Pascal MBONGO, Antoine VAUCHEZ, Dans la fabrique du droit européen. Scènes, acteurs et publics de la Cour de justice des Communautés européennes, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2009.
Et si la Cour de justice des Communautés européennes était en fait la grande inconnue de l’Union ? Les juristes ont largement souligné sa contribution à l’édification d’un droit communautaire. Les politistes quant à eux n’ont cessé de pointer la centralité de son rôle dans les dynamiques d’européanisation. Mais, toujours interrogée du point de vue de ses « outputs » (sa jurisprudence), la Cour a très rarement intéressé pour elle-même. De fait, alors même que les études européennes portant sur la Commission ou les États membres soulignent la multiplicité et la pluralité des « cultures » qui trouvent à s’y exprimer et des conflits qui les travaillent, elles prêtent le plus souvent à « la Cour » unité, cohérence et constance dans le temps. Le présent ouvrage fait le pari inverse. Réunissant juristes, politistes, et sociologues, mobilisant divers angles et registres d’analyse, il entre de plain-pied dans l’arène judiciaire communautaire, scrutant ses professionnels, expliquant ses filières de recrutement, dessinant ses réseaux de sociabilité, mais aussi disséquant ses modes de raisonnement et ses registres argumentatifs. Ce détour par le plateau de Kirchberg nous plonge dans la Cour ainsi revisitée comme « fabrique du droit européen » où se confrontent et s’hybrident cultures et professionnels du droit de l’Europe. Ce regard renouvelé sur les acteurs de la Cour et les instruments cognitifs qu’ils mobilisent dessine une cartographie nouvelle des liens (professionnels, sociaux, intellectuels, etc.) qui maintiennent la Cour à cheval entre espace communautaire et espace judiciaire, champ juridique et politique européenne.
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Legal Issues of Economic Integration
Volume 36, Issue 2, 2009
The Second Second Irish Referendum: Finally a Fair Choice
Wolf Sauter, The Proposed Patients’ Rights Directive and the Reform of (Cross-Border) Healthcare in the European Union
Hans Mahncke, Anne Scully-Hill, The Emergence of the Doctrine of Stare Decisis in the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System
Nikolaos Lavranos, Joined Cases C-402/05P and C-415/05P, Yassin Abdullah Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v. Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities Judgment of the European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) 3 September 2008, Not Yet Published
Journal of International Arbitration
Volume 26, Number 5, October 2009
Michael Hwang S.C. and Katie Chung, Defining the Indefinable: Practical Problems of Confidentiality in Arbitration
Pietro Ferrario, The Group of Companies Doctrine in International Commercial Arbitration: Is There any Reason for this Doctrine to Exist?
Rahim Moloo, Arbitrators Granting Antisuit Orders: When Should They and on What Authority?
Steffen Hindelang, Stephan Wilske and Ismail G. Esin, Turkey: Soon to Face a Wave of International Investment Arbitrations?
Pierre-Yves Tschanz and Jorge E. Viñuales, Compensation for Non-expropriatory Breaches of International Investment Law—The Contribution of the Argentine Awards
Yuliya Chernykh, Arbitrability of Corporate Disputes in Ukraine
American Review of International Arbitration
Volume 19, Number 2, 2008
Hans Smit, CLASS ACTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: APPLICABLE RULES AND LAW
Randy D. Gordon, A QUESTION OF FAIRNESS: SHOULD NOERR-PENNINGTOM IMMUNITY EXTEND TO CONDUCT IN INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION?
Nicholas Song, BETWEEN SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS: CAN A PLEA OF NECESSITY OFFER SAFE PASSAGE TO STATES IN RESPONDING TO AN ECONOMIC CRISIS WITHOUT INCURRING LIABILITY TO FOREIGN INVESTORS?
Eric Gillman, THE END OF INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION IN ECUADOR? AN ANALYSIS OF ARTICLE 422 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF 2008
CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS
Koichi Miki, INVESTMENT TREATIES AND INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION: THE JAPANESE PERSPECTIVE
ARBITRAL & JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Joseph R. Brubaker, THE PROSPECTIVE WAIVER OF A STATUTORY CLAIM INVALIDATES AN ARBITRATION CLAUSE: THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DECISION IN THOMAS V. CARNIVAL CORP.
