International Law-making: Essays in Honour of Jan Klabbers by Rain Liivoja, Jarna Petman

By Rain Liivoja, Jarna Petman

This booklet explores law-making in overseas affairs and is compiled to have a good time the fiftieth birthday of Professor Jan Klabbers, a number one overseas legislation and diplomacy pupil who has made major contributions to the knowledge of the resources of foreign criminal duties and the assumption of constitutionalism in overseas legislations. encouraged via Professor Klabbers’ wide-ranging pursuits in foreign legislations and his interdisciplinary method, the publication examines law-making via a number of views and seeks to breaks new floor in exploring what it ability to imagine and write approximately legislation and its production.

While studying the substance of overseas legislation, those individuals bring up extra normal matters, corresponding to the connection among law-making and the applying of legislations, the position and clash among a variety of associations, and the features of the formal assets of overseas legislation. The e-book may be of significant curiosity to scholars and teachers of felony concept, diplomacy, and overseas legislations.

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There is also the rarer possibility that the unilateral measure burdens only one’s own nationals and state agencies. See, for example, Environmental Defense Fund v. Massey, 986 F 2d 528 (United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1993) (environmental impact assessment required under US Law applied to a scientific station of a US Federal Agency in Antarctica, which the court regards as a ‘global common’), but this type of legislation does not raise the problems discussed here.

Eyal Benvenisti 1 Introduction: What is ‘legislation for humanity’? 4 What is common to these and other unilateral regulatory efforts of this type is their aim: the unilateral attempt to prevent or remedy global public ‘bads’. 5 Unlike the unilateral 1 2 3 4 5 See Janie A. Chuang, ‘The United States as Global Sheriff: Using Unilateral Sanctions to Combat Human Trafficking’, 27 Michigan Journal of International Law (2006) 437–94. WTO Appellate Body, United States – Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products, WT/DS58/AB/R, 12 October 1998 (Shrimp/Turtle); United States – Measures Concerning the Importation, Marketing and Sale of Tuna and Tuna Products, WT/DS381/AB/R, 16 May 2012 (Tuna/Dolphin II).

The principles of national self-determination and of national ownership of natural resources never meant supreme and unfettered authority to each people.

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