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Category Archives: International Law
Die Entwicklung der Völkerrechtslehre
Andreas R. Ziegler, Die Entwicklung der Völkerrechtslehre und -wissenschaft in der Schweiz: eine Übersicht, 26 Swiss Review of International and European Law 21-52 (2016)
Theorizing the Sources of International Law
Samantha Besson, ‘‘Theorizing the Sources of International Law’ in Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas (eds.), The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) pp. 164-185.
Equitiy revisited
Thomas Cottier, Equity Revisited: An Introduction, in: Equitable Principles of Maritime Boundary Delimitation: The Quest for Distributive Justice in International Law (Cambridge University Press 2015, 798 pages) pp 1-41.
Poverty, obligations and the international economic legal system
Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, ‘Poverty, Obligations, and the International Economic Legal System: What are our duties to the global poor’ in Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer (ed.), Poverty and the International Economic Legal System: Duties to the World’s Poor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) pp. 3-15.
Schefer – Poverty and the International Economic Legal System
The OECD Convention on Bribery
Mark Pieth, ‘Introduction’ in Mark Pieth, Lucinda A. Low and Nicola Bonucci (eds.), The OECD Convention on Bribery (2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) pp. 3-56.
The Charter of the United Nations: Article 2.2
Robert Kolb, ‘Article 2(2)’ in Bruno Simma (ed.), The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary (3rd ed., Vol.1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
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Master Programmes in International Law
Next to the master programmes at the Graduate Institute and the executive Master of International Law and Economics at the World Trade Institute, Master programmes with a particular focus on public international law and components of it are offered by the University of Lausanne, the University of Zurich and the University of St. Gallen, the later particularly focusing on the relationship of law and economics. The Universities of Bern, Fribourg and Neuchâtel are active in the field of international migration law and are about to offer a certificate of advanced studies in the field.
University of Zurich: Menschenrechtszentrum
The University of Zurich hosts the Centre of Human Rights established in 2009 which is dedicated to study the role and implications of the private sector in advancing human rights in business and economic relations. Corporpate Social Responsibility has been at the center of attention as well as issues relating to commodity trading.
Assise Théorique Du Droit Des Cours D’Eau Internationaux
Lucius Caflisch, ‘Assise Théorique Du Droit Des Cours D’Eau Internationaux’ in Règles Générales du droit des cours d’eau internationaux (Martinus Nijhoff, 1989) pp. 48-61 [The theoretical foundations for a law of international watercourses].
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Fragen des Neutralitätsrechts im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Dietrich Schindler, ‘Fragen des Neutralitätsrechts im Zweiten Weltkrieg’ Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz – Zweiter Weltkrieg – Commission Indépendante d’Experts Suisse – Seconde Guerre Mondiale, Band 18 (2001) [Questions of the law of neutrality in World War II].
Schindler – Fragen des Neutralitätsrechts im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Consultation pour la Banque Nationale Suisse Concernant Les Operations D’Or Avec La Reichsbank
Georges Sauser-Hall, Consultation pour la Banque Nationale Suisse Concernant Les Operations D’Or Avec La Reichsbank (28 March 1946, dodis.ch/2612).
What is Positive International Law?
Paul Guggenheim, ‘What is Positive International Law’ in George A. Lipsky Law and Politics in the World Community: Essays on Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory and Related Problems in International Law (University of California Press, Berkley and Los Angeles, 1953) pp. 15-30.
Soft Law – Norms in the Twilight between Law and Politics
Daniel Thürer, ‘Soft Law – Norms in the Twilight between Law and Politics’ in Daniel Thürer, International law as Progress and Prospect (Dike Verlag Ag, Zurich/ St. Gallen, 2009) pp. 159-178.
Stefan Trechsel
Stefan Trechsel was born in Bern in 1937. His father was the pastor of Boltigen im Simmental and his mother came from a Jewish family in Berlin. He attended school in Burgdorf and continued his studies in Bern. He passed the bar exam in 1963, went on to receive his doctorate in 1966 and took up the position as a private lecturer in 1972. Trechsel spent one year as a fellow in Washington, D.C. He was a state prosecutor in Bern from 1971 to 1975.
