Provost: Judging in Splendid Isolation

René Provost (McGill Univ. - Law) has posted Judging in Splendid Isolation (American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 56, No. 1, 2008). Here's the abstract:

The article, taking the reception of international law in Canadian law as a case study, argues that the paradigmatic picture of the judicial function has been evolving as a result of the increased reliance on international legal norms by domestic judges. The place given to customary international law and the constitutional process for consenting to the ratification of treaties signal a dual layer of perceived lack of legitimacy on the part of judges. The first relates to the issue of bindingness of international norms on the state, and the concern of judges that they are not in a position to introduce into domestic law legal standards which have not received acceptance by a more representative branch of Government. The second touches on bindingness of international norms in the state, and the desire of judges to protect the integrity of the constitutional balance of power among the executive, legislative and judiciary. Both perceived shortcomings of judicial legitimacy are evolving, however, as reflected in doctrinal and judicial discussions of a 'constitutional dialogue' among the three branches of Government (internal dialogue) as well as a 'transjudicial dialogue' involving judges and other actors belonging to different states (external dialogue). A look at the presumption of conformity of domestic law with international law, the doctrine of legitimate expectations as flowing from treaty ratification, and the usefulness of declarations of incompatibility of national law with binding international obligations highlights a shifting paradigm: judges are moving from a self-conception grounded in splendid isolation to one which projects the judicial function as more proactive and necessarily collaborative.

Workshops: Dyzenhaus, Gathii

David Dyzenhaus (Univ. of Toronto) will give a talk today at the New York University School of Law Hauser Globalization Colloquium on Global Governance and Legal Theory on "The Concept of (Global) Administrative Law."

James Gathii (Albany Law School) will give a talk today at the Harvard Law School International Law Workshop on "Slippages of the Public/Private in Resource Wars."

Harvard International Law Workshop

Here's the schedule for Harvard Law School's Fall 2008 International Law Workshop:

• September 10, 2008 - James Gathii (Albany Law School), Slippages of the Public/Private in Resource Wars
• September 17, 2008 - Jide Nzelibe (Northwestern Univ. - Law), Courting Genocide: The Unintended Effects of Humanitarian Interventions
• September 24, 2008 - Jeff Dunoff (Temple Univ. - Law), Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law and Global Governance
• Friday, October 10, 2008 - Benedict Kingsbury (New York Univ. - Law), Punishment of States and Peoples in International Law: History and Policy
• October 15, 2008 - Gráinne de Búrca (Fordham Univ. - Law), Stumbling into Experimentalism: The EU Anti-Discrimination Regime
• October 29, 2008 - John Witt (Columbia Univ. - Law), The Law of War in America - A Preliminary History
• November 5, 2008 - Karen Knop (Univ. of Toronto - Law), TBA
• November 12, 2008 - Adelle Blackett (McGill Univ. - Law), The Paradox of OHADA's Transnational, Hard Law, Labour Harmonization Initiative
• November 14, 2008 - Paolo Carozza (Notre Dame Univ. - Law), Amnesty Laws, Democracy and International Human Rights
• November 19, 2008 - Philip Alston (New York Univ. - Law), Hobbling the Monitors? The UN Code of Conduct for Human Rights Special Procedures

New Issue: International Journal of Transitional Justice

The latest issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Vol. 2, no. 2, July 2008) is out. Contents include:

• Catherine Turner, Delivering Lasting Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Times of Transition: The Role of International Law
• Laura Arriaza & Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Social Reconstruction as a Local Process
• Emilio Crenzel, Contributions to Transitional Justice
• Colleen Duggan, Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey, & Julie Guillerot, Reparations for Sexual and Reproductive Violence: Prospects for Achieving Gender Justice in Guatemala and Peru
• Magdalena Zolkos, The Time That Was Broken, the Home That Was Razed: Deconstructing Slavenka Drakulic's Storytelling About Yugoslav War Crimes
• Melanie Klinkner, Forensic Science for Cambodian Justice

Treaty Transmittal: Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support

Yesterday, the President transmitted to the Senate, for its advice and consent to ratification, the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, adopted at The Hague on November 23, 2007. The United States signed the Convention upon its adoption. The transmittal package (Treaty Doc. 110-21) is here.

