Contemporary Issues Facing the International Criminal Court is a collection of essays by prominent international criminal law commentators, responsive to questions of interest to the Office of the ...Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
La pratique internationale des différends concernant la circulation des biens culturels est devenue très riche pendant les dernières années, grâce à la prolifération de normes internationales ...applicables et à la multiplication de juridictions compétentes à saisir les litiges. La recherche des liens entre biens culturels et collectivité humaine et territoriale et de l'intérêt protégé à la lumière de l'expérience directe en matière de différends et de négociations, conduisent l'auteur à examiner les critères de rattachement utilisés, aussi bien que la question de la loi matérielle applicable par rapport à l'issue des différends. Les problèmes sont abordés soit par rapport à la spécificité des biens culturels vis-à-vis des règles ordinaires en matière de circulation des meubles, soit en fonction de la recherche du rattachement à l'ordre juridique d'origine des biens concernés. Cet ouvrage évalue les inconvénients découlant de l'application des règles générales édictées par les principaux systèmes de droit international privé en matière de circulation de biens et de constitution de droits réels. L'analyse est conduite aussi à l'égard de la validité des solutions proposées, sur le plan du droit international privé et du droit uniforme, notamment en cas de revendication, de retour ou de restitution de biens culturels, ainsi que de la vérification de l'efficacité des réponses données par la jurisprudence et la doctrine concernant les règles nationales et internationales applicables.
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Commercial arbitration taking place in England is commonly believed to be confidential, and this is often presented as an advantage over court litigation (which is generally not ...confidential). However, absent express provision, the precise extent of any confidentiality is a mystery to many and its legal basis, beyond being an implication as a matter of English law, remains unclear. In particular, what is the trigger for the implication: the venue for the arbitration, the seat of the arbitration or the law governing the arbitration agreement? This article addresses these questions.
This Article places the recent evolution of U.S. personal jurisdiction in comparative context. Comparativism helps illuminate and explain both the modest convergences and the more pervasive ...divergences. On the convergences side, the Supreme Court’s acknowledgment of transnational litigation and express invocation of European approaches to personal jurisdiction have helped move general jurisdiction away from the exorbitant “doing business” jurisdiction that seemed previously to be settled U.S. law. But persistent divergences tell the more interesting story. The Court’s refusal to deviate from its commitment to transient jurisdiction, its recent narrowing of specific jurisdiction since 2011, its implicit rejection of pendent-party personal jurisdiction, and its adherence to a strong form of consent-based personal jurisdiction all reveal a stark contrast with other countries’ approaches to personal jurisdiction. That contrast is founded on deep and stubborn ties to American history, political structure, and litigation norms, all of which make broader convergence difficult, if not implausible. For these reasons, U.S. personal-jurisdiction doctrine is more likely to continue to develop on an independent track rather than hew to global trends. Some areas of parallelism might still occur, but substantial convergence is likely to remain elusive.
This article examines the intersection of Indigenous and Canadian ways of making and maintaining relations through the specific examples of adoption and immigration. Canada and all Indigenous ...societies assert the authority to re-people themselves. Unlike Canada, Indigenous peoples must do so in the face of ongoing settler colonialism. I argue that Indigenous peoples and nations have authority to regulate these matters under Indigenous laws and systems of treaty relations. However, Canadian laws and policies have served to obscure this authority. I argue that non-metaphorical decolonization requires the continued exercise of Indigenous authority over "peopling" powers. These powers necessarily include authority over adoption at societal, familial, and individual levels via, respectively, ongoing treaty relations and customary membership. Adoption has formed part of this resistance but remains limited by Canadian sovereignty and the state's assertions of control over borders and immigration.
The focus of privacy laws in Hong Kong has always been on the use and dissemination of personal or confidential information, but a person's privacy can also be intruded by unwanted watching or ...listening irrespective of whether information is collected or used. Despite an attempt to introduce two privacy torts by the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong in 2004, there is no timetable as to when these two statutory torts be introduced. Recognition has been afforded for intrusions upon seclusion or solitude in a number of jurisdictions including New Zealand and the Canadian province of Ontario. In England, an intrusion tort has not been separately recognized, but the decision in 'Gulati v MGN' confirmed that damages may still be awarded for an action for misuse of private information in instances where there is no disclosure or publication of the wrongfully acquired information. This article looks at the possibility of developing a common law action of privacy in Hong Kong which affords protection regardless of whether private information is acquired or published by drawing insights to the developments in New Zealand and England.
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