The Fundamental Rules of the International Legal Order

The Fundamental Rules of the International Legal Order
Author: Christian Tomuschat
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004149813

This work, the outgrowth of a joint reflection by French and German international lawyers, attempts to reconceptualize the doctrine of hierarchy in international law by emphasizing that a clear distinction should be drawn between primary rules, which encapsulate precepts for the protection of the basic values of the international community, and secondary rules, which determine the regime of legal consequences flowing from a breach of such rules of conduct.

International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law

International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law
Author: K. Zweigert
Publisher: Brill Archive
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN:

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Recueil Des Cours, 1990-III

Recueil Des Cours, 1990-III
Author: Académie de droit international de La Haye
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1991-07-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780792313540

The Academy is an institution for the study and teaching of public and private international law and related subjects. Its purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arsing from international relations in the field of law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. All courses at the Academy are, in principle, published in the "Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law" in the language in which they were delivered. This volume contains: - L'evolution du droit international. Cours general de droit international public, par H. THIERRY, professeur a l'Universite de Paris X-Nanterre. - Development of Diplomatic Law. Selected Problems by S.E. NAHLIK, Professor at the University Jagellone, Cracow. - Soviet Joint Enterprises with Capitalist Firms and Other Joint Ventures between East and West: the Western Point of View by R.H. CARPENTER, Jr., Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.

The Public Law/Private Law Divide

The Public Law/Private Law Divide
Author: Mark R Freedland
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2006-03-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847310591

The contributions brought together in this book derive from joint seminars, held by scholars between colleagues from the University of Oxford and the University of Paris II. Their starting point is the original divergence between the two jurisdictions, with the initial rejection of the public-private divide in English Law, but on the other hand its total acceptance as natural in French Law. Then, they go on to demonstrate that the two systems have converged, the British one towards a certain degree of acceptance of the division, the French one towards a growing questioning of it. However this is not the only part of the story, since both visions are now commonly coloured and affected by European Law and by globalisation, which introduces new tensions into our legal understanding of what is "public" and what is "private".

Le contentieux de la mise en conformité dans le règlement des différends de l'O.M.C. / Adjudicating Compliance in the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Le contentieux de la mise en conformité dans le règlement des différends de l'O.M.C. / Adjudicating Compliance in the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Author: Andrea Hamann
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 860
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 900426311X

Le mécanisme de règlement des différends de l’O.M.C. se distingue des autres juridictions internationales en ce qu’il comporte un ensemble sophistiqué de procédures spécifiquement et exclusivement destinées à traiter les désaccords pouvant surgir au cours de l’exécution de l’obligation qui résulte pour un Membre de la décision juridictionnelle qui déclare sa responsabilité. Leur existence même et la façon dont les organes de jugement s’acquittent de leur mission témoignent de ce que l’exécution des obligations résultant des actes juridictionnels dans l’ordre international n’échappe pas fatalement au droit. Ainsi, le système de l’O.M.C. exprime mais aussi réalise une ambition singulière en droit international : renforcer la garantie de la légalité en habilitant la juridiction à encadrer, contrôler, et, en définitive, participer à assurer l’exécution de ses propres décisions. The WTO dispute settlement system has created a sophisticated set of procedures designed with the sole purpose of dealing with all disagreements that can arise between the parties during the implementation process. The very existence of these procedures, and the manner in which the adjudicative bodies accomplish their task, give evidence of the fact that compliance with judgments in the international legal order does not inevitably lie outside the realm of the law. The WTO system thereby expresses but also fulfills a strong ambition, unique when considered through the lens of international law: strengthening the rule of law by vesting the adjudicative bodies with the task of supervising, reviewing, and ultimately contributing to inducing and enforcing compliance with their own judgments.

French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective

French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective
Author: Jean-Sébastien Borghetti
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2019-12-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 150992728X

The French law of torts or of extra-contractual liability is widely seen as exceptional. For long it was based on a mere five articles of the Civil Code of 1804, but on this foundation the courts and legal scholars have constructed liabilities for fault and strict liability of an extraordinary breadth and significance. While the rest of the general law of obligations (including contract) in the Civil Code was reformed in 2016 by executive ordonnance, this area was left aside, being the subject in 2017 of a proposal by the French Government for the legislative reform of the law of civil liability, a new legislative category to include both contractual and extra-contractual liability. This work considers important aspects of this developing area of French law in a series of essays by French lawyers and comparative lawyers working in French law and other civil law systems. In doing so, it provides insight into the doctrinal thinking and judgments of French lawyers as well as the possible directions in which this area of the law may be developed in the future.