William W. Park, Arbitrator Integrity: The Transient and the Permanent, San Diego Law Review, Volume 46, Number 3, Summer 2009
Jan Kleinheisterkamp, The Impact of Internationally Mandatory Laws on the Enforceability of Arbitration Agreements (October 30, 2009). LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 22/2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1496923
Abstract:
This article examines the impact that internationally mandatory rules of the forum state may have on the effectiveness of arbitration agreements. This question arises when claims are based on such internationally mandatory rules, but the parties submitted their contract to a foreign law. The specific problems of conflicts of economic regulation are illustrated and discussed on the basis of Belgian and German court decisions relating to commercial distribution and agency agreements. European courts have adopted a restrictive practice of denying the efficacy of such tandems of choice-of-law and arbitration clauses if there is a strong probability that their internationally mandatory rules will not be applied in foreign procedures. This article shows that neither this approach nor the much more pro-arbitration biased solutions proposed by critics are convincing. It elaborates a third solution, which allows national courts to reconcile their legislator’s intention to enforce a given public policy with the parties’ original intention to arbitrate and to optimize the effectiveness of both public interests and arbitration.
James E. Pfander, Member State Liability and Constitutional Change in the United States and Europe, American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2003. Available at SSRN.
Abstract:
In a well-known series of recent cases, the Supreme Court of the United States has dramatically narrowed the obligation of states to comply with the rules of accountability that Congress has applied to other aspects of our national commercial life. Although the Court has frequently invoked the Eleventh Amendment to defend its narrowing of state accountability, its decision in Alden v. Maine makes clear that state sovereign immunity rests less on the text of the Constitution than on unwritten structural postulates that it has described as “implicit in the constitutional design.” Across the Atlantic, the European Court of Justice has drawn on similarly unwritten postulates in developing rules to govern member state accountability to central legislative norms. Yet in Europe, the ECJ has pushed in the opposite direction, expanding member state liability beyond the limits specified in the treaties that constitute the European Union.
This paper takes the differing approaches of the Supreme Court and the ECJ as the jumping off point for a rumination on the legitimacy of constitutional change in federal systems. In Europe, a doctrine known as the acquis communautaire has evolved in ways that require newly admitted member states to subscribe not only to the formal terms of the treaties themselves but also to the unwritten rules that the ECJ has announced in working out a jurisprudence of European integration. Avowedly forward looking, the acquis provides an underpinning of legitimacy for the ECJ’s jurisprudence. In effect, the acquis suggests that each member state, upon accession to the Union, must accept both the specific terms of prior judicial decisions and the notion of an evolving jurisprudence. In the United States, by contrast, the Supreme Court’s decisions have looked backwards through the lens of originalism to identify the nature of the accessionary bargain of the original thirteen states. Such a backward-looking originalism corresponds to the emphasis in the American equal-footing doctrine on the nature of the original deal among the states that formed the Union. It also corresponds to the Court’s rejection of the metaphor of living constitutionalism that one finds most famously expressed in Justice Holmes opinion in Missouri v. Holland.
The paper concludes with a suggestion that the acquis, coupled with the relatively dynamic quality of European federalism, may help to explain the ECJ’s evolving jurisprudence of constitutional integration. Europe continues to grow, with the planned accession of ten new member states in 2004 and more on the way. In the United States, by contrast, no new member states have joined the Union since the late 1950s, and the prospects for further growth as a nation seem remote indeed. The closing of the border in the United States may have contributed to the perception that the project of federal integration has been completed. Such developments may have also contributed to a closing of the judicial mind to the possibility of further change in the nature of federal relationships.
Sergiu Deleanu, Uzantele comerciale in contextul Regulamentului Roma I, Revista Romana de Arbitraj, nr. 4/2009.
CE: Raportul anual privind politica
in domeniul concurentei pe anul 2008
Raportul anual privind politica în domeniul concurenței conține pentru prima dată un capitol referitor la un subiect considerat a avea o importanță deosebită în acest domeniu. Subiectul ales pentru acest an este „Carteluri și consumatori”.
European Company Law
Volume 6, 2009, Issue 4 [*]
Hanneke Wegman, EU Alternative Fund Regulation Proposal: Pros and Cons
Adriaan F.M. Dorresteijn, Odeaya Uziahu-Santcroos, The Societas Privata Europaea under the Magnifying Glass (Part 2)
Summary:
This is the second part of a two-part series on the Societas Privata Europaea (SPE). Whereas the first part concentrated on the proposal by the European Commission, this part deals with the proposals for amendments that have been made by the European Parliament in the last months of 2008 and in March 2009.