David: Principes de droits des conflits armés (Fourth Edition)

Eric David (l’Université libre de Bruxelles - Law) has published the fourth edition of his Principes de droits des conflits armés (Bruylant 2008). Here's the abstract:

Matière classique entre toutes du droit international, le droit des conflits armés a déjà donné lieu à beaucoup d’ouvrages, mais le temps passe, l’histoire s’accélère et le droit évolue. Il était donc tentant de revoir une présentation de la matière à la lumière de ses plus récents développements.

Parmi les problèmes généralement peu abordés et particulièrement sensibles aujourd’hui figurent le champ d’application du droit des conflits armés et la responsabilité de ses violations. Deux chapitres sont donc entièrement consacrés à ces points et répondent notamment à des questions telles que : quand y a-t-il conflit armé? Quand ce conflit est-il réputé international ? Quid d’une guerre de libération nationale, d’une guerre de sécession, d’un conflit interne émaillé d’interventions étrangères? Quels sont les destinataires du droit des conflits armés? Comment s’applique-t-il à des forces multinationales telles que les forces de l’ONU? Qui porte la responsabilité des violations de ce droit ? Quelles en sont les implications pénales ? Quelles sont les incidences sur le droit des conflits armés de la jurisprudence des Tribunaux pénaux internationaux et du Statut de la Cour pénale internationale ? Etc.

Les principales règles de substance du droit des conflits armés sont bien entendu exposées. On a suivi la division traditionnelle droit de La Haye (règles régissant la conduite des hostilités) - droit de Genève (règles régissant la situation des personnes au pouvoir de l’ennemi) en tenant compte des dernières avancées de la matière (emploi de certaines méthodes de combat et de types particuliers d’armes, statut de prisonnier de guerre, assistance humanitaire …).

Les formes et principes de mise en oeuvre et de contrôle du droit des conflits armés sont abordés notamment à travers d’un côté, le rôle des Etats, des Puissances protectrices, du mouvement de la Croix-Rouge dans l’application de ce droit, d’un autre côté, diverses modalités de l’enquête internationale.

Enfin, de manière générale, l’ouvrage s’efforce de concilier la rigueur froide de la technique juridique avec une approche humaniste de problèmes fondamentalement inhumains. Destiné à un public qui n’est pas nécessairement familier des réalités guerrières, l’ouvrage veut rappeler au lecteur ce que cache l’exposé clinique des règles du droit des conflits armés. Tel est l’objet des témoignages et extraits littéraires insérés à titre de lecture cursive au fil des chapitres en contrepoint de l’analyse juridique.

C’est dans cette perspective qu’un dernier chapitre, plus inattendu dans ce type d’ouvrage, étudie sur un plan socio-psychologique les causes des violations du droit des conflits armés, et tente de proposer certains remèdes à un phénomène, hélas, trop fréquent.

Hiéramente: La Cour pénale internationale et les Etats-Unis - Une analyse juridique du différend

Mayeul Hiéramente has published La Cour pénale internationale et les Etats-Unis - Une analyse juridique du différend (L'Harmattan 2008). Here's the abstract:

"Les Etats-Unis envahissent-ils La Haye?" Ce n'est certainement pas à craindre. Mais comment s'expliquer alors qu'un proche allié de l'Union européenne puisse adopter une loi qui prévoit - certes, comme dernier recours - une intervention militaire pour le cas où ses ressortissants seraient interpellés par la Cour pénale internationale qui siège à La Haye (CPI)? Cette ferme opposition de la part des États-Unis à un projet de consolidation du droit international pénal s'avère d'autant plus inexplicable que ceux-ci étaient, dans le passé, plutôt favorables à une répression pénale internationale, en appuyant notamment les Tribunaux pénaux internationaux pour l'ex-Yougoslavie et le Rwanda. Les opposants à la CPI invoquent notamment trois arguments juridiques pour justifier leur refus: premièrement, ils craignent une politisation de la Cour dont pourraient résulter des inculpations abusives et anti-américaines. Deuxièmement, ils n'acceptent pas la compétence de la Cour à poursuivre des auteurs présumés n'ayant pas la nationalité d'un pays signataire du Statut de Rome. Troisièmement, ils s'attaquent à l'absence de toute forme d'immunité devant la Cour. Cet ouvrage se penche sur ces trois questions de droit et montre que l'opposition du gouvernement de George W. Bush à la CPI n'est motivée que par de seules raisons politiques et suit une logique unilatéraliste.

