The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes

The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes
Author: Yoshifumi Tanaka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2018-01-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107164273

This book offers students a clear and systematic overview of procedures for peaceful dispute settlement in international law.

The United Nations As a Dispute Settlement System

The United Nations As a Dispute Settlement System
Author: Connie Peck
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1996-05-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789041102485

This text reviews the preventive diplomacy of the United Nations, suggesting that the Security Council is not well suited to the task. What is needed, it argues, is a less political and more professional approach, namely a larger (and more autonomous) role for the Secretary-General and the development of a greater specialist capacity within the Secretariat. The work gives appropriate weight to the importance of peace building, both before and after conflict, as an integral part of conflict prevention, and the United Nations' role therein.

The Conventions on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and Its Specialized Agencies

The Conventions on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and Its Specialized Agencies
Author: August Reinisch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1089
Release: 2016
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198744617

The Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies entered into force more than 60 years ago. This Commentary offers for the first time a comprehensive discussion covering both Conventions in their entirety, providing an overview of academic writings and jurisprudence for a legal field of particular practical relevance and gives both the academic researcher as well as the practitioner a unique source to understand the complexity of legal issues that the UN, its Specialized Agencies, their officials, Member States' representatives, and experts face in today's world.

Dispute Settlement in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

Dispute Settlement in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
Author: Natalie Klein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2005-01-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139442538

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is one of the most important constitutive instruments in international law. Not only does this treaty regulate the uses of the world's largest resource, but it also contains a mandatory dispute settlement system - an unusual phenomenon in international law. While some scholars have lauded this development as a significant achievement, others have been highly sceptical of its comprehensiveness and effectiveness. This book explores whether a compulsory dispute settlement mechanism is necessary for the regulation of the oceans under the Convention. The requisite role of dispute settlement in the Convention is determined through an assessment of its relationship to the substantive provisions. Klein firstly describes the dispute settlement procedure in the Convention. She then takes each of the issue areas subject to limitations or exceptions to compulsory procedures entailing binding decisions, and analyses the interrelationship between the substantive and procedural rules.

Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice

Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice
Author: United Nations
Publisher: UN
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2015-08-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789210016513

The Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51 countries representing all continents, paving the way for the creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice forms part of the Charter. The aim of the Charter is to save humanity from war; to reaffirm human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person; to proclaim the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small; and to promote the prosperity of all humankind. The Charter is the foundation of international peace and security.

International Law and Justice

International Law and Justice
Author: John R. Rowan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Selected from the papers presented at the twenty-third International Social Philosophy Conference held in July of 2006 at University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia --Preface.

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Author: Kriangsak Kittichaisaree
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198865295

Written by an incumbent Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, this book provides a unique insight into the development and functioning of ITLOS.

Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution

Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution
Author: Heather L. Beach
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Transboundary pollution
ISBN: 9789280810387

This book provides a comprehensive review of the relevant literature on managing conflicts stemming from the quantity and quality problems of water around the world. So far, few comprehensive and interdisciplinary analyses of such international surface water conflicts have been produced. The literature surveyed indicates that while in many areas there has been extensive research and analysis, there continues to be a need for more studies on the specific situations that lead to conflicts over water and other environment resources. Lateral learning, an attempt to understand the similarities between all conflicts over natural resources, will lend itself to future applications in predicting and preventing these conflicts. A survey of internati9nal watersheds provides some bibliographical and general data collected from over 200 transboundary watersheds. A subset of case studies of the exhaustive list of international watersheds is examined in greater detain. A related effort is a compilation and analysis of relevant water treaties, and the rationale for their implementations.

The Settlement of Disputes in International Law

The Settlement of Disputes in International Law
Author: John G. Collier
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2000
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780198299271

For many years it was said that the weakness of international law was the lack of a system for the enforcement of legal obligations. Commentators pointed to the paucity of cases in the International Court and the unwillingness of States to undertake binding obligations to settle their disputes. This position has now changed beyond recognition. The number of international tribunals has increased and many of them, such as ICSID and the International Court of Justice, are busier than at any time in their history. Increasingly, the classical procedures of diplomatic protection are circumvented as corporations and individuals litigate in their own right against States in international tribunals. This book surveys the range of procedures for the settlement of international disputes, whether the disputes arise between States or between States and corporations or individuals. The first part of the book examines non-judicial procedures such as negotiation, mediation, fact-finding, as well as judicial procedures. Among the tribunals covered are ICSID, the UNCC and the Iran-US Claim Tribunal, the WTO disputes panels, ad-hoc inter-State and international commercial arbitral tribunals and the International Court of Justice. In the second part of the book the emerging principles of procedural law applied in these tribunals are discussed. Here the authors go through the entire settlement process from the agreement to submit to a settlement procedure and the constitution of the tribunal, through to the determination of the law applicable to the merits and to the procedure of the tribunal, to the review, and ultimately the recognition and enforcement of tribunal awards.