Dick Marty
Dick Marty was born in Sorengo on the 7th January 1945. Marty received his doctorate in law from the University of Neuchâtel and began his career as a specialist on Swiss law. He lived in Freiburg, Germany, from 1969 until 1975, based at the section on Swiss law at the Max Planck Institute.
Giorgio Malinverni
Giogrio Malinverni is an honorary Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva and a Judge at the European Court of Human Rights. Malinverni was born in October 1941 in Locarno. He holds a Law degree from the University of Fribourg and was awarded his PhD in 1965 from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
Gret Haller
Gret Haller was born 1947 and completed her grammar school and law studies in Zurich. She earned her Doctorate in Law at the University of Zurich in 1973 with a dissertation on the UNO – the human rights pact and the legal position of women in Switzerland. She worked as a legal person in an architecture and urban planning practice from 1973-1974 before going on to work for two years as an administrator for the European Convention of Human Rights at the Federal Department of Justice and Police. In 1978 she opened her own legal practice in Bern.
Robert Briner
Robert Briner was a Swiss arbitrator who was a prominent figure in the field of international arbitration. Briner received his Doctorate in Law from the University of Zurich before being admitted to the bars of Zurich, Geneva and Fribourg. In the 1970s he increasingly became active in the area of arbitration and in 1985 he was appointed to chair Chamber Two of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague. In 1989 he became President of the Tribunal, a role he held until 1991.
University of Bern: World Trade Institute
The World Trade Institute (WTI) is a centre of excellence of the University of Bern, Switzerland entailing some 50 staff members. Established in 1999 by Thomas Cottier, Petros Mavroidis and economists Jaime de Melo, Damien Neven and Jean-Louis Juvet, it is one of the world’s leading academic institutions dedicated to international trade. The WTI transcends boundaries fusing law, economics and international relations in interdisciplinary research, training, advisory work and technical assistance in Switzerland and abroad.
Institut de Droit International
The Institute of International Law was founded on 8 September 1873 at the Ghent Town Hall in Belgium. Eleven international lawyers of renown had decided to join together to create an institution independent of any governmental influence which would be able both to contribute to the development of international law and act so that it might be implemented.
Graduate Institute
‘The Graduate Institute (known by its Geneva abbreviation of HEI – Hautes Eâtudes Internationales) was founded in 1927. The moving spirits behind its creation were William Rappard, a friend of Woodrow Wilson, and Paul Mantoux, a friend of Lloyd George and of Clemenceau – both scholar-diplomats. They worked side by side and in friendship as senior officials in the secretariat at the first headquarters of the League of Nations in the building, later (and still) known as the Palais Wilson. Their shared vision, at the peak of faith in internationalism associated with the League, was for a graduate school to help prepare statesmen and secretariat staff by studying, in complete impartiality, the new and distinct subject of international relations.
Painting the Landscape – An Introduction
International law, scholarship and practice in international law mainly evolved in Universities and in Government. Most of the work done related to professors and practionners, diplomats and government lawyers, Judges were instrumental and lawyers arguing cases, albeit to a lesser degree with a number of exceptions active on the international stage.
Genes, Trade and Regulation
Thomas Bernauer, ‘Introduction and Summary’ in Thomas Bernauer, Genes, Trade and Regulation: The Seeds of Conflict in Food Biotechnology (Princeton University Press, 2003) pp. 1-21.
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Les relations entre organisations régionales et organisations universelles
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, ‘Les relations entre organisations régionales et organisations universelles’, Recueil des Cours, Vol. 347 (2011) [The relationship between regional and universal organizations].
The Genesis of the GATT Summary
Petros C. Mavroidis, ‘The Genesis of the GATT Summary’ in Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis (eds), Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013) pp.1-8.
Peering in – an outsider’s view: Switzerland, International Law and WWII
Detlev Vagts, ‘Editorial Comment: Switzerland, International Law and World War II’ (1997) American Society of International Law Vol. 91, No. 3, pp. 466-475.