New Issue: Columbia Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 46, no. 3, 2008) is out. Contents include:

• Patrick J. Keenan, Financial Globalization and Human Rights
• David Zaring, Rulemaking and Adjudication in International Law
• Katharina Pistor, Who Tolls the Bells for Firms? Tales from Transition Economics
• Michael W. Doyle & Geoffrey S. Carlson, Silence of the Laws? Conceptions of International Relations and International Law in Hobbes, Kant, and Locke

Tomuschat: Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism (Second Edition)

Christian Tomuschat (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Law) has published the second edition of Human Rights: Between Idealism and Realism (Oxford Univ. Press 2008). Here's the abstract:

Human Rights between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings. By combining conceptual analysis with an emphasis on procedures and mechanisms of implementation, this volume provides a multidimensional overview of human rights.

After examining briefly the history of human rights, the author analyzes the intellectual framework that forms the basis of their legitimacy. In particular, he covers the concept of universality and the widely used model that classifies human rights into clusters of different 'generations'.

The volume then moves on to analyze of the activities of the political institutions of the United Nations, the expert bodies established by the relevant treaties, and the international tribunals specifically entrusted at the regional level with protecting human rights. The author explains how and why the classical array of politically inspired informal devices has been enriched by the addition of international criminal procedures and by endeavors to introduce civil suits against alleged individual violators of human rights. Finally, the volume is rounded off by a consideration of the importance of humanitarian law as an instrument for the protection of human life and dignity and an exploration of the future of human rights.

ICJ: Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v. Russia) (Hearings)

The International Court of Justice is holding public hearings today through Wednesday on Georgia's request for the indication of provisional measures in the case concerning Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v. Russian Federation). Case documents, including the application, written proceedings, and the verbatim record of the current hearings, are available here.

Lord Bingham to Deliver Annual Grotius Lecture

Lord Bingham of Cornhill will deliver the Annual Grotius Lecture of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, on November 17, 2008. His topic is "The Rule of Law in the International Order."

HRC: Draft General Comment 33

The Human Rights Committee has posted the current draft of its General Comment 33 and is seeking comments, in particular from States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, UN specialised agencies, and non-governmental organizations. Details concerning the submission of comments can be found here.

Michaels: The True Lex Mercatoria: Law Beyond the State

Ralf Michaels (Duke Univ. - Law) has posted The True Lex Mercatoria: Law Beyond the State (Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

Is there an anational lex mercatoria, a "global law without a state?" The debate seems infinite. Some argue that the rules, institutions, and procedures of international arbitration have now achieved a sufficient degree both of autonomy from the state and of legal character that they represent such an anational law. Others respond that whatever law merchant may exist is really state law -- dependent on national norms and the freedom of contract they provide, and on the enforceability of abitral awards by national courts.

This paper suggests that the dichotomy of anational law and state law is false. Although an anational law merchant would be theoretically possible, the true lex mercatoria we are currently observing is not such an anational law. Rather, it is an emerging global commercial law that freely combines elements from national and non-national law. This transnational law presents a far more radical challenge to traditional state-based conceptions of law than the idea of an anational law. It makes the distinction between anational law and state law that permeates the debate over law merchant simply irrelevant by transcending it. The true lex mercatoria marks the shift in global law from segmentary differentiation in different national laws to a functional differentiation. It a law beyond, not without, the state.

Folsom: Bilateral Free Trade Agreements: A Critical Assessment and WTO Regulatory Reform Proposal

Ralph Folsom (Univ. of San Diego - Law) has posted Bilateral Free Trade Agreements: A Critical Assessment and WTO Regulatory Reform Proposal. Here's the abstract:

