Necessity and National Emergency Clauses

Sovereignty in Modern Treaty Interpretation
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21852-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 747 g

Reihe: International Litigation in Practice

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.

Zielgruppe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Desierto, Diane A

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Desierto, Diane A
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.