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Necessity and National Emergency Clauses: Sovereignty in Modern Treaty Interpretation: International Litigation in Practice, cartea 3

Autor Diane A. Desierto
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 ian 2012
States invoke economic crises and security threats to justify treaty non-compliance. The most dramatic recent examples of this phenomenon include “necessity” defences in international investment law; “emergency” derogations in international human rights treaties; “exceptions” for non-conforming measures in international trade law; and doctrinal misapplications of necessity in jus ad bellum and jus in bello.

Necessity and National Emergency Clauses is the first to trace the doctrine’s genealogy from medieval Christian and Islamic religious history to post-Westphalian practices, the International Law Commission’s codifications, and modern treaty formulations. Recognizing the doctrine’s thematic linkage with the State’s sovereign right to delimit international obligation, the volume proposes analytical criteria to assess the lawfulness and legitimacy of interpretations of necessity and national emergency clauses within specialized treaty regimes.

This volume is intended for law students, legal scholars, arbitrators, international judges, and other international law practitioners interested in deriving interpretive solutions to treaty controversies on the doctrine of necessity.

Diane Desierto was awarded the 2010-2011 Ambrose Gherini Prize, the highest prize awarded in the field of International Law by Yale Law School, for her JSD dissertation, upon which this book is based.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004218529
ISBN-10: 9004218521
Pagini: 412
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill | Nijhoff
Seria International Litigation in Practice


Cuprins

I. Introduction: Necessity and Treaty Obligations
II. The Doctrine of Necessity in Municipal and International Legal Orders
III. The Historical Genesis of Necessity Doctrine: A Conceptual Descriptive
IV. Substantive and Methodological Issues in Interpreting Necessity Clauses in Treaties: A Proposal
V. Economic and National Security Emergencies: Necessity Clauses in International Investment Law and International Trade Law
VI. States of Emergency in International Human Rights Treaties
VII. Misapplying Necessity: Recent Proposals in Jus Ad Bellum and Jus in Bello
VIII. Conclusion: Necessity, Sovereignty, and Treaty Interpretation
Selected Bibliography
Subject Index

Recenzii

"Diane Desierto’s new book, Necessity and National Emergency Clauses: Sovereignty in Modern Treaty Interpretation, critiques the ILC’s effort to codify the international law of state necessity, arguing that the ILC’s formulation should be given little weight as a restatement of customary international law. Tracing the history of necessity over the centuries, Desierto shows that the classical conception of necessity as a sovereign right to self-preservation evolved significantly from Machiavelli to Grotius to Schmitt and beyond ... While these insights regarding the context-sensitive character of necessity defenses might seem modest on first impression, Desierto shows that they have far-reaching implications, calling into question some recent arbitral decisions on economic emergencies and challenging scholarly efforts to defend torture and humanitarian intervention based on appeals to necessity ... By clarifying how law-appliers should go about evaluating state necessity defenses, Desierto’s study also offers broader insights for international legal theory. Desierto’s fine-grained analysis in Necessity and National Emergency Clauses offers an invaluable model for how law-appliers should go about answering this question [whether the applicable treaty regime authorizes emergency measures in a given context]."
– Evan Criddle, College of Law, Syracuse University, in: American Society of International Law Cables

"This volume offers a very comprehensive analysis of the necessity doctrine and national emergency clauses in relation to treaty compliance. Desierto’s insights should form a baseline for future analysis of the interpretation of the necessity doctrine in international law. This work is undoubtedly a step forward, and an original contribution as it provides interpretive answers to treaty controversies related to the doctrine of necessity."
– Georgios Andriotis, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal, in: Revue québécoise de droit international

“This book is certainly the most comprehensive and scholarly literature available on interpretation of necessity and national emergency clauses. It makes a successful attempt in filling the gaps present in interpretations of necessity in specialised treaty regimes. Therefore, importance of this book lies not only in the fact that it explains how necessity in specialised treaties should be interpreted as suited to their specific needs, but also in providing a solution as to how the tribunals should apply such interpretations to these specialised treaties. Another important aspect of this books is that it identifies those specialised treaty regimes where major controversies have already occurred due to inaccurate interpretation of necessity clause. In this respect this book by Diane A. Desierto is undoubtedly a valuable contribution in the field of International Law.”
– Amit Kumar Sinha Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India, in: Indian Journal of International Law

Notă biografică

Diane A. Desierto, JSD (2011), LLM (2009), Yale; LLB cum laude (2004), BS Economics summa cum laude (2000), UP Law/Econ; 2010-2011 Yale Fellow (Judges Simma/Sepulveda-Amor) International Court of Justice; teaches international law in UP Law and advises Philippine government agencies.

Diane Desierto was awarded the 2010-2011 Ambrose Gherini Prize, the highest prize awarded in the field of International Law by Yale Law School, for her JSD dissertation, upon which this book is based.