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Title The practice of international and national courts and the (de- )fragmentation of international law / edited by Ole Kristian Fauchald and André Nollkaemper
Published Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages)
Series Studies in international law ; v. 40
Studies in international law (Oxford, England) ; v. 40.
Contents One law to rule them all : should international courts be viewed as guardians of procedural order and legal uniformity? / Yuval Shany -- Customary rules of interpretation in the practice of WTO dispute settlement bodies / Lukasz Gruszczynski -- IMF-WTO interaction : institutional, jurisdictional and procedural aspects / Claus D. Zimmermann -- Sources of law and arbitral interpretations of pari materia investment protection rules / Martins Paparinskis -- The ECHR and its normative environment : difficulties arising from a regional human rights court's approach to systemic integration / Ragnar Nordeide -- The systemic integration of international law by domestic courts : domestic judges as architects of the consistency of the international legal order / Jean d'Aspremont -- Legal integration through judicial dialogue / Tor-Inge Harbo -- Judicial dialogue in multi-level governance : the impact of the Solange argument / Antonios Tzanakopoulos -- Flux and fragmentation in the international law of state jurisdiction : the synecdochal example of Canada's domestic court conflicts over accountability for international human rights violations / Robert J. Currie and Hugh M. Kindred -- Immunities and human rights : dissecting the dialogue in national and international courts / Philippa Webb -- Transjudicial dialogue and consistency in human rights jurisprudence : a case study on diplomatic assurances against torture / Aristoteles Constantinides -- Racial discrimination in Japan : unity, diversity and international law / Timothy Webster -- Subtle but enduring : the role of domestic courts in the shaping of international economic law through proper interpretation of domestic law : the WTO agreement before Swiss courts / Andreas R. Ziegler
Summary In recent decades there has been a considerable growth in the activities of international tribunals and the establishment of new tribunals. Furthermore, supervisory bodies established to control compliance with treaty obligations have adopted decisions in an increasing number of cases. National courts further add to the practice of adjudication of claims based on international law. While this increasing practice of courts and supervisory bodies strengthens the adjudicatory process in international law, it also poses challenges to the unity of international law. Most of these courts operate wi
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Subject International law.
International courts -- Rules and practice
Courts -- Rules and practice
Foreign trade regulation.
Court rules.
LAW -- International.
Courts
Foreign trade regulation
International courts
International law
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Vienna, 23 May 1969)
Interpretation.
Fragmentation of international law.
Legal integration.
International courts.
National courts.
Treaties.
Genre/Form Rules
Form Electronic book
Author Fauchald, Ole Kristian
Nollkaemper, André
ISBN 9781847319142
1847319149
9781472565907
1472565908
9781847319159
1847319157
Other Titles International and national courts and the (de)-fragmentation of international law
Practice of international and national courts and the defragmentation of international law