Erik Werlauff, A ‘Copenhagen Effect’? Denmark’s Answer to Centros: A Far-Reaching Company Law Reform Aimed at Strengthening the ‘Free Movement of Companies’
Summary:
In 2009, the Danish legislature introduced significant changes to Danish company law with the aim of making the rules on both public and private companies more flexible and thereby Denmark a competitive country for the establishment of companies. This could be called the Copenhagen effect. However, this effect could be increased by even further liberalization of Danish company law.
Bob Wessels, The Ongoing Struggle of Multinational Groups of Companies under the EC Insolvency Regulation
Summary:
In the application of the Insolvency Regulation, the centre of main interests (COMI) of a debtor determines which national court is competent in insolvency proceedings. The Regulation presumes that the COMI of a company is the place of its registered office. Such a presumption, however, could well be at odds in cases where a company is part of a multinational corporate group.
Rolf Dotevall J.S.D, Report from Sweden
Gert-Jan Vossestein, Hanneke Wegman, Survey of Legislation and Case Law, March and April 2009
Alina Oprea, Arbitraj si drept comunitar al consumului – cateva observatii referitoare la concilierea dintre cele doua domenii plecand de la decizia Curtii Europene de Justitie in cauza Centro Movil, Revista Romana de Arbitraj, nr. 3 din 2009
C-168/05, Mostaza Claro, hotararea din 26.10.2006, Rec.2006,p.I-10421. {*}
Concluziile AG A. Tizzano. [*]
Volumul este “transcrierea” unei conferinte.
John Ahern and William Binchy (eds.), The Rome II Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations. A New International Litigation Regime, Brill, 2009. [*]
Introduction: Rome
Johan Meeusen, Rome
Janeen Carruthers, Has the Forum Lost Its Grip?
Russell J. Weintraub, Rome II: Will it Prevent Forum Shopping and Take Account of the Consequences of Choice of Law?
Andrew Scott, The Scope of ‘Non-Contractual Obligations’
Richard Fentiman, The Significance of Close Connection
Thomas Kadner Graziano, Freedom to Choose the Applicable Law in Tort – Articles 14 and 4(3) of the Rome II Regulation
Alex Mills, The Application of Multiple Laws Under the Rome II Regulation
Jan von Hein, Article 4 and Traffic Accidents
Peter Stone, Product Liability under the Rome II Regulation
Adam Rushworth, Remedies and the Rome II Regulation
Michael Bogdan, The Treatment of Environmental Damage in Regulation Rome II
Stephen G.A. Pitel, Rome II and Choice of Law for Unjust Enrichment
Liz Heffernan, Rome II: Implications for Irish Tort Litigation
Gernot Biehler, The Limits of Rome II
Appendices
- Regulation No. 864/2007 on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations (Rome II)
- Commission of the European Communities Proposal for a Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations, COM (2003) 427 fi nal 2003/0168 (COD)
- Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations, COM (2003) 427 final 2003/0168 (COD), 2004/C 241/01
- European Parliament Committee on Legal Aff airs, Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (“Rome II”) (COM(2003)0427–C5 0338/2003–2003/0168(COD)), A6–0211/2005
- Amended Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations, COM 2006 83 final
- European Parliament Recommendation for Second Reading on the Council common position for adopting a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations, 9751/7/2006–C6–0317/2006–2003/0168(COD)
- Joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee of a Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations, 2003/0168(COD) C6–0142/2007 PE-CONS3619/07
Sébastien Roland, Le triangle décisionnel communautaire à l’aune de la théorie de la séparation des pouvoirs. Recherches sur la distribution des pouvoirs législatif et exécutif dans la Communauté, Bruylant, 2008.
La théorie de la séparation des pouvoirs, généralement regardée comme le standard en matière d’organisation du pouvoir dans les États démocratiques, se révèle d’une grande utilité pour rendre compte de la structure institutionnelle de la Communauté européenne. En premier lieu, et dès lors que l’on renonce à l’exclusivisme de l’interprétation séparatiste qui en a été donnée au profit d’une lecture en termes de collaboration fonctionnelle des organes, elle permet de proposer une théorisation de la distribution des fonctions exécutive et législative entre les trois grandes institutions communautaires articulée autour du modèle de la balance des pouvoirs. En second lieu, la valeur heuristique de la théorie apparaît en ce qu’elle conduit à mettre au jour la notion de régime mixte comme paradigme architectonique de la distribution communautaire des pouvoirs : en ce sens, la singularité de la Communauté réside dans le fait que la question du principe de légitimité prévalent n’y est pas réglée, de sorte que le système communautaire maintient en situation de concurrence les principes de légitimité intergouvernemental, démocratique et intégratif sur lesquels chacune des composantes de sa triade institutionnelle est assise.
