Administration, Facilities, and Computer Support
in International Mass Claims Processes
March 2007; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: private international law and conflict of laws. 17767 words.
This chapter discusses Administration, Facilities, and Computer Support for the claims process. Topics covered include Management and Staffing, infrastructure, Secretariat functions, facilities to...
Anti-Constitutionalization
in The Constitutionalization of the World Trade Organization
July 2005; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: private international law and conflict of laws. 15558 words.
This chapter argues that not only is constitutionalization descriptively inappropriate, it is also normatively undesirable. This position, termed the anti-constitutionalization critique, contends...
Appointing Those who will Make Decisions
in International Mass Claims Processes
March 2007; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: private international law and conflict of laws. 9787 words.
This chapter discusses the appointment of decision-makers in the claims process. Topics covered include who makes decisions on claims and by whom such decision-makers are appointed; whether...
Australia
in Forum Non Conveniens
July 2007; published online January 2009.
Chapter. Subjects: private international law and conflict of laws. 6224 words.
This chapter details the history of the development of the doctrine of forum non conveniens in Australia, including the movement away from strict application of UK precedent to the development or...
Australia
in Universal Jurisdiction
August 2004; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: private international law and conflict of laws. 2677 words.
This chapter discusses universal jurisdiction in Australia. The chapter is organized as follows. Section A presents a tour d’horizon of the ambit of the country’s criminal law. It then considers the...
Austria
in Universal Jurisdiction
August 2004; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: private international law and conflict of laws. 4420 words.
This chapter discusses universal jurisdiction in Austria. The chapter is organized as follows. Section A presents a tour d’horizon of the ambit of the country’s criminal law. It then considers the...
Belgium
in Universal Jurisdiction
August 2004; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: private international law and conflict of laws. 8832 words.
This chapter discusses universal jurisdiction in Belgium. The chapter is organized as follows. Section A presents a tour d’horizon of the ambit of the country’s criminal law. It then considers the...
Canada
in Forum Non Conveniens
July 2007; published online January 2009.
Chapter. Subjects: private international law and conflict of laws. 4660 words.
This chapter details the history of the development of the doctrine of forum non conveniens in Canada, from early primary reliance on UK law to a modern doctrine that overlaps with decisions on...
Canada
in Universal Jurisdiction
August 2004; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: private international law and conflict of laws. 2995 words.
This chapter discusses universal jurisdiction in Canada. The chapter is organized as follows. Section A presents a tour d’horizon of the ambit of the country’s criminal law. It then considers the...
Common Law Forum Non Conveniens: Four Countries, Four Approaches
in Forum Non Conveniens
July 2007; published online January 2009.
Chapter. Subjects: private international law and conflict of laws. 2314 words.
This chapter provides an overview of the doctrine of forum non conveniens as it is applied in the four principal common law jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and...