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Bindschedler Doktrin
Rudolf Bindschedler, Der Begriff der Neutralität, Report “Bindschedler Doktrin” 26 November 1954.
The Art of War
Antoine-Henri Jomini, The Art of War (translated by G.H. Mendell 1862, originally published in french in 1836, published by Arc Manor: Rockville, USA, 2007).
Fragmentation or Unification: Some Concluding Remarks
Georges Abi-Saab, ‘Fragmentation or Unification: Some Concluding Remarks’ in ‘The Proliferation of International Courts and Tribunals: Piecing Together the Puzzle’ New York University Journal of International Law and Politics Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 919-933.
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La responsabilité de protéger – Une vue d’ensemble assortie d’une perspective suisse
Nicolas Michel, ‘La responsabilité de protéger – Une vue d’ensemble assortie d’une perspective suisse’, in: Revue de droit suisse. – Bâle. – Vol. 131 (2012). Halbbd. II, no 1, p. 5-109. – Numéro thématique: Le droit suisse face aux défis du droit international [The Responsibility to Protect – An overview together with a Swiss perspective].
Michel – Une vue d’ensemble assortie d’une perspective suisse
Wir lassen sie verhungern, Die Massenvernichtung in der Dritten Welt
Jean Ziegler, Wir lassen sie verhungern: Die Massenvernichtung in der Dritten Welt (translated by C. Bertelsmann, Verlag, München, 2012) [We let them starve: The Mass Destruction in the Third World].
Conceptualising Climate-Induced Displacement
Walter Kälin, ‘Conceptualising Climate-Induced Displacement’ in Jane McAdam (ed.), Climate Change and Displacement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010) pp. 81-103.
Note sur la creation d’une institution judiciaire internationale propre a prévenir et a reprimer les infractions a la convention de Genève
Gustave Moynier, ‘Note sur la creation d’une institution judiciaire internationale propre à prévenir et à réprimer les infractions à la convention de Genève’ Bulletin International des Societes de Secours aux Militaires Blesses, Vol. 3, Issue. 11 (1872) pp. 122-131 [Note on the creation of a specific international judicial institution to prevent and punish violations of the Geneva Convention].
A Memory of Solferino
Henry Dunant, A Memory of Solferino (International Committee of the Red Cross publication 1986 ref. 0361 by Henry Dunant).
Ausschaffungsinitiative (2C_828/2011)
Facts
Born in 1987, X. is a Macedonian national, who entered Switzerland in November 1994 for the purposes of family reunification. He was later granted a settlement permit. On 18 June 2010, the Trial Court Weinfelden convicted X. for a severe violation of the Swiss Narcotics Act and handed down a suspended jail sentence of 18 months. Based on this conviction, the Migration Office of the Canton of Thurgau revoked settlement permit of X. on 30 March 2011 and ordered his expulsion from Switzerland.
BGE 117 Ib 367, pp 371 ff
As Mr X. passed away, his legal heirs discovered that while alive, Mr X. had not fully disclosed his financial assets to the tax authorities.
Belilos v Switzerland (Application No. 10328/83)
Facts
The facts of the case as summarised in the European Court of Human Rights: Case of Belilos vs. Switzerland:
9. Mrs. Marlène Belilos, who is a Swiss citizen, lives in Lausanne and was a student there at the material time.
Banque de Credit international: BGE 98 Ib 385, pp. 387, ff
Gordon Brian Hausmann, a British national, had been employed as an intern by the Banque de Crédit international in Geneva since February 1970. His work permit, initially expiring in August 1970, was extended upon request by the Banque.
Frigerio: BGE 94 I 669, pp. 678, f
In 1962, Mr Frigerio was granted a concession for commercial passenger transport allowing him to operate ferry boats on the Rhine between Tössegg (Canton of Zürich) and Rüdlingen (Canton of Schaffhausen). The concession was later extended to include the journey between Tössegg and Eglisau (also Canton of Zürich).