Michel Tison, Hans De Wulf, Christoph Van der Elst, Reinhard Steennot (ed.), Perspectives in Company Law and Financial Regulation, Cambridge University Press, 2009
Sumarul acestei carti este serios si este vizibil aici.
ALEXIA HERWIG, Whither Science in WTO Dispute Settlement?, Leiden Journal of International Law (2008), 21:823-846 Cambridge University Press [*]
This article understands risk dialectically as a decision-making resource stressing probability but as also giving rise to further uncertainties. It shows that the panel report in EC – Biotech reflects an understanding of risk as decision-making that is deterministic and leaves little room for the application of precautionary approaches and non-scientific factors. It submits that such an approach is unsuitable for novel technologies with limited background knowledge and reduces the accountability of risk regulators. A different approach is put forth, which allows members greater scope for precautionary action while preventing trade protectionism. The article concludes that law can enhance its authority and epistemic validity through scientific evidence but only if it recognizes science’s epistemic and its own limitations. Law has to approach science as contested knowledge and risk regulation as political decision-making, leading – inevitably – to more indeterminate solutions to legal conflicts.
European Company and Financial Law Review
Vol. 5, Issue 3, Sept 2008
Paul Davies, Jonathan Rickford, An Introduction to the New UK Companies Act: Part II
This is the second part of a two part article describing the new UK Companies Act. The first part has been published in ECFR 2008, 48 et seq. This part continues with the analysis of the main changes and areas of controversy, including the implementation of the European Directives on takeovers (2004/24/EC) and transparency obligations (2004/109/EC).
Mihir Naniwadekar, The Law of Agency as applied in Company Transactions
This article deals, from a common law perspective, with the application of the law of agency to company transactions. The article focusses on the modifications made in the law of agency by company law rules such as the constructive notice and indoor management doctrines. It highlights the difficulties faced in reconciling the multiple strands of common law cases, particularly in the operation of the indoor management rule; and suggests that legislative clarification (over and above the UK Companies Act, 2006) may perhaps be necessary to clarify the legal position in this sphere.
Frank Gerhard, Private Investments in Public Equity (PIPEs) – A Closer Look at PIPE Transactions in Switzerland
PIPEs allow to raise equity in a quick, confidential, secure, flexible and cost-effective way. Companies that typically have recourse to PIPE financing are not in a position to proceed to a rights offering which would be likely to fail because of the difficult market environment, or they are not able to get new funds by way of a bank loan due to their revenue and profit situation. Such companies are especially active in capital-intensive and growth-oriented industry sectors such as the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications industry. However, in Switzerland PIPEs have not been discovered (yet) as a genuine fund raising alternative, mainly because they are considered to be difficult to structure, e.g. due to the statutory pre-emptive right of the existing shareholders. Evidence suggests that in Switzerland, too, PIPEs are not only suitable for recapitalization, but also for growth financing purposes. This article tries to set out, inter alia, the possibilities of withdrawing the pre-emptive right or the cases in which such a disapplication would be desirable in order to widen the scope of PIPEs in Switzerland – especially with mid- and small-cap companies -, as well as the legal consequences of such PIPE transactions.
Nikolaos D. Tellis, Expansion of the Applicability of EU Company Law Directives via Analogy? – A Study Based on the Example of Greek Sea Trading Companies -
The Greek Sea Trading Company does not fall within the scope of the EU Company Law Directives. However, this type of company has in common with the capital companies subject to the secondary EU Company Law (stock corporation, limited liability company) that it offers no safeguards to third parties beyond the amounts of its net assets, due to the fact that no shareholder is liable for company obligations. Having regard to this substantive similarity, it is to be examined first, whether the secondary EU Company Law and especially the Fourth Directive shall apply to the Greek Sea Trading Company by way of analogy. Given that this question is answered in affirmative, it is to be asked further which are the consequences of the incompatibility of the national regulations regarding the Sea Trading Company with the secondary EU Company Law.
O lucrare buna, care nu e tocmai un istoric obisnuit.
