Unwanted Returnees : Legal Aspects of Sweden's Non-Repatriation Policy of Detained Women and Children in al-Hol and Roj ...
Introduction au droit public. Considérations générales et particularités belges
Qu’est-ce qu’un État ? Que doit-on comprendre par les expressions « séparation des pouvoirs », « parlementarisme » ou encore « État de droit » ? Quelles sont les différences entre monarchie et république ? Qu’entend-on par « État fédéral »? Que recouvre la notion de « droits fondamentaux » ? Ce manuel constitue une introduction au droit public, c’e...
O pensamento de Hugo Grócio e o resgate do ideal de justiça internacional
The present work resumes the theoretical contributions of one of the founding fathers of Public International Law, Hugo Grócio. The objective of the work is demonstrate that the reflections of the Dutch jurist helped in the understanding of justice as a legitimizing foundation of the law, as a common ethical sense of humanity and as an obligation o...
The Human Rights Defence in International Investment Arbitration: Exploring the Limtis of Systemic Integration
In a variety of investment arbitration cases, respondent States have argued that the measure complained of by the investor was mandated by the State’s human rights obligations. This defence raises intricate questions concerning the relationship between international investment law and human rights law. Tribunals have generally been reluctant to eng...
Immunity from Execution of Military and Cultural Property
At first glance, State military property and State cultural property are not two categories of goods with much in common. Legally, however, they are classed together for one particular purpose: both are generally immune from foreign State court measures of constraint. This classification reflects the importance both categories of good have to State...
Grave human rights violations and crimes against humanity under public international law: The case of Mexico
The UN international legal framework on grave human rights violations and crimes against humanity has developed in recent years, to the degree of an initiative for an autonomous treaty on crimes against humanity. Mexico has undergone several Constitutional and legal reforms accepting the priority and legal supremacy of international human rights in...
Universal Civil Jurisdiction and Forum Necessitatis: The Confusion of Public and Private International Law in Naït-Liman...
Published in Netherlands International Law Review
Naït-Liman v. Switzerland invited the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to consider whether a denial of municipal civil jurisdiction in a case involving allegations of torture committed outside of the forum State was a disproportionate interference to Article 6(1) ECHR. The judgment, however, confused separate principles of both public a...
Aggressionsbegreppet : En komparativ studie av Förenta nationernas stadgas och Romstadgan för den Internationella brotts...
I och med Romstadgan för den internationella brottmålsdomstolen (nedan Romstadgan) finns nu, för första gången, en juridiskt bindande definition av begreppet aggression, vilken baseras på Förenta Nationernas stadga (nedan FN-stadgan) artikel 2(4). Romstadgan utgör grunden för att Internationella brottmålsdomstolen (nedan ICC), i efterhand, ska kunn...
The Rule of Law in the 2030 Agenda
Published in Hague Journal on the Rule of Law
While the rule of law is the cornerstone of the international legal order, the analysis of intergovernmental instruments, statements made by States, and negotiation records, indicates that within the UN the rule of law has grown increasingly contested in the past years, culminating at the post-2015 process leading to the Sustainable Development Goa...
Les mesures correctives des émissions aériennes de gaz à effet de serre : Contribution à l'étude des interactions entre ...
La recherche d'une mesure mondiale et corrective des émissions de gaz à effet de serreafin de réduire l'impact de l'activité aérienne internationale sur les changements climatiques a étéconfrontée à l'émergence d'obstacles, sous forme de conflits de normes, liés au défi général del'interaction entre le droit international de l'aviation civile, le d...
