Australian Cases before International Courts and Tribunals Involving Questions of Public International Law 2004
In: The Australian yearbook of international law, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 403-424
ISSN: 2666-0229
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In: The Australian yearbook of international law, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 403-424
ISSN: 2666-0229
In: Journal of human rights, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 48-68
ISSN: 1475-4843
In: Princeton studies in international history and politics
This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century Europe and the United States, showing how that discourse facilitated new authority struggles in Old Regime Europe, shaped the American and French Revolutions, and influenced the relationships between the revolutionary regimes and the international system. The interaction between traditional and democratic ideas of legitimacy transformed the international system by the early nineteenth century, when people began to take for granted the desirability of equality, individual rights, and restraint of power. Using an interpretive, historically sensitive approach to international relations, the author considers the complex interplay betwteen elite discourses about political legitimacy and strategic power struggles within and among states.
In: Journal of conflict and security law, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 1-8
In: The Canadian yearbook of international law: Annuaire canadien de droit international, Band 40, S. 3-60
ISSN: 1925-0169
SummaryCanadian courts are approaching the task of mediating the relationship between international law and domestic law with newfound energy. Yet, for all their declared openness to international law, courts are still inclined to avoid deciding cases on the basis of international law. This does not mean that international law is given no effect or that its broad relevance is denied. The avoidance strategy is more subtle: even when they invoke or refer to international law, Canadian courts generally do not give international norms concrete legal effect in individual cases. Although international law is brought to bear on a growing range of questions, its potential impact is tempered — and we fear largely eviscerated — because it is merely one factor in the application and interpretation of domestic law. Within the Canadian legal order the question of "bindingness" of international law is closely intertwined with the manner in which it comes to influence the interpretation of domestic law. In the case of norms that are binding on Canada under international law, Canadian courts have an obligation to interpret domestic law in conformity with the relevant international norms, as far as this is possible. By contrast, norms that do not bind Canada internationally (for example, soft law or provisions of treaties not ratified by Canada) can help inform the interpretation of domestic law and, depending on the norm in question and the case at issue, may even be persuasive. Courts may, and in some cases should, draw upon such norms for interpretative purposes, but they are not strictly speaking required to do so. However, especially following the Supreme Court's decision inBaker, there appears to be a trend towards treating all of international law, whether custom or treaty, binding on Canada or not, implemented or unimplemented, in the same manner — as relevant and perhaps persuasive, but not as determinative, dare we say obligatory. Our concern is that if international law is merely persuasive, it becomes purely optional, and can be ignored at the discretion of the judge. We argue that it is not enough to treat all normative threads in this fashion — over time this approach risks weakening the fabric of the law.
In: 1 Ukrainian Law Review (;2022); (;Forthcoming);
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In: Max Planck yearbook of United Nations law, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 341-402
ISSN: 1875-7413
In: Fordham International Law Journal, Band 32, Heft 1
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In: International organization, Band 70, Heft 3, S. 443-475
ISSN: 0020-8183
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In: International organization, S. 1-33
ISSN: 0020-8183
In: The current digest of the post-Soviet press, Band 68, Heft 46, S. 12-13
In: Max Planck yearbook of United Nations law, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 345-366
ISSN: 1875-7413
In: Journal of intervention and statebuilding, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 563-583
ISSN: 1750-2977
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