At this writing, most-favored-nation (MFN) principles notwithstanding, every nation save Mongolia has entered into at least one bilateral or regional free trade agreement. The European Union, for example, is so heavily engaged in bilateral deals that it has MFN trade relations with only seven countries. Hundreds of bilaterals have been negotiated since the early 1990s. The apparent failure of the Doha Round virtually guarantees their dominance of international trade law and policy. This article reviews the history of bilateral and regional free trade agreements ("bilaterals"), failed attempts at their regulation under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), and critically assesses the significance of their proliferation for international trade law and policy. Reform of WTO jurisdiction over bilaterals concentrated in the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) is proposed. Specifically, abandonment of all WTO regulation except for a Revised Transparency Mechanism (text attached) operating in conjunction with expanded DSU opportunities is suggested. A word on nomenclature: This article utilizes the term "bilateral(s)" because it best characterizes the free trade agreements that are presently sweeping the seas. Generally in GATT/WTO parlance, "regional trade agreements" (RTA) has been and continues to be employed. Those words, in my opinion, are not the best descriptors of what is happening when, for example, China and Chile, Japan and Mexico, the United States and Oman, and the European Union and South Africa agree on free trade. A variety of factors help explain why bilaterals have become the leading edge of international trade law and policy. Difficulties encountered in the Uruguay, "Seattle" and Doha Rounds of multilateral trade negotiations are certainly crucial. GATT/WTO regulatory failures regarding bilaterals have also fueled this reality. Yet these "negatives" do not fully explain the feeding frenzy of bilaterals. A range of attractions to bilaterals are also at work. For example, bilaterals often extend to subject matters beyond WTO competence. Foreign investment law is a prime example, and many bilaterals serve as investment magnets. Government procurement, optional at the WTO level, is often included in bilaterals. Competition policy and labor and environmental matters absent from the WTO are sometimes covered in bilaterals. In addition, bilaterals can reach beyond the scope of existing WTO agreements. Services is one "WTO-plus" area where this is clearly true. Intellectual property rights are also being "WTO-plussed" in bilateral free trade agreements. Whether this amounts to competitive trade liberalization or competitive trade imperialism has been provocatively explored by Prof. Bhala. Further, bilaterals are politically and economically selective. In other words they avoid not only global most-favored-nation principles, but also domestically "sensitive" areas of national politics and economics. For example, Singapore's absence of farm exports helped make it an ideal U.S. and Japanese free trade partner. The micro-sized economy of Chile contributed to its attraction as a free trade partner with Mexico, China, the European Union, the United States and others. U.S. free trade deals with Jordan, Bahrain and Oman fit economically in a similar fashion, not to mention national security objectives. Like it or not, the "spaghetti-bowl" maze of bilaterals is driven by powerful negative and positive forces. It is not only the preferred trade medium of today, but very likely the future. Already more than half of world trade is conducted under bilaterals. While international trade lawyers may celebrate full employment, it bears remembering that bilaterals are discriminatory. They could render MFN the least favored status in world trade. Such an outcome would be especially harmful to the world's poorest nations, those with whom few WTO partners seek a bilateral agreement.

New Volume: Yearbook Commercial Arbitration

The latest volume of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration's Yearbook Commercial Arbitration (Vol. 32, 2007) is out. Contents are available here.

Efrat: Governing Guns, Opposing Opium: A Theory of Internationally Regulated Goods

Asif Efrat (Cornell Univ. - Law) has posted Governing Guns, Opposing Opium: A Theory of Internationally Regulated Goods. Here's the abstract:

The paper examines a significant phenomenon overlooked by the trade literature: internationally regulated goods. Contrary to the general trend of trade liberalization, specific goods, such as drugs, small arms, and antiquities, have come under increasing international control in recent decades through a set of global regulatory agreements. I argue that these goods are unique in that they involve transnational negative externalities. Whereas certain countries benefit from the trade in these goods, the trade inflicts negative effects on other countries. Examples of such negative externalities include fatalities and refugee flows resulting from rampant gun violence, high crime rates associated with widespread drug abuse, and archaeological destruction caused by antiquities looting. The paper develops a theory that first explains why national regulation is insufficient and why international regulation is necessary for curbing these negative externalities. The theory then analyzes why certain governments are strongly in favor of international regulation while others wish to maintain the trade uncontrolled. My analysis locates the sources of governments’ conflicting preferences in the domestic political arena and considers how exporters, consumers, and civil society shape governments’ views. The final part of the theory examines how the distribution of state power affects the establishment of the regulatory agreements. The paper makes several theoretical contributions by bridging rationalist and non-rationalist accounts of international law and by focusing on international cooperation in the absence of shared interest.