Henk van Arendonk, European cooperation after fifty years, EC Tax Review. Deventer: 2008. Vol. 17, Iss. 2; pg. 50 [*, ProQuest]
Abstract (Summary)
In the last 50 years, the EC has expanded from 6 to 27 Member States. Supranational powers have also been strengthened. Given these immense changes, institutional reforms were necessary. Only time will tell whether we can move forward on the basis of reforms in the Lisbon Treaty during the coming 50 years. Each amending treaty has to be ratified by the Member States. Where a Member State makes ratification dependent on a referendum, this often turns out badly. In order to prevent the amending treaty from being shot down via a referendum, quite a few Member States choose parliamentary ratification only. Examples are the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. A referendum however will be held in Ireland. Whatever the outcome is, it will be influenced by what the EC does in the coming period. If its actions are unacceptable for a Member State, this can have far-reaching consequences for the outcome of the referendum.
Aceasta editie supliment, pe langa editia inaugurala a seriei, adauga si aduce la zi legislatia din mai mlte state dar si cea din Uniunea Europeana.
Editia inaugurala: Maher Dabbah, Paul Lasok (General editor), Merger Control Worldwide 3 Volume Set, Cambridge University Press, 2008 [*] Capitolul referitor la Romania ii apartine lui Gelu Goran.
Editia supliment: Maher Dabbah, Paul Lasok (General editor), Merger Control Worldwide. Second Supplement to the First Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2008 [*] De la p. 41 la 45 cartea se refera si la Uniunea Europeana. O sinteza e o sinteza.
Gillian Moon, The WTO-Minus Strategy: Development and human rights under WTO law, (March 2008). University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series. University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series 2008. Working Paper 10. [*]
International trade law, human rights law and development studies share the common objective of promoting higher standards of living in the poorer countries of the world. Human rights and development scholars have been critical of the law of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as implementing a development strategy which dominates and constrains the development strategy options of developing countries but which perceives development only in a narrow, economic sense. In this paper, the different theoretical underpinnings of international trade law and international human rights law are described and compared and their differing conceptions of development are examined from the perspective of the broader development discourse. The package of rights and obligations of developing countries under WTO law (the ‘WTO-Minus strategy’) is also described and examples of significant constraints placed by this package on the development strategy options open to developing countries regarding trade in goods are examined from the perspectives of the broader development discourse and international human rights norms. The capacity of the WTO to incorporate new and multidisciplinary knowledge about development is considered.
European Journal of International Law, 1/2008
Ofer Eldar, Vote-trading in International Institutions, European Journal of International Law, Volume 19, Number 1, February 2008 [*]
There is evidence that countries trade votes among each other in international institutions on a wide range of issues, including the use of force, trade issues, and elections of judges. Vote-trading has been criticized as being a form of corruption, undue influence, and coercion. Contrary to common wisdom, however, I argue in this article that the case for introducing policy measures against vote-trading cannot be made out on the basis of available evidence. This article sets out an analytical framework for analysing vote-trading in international institutions, focusing on three major contexts in which vote-trading may generate benefits and costs: (1) agency costs (collective good), (2) coercive tendering, and (3) agency costs (constituents). The applicability of each context depends primarily on the type of decision in question – i.e. preference-decision or judgement-decision – and the interests that countries are expected to maximize when voting. The analytical framework is applied to evidence of vote-trading in four institutions, the Security Council, the General Assembly, the World Trade Organization, and the International Whaling Commission. The application of the analysis reveals that while vote-trading can create significant costs, there is only equivocal evidence to this effect, and in several cases vote-trading generates important benefits.
Laurence R. Helfer, Redesigning the European Court of Human Rights: Embeddedness as a Deep Structural Principle of the European Human Rights Regime, European Journal of International Law, Volume 19, Number 1, February 2008 [*]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is the crown jewel of the world’s most advanced international system for protecting civil and political liberties. In recent years, however, the ECtHR has become a victim of its own success. The Court now faces a docket crisis of massive proportions, the consequence of the growing number of states subject to its jurisdiction, its favourable public reputation, its expansive interpretations of individual liberties, a distrust of domestic judiciaries in some countries, and entrenched human rights problems in others. In response to this growing backlog of individual complaints, the Council of Europe has, over the last five years, considered numerous proposals to restructure the European human rights regime and redesign the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This article argues that these proposals should be understood not as ministerial changes in supranational judicial procedure, nor as resolving a debate over whether the ECtHR should strive for individual or constitutional justice, but rather as raising more fundamental questions concerning the Court’s future identity. In particular, the article argues for recognition of ‘embeddedness’ in national legal systems as a deep structural principle of the ECHR, a principle that functions as a necessary counterpoint to the subsidiary doctrine that has animated the Convention since its founding. Embeddedness does not substitute ECtHR rulings for the decisions of national parliaments or domestic courts. Rather, it requires the Council of Europe and the Court to bolster the mechanisms for governments to remedy human rights violations at home, obviating the need for individuals to seek supranational relief and restoring countries to a position in which the ECtHR’s deference to national decision-makers is appropriate.
