Manual on International Courts and Tribunals

The dramatic rise in the number of international courts and tribunals and the expansion of their legal powers has been one of the most significant developments in international law of the late 20th century. The emergence of an international judiciary provided international law with a stronger than ever law enforcement apparatus, and facilitated the transformation of many aspects of international relations from being power-based to being law-based. The first edition of the Manual on International Courts and Tribunals, published in 1999, was the first book to survey systematically this new institutional landscape, by describing in an accessible and uniformly structured manner the legal powers and operating procedures of all major international judicial and quasi-judicial bodies. In doing so, it laid the groundwork for comparative study and research of the law and practice of international courts and tribunals - an emerging field of international legal research, which has already spurred a series of publications, conferences and academic courses. This second edition updates the first edition by describing the many legal changes that have taken place in the last decade, including important reforms in the laws and procedures of many international courts and tribunals, relevant developments in their increasingly rich jurisprudence and the creation of new judicial fora. Moreover, it assesses the overall record of these judicial bodies. The data and legal analysis offered in the book provide both practitioners and academics with an important basis of knowledge that will help them better understand the details of international adjudication and its context.

ISBN 0199545278   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780199545278 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 960 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title International Courts & Tribunals Series Format Hardback   Height (mm) 240 Publication date 18 Mar 2010   Width (mm) 165 DEWEY 341.55   Spine width (mm) 36 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 576

1		The International Court of Justice		4
2		The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea		40
3		The Dispute Settlement System of the World Trade Organization		72
4		The Permanent Court of Arbitration		101
5		The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes		125
6		The International Criminal Court		157
7		The Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals: ICTY and ICTR		184
8		Hybrid International Criminal Tribunals: The Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon		212
9		Courts of the European Economic Area		253
10		Courts of Justice of Other Economic Communities		278
11		The European Court of Human Rights		334
12		The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights		364
13		The African Commission and Court on Human and Peoples' Rights		387
14		The Human Rights Committee		415
15		Other UN Treaty Bodies		431
16		Representation and Complaint Procedures of the International Labour Organization		453
17		The Inspection Panel of the World Bank		464
18		Other Inspection, Review, and Compliance Mechanisms in International Financial Institutions		478
19		Compliance Procedures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements		501
		Index		515

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