Solothurn c. Aargau: BGE 26 I 444, pp. 450, f
Serving for military and civilian firing drills, the rifle range “Schachen” was located westwards from the city of Aarau, approximately one kilometre from the Aargau-Solothurn cantonal border.
Membership in the Global Constitutional Community
Anne Peters, ‘Membership in the Global Constitutional Community’ in Jan Klabbers, Anne Peters and Geir Ulfstein, The Constitutionalization of International Law (Oxford University Press 2009) pp. 153-179.
The Prospects of 21st Century Constitutionalism
Thomas Cottier and Maya Hertig Randall, ‘The Prospects of 21st Century Constitutionalism’ in A. Von Bogdandy and R. Wolfrum (eds.), Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Vol. 7, (2003), pp. 299-328.
Constitutional Functions of Liberal International Trade and Monetary Rules
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, ‘Constitutional Functions of Liberal International Trade and Monetary Rules’ in Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Constitutional Functions and Constitutional Problems of International Economic Law (Fribourg: Fribourg University Press, 1991) pp. 209-221.
Lehren von Vorrang und Autonomie des Vertragstextes
Jörg Paul Müller, ‘Lehren von Vorrang und Autonomie des Vertragstextes’ in Jörg Paul Müller, Vertrauensschutz im Völkerrecht (Köln and Berlin: Carl Heymanns Verlag KG, 1971) pp. 136-143 [Doctrines of precedence and autonomy in international law].
Distribution of Powers Between Federal Government and Member Unites
Luzius Wildhaber, ‘Distribution of Powers Between Federal Government and Member Unites’ in Luzius Wildhaber, Treaty-Making Power and Constitution: An International and Comparative Study (Basel and Stuttgart: Helbing and Lichtenhahn, 1971) pp. 254-272.
Island of Las Palmas, 1928 – The concept of territorial Sovereignty
In the words of Professor Daniel-Erasmus Khan: “Max Huber is the ‘Island of Palmas case’ and the ‘Island of Palmas case’ is Max Huber.”
On the Place of the Law of Nations in the History of Mankind
Max Huber, ‘On the Place of the Law of Nations in the History of Mankind’ in Symbolae Verzijl: Présentées Au Professeur J.H.W. Verzijl à l’Occasion de son LXX-Ième Anniversaire (Martinus Nijhoff, Law Haye 1958) pp. 190-195.
Das moderne Völkerrecht der civilisierten Staten
Johann Caspar Bluntschli, Das moderne Völkerrecht der civilisierten Staten (Nördlingen, Druck und Verlag der C.H. Beck’schen Buchhandlung, 1872) [The modern international law of civilized states].
The Law of Nations – Chapter XII Of Treaties Of Alliance, And Other Republic Treaties
Emer De Vattel, ‘Of Treaties Of Alliance, And Other Public Treaties’ in Emer De Vattel, The Law of Nations (Translated by Joseph Chitty, with additional notes and references by Edward D. Ingraham. Philadelphia,T. & J.W. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1853) pp. 192-212.
Principles of Natural and Politic Law
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, ‘Of the Nature of Man, considered with regard to Right: Of the Understanding, and whatever is relative to this Faculty’ in Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Principles of Natural and Politic Law (translated into English by Thomas Nuggent, [1748] Indiana: Liberty Fund, 2006).
Giuseppe Motta
This biography is taken from Benedict von Tscharner, ‘Giuseppe Motta’ in Benedict von Tscharner, Inter Gentes: Statesmen, Diplomats, Political Thinkers, translation Nathasha Proietto, (Infolio editions & Éditions de Penthes, 2012): extract: pp. 199-215.
Carla Del Ponte
This biography is taken from Benedict von Tscharner, ‘Carla Del Ponte’ in Benedict von Tscharner, Inter Gentes: Statesmen, Diplomats, Political Thinkers, translation Nathasha Proietto, (Infolio editions & Éditions de Penthes, 2012): extract: pp. 349-357.
Positivism, Functionalism and International Law
Hans Joachim Morgenthau, ‘Positivism, Functionalism and International Law’ (1940) The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 260-28.
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