Koh to Deliver Clarendon Law Lectures

Harold Hongju Koh (Yale Univ. - Law) will deliver the Clarendon Law Lectures at Oxford, October 22-23, 2008. Koh's topic is "On Law and Globalization." His first lecture will be on "Law as Globalization"; the second will be on "Law of Globalization"; and the third will be on "Law in Globalization."

Macklem: Minority Rights in International Law

Patrick Macklem (Univ. of Toronto - Law) has posted Minority Rights in International Law. Here's the abstract:

Why should international human rights law vest members of a minority community - either individually or collectively - with rights that secure a measure of autonomy from the state in which they are located? To the extent that the field offers answers to this question, it does so from its deep commitment to the protection of certain universal attributes of human identity from the exercise of sovereign power. It protects minority rights on the assumption that religious, cultural and linguistic affiliations are essential features of what it means to be human. There exists an alternative account of why minority rights possess international significance, one that trades less on the currency of religion, culture and language and more on the value of international distributive justice. On this account, international minority rights speak to wrongs that that international law itself produces by organizing international political reality into a legal order. This account avoids the normative instabilities of attaching universal value to religious, cultural and linguistic affiliation and instead challenges the international legal order to remedy pathologies of its own making.

Workshop: Kelley

Judith Kelley (Duke Univ. - Political Science) will give a talk today at the Georgetown University Law Center International Legal Theory Colloquium on "Assessing the Complex Evolution of Norms: The Rise of International Election Monitoring."

Corten: Le droit contre la guerre. L'interdiction du recours à la force en droit international contemporain

Olivier Corten (L'Université Libre de Bruxelles - Law) has published Le droit contre la guerre. L'interdiction du recours à la force en droit international contemporain (Pedone 2008). Here's the abstract:

Depuis le 11 septembre 2001, une partie de la doctrine prétend que la règle de l'interdiction du recours à la force a connu des évolutions importantes, nées notamment des nécessités de la « guerre contre le terrorisme ». Plus spécifiquement, plusieurs auteurs estiment que la prohibition de principe énoncée dans la Charte des Nations Unies de 1945 devrait être assouplie dans le contexte actuel des relations internationales, ce qui se traduirait par l'émergence de notions comme l'« intervention humanitaire », la « guerre préventive », ou encore par la possibilité de présumer des autorisations du Conseil de sécurité en certaines circonstances exceptionnelles. Notre hypothèse est que, si des évolutions notables peuvent être observées, surtout depuis les années 1990, le régime juridique établi par la Charte reste fondé sur un véritable jus contra bellum, et non sur jus ad bellum qui caractérisait les périodes antérieures. En ce sens, « le droit contre la guerre », en tant que titre du présent ouvrage, constitue une traduction littérale de cette expression latine bien connue, en même temps qu'il exprime l'esprit d'une règle qui constitue toujours, à n'en pas douter, l'un des fondements du droit international public.

New Issue: International Journal of Transitional Justice

The latest issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Vol. 2, no. 1, March 2008) is out. Contents include:

• Nenad Dimitrijevic, Serbia After the Criminal Past: What Went Wrong and What Should be Done
• Erin Daly, Truth Skepticism: An Inquiry into the Value of Truth in Times of Transition
• Patricia Lundy & Mark McGovern, A Trojan Horse? Unionism, Trust and Truth-telling in Northern Ireland
• Jemima Garcia-Godos, Victim Reparations in the Peruvian Truth Commission and the Challenge of Historical Interpretation
• Michael Humphrey & Estela Valverde, Human Rights Politics and Injustice: Transitional Justice in Argentina and South Africa
• Sebina Sivac-Bryant, Kozarac School: A Window on Transitional Justice for Returnees

New Issue: European Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (2008, no. 4) is out. Contents include:

• Tim Otty, Honour Bound to Defend Freedom? The Guantanamo Bay Litigation and the Fight for Fundamental Values in the War on Terror
• Hannes Rösler, Caricatures and Satires in Art Law: The German Approach in Comparison with the United States, England and the European Convention on Human Rights
• Niraj Nathwani, Religious Cartoons and Human Rights—a Critical Legal Analysis of the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights on the Protection of Religious Feelings and its Implications in the Danish Affair Concerning Cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad
• Camilla Parker & Luke Cements, The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a New Right to Independent Living?

