Analysing the Coalition states' invocation of self-defence in Syria to demonstrate that the law as set down by the International Court of Justice has not been followed, as a result of the political impact of 9/11

The Anthropocene and its major hypotheses reveal that in IEL there is limited appreciation that humans have begun to impact on Earth systems in their entirety. Following this, a basic proposal is made about the ability of ...

The activation of the ICC’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression was activated, after contentious and enduring debate, on 17th July 2018. By incorporating victim participation within the ICC, the Rome Statute demands ...

The objective of this study is first to identify the main practical problems in international construction investments and then to examine and reveal the specificities of construction contracts within the context of ...

Assuring successful delegation from elected representatives to unelected bureaucrats is an essential part of contemporary democratic governance and, to do so, politicians typically rely on administrative institutions that ...

The divide between hard law and soft law approaches to global regulation of corporations in relation to human rights is partly based on empirical assumptions. Taking a step back, we assess the claims concerning the current ...

The paper focus on the material rules and circumstances in Norway in light of Norway’s international obligations. The balancing of the right to freedom of expression and the protection against hate speech is central. In ...

Among internationalcriminal tribunals(ICTs), the International Criminal Court (ICC)for the first time introduced victim participation and reparationsfor victims. Against potential African withdrawals from the ICC-Statute, ...

The mobile courts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been implemented with the financial and logistical support of the international community since 2004. Due to earmarked funding and the international ...

Human rights discourse on the rights of transgender people has to a large extent focused on access to correction of legal gender and medical preconditions for this change. Jurisdictions across the world are now beginning ...

Objektivitet er en av rettssikkerhetens mest fundamentale prinsipper og gjelder for hele straffesakskjeden fra mistanke om straffbar handling til dom. Kravet om objektivitet henger sammen med den materielle sannhets prinsipp ...

This article demonstrates that after the seemingly incorrect implementation of Articles 7–8 of the ATAD, the Polish CFC rules have become blatantly incompatible with the free movement of capital to the extent of their ...

The terms and conditions of the WTO fall-back option and the extent to which the WTO could act as a safety net for the UK’s future economic relations depend, to a great extent, on successful negotiations with all other WTO ...

Following the Lisbon changes to the EU’s Common Commercial Policy (CCP), the path was set for the EU to conclude international agreements that cover the protection of foreign direct investment and to participate in ...

In this time of public administration and regulation of groundwater resources – does ownership still matter for public access to water and sustainable use? During the last decades, several European national legislations ...

These comments address three themes concerning Oona Hathaway’s and Scott Shapiro’s The Internationalists (Hathaway and Shapiro 2017), a great contribution to scholarship about international relations, international law and ...

In the context of a rising number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) that include investment protection provisions traditionally found in bilateral investment treaties (BITs), this chapter has a double purpose. First, ...

The aim of this article is twofold. The first aim is to provide a comparative overview of the domestic anti-avoidance rules with specific reference to Brazil, Colombia, South Africa and Uruguay to evaluate the application ...

Artikkelens formål er todelt. Den søker først å redegjøre for grunntrekkene i rettighetsanalysen til Wesley N. Hohfeld, og deretter å rette Hohfelds analytiske verktøy mot et utvalg rettsspørsmål. Anvendelsen demonstrerer ...

How has the research on the European Council and the Council of the EU engaged with Moravcsik's theory on liberal intergovernmentalism (LI)? This article analyzes 25 years of Council research. Most of this literature does ...

In its Burmych and Others v. Ukraine judgment of October 2017 the European Court of Human Rights has dismissed more than 12.000 applications due to the fact that given that they were not only repetitive in nature, but also ...

The Internationalists is a fascinating book. The authors present a clear proposition about the significance of the 1928 Pact for the Renunciation of War for a more peaceful world. My focus is on the role of what the authors ...

In the much-awaited Achmea judgment (of 6 March 2018, case C-284/16 [GC]), the Court of Justice held that investor-state tribunals (ISTs), “such as” the one under the Netherlands-Slovakia intra-EU bilateral investment ...

While 10 years is too short a time to draw broad conclusions, the ERC does seem to have succeeded in promoting excellent and basic research in Europe, both through its own projects and by affecting standards and aspirations ...

Artikkelen gjør rede for og diskuterer et utvalg rettsspørsmål som gjør seg gjeldende ved utnyttelsen av undergrunnen til energibrønner. Den viser at energibrønner utfordrer den tradisjonelle læren om eiendomsrettens grenser ...

Advisory opinions may be considered to challenge sovereignty because they often address political issues which may be contentious at the national level. This paper argues that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is ...

