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 ...