Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Tams: The Contentious Jurisdiction of the Permanent Court

Christian J. Tams (Univ. of Glasgow - Law) has posted The Contentious Jurisdiction of the Permanent Court (in The Legacy of the Permanent Court of International Justice, Malgosia Fitzmaurice & Christian Tams eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:
The paper analyses the PCIJ's system of contentious jurisdiction. It argues that while the PCIJ was dissolved 65 years ago, it laid the foundations of a jursdictional system based on consent that still applies today.