyond providing guidance for Ukraine, the …
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LA RISOLUZIONE DEI CONFLITTI TRA TRATTATI: METODI TRADIZIONALI ALLA PROVA DEI REGIMI AUTONOMI
… contradictions between autonomous regimes of international law. The analysis starts from the observation that, with the expansion and specialization of international law, traditional types of conflict between conventional provisions have been replaced by a new type of treaty antinomy: between …
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The scope for strengthening the procedural rights of third party groups in ISDS
… reflected in the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) discussions, on the development of a framework for third party access to the ISDS system. This thesis informs the UNCITRAL reform process by interrogating the concept of third-party rights in ISDS and seeking …
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The crime of 'terror' under International Humanitarian Law
… of the crime of ‘terror’ as a war crime under international humanitarian law. Included in Article 51 (2) of Additional Protocol I and in Article 13 (2) of Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the crime prohibits the ‘acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which …
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HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED CLIMATE LITIGATION AND THE ROLE OF UNGA RESOLUTION 76/300: TOWARDS A RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW?
… the potential and challenges of employing international human rights law to address the impacts of climate change, with a specific focus on the emerging right to a healthy environment under international law. It begins by tracing the gradual ‘greening’ of established human rights, such as …
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The relationship between national and international jurisdiction for ‘core crimes’ under international law-a critical analysis
… humanity and war crimes at both national and international level, a number of pertinent issues come up concerning the Court which should have primacy to deal with a particular case. States have had a variety of options at their disposal, such as complementarity, exclusivity, subsidiarity and …
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The relationship between national and international jurisdiction for ‘core crimes’ under international law-a critical analysis
… humanity and war crimes at both national and international level, a number of pertinent issues come up concerning the Court which should have primacy to deal with a particular case. States have had a variety of options at their disposal, such as complementarity, exclusivity, subsidiarity and …
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The United Nations Security Council: ways out of the Veto-Dilemma
… The war was initiated by Russia without any international legal legitimacy. Russia is a permanent member of the most powerful international executive body in the world - the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). As a permanent member, Russia holds the power to block draft resolutions of the …
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Islands and Rocks: moving towards certainty on the interpretation of Article 121 of the Law of the Sea Convention?
… seeks primarily to investigate whether the international community is moving towards certainty on the interpretation of Article 121 of the LOSC, with particular reference to the distinction between islands and rocks. In doing so, this dissertation will explore the body of jurisprudence of …
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South West Africa and the International Court of Justice.
… most protracted litigation in the history of the International Court of Justice. The decision by the Court in 1966 left many experts with the thought that the Court was in danger of dying from atrophy or that use of the Court would be curtailed. It appeared that these prophets of doom might be …
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The projected Arab Court of Justice: a study to its draft statute and rules, with specific reference to the International Court of Justice and principles of Islamic Shariah
… its draft Statute with the Statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and other regional international courts. The chapter will also show how far the Arab draftsmen have been influenced by principles and rules of Islamic Shariah, especially in matters relating to the qualification …
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US Compliance with International Environmental Human Rights Standards within Domestic Environmental Conflict Resolution
… prerequisite to the fulfilment of human rights, international law affirms that states have obligations to protect its citizens. Over the last fifty plus years, environmental human rights have found support within international agreements, conferences, and statements, and are further buoyed by …
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