This article presents a study of the retroactive application of tax information exchange agreements (TIEAs) in Brazil, Colombia, South Africa and Uruguay, with a view to articulating policy recommendations for similar ...

Det er heller praksis enn unntaket at barn forklarer seg om hendelser som kan værestraffbare, til ulike aktører før et tilrettelagt avhør finner sted. Ettersom påvirkning kanvære en betydelig faktor i forbindelse med slike ...

I artikkelen klargjøres begrepet «avgjørelsesgrunnlag» og det trekkes et skille mellom faktisk og rettslig avgjørelsesgrunnlag. Deretter presenteres ulike innfallsvinkler til vurderingen av hva som er et godt avgjørelsesgrunnlag, ...

On 24 March 2017, Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court issued its reparation order against Germain Katanga in favour of victims of crimes for which he had been convicted. The present article analyses this ...

An important ‘stress test’ for regional human rights courts would be to see how well such courts perform when faced with authoritarian, human rights-violating regimes that they are supposed to hinder or constrain. These ...

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Compte tenu de l'opposition du public au règlement des différends entre investisseurs et États (RDIE) et en tenant compte de l'avis 2/15 de la Cour de justice de l'UE précisant que tous les États membres doivent être parties ...

An analysis of the legal obligations for data controllers when data subjects requests the right to data portability.

Is the recognition of a non-state armed group as the government of another state a violation of international law? On the face of it, the international law is quite straightforward on this issue. The principles of state ...

Skattespørsmål knyttet til aksjonærs private bruk av eiendel eid av selskap ble vurdert av Høyesterett i Storhaugen-dommen i 2003 og senere i en rekke dommer. Artikkelen argumenterer for at den såkalte Storhaugen-metoden ...

The discussion pursues three themes. In section 2, we present how ‘vulnerability’ may be conceptualised in different ways—as a general human condition, or a characteristic of some groups of people. We then turn to how the ...

De høyeste domstolene i Norden har blitt omtalt som konstitusjonsdomstoler. Artikkelen setter vår egen høyesterett inn i et nordisk perspektiv med særlig vekt på oppgaver av konstitusjonell karakter, særlig domstolskontroll ...

Unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors are exceptionally more vulnerable than adult refugees and children in a normal situation. Most unaccompanied children have personally lived the realities of war, family disintegration, ...

The principle of legality is an integral part of international criminal law (ICL). International criminal courts and tribunals (ICCTs) have applied a ‘soft’ version of legality that has seldom operated as a meaningful curb ...

This article takes as a point of departure that transnational police cooperation agreements and practices change what we might call the police worldview. This may further impact on the way nation state police forces deploy ...

This thesis examines the evolution of the protection of women against domestic violence in Brazil, influenced by the performance of the Inter-American Human Rights system in protecting the rights of women in the region. ...

This paper attempts to demonstrate a new legal norm of States’ right to renewable energy for environmental protection in international law, and to discuss the potential normative conflict between this right and the WTO ...

Artikkelen gir en kritisk analyse av Solberg-regjeringens reformforslag på diskrimineringsfeltet. Det er foreslått omfattende endringer både i det materielle regelverket og i håndhevingen av det. Endringene berører både ...

Föremålet för granskning i detta bidrag är ett spörsmål som mig veterligen inte varit föremål för någon mer omfattande diskussion i finsk rätt, nämligen huruvida en finsk polisman äger, eller borde äga, laga befogenhet ...

Straffeprosessutvalget leverte sin utredning i november 2016, om lag to år og fire måneder etter oppnevnelsen. Dette er alt for kort tid til å utarbeide et forsvarlig grunnlag for en helt ny straffeprosesslov. Den forrige ...

Following the 9/11 attack, the world entered in to a global fight against terrorist organizations and state sponsoring terrorism. The fight has started in 2001 in Afghanistan against Al-Qaeda and Taliban and later extended ...

It is often claimed that international investment arbitration is marked by a revolving door: individuals act sequentially and even simultaneously as arbitrator, legal counsel, expert witness, or tribunal secretary. If this ...

Recent cases of non-compliance with judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) raise several profound questions of legitimacy. Some states seem simply unwilling to defer to the ECtHR, putting their own legitimacy ...

Denne artikkelen belyser rollen som tildeles den som undersøker materiale sikret etter reglene i tvisteloven kapittel 28, og det foretas en komparasjon med beslag av digitalt lagret materiale i straffesaker, der materialet ...

Hva er en rettskilde? Selv om spørsmålet kan fremstå enkelt, åpner det opp for utallige svar. Svaret vil blant annet variere mellom ulike rettsanvendere og rettsanvendergrupper. Om det kan antas at enkelte argumentkilder ...

This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks on 2017-07-14, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Queering-Int ...