European Journal of International Law, 2/2008
Armin von Bogdandy, The European Union as Situation, Executive, and Promoter of the International Law of Cultural Diversity – Elements of a Beautiful Friendship, European Journal of International Law, April 2008; Vol. 19, No. 2 [*]
Cultural diversity is an important political and legal topos in the European Union. At the same time, the concern for cultural diversity gives reason for grave reservations towards the Union. This article intends to assist, on the basis of international law, in distinguishing appearance and reality. The Union will be analysed first as a situation of the application of the international law of cultural diversity, secondly as the regional executive of this international law, and thirdly as its global promoter. It shows that international law and Union law reinforce each other. The former conveys to the Union instruments to pursue European unification which at the same time serve its own implementation. Furthermore, it does not set limits to European unity since it protects only cultural pluralism but not state-supporting distinctiveness. A prerequisite for this consonance is that the Union’s constitutional law allows for political unity without cultural unity and that international law remains mute about important questions on European unification. The international law perspective thus does not fully exhaust the problem: conformity with international law alone cannot dissipate concern for the future of cultural diversity in the Union.
Ole Kristian Fauchald, The Legal Reasoning of ICSID Tribunals – An Empirical Analysis, European Journal of International Law, April 2008; Vol. 19, No. 2 [*]
This empirical analysis of the use of interpretive arguments by ad hoc tribunals of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes covers almost 100 cases decided during the past 10 years. The cases are analysed with a view to determining which arguments the tribunals use and how the arguments are used in light of Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. The analysis provides a basis for addressing the extent to which ICSID tribunals contribute to creating a predictable legal framework in which the interests of investors, states, and third parties are taken properly into account; the extent to which ICSID tribunals contribute to a coherent development of international investment law; and whether ICSID tribunals contribute to a ‘fragmentation’ of international law. Despite ICSID tribunals being ad hoc tribunals that solve legal disputes on the basis of heterogeneous legal sources, the article indicates that there is a tendency among ICSID tribunals to contribute to a homogeneous development of the methodology of international law. Nevertheless, the article concludes that ICSID tribunals could do significantly more to align their approaches to interpretive arguments with those of other international tribunals.
Ma scuzati ca am scris despre UNCITRAL ca este o institutie semi-falita. Dar asa cum se modifica unele conceptii despre lume si viata asa si cu aceasta Comisie a Natiunilor Unite. Sau poate, ma scuzati de blasfemie, chiar Natiunile (sa mai spun Unite, ca astazi uniunea dintre sot si sotie nu mai este ce a fost..). Cum scria la carte. De dreptu’ fameliei.
Analogia dintre familia formata dintre un sot si o sotie si familia Natiunilor Unite nu este asa de hazardata.
Susan Block-Lieb & Terence Halliday, Harmonization and Modernization in UNCITRAL’s Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law, Texas International Law Journal. Austin: Summer 2007. Vol. 42, Iss. 3. [*]
European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst), Volume 4, Issue 01, February 2008
***, The Difference, European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst), Volume 4, Issue 01, February 2008
Clemens Ladenburger, Police and Criminal Law in the Treaty of Lisbon, European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst), Volume 4, Issue 01, February 2008
Yves Haeck, Clara Burbano Herrera and Leo Zwaak, Non-compliance with a Provisional Measure Automatically Leads To a Violation of the Right of Individual Application … or Doesn’t It?, European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst), Volume 4, Issue 01, February 2008
Elena Simina Tănăsescu, The President of Romania, European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst), Volume 4, Issue 01, February 2008
Luuk van Middelaar, Spanning the River, European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst), Volume 4, Issue 01, February 2008
Thomas Vandamme, Prochain Arrêt: La Belgique!, European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst), Volume 4, Issue 01, February 2008
Florian Geyer, European Arrest Warrant: Advocaten voor de Wereld VZW v. Leden van de Ministerraad, European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst), Volume 4, Issue 01, February 2008
Jo Shaw, The Political Representation of Europe’s Citizens: Developments, European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst), Volume 4, Issue 01, February 2008
Adam Łazowski, Poland: Constitutional Tribunal on the Preliminary Ruling Procedure and the Division of Competences Between National Courts and the Court of Justice, European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst), Volume 4, Issue 01, February 2008
O interesanta constructie juridica.
