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Between Legitimacy And Control: Challenges And Recusals Of Arbitrators And Judges In International Courts And Tribunals, Chiara Giorgetti Jan 2016

Between Legitimacy And Control: Challenges And Recusals Of Arbitrators And Judges In International Courts And Tribunals, Chiara Giorgetti

Law Faculty Publications

Challenges of judges and arbitrators in international courts and tribunals is a vastly understudied subject. To correct this imbalance, this Article makes three novel contributions. First, and for the first time, it details and compares challenge procedures across a variety of international courts and tribunals, including both permanent and ad hoc institutions. Second, it provides unique data on challenges and provides a detailed analysis of their outcomes. Third, it makes two concrete recommendations that should be adopted as baseline requirements to improve and harmonize existing challenge procedures: (1) it proposes that an external or semi-external institution take decisions on challenges, …


International Legal Positivism And Legal Realism, D. A. Jeremy Telman Jan 2013

International Legal Positivism And Legal Realism, D. A. Jeremy Telman

Law Faculty Publications

This chapter, a contribution to a book on International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World, gauges the potential for mutually enriching interactions between international legal positivism and legal realism. It first describes the encounter between legal positivism and legal realism in the U.S. legal academy and then proceeds to discuss the rise of a new legal realism in international legal theory. In a concluding section, the chapter assesses the compatibilities and tensions between the new international legal realism and the new international legal positivism.

With its forthright embrace of the inescapability of uncertainty in law, the new international legal …


Thoughts On The German Constitutional Court Decision On The Esm, Richard Stith Oct 2012

Thoughts On The German Constitutional Court Decision On The Esm, Richard Stith

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Why Should International Law Be Concerned About State Failure?, Chiara Giorgetti Jan 2010

Why Should International Law Be Concerned About State Failure?, Chiara Giorgetti

Law Faculty Publications

In the last fifty years, the international community has undergone a transformation, as social, economic, and political dynamics have been altered. In fact, the international power structure has shifted towards a more complex structure, economies have been largely liberalized, new powerful international actors have emerged, and security threats have altered significantly. These transformations impacted all nation States. Indeed, a new standard of governance emerged that resulted in increased responsibility to each State's nationals. Similarly, States have become increasingly interindependent and have additional (both in numbers and substance) obligations towards each other and the international community in general. Certain States, however, …


México: ¿Nuevamente Una Colonia Europea?, Richard Stith Jan 2003

México: ¿Nuevamente Una Colonia Europea?, Richard Stith

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Can Treaty Law Be Supreme, Directly Effective, And Autonomous--All At The Same Time?, Richard Stith, J.H.H. Weiler Jan 2002

Can Treaty Law Be Supreme, Directly Effective, And Autonomous--All At The Same Time?, Richard Stith, J.H.H. Weiler

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Dos Visiones Norteamericanas De La Jurisdicción De La Unión Europea, Richard T. Stith Jan 2000

Dos Visiones Norteamericanas De La Jurisdicción De La Unión Europea, Richard T. Stith

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Extraordinary Counter-Majoritarian Power Of The New Supreme Court Of Nepal, Richard Stith Apr 1995

The Extraordinary Counter-Majoritarian Power Of The New Supreme Court Of Nepal, Richard Stith

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.