This study examines the principle party autonomy as provided for in the European Rome I Regulation and the Rome II Regulation. It critically reflects on the position of the freedom to choose the law in contract and tort in the common law jurisdictions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Singapore. Meer
Studies the role of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding the international dispute settlement and the maintenance of international peace and security by examining its practice on provisional measures. Meer
In recent years the question of the legitimacy of international law has been discussed quite intensively. Such questions are, for example, whether international law lacks legitimacy in general; whether international law or a part of it has yielded to the facts of power; whether adherence to international legal commitments should be subordinated to self-defined national interests; whether international law or particular rules of it – such as the prohibition of the use of armed force – have lost their ability to induce compliance (compliance pull); and what is the relevance of non-enforcement or failure to obey for the legitimacy of that particular international norm? Meer
Wie welche Entscheidungen von wem nach welchen Regeln und Verfahren in Kollegialorganen von Staaten und Staatenverbindungen zu treffen sind, ist eine sowohl für die Rechtswissenschaft als auch die Politik- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften zentrale Frage. Meer
With the considerable advances made in the quality of sensors on board commercial observation satellites, information gained from them not only became widely available, but very useful for the verification of a number of arms control treaties including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (the NPT). Meer