Evidence Before The International Court Of Justice

Evidence Before the International Court of Justice

2016 Law

Author: Anna Riddell,Brendan Plant

Publisher: British Institute for International & Comparative Law

ISBN: 9781905221639

Category: Law

Page: 448

Some recent contentious issues about the use of evidence in cases before the International Court of Justice have highlighted the importance of fact-finding and the use of evidence before this Court. This major study on the issue of evidence before the International Court of Justice has examined all aspects of the Court's relationship with facts in both contentious and advisory proceedings from the recently refined procedure for submitting late evidence, to the hearing of live witness testimony in the Peace Palace. Considerations of flexibility and respect for the sovereignty of the State Parties before the Court have traditionally deterred the Court from constructing concrete rules on matters of evidence, but the increasing numbers of cases, in which a thorough consideration of the facts has been essential, has highlighted that some detailed procedural guidance is necessary in order to ensure a well-functioning system of adjudication. It is apparent that the Court has paid an incre

Fifty Years of the International Court of Justice

2007-12-03 Law

Essays in Honour of Sir Robert Jennings

Author: Vaughan Lowe,Malgosia Fitzmaurice

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521048804

Category: Law

Page: 640

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the International Court of Justice, a distinguished group of international judges, practitioners and academics has undertaken a major review of its work. The chapters discuss the main areas of substantive law with which the Court has been concerned, and the more significant aspects of its practice and procedure in dealing with cases before it. It discusses the role of the Court in the international legal order, and its relationship with the UN's political organs. The thirty-three chapters are presented under five headings: the Court; the sources and evidences of international law; substance of international law; procedural aspects of the Court's work; the Court and the UN. It has been prepared in honour of Sir Robert Jennings, judge and sometime President of the Court.

Das Beweisrecht vor internationalen Gerichten und Schiedsgerichten in zwischenstaatlichen Streitigkeiten

2010-03-14 Law

Author: Markus Benzing

Publisher: Springer-Verlag

ISBN: 3642116477

Category: Law

Page: 846

Fact-Finding before the International Court of Justice

2016-09-29 Law

Author: James Gerard Devaney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1316720896

Category: Law

Page: N.A

Fact-Finding before the International Court of Justice examines a number of significant recent criticisms of the way in which the ICJ deals with facts. The book takes the position that such criticisms are warranted and that the ICJ's current approach to fact-finding falls short of adequacy, both in cases involving abundant, particularly complex or technical facts, and in those involving a scarcity of facts. The author skilfully examines how other courts such as the WTO and inter-State arbitrations conduct fact-finding and makes a number of select proposals for reform, enabling the ICJ to address some of the current weaknesses in its approach. The proposals include, but are not limited to, the development of a power to compel the disclosure of information, greater use of provisional measures, and a clear strategy for the use of expert evidence.

The International Court of Justice

2013-08-30 Law

Author: Robert Kolb

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 1782256032

Category: Law

Page: 1362

Winner of the 2014 American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit for High Technical Craftsmanship and Utility to Practicing Lawyers and Scholars The International Court of Justice (in French, the Cour internationale de justice), also commonly known as the World Court or ICJ, is the oldest, most important and most famous judicial arm of the United Nations. Established by the United Nations Charter in 1945 and based in the Peace Palace in the Hague, the primary function of the Court is to adjudicate in disputes brought before it by states, and to provide authoritative, influential advisory opinions on matters referred to it by various international organisations, agencies and the UN General Assembly. This new work, by a leading academic authority on international law who also appears as an advocate before the Court, examines the Statute of the Court, its procedures, conventions and practices, in a way that will provide invaluable assistance to all international lawyers. The book covers matters such as: the composition of the Court and elections, the office and role of ad hoc judges, the significance of the occasional use of smaller Chambers, jurisdiction, the law applied, preliminary objections, the range of contentious disputes which may be submitted to the Court, the status of advisory opinions, relationship to the Security Council, applications to intervene, the status of judgments and remedies. Referring to a wealth of primary and secondary sources, this work provides international lawyers with a readable, comprehensive and authoritative work of reference which will greatly enhance understanding and knowledge of the ICJ. The book has been translated and lightly updated from the French original, R Kolb, La Cour international de Justice (Paris, Pedone, 2013), by Alan Perry, Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

Litigation at the International Court of Justice

2015-05-18 Law

Practice and Procedure

Author: Juan José Quintana

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9004297510

Category: Law

Page: 1364

Litigation at the International Court of Justice provides a systematic guide to questions of procedure arising when States come before the International Court of Justice to take part in contentious litigation.