Christine Kelly récupère son nom de domaine grâce à une requête en revendication, LEGALIS.NET, 15.05.2008
La journaliste de LCI, Christine Kelly, a utilisé une procédure peu commune pour récupérer un nom de domaine: la requête en revendication fondée sur l’article L 624-9 du code de commerce. Celle-ci s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une liquidation judiciaire. En effet, lors de l’ouverture d’une procédure collective, les détenteurs de biens mobiliers (équipements, fonds de commerce, logiciels, etc.) ont la possibilité de revendiquer leur propriété dans des conditions précises de forme et de délai, faute de quoi ces biens tombent dans l’actif de la société en liquidation.
Dans cette affaire, la société Kapado qui avait enregistré christine-kelly.fr en son nom alors qu’elle devait le faire pour le compte de la présentatrice a justement été mise en liquidation judiciaire. Avant la procédure collective, la journaliste avait pourtant entrepris des démarches pour récupérer son identité sur internet. Mais Kapado, qui a reconnu avoir commis une erreur, n’avait pas montré une ferme volonté de la corriger. Face à son inertie et sa négligence, Christine Kelly l’a mise en demeure de remplir un formulaire Afnic pour un transfert volontaire du nom de domaine. Kapado s’est engagée à le faire mais le transfert n’a pas été opéré. Les pourparlers se poursuivent cependant jusqu’au moment où la présentatrice découvre que la société qui détient son nom de domaine est en liquidation judiciaire. Comme le liquidateur refuse d’autoriser le transfert, Christine Kelly se tourne vers le juge.
Dans une décision du 4 avril 2008, le tribunal de commerce de Pontoise a ordonné le transfert du nom de domaine christine-kelly.fr à la présentatrice dont il juge la revendication bien fondée. Selon le tribunal consulaire, «seule Christine Kelly peut être propriétaire du nom de domaine christine-kelly.fr, dont elle revendique la propriété».
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Law and Financial Markets Review, May 2008 [*] [*]
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Practitioner Perspectives
• The Credit Crunch: The Regulatory Way Forward
Etay Katz
Joanna Perkins, A Question of Priorities: Choice of Law and Proprietory Aspects of the Assignment
Abstract:
Among the fields of academic legal research, the topic of choice-of-law rules for the assignment of debts in financial services and markets must be one of the most complicated, challenging and arcane. But what is merely challenging in the academic arena becomes positively daunting when tested in the crucible of legislative reform, where there is little or no room for error. And if said legislative reform is to be accomplished within a tight timeframe in a highly political forum and to be drafted by civil servants rather than conflicts specialists or financial experts, the endeavour must be regarded not so much as difficult but virtually hopeless. Certainly that was the recent experience of the European Council’s standing Working Group on Civil Law during the negotiations on the transposition of the Rome Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations 1980 into the European legal acquis as the putative Rome I Regulation.
• The Legal Environment for Asset-backed Securitisation in Russia
Ajay Sud
• Czech Insolvency Reform – Good News for the Financiers?
Mikulas Touska, Silvie Horackova, Eva Vrana, Nick Herrod
Mattias Levin, Code of Conduct on Clearing and Settlement: First Experiences and Future Outlook
Abstract
On 7 November 2006, a Code of Conduct on clearing and settlement was presented to Charles McCreevy, the Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. The Code was the culmination of nearly five years of hard work by the European Commission, assessing the European post-trading sector, documenting its achievements and shortcomings, and analysing the options available to improve its efficiency, thereby making it more adapted to a European internal market. A little over a year has now passed since the Code was presented and it is accordingly an appropriate time to take stock of its effectiveness in achieving these objectives. This article takes stock of progress to date, assesses the main outstanding issues and looks at what lies ahead.
• The Turkish Financial Leasing Law – is it Industry Specific?
Yesim Bezen
Special Feature
• Interview with Emmanuel Maurice
• The Development of the Global Markets as Rule-makers: Engagement and Legitimacy
Julia Black, David Rouch
