Treaties and International Law

             As international instruments proliferate, the remedies available to
             states for breach of international obligations and the number of
             institutions offering for a granting of such remedies have expanded. Today,
             the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is no longer alone in providing a
             forum for the granting of remedies. Different trade, environmental, or law
             of the sea regimes, for example, has expanded the range of options
             Yet, with this expansion come new problems, tensions and questions.
             For example, will a given institutional option actually be effective' Is
             the proliferation of procedures and mechanisms necessarily a good thing'
             What happens if different institutions offer diverging jurisprudence' Which
             factors determine the choice of one forum over another'
             Evolving out of the papers and presentations given at the Fourth
             EC/International Law Forum hosted by the Law Department at Bristol
             University in May 1997, Remedies in International Law is a collection of
             essays by leading international jurists on the remedies available to states
             in international law and the issues "flowing from the multiplicity of
             procedures and mechanisms".[1] Discussions go beyond the examination of
             traditional institutions such as the ICJ to more recent institutional
             that under the Convention on the Law of the Sea and to alternative dispute
             The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) "represents
             the first world-wide court set up specifically to deal with a major part of
             international law since the establishment of the International Court of
             Justice fifty years ago".[2] David Anderson and Robin Churchill examine, in
             different pieces, new institutional arrangements under the 1982 UN
             Convention on the Law of the Sea. Both focus on the ITLOS. However, while
             Anderson examines the establishment, jurisdiction, rules of procedure and
             judicial policy of the Tribunal, Churchill ...

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