The Statute of the International Court of Justice

2012-10-11 Law

A Commentary

Author: Andreas Zimmermann,Karin Oellers-Frahm,Christian Tomuschat,Christian J. Tams

Publisher: OUP Oxford

ISBN: 0191632538

Category: Law

Page: 1808

The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations and plays a central role in both the peaceful settlement of international disputes and the development of international law. This comprehensive Commentary on the Statute of the International Court of Justice, now in its second edition, analyses in detail not only the Statute of the Court itself but also the related provisions of the United Nations Charter as well as the relevant provisions of the Court's Rules of Procedure. Five years after the first edition was published, the second edition of the Commentary embraces current events before the International Court of Justice as well as before other courts and tribunals relevant for the interpretation and application of its Statute. The Commentary provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of all legal questions and issues the Court has had to address in the past and will have to address in the future. It illuminates the central issues of procedure and substance that the Court and counsel appearing before it face in their day-to-day work. In addition to commentary covering all of the articles of the Statute of the ICJ, plus the relevant articles of the Charter of the United Nations, the book includes three scene-setting chapters: Historical Introduction, General Principles of Procedural Law, and Discontinuation and Withdrawal. The second edition of the Commentary adds two important and instructive chapters on Counter-Claims and Evidentiary Issues. The combination of expert editors and commentators, and their assessment of new developments in the important work of the ICJ, make this a landmark publication in the field of international law.

Burden of Proof and Related Issues

1996 Law

A Study on Evidence Before International Tribunals

Author: Mojtaba Kazazi

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

ISBN: 9789041101426

Category: Law

Page: 406

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Finnish Yearbook of International Law

2011-09-19 Law

Author: Jan Klabbers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 1847318347

Category: Law

Page: 476

The Finnish Yearbook of International Law aspires to honour and strengthen the Finnish tradition in international legal scholarship. Open to contributions from all over the world and from all persuasions, the Finnish Yearbook stands out as a forum for theoretically informed, high-quality publications on all aspects of public international law, including the international relations law of the European Union. The Finnish Yearbook publishes in-depth articles and shorter notes, commentaries on current developments, book reviews and relevant overviews of Finland's state practice. While firmly grounded in traditional legal scholarship, it is open for new approaches to international law and for work of an interdisciplinary nature. The Finnish Yearbook is published for the Ius Gentium Association (the Finnish Society of International Law) by Hart Publishing. Further information may be found at www.fybil.org INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS Please click on the link below to purchase individual chapters from Volume 20 through Ingenta Connect: www.ingentaconnect.com SUBSCRIPTION TO SERIES To place an annual online subscription or a print standing order through Hart Publishing please click on the link below. Please note that any customers who have a standing order for the printed volumes will now be entitled to free online access. www.hartjournals.co.uk/fyil/subs

Essays in Honour of Wang Tieya

1994-01-17 Law

Author: Ronald St. John MacDonald

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

ISBN: 9780792324690

Category: Law

Page: 964

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Principles of Evidence in International Criminal Justice

2010-01-01 Evidence (Law)

Author: Karim A. A. Khan,Caroline Buisman,Christopher Gosnell

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 0199588929

Category: Evidence (Law)

Page: 798

Principles of Evidence in International Criminal Justice provides an overview of the procedure and practice concerning the admission and evaluation of evidence before the international criminal tribunals. The book is both descriptive and critical and its emphasis is on day-to-day practice, drawing on the experience of the Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone Tribunals. This book is an attempt to define and explain the core principles and rules that have developed at those ad hoc Tribunals; the rationale and origin of those rules; and to assess the suitability of those rules in the particular context of the International Criminal Court which is still at its early stages. The ICC differs in structure from the ad hoc Tribunals and approaches the legal issues it has to resolve differently from its predecessors. The ICC is however confronted with many of the same questions. The book examines the differences between the ad hoc Tribunals and the ICC and seeks to offer insights as to how and in which circumstances the principles established over years of practice at the ICTY, ICTR and SCSL may serve as guidance to the ICC practitioners of today and the future. The contributors represent a cross-section of the practicing international criminal bar, drawn from the ranks of the Bench, the Prosecution and the Defence and bringing with them different legal domestic cultures. Their mixed background underlines the recurring theme in this book which is the manner in which a legal culture has gradually taken shape in the international Tribunals, drawing on the various traditions and experiences of its participants.

International Law

2014-09-18 Law

Author: Malcolm N. Shaw

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1316061272

Category: Law

Page: N.A

This new edition of International Law confirms the text's status as the definitive book on the subject. Combining both his expertise as academic and practitioner, Malcolm Shaw's survey of the subject motivates and challenges both student and professional. By offering an unbeatable combination of clarity of expression and academic rigour, he ensures both understanding and critical analysis in an engaging and authoritative style. The text has been updated throughout to reflect recent case law and treaty developments. It retains the detailed references which encourage and assist further reading and study.