Gardbaum: Human Rights as International Constitutional Rights

Stephen Gardbaum (Univ. of California, Los Angeles - Law) has posted Human Rights as International Constitutional Rights (European Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

The Universal Declaration was, of course, the first of the three global international human rights instruments that have collectively come to be known as the International Bill of Rights. Very often, however, this latter term appears within quotation marks or is prefaced by the qualifying phrase, so-called, signaling that there are serious, although mostly unexplored, questions about the validity of the implied comparison with domestic bills of rights. In this article, I treat the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration as an opportunity to take stock by exploring these questions and making the comparison explicit. I do so by considering the two parts of the term separately. First, regarding bill of rights, what are the similarities and differences between the UDHR, ICCPR and ICESCR on the one hand and domestic bills of rights on the other? In particular, to what extent or in what sense, if any, has international human rights law become constitutionalized and, thereby, similar and closer to most domestic bills of rights? Second, regarding international, do the major international human rights instruments simply duplicate domestic bills of rights or provide a generally inferior substitute for them where unavailable - as a certain strand of human rights skepticism suggests? Or do they perform any distinctive functions over and above domestic bills of rights that make a novel and unique contribution to the historical development of constitutionalism?

Palichleb: Tatsachenermittlung im Streitbeilegungsverfahren der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO)

Maritheres Palichleb has published Tatsachenermittlung im Streitbeilegungsverfahren der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) (Duncker & Humblot 2008). Here's the abstract:

Die Dissertation hat die Tatsachenermittlung im Rahmen eines Handelskonflikts unter dem Streitbeilegungsverfahren der WTO zum Gegenstand. Ziel der Arbeit ist die Darstellung der Konzeption und des Ablaufs des Verfahrens zur Sachverhaltsermittlung. Das Streitbeilegungsübereinkommen (DSU) enthält insoweit nur rudimentäre Regelungen. Gleichwohl stellen diese die rechtliche Grundlage dar und bilden das Grundgerüst für die Anwendungspraxis. Aus ihnen können die Verfahrensgrundsätze und das Verfahren selbst abgeleitet werden.

Aufgrund der wenigen Bestimmungen zur Sachverhaltsermittlung ist es an den Streitbeilegungsorganen, den Panels und dem Appellate Body, die bestehenden Regelungen zu konkretisieren. Aufgabe des Autors ist daher auch die Auswertung der Entscheidungen der Streitbeilegungsorgane. Mit ihr einhergehend erfolgt eine Darstellung der Anwendungspraxis und der Verfahrensgestaltung.

Das WTO-Streitbeilegungsverfahren wird auch in den völkerrechtlichen Kontext eingeordnet. Darüber hinaus steht es zwischen der Verschiedenheit des angloamerikanischen und kontinentaleuropäischen Rechtskreises. Die Streitbeilegungsorgane müssen demnach bei der Konkretisierung der Verfahrensbestimmungen angemessene Entscheidungen zur Tatsachenermittlung treffen. Dies ermöglicht zugleich eine Verknüpfung zum nationalen Zivilverfahrensrecht, so dass der Verfasser die Tatsachenermittlung vor dem Hintergrund des kontinentaleuropäischen Rechts, aber auch der Unterschiede zwischen diesem und dem angloamerikanischen Recht beleuchtet.

Im Ergebnis ist festzuhalten, dass die Aufnahme detaillierterer Verfahrensvorschriften zur Tatsachenermittlung in einem WTO-Streitbeilegungsverfahren in das DSU zu einer weiteren Stärkung des juristischen Systems und der Sicherheit und Vorhersehbarkeit im multilateralen Handelssystem führen würde.

Dupuy: Droit international public (Ninth Edition)

Pierre-Marie Dupuy (European Univ. Institute - Law) has published the ninth edition of Droit international public (Dalloz 2008). Here's the abstract:

Les sujets du droit international public, les modes de formation de ses normes, les conditions d'application, les domaines d'intervention et leurs finalités sont les grands thèmes traités dans cet ouvrage, devenu une référence. Cette nouvelle édition souligne l'évolution subie par le système juridique international ces dernières années.