Public Policy in International Economic Law

2015-02-19 Law

The ICESCR in Trade, Finance, and Investment

Author: Diane Desierto

Publisher: OUP Oxford

ISBN: 0191026484

Category: Law

Page: 432

States reject inequality when they choose to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), but to date the ICESCR has not yet figured prominently in the policy calculus behind States' international economic decisions. This book responds to the modern challenge of operationalizing the ICESCR, particularly in the context of States' decisions within international trade, finance, and investment. Differentiating between public policy mechanisms and institutional functional mandates in the international trade, finance, and investment systems, this book shows legal and policy gateways for States to feasibly translate their fundamental duties to respect, protect, and fulfil economic, social and cultural rights into their trade, finance, and investment commitments, agreements, and contracts. It approaches the problem of harmonizing social protection objectives under the ICESCR with a State's international economic treaty obligations, from the designing and interpreting international treaty texts, up to the institutional monitoring and empirical analysis of ICESCR compliance. In examining public policy options, the book takes into account around five decades of States' implementation of social protection commitments under the ICESCR; its normative evolution through the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Committee's expanded fact-finding and adjudicative competences under the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR; as well as the critical, dialectical, and deliberative roles of diverse functional interpretive communities within international trade, finance, and investment law. Ultimately, the book shoes how States' ICESCR commitments operate as the normative foundation of their trade, finance, and investment decisions.

The International Court of Justice

2016-11-03

Author: Hugh Thirlway

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 0198779070

Category:

Page: 240

An easily accessible and comprehensive study of the International Court of Justice, this book succinctly explains all aspects of the world's most important court, including an overview of its composition and operation, jurisdiction, procedure, and the nature and impact of its judgments.

Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte

2015-04-24 Law

Author: Vereinte Nationen

Publisher: Aegitas

ISBN: 500064137X

Category: Law

Page: 8

Die Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte (A/RES/217, UN-Doc. 217/A-(III)), auch: Deklaration der Menschenrechte oder UN-Menschenrechtscharta oder kurz AEMR, ist das ausdrückliche Bekenntnis der Vereinten Nationen zu den allgemeinen Grundsätzen der Menschenrechte. Es wurde am 10. Dezember 1948 von der Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen im Palais de Chaillot in Paris genehmigt und verkündet.

Rechtserkenntnis und Rechtsfortbildung im Völkergewohnheitsrecht

2012 Law

das Verhältnis zwischen Methodik und Rechtsquellenlehre

Author: Han-Wei Jung

Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH

ISBN: 3899719735

Category: Law

Page: 268

English summary: International law has developed dynamically since the Nuremberg Trials, bringing not only functional change with it, but also re-defining the understanding of the principle of consensus in the context of finding justice. The consideration of international law as a system of values is closely linked to the principle of finding justice through deductive reasoning, which is the endeavour to substantiate existing norms through syllogisms or deliberation. Practical applications can currently be found, for instance, in the law of armed conflict or immunity law, where dynamic justice benefits substantially from an increased awareness of human rights. Uncertainty exists, however, in terms of the requisite methodological standards, because the judicial methodological aspect of the principle of consensus was not the primary concern in finding a solution to the problem. The present volume is concerned with these central questions concerning the source of law, and on the basis of major decisions made in court practice explores the relation between legal methods and the source of law. German description: Seit den Nurnberger Prozessen entwickelt sich das Volkerrecht dynamisch, was nicht nur einen Funktionswandel nach sich zieht, sondern auch das Verstandnis des Konsensgrundsatzes im Rahmen der Rechtsfindung neu definiert hat. Das Volkerrechts als eine Wertordnung zu betrachten geht eng mit der deduktiven Rechtsfindung einher, die bestehende Normen durch Syllogismen oder Abwagung zu konkretisieren versucht. Praktische Anwendungsfalle befinden sich aktuell etwa in Kriegsvolker- oder Immunitatsrecht, wo die dynamische Rechtsfindung erheblich von dem gesteigerten Menschenrechtsbewusstsein profitiert. Unsicherheit besteht jedoch bei den notwendigen methodischen Massstaben, weil die rechtsmethodische Seite des Konsensgrundsatzes nicht im Vordergrund der Problemlosung stand. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit diesen zentralen Fragen der modernen Rechtsquellenlehre und lotet anhand gewichtiger Entscheidungen in der Praxis das Verhaltnis zwischen Rechtsmethode und Rechtsquellenlehre aus.

Evidence before international tribunals

1975 Law

Author: Durward Valdamir Sandifer

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Law

Page: 519

This study is based on an examination of all available records in the field of evidence from the 18th century to date. Acid-free reprint of University of Virginia Press, 1975. Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

Abkürzungsverzeichnis der Rechtssprache

2008-01-01 Law

Author: N.A

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

ISBN: 3110927365

Category: Law

Page: 782

The Kirchner book deciphers more than 9,000 abbreviations of German legal terminology. There is hardly any legal text without abbreviations. And not only lawyers must know what they mean. Every citizen who wants to understand legal